Robert Griffin on The Order
"…by Robert S. Griffin, Ph.D.
A MOVIE that came out in 2024, The Order, caught my eye recently because it looked as if it had to do with a book I wrote, so I checked it out.
The Order is about a real-life, six to eight member, racially committed White insurrectionist group in the northwestern US called The Order, led by a man named Bob Mathews, that engaged in a brief flurry of nefarious activity - bombings, robberies, the killing of a Denver radio call-in host, counterfeiting - in the mid-1980s before winding up imprisoned or, in Mathews’ case, dead.
The Order, directed by Justin Kurzel from a screenplay by Zach Baylin [a half-Jew married to a Jew - KAS], revolves around FBI agent Terry Husk, played by Jude Law, who travels to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho to track down The Order. Nicholas Hoult plays Mathews; Tye Sheridan is Jamie Bowen, a young local deputy that joins up with Husk; Jurnee Smollett (Jussie's sister) is Joanne Carney, an FBI agent with an unexplained history with Husk, possibly romantic; and Marc Maron plays Alan Berg, the Denver radio call-in host. Husk, Bowen, and Carney are fictional characters, though the events in the film are based on historical fact.
The Order was entered in the Venice International Festival, had a brief theatrical release, and found a home on the streaming platform Amazon Prime. It has received generally favorable critical reaction.
My connection to the film is a book I wrote in 2001 called The Fame of a Dead Man's Deeds: An Up-Close Portrait of White Nationalist William Pierce. Pierce (1933–2002) was a notorious racist/Nazi figure ("The most dangerous man in America", the Anti-Defamation League called him) who founded and led until his death The National Alliance, a White advocacy or virulent White racist organization, depending on how you look at it.
He is best known for writing the infamous and widely read - a half million copies sold - underground novel, The Turner Diaries, which has a prominent place in thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
