Editing David Lane (white supremacist) (section)

== White supremacy ==
Lane claims that he rejected [[Christianity]] early in life, finding the faith boring.{{sfn|Nic Dháibhéid|2017|pp=173–176}} Lane later favored pagan beliefs as a more authentic ancestral "white" religion, as opposed to what he viewed as Jewish influenced Christianity.<ref name=":1" />{{sfn|Gardell|2000|p=167}} Lane claimed that he first became attracted to women of the  "[[Caucasian race]]" after befriending a blonde-haired girl in first grade.<ref name="adl" />{{sfn|Nic Dháibhéid|2017|pp=173–176}} Lane stated that while he reenacted battles with his foster brother as a child, he portrayed a [[Nazi stormtrooper]] while his brother portrayed an American soldier.<ref name="adl" /> It is uncertain how true some of these claims are.{{sfn|Nic Dháibhéid|2017|pp=173–176}}

Lane was briefly a member of the [[John Birch Society]] before joining the [[Ku Klux Klan]], becoming the organizer of the [[Denver]] unit of the [[Knights of the Ku Klux Klan]] in 1979.{{sfn|Schwartz|1996|p=64}}  Originally aspiring to become a golf professional, Lane worked as a [[real estate broker]] starting in 1973, but his license was revoked because he "wouldn't sell homes to [[coloreds]] in white neighborhoods".{{sfn|Schwartz|1996|p=64}}{{sfn|Nic Dháibhéid|2017|pp=174–178}} In 1979, his biological sister Jane tracked him down, and Lane regained contact with his biological family for the first time in several decades.{{sfn|Nic Dháibhéid|2017|pp=174–178}} He became close again with his brother; he died during Lane's trial, which Lane blamed on federal agents targeting him. His other sister did not share his views, but Jane had also become a white supremacist and was married to the leader of the Pennsylvania branch of [[Aryan Nations]], Carl Franklin.{{sfn|Nic Dháibhéid|2017|pp=174–178}} This contact with Jane and her husband led to Lane making contact with Aryan Nations.{{sfn|Nic Dháibhéid|2017|pp=174–178}} In late 1981, Lane became Colorado State Organizer of Aryan Nations.{{sfn|Schwartz|1996|p=64}} He distributed his first pamphlet, "The Death of the White Race", in the Denver area, leading to publicity and attention from the [[Anti-Defamation League]]; he claimed that the Denver police attempted to assassinate him by helicopter after this.{{sfn|Nic Dháibhéid|2017|pp=174–178}}

Lane met [[Robert Jay Mathews]] in July 1983 at the Aryan Nations world congress.{{sfn|Goodrick-Clarke|2003|p=270}} On September 22, 1983, Lane was among the nine founding members to be sworn into [[The Order (white supremacist group)|The Order]], a white supremacist group led by Mathews whose mission was to "deliver our people from the [[Jew]] and bring total victory to the [[Aryan race]]."{{sfn|Gardell|2003|p=193}} The Order was accused of stealing over $4.1 million during armored car hijackings, killing three people (one of whom was Order member Walter E. West), detonating bombs, [[counterfeiting]] money, organizing militaristic training camps and carrying out numerous other crimes with the ultimate goal of overthrowing the "[[The Zionist Occupation Government conspiracy theory|Zionist occupational government]]" they deemed in control of the [[United States]] and to "liberate the Pacific Northwest as a homeland for whites" in the process (see [[Northwest Territorial Imperative]]).<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/08/us/jury-told-of-plan-to-kill-radio-host.html |title=Jury Told of Plan to Kill Radio Host |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 8, 1987 |access-date=August 25, 2007}}</ref>