Editing Silver Legionism (section)

==History==
===Pre-1930s===
[[File:DudleyPelley.png]] William Dudley Pelley was born in March 12th 1890 at Lynn, Massachusetts, [[File:Cball-US.png]] United States of America who lived in poverty with his father named William George Apsey Pelley and his mother named Née Goodale/Grace who both are descents from [[File:Cball-UK.png]] Britain. 

William George Apsey Pelley was a [[File:Methodist_Theocracy.png]] Southern Methodist Church minister who later become a small businessman then shoemaker but also he claimed that he was a descent from one of [[File:Cball-KingdomofEngland.png]] Queen Elizabeth I’s knights while Sir John Pelley who is father of William George Apsey Pelley came to America from Britain through Newfoundland, [[File:Cball-Canada-old.png]] Canada and his family arrived in [[File:Cball-NE.png]] New England with the [[File:Puritan.png]] Great Puritan Migration. 

William Dudley Pelley was in his early teens when he worked in the tissue factory for long hours with little pay even he saved his pennies for food and He was self-educated by reading a lot of books in his spare time to escape from the drudgery along with material impoverishment of his adolescence while he dreamed of being a writer in which it came true. 

William Dudley Pelley in years later he created his first [[File:Mediastocracy_flair.png]] newspaper in his father's barn called "The Junior Star" and then he was enrolled at High School that he started a magazine called "The Black Crow" even he was more smarter than most college graduates but he confronted by a group of boys at school who demanded to know if he supported [[File:McKinley.png]] [[Imperialism|William McKinley]] who is a [[File:RepubUS.png]] Republican or [[File:WJBryan.png]] [[Populism|William Jennings Bryan]] who is a [[File:Demcr.png]] Democrat in which his father affirmed he was a Republican.

In 1907, William Dudley Pelley along with his family moved to Fulton, New York when his father became an executive in a toilet paper factory but later he is now a executive eventually becoming the treasure and general superintendent but in 1909, he just became an editor then publisher of Philosopher Magazine in which he supported [[File:Christsoc.png]] [[Christian Socialism]] even he called Jesus "Comrade Christ." 

In December 16th 1911, William Dudley Pelley married Marion Harriet Stone but got a divorce ten years later even a year the couple have a baby daughter who died in 1913, because of [[File:Biopos.png]] Cerebral Meningitis and from 1912 to 1915 he worked at the Wilmington Times along with other regional newspapers but he moved to Vermont wrote a popular fictional series of stories about small time life centred in a fictional town called Paris, Vermont thus popularized the small-town genera of fiction that grew into television shows like The Waltons 1972-1981 along with The Andy Griffith Show 1960–1968. 

In 1914, William Dudley Pelley along with his first wife have a another daughter but six years they have son even the family can't handle the medical bills and In 1918, William Dudley Pelley along with his first wife went to [[File:Showa.png]] Imperial Japan to survey [[File:ProtTheo.png]] Protestant foreign missions for the Methodist Centenary Movement in which he sees Japanese people as half adults for not adopting Christianity to become a better civilization along with seeing the [[File:Cball-South Korea.png]] Koreans as worse but then he sees American soldiers being deployed at [[File:Cball-Siberia.png]] Siberia to help White Russian soldiers fight the [[File:Orthlen.png]] Bolshevik soldiers during The Russian Civil War 1917-1923. 

William Dudley Pelley went to Siberia as a canteen scout for the "Young Men's Christian Association" (YMCA) in which he witnessed the atrocities by the Bolsheviks that lead him to become an [[File:Anticommunism.png]] Anti-Communist and then later he found out that Vladimir Lenin was secretly [[File:JewTheo.png]] Jewish along with hanging out with a [[File:Cball-Czechia.png]] Czech General who speak about the Jewish Question but he is now an [[File:Anti-Semitic.png]] Anti-Semite after that he became part of the Red Cross to help wounded [[File:RussianWhites.png]] White Russians in Siberia while later he travelled throughout Europe as a foreign correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post. 

In 1920, William Dudley Pelley returned to United States to work for the Chicago Tribune Newspaper and went to [[File:LA.png]] Los Angles, [[File:Cball-California.png]] California at Hollywood as a screenwriter for 21 films working for every major studio except Paramount while he got the O. Henry Awards for his short stories like "The Face In The Window" in 1920 along with "The Continental Angle" in 1930 and he wrote screenplays for the Lon Chaney films like two almost famous films "The Light in the Dark" in 1922 and "The Shock" in 1923.

In 1928, William Dudley Pelley has entered the [[File:PagTheo.png]] Esoteric World when he had an Out-Of-body Experience in Altadena, California for that which he travelled to heaven for a meeting with God & [[File:Jesus.png]] Jesus Christ for seven minutes while talked about the spiritual transformation of America and he later claimed that the experience gave him the ability to levitate, see through walls, and have more out-of-body experiences at will. 

In 1929, William Dudley Pelley became disillusioned with the movie industry and later he experienced an event called The Great Depression but then in 1930, he moved to [[File:Nyc.png]] New York City where he founded the "Galahad Press" to began lecturing on spiritualism while most of his followers at this time were women before he moved to Washington DC a year later

===1930s===
In July 1932, William Dudley Pelley moved to Asheville, North Carolina to found The "Galahad College" that specialized correspondence courses on Social Metaphysics and [[File:ChristCorp.png]] Christian Economics while it believes that Anglo-Saxons were the direct descendants of the "Ten Lost Tribes" of [[File:Israelite.png]] Ancient Israel but also he founded a network of nondenominational spiritualist study groups called the "League of the Liberators".

On January 30th 1933, William Dudley Pelley became an admirer of [[File:Hitler.png]] [[Nazism|Adolf Hitler]] who took power in Germany because of the [[File:Paleoegy.png]] Pyramid Prophecy and on the next day founded the [[File:SL.png]] "''Silver Legion of America''", modelling his group after [[File:Mussolini.png]] [[Fascism|Mussolini's Black Shirts]] and [[File:Nazi.png]] [[Nazism|Hitler's Brown Shirts]] — which became the earliest American organization praising the work of Hitler. 

In February 18th 1933, William Dudley Pelley have issued the Liberation newspaper to become an official press for the "Silver Legion Of America" but then in November 3rd 1933, this group held the first rally in Kreutzer Hall, East 86th Street, New York City and then in February 1934, They were officially incorporated in the state of Delaware as a [[File:AmericanNat.png]] Patriotic fraternity.

The "Silver Legion of America" have organized factions into nine districts within the country while had chapters in 22 states such as Washington along with California while it has a membership who are mostly middle class non-immigrant Americans with Northern European heritage and some of the members were [[File:Catheo.png]] Catholic (Pelley Hates Catholics) while most of them were predominately Protestant with a large number of former midwestern [[File:KKK.png]] Klansmen even in Southern California a women’s auxiliary was formed and it was called the Petticoat Platoons.

By 1934, the "Silver Legion of America" had around 15,000 members along with 25,000 supporters while in certain date known as February 3th 1934, William Dudley Pelley have suspect Franklin Prophecy in his Liberation newspaper in which claimed that Benjamin Franklin warned Americans not to allow Jews to benefit from the [[File:Consti.png]] United States Constitution and in 1935, Nazi Germany along with Hollywood funded the group to build the Murphy Ranch in Rustic Canyon, Los Angeles by Jessie M. Murphy, Winona Stephens, Norman Stephens & Paul Williams who is a [[File:AfricanAmerican.png]] African-American but it's not only the place the Silver Legion of America have built but also a cabin in Redmond, Washington called the Silver Lodge even William Dudley Pelley has been here.

William Dudley Pelley who is a Nazi Sympathizer from the 1930s never visited Nazi Germany nor meet with their National Socialist representatives but he meet the leader of the German American Bund named Fritz Kuhn who made a courtesy call in Los Angeles and also he forged alliances such as the "Klu Klux Klan", [[File:EzraPound.png]] Ezra Pound who wrote a letter, George Sylvester Viereck & Boris Brasol. 

William Dudley Pelley believed that the Jewish Problem in America could be solved by moving all the Jews to a unknown location called Beth Havens to sterilized the male Jewish population as it was better than the pogroms and he have admired [[File:Lincolnism.png]] Abraham Lincoln through it decision to end [[File:Slavery.png]] slavery to be celebrated for smashing the Jewish bankers when he issued the greenback note but Pelley believed that [[File:Blacknat.png]] Blacks should continue to remain in a segregation or repatriated back to Africa also he attempted to appeal to the [[File:Native.png]] Native Americans by removing them from their reservations and replacing them with Jews along with [[File:Cball-Mexico.png]] Mexicans or [[File:Neoconfed.png]] improvident backwoods rednecks instead even Pelley sought common ground with [[File:Natprim.png]] Elwood Towner/Chief Red Cloud.

William Dudley Pelley had his views on [[File:Cap.png]] Capitalism while he said that Capitalism also the [[File:Bankocracy.png]] Banking scheme which operated alongside it had wrecked the dreams of America's founding fathers but in Los Angeles, California there were Silvershirt meetings often attracted more than 500 people including [[File:Plutocrat.png]] wealthy ones like [[File:Flr2.png]] Walt Disney while the "Silver Legion of America" was financially supported by Henry Ford and then these two people are forced to betray the Silvershirts when the United States of America declared war on the Axis Powers during World War 2. 

William Dudley Pelley wanted to create a Christian Commonwealth in which has no paper money along with no bankers but also he wanted to banned all inheritance while he wanted people to not be allowed making more than a hundred thousand dollars a year to prevent greed or hoarding and Pelley hated [[File:Urbanism.png]] Urbanism along with urban cites mostly as he wanted them to be largely destroyed or aggressively shrunk in favour of giving everyone a decently large amounts of land to allow them to do their own thing while the Jews should be isolated in walled-off cities. He also favored transforming the United States [[File:Corp.png]] [[Corporatocracy|into a corporation]], of which all white Americans would be shareholders.

William Dudley Pelley defended [[File:Indiv.png]] Individualism from what he considered the economic exploitation cynicism of Capitalism while he thinks the encouragement or development of true rugged Individualism is what the Christian Commonwealth would achieve and at the same time making certain that rugged Individualism is individuality in bona fide expression that is not a form of economic sadism inflicted on the impoverished by materialistic cynics. 

William Dudley Pelley believed a Christian Commonwealth was an alternative to Capitalism, Communism — mixing [[File:Fash.png]] Fascism with elements of [[File:ChristId.png]] Christian Identity, [[File:Christy.png]] Theocracy, [[File:Techcon.png]] Technocracy & [[File:Geofash.png]] Georgism while claiming the dark souls are Jews, Blacks & Catholics and Pelley wrote a certain bool called No More Hunger for his plans about a Christian Commonwealth with a recommended article by [[File:Utsoc.png]] Utopian Socialist named Edward Bellamy as an example of his economics even the book has been read by people who imposed the Vietnam War (1955-1975).

William Dudley Pelley believed a Christian Commonwealth in which educational facilities or opportunities on all levels are available to each every child limited only by the individual’s inability to qualify for higher learning with special vocational training to be offered to those who are unable to qualify for or lack the desire to achieve high school along with college diplomas and Pelley believes a Christian Commonwealth in which all citizens have the opportunity to labour at vocations of their own choice, compensations or rewards for labour being premised solely on efficiency, talent or promotions achieved according to diligence and worth.

William Dudley Pelley believes a Christian Commonwealth in which major legislation cannot be announced as law to be obeyed until it has been approved by commendatory votes of 51 percent of those citizens expected to obey it while incompetent dishonest officials can be quickly effectively removed by impeachment or recall votes of 51 percent of the citizenry of the districts effected and Pelley believes a Christian Commonwealth in which all votes so cast for or against a man or a measure are published then preserved as public property thus abolishing dishonest tallying of returns while eliminating the present cumbersome or a corrupt polling-place that now has to be operated for the production of the secret ballot that was secret because men are economically obligated to other men with any hostile voting might make them the objects of reprisals.

William Dudley Pelley believes all medical or hospital needed to assumed by the Christian Commonwealth recognizing its moral obligation to lift financial burdens from the unfortunate who suffer injury or are afflicted with costly debilitating illness and Pelley believes the [[File:Cultural_Nationalism.png]] cultural or artistic facets of life are nurtured with augmented so that the highest mental spiritual consciousness possible may be attained by each citizen.”

William Dudley Pelley believes in the spirit of reincarnation in which he believes that you will reincarnate over again until your soul has developed enough to achieve ascension by being a good person just like [[File:Bud.png]] Buddhism but eventually you stop reincarnating to become a supernatural being that lives in a astral plane in which has better places higher up just like heaven but also Pelley believed in famous lost societies like the city of [[File:Atlantis.png]] Atlantis that was on the lands of [[File:Hyperborea.png]] Hyperborea in which was the real location of [[File:Israelite.png]] Israel and Pelley got big in predicting future events by using the pyramid prophecy like he was the next Nostradamus included the second coming of Jesus Christ in September 17th 2001, in which did not happened or World War three would happen in 1959, between [[File:Cball-China.png]] China and the United States in which Christ will return to earth early but that did not happen as well.

There is some hidden events involving the "Silver Legion Of America" for example a Silvershirt field marshal by the name of Roy Zachary who was in Chicago was publicly threatened to kill President [[File:FDRismF.png]] Franklin F. Roosevelt or he wanted commit suicide (Not) if nobody helped him and also an local leader of the "Silver Legion in Cleveland" called for an armed uprising to prevent an impending Socialist Revolution while the "San Diego Silver Shirts" group lead by Charles T. Lee conducted military exercises, stole weapons from a nearby naval base wanted to planned a siege on the city but it was stop by the authorities before this could happened.

In the half of 1935 the "Silver Legion of America" became largely inactive due to investigations of the McCormack-Dickstein committee but in 16th August 1935, William Dudley Pelley founded the [[File:EsoCFash.png]] "''Christian Party''" which acted as the political wing to the "''Silver Legion''" and it was active in most states as well being organized on the west coast but then during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), Pelley joined forces with the "German-American Bund" with various [[File:Classfash.png]] Italian-American Fascist organizations in support of the [[File:Franco-alt.png]] Spanish Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War while it unanimously condemned the [[File:Cball-2Spainrepub.png]] Spanish Republicans.

Pelley run for office in the 1936 Presidential Election under the "Christian Party" to replace president Franklin D. Roosevelt with Willard Kemp as the vice presidential candidate but got only 1,600 votes that ended up in failure even the slogan of this political party was "Christ Or Chaos!" and then Pelley his married second wife called Helen Hansmann in which was also ended in divorce just like his first wife.

By 1937, William Dudley Pelley was accused for engaging in Un-American Activities but then in 1938, the "Silver Legion of America" has now 5,000 members while in July 18th 1938, Roy Zachary spoke at the Red Men’s Hall on Riverside Avenue in Spokane, Washingston in which ruined by [[File:Marxfem.png]] Margaret L. Weaver with 700 Anti-Fascist demonstratiors but also in 1939, [[File:Yockeyf.png]] Francis Parker Yockey was invited to spoke at a Silvershirt gathering and In 1940, the "Silver Legion" headquarters in Asheville, North Carolina was seized and raided by the House Un-American Activities Committee while arresting it's members forcing Pelley to relocate to Noblesville, Indiana  and fight lengthy expensive legal battle even he accused president Franklin D. Roosevelt for being a warmonger that lead him being investigated by J. Edgar Hoover with the [[File:FBI.png]] FBI while they are interviewing members of the "Silver Legion".

After Imperial Japan bombed Pearl Harbour on December 7th 1941 that lead the United States to declared war on the Axis Powers a day later William Dudley Pelley has disbanded the "Silver Legion of America" along with the "Christian Party" and local police occupied the Murphy Ranch along with the Silver Lodge to arrest former members of the "Silver Legion" but Pelley continued to attack the government along with [[File:BritishEmpire.png]] British Imperialism in his new magazine called "Roll-Call" in which later prompted him to get arrested at in Noblesville, Indiana in April 1942 as he is charged with High Treason & Insurrection. 

In August 12th 1942, William Dudley Pelley just got a most publicized trial in which  he was sentenced to 15 years in Terra Haute, Indiana but he took part in the Great Sedition Trial of 1944 with 29 other defendants for new sedition charges but it has ended when a [[File:Krit.png]] judge named Edward C. Eicher died of a heart attack that lead to a mistrial and In 1950, Pelley was released in parole.

In 1951, William Dudley Pelley in his final years dealt with charges of securities fraud while he was desist from all political activity and in 1956, he married his third wife Agnes Henderson in which not ended in divorce while having a daughter named [[File:Pacfem-1.png]] Adelaide Pelley Pearson.

William Dudley Pelley developed an elaborate religious philosophy called "Soulcraft" based on his belief in UFOs along with [[File:6ball.png]] Extra-terrestrials while he reported contact with souls of famous historical figures such as [[File:Washdem2.png]] George Washington or [[File:NatProg-0.png]] Theodore Roosevelt in his last magazine called "Over Here" (1957-1960) and then in 1961, he quit Soulcraft because his writing has gradually in quality owing to both his mental health along with his persistent heart problems.

===Legacy===
William Dudley Pelley died on June 30th 1965, at the age of 75 in Noblesville, Indiana where he is buried. Several members of the "''Silver Legion Of America''" went on to become high-ranking officials of other groups such as [[File:Aryan_Nations.png]] "[[Cultism#Aryan Nations|Aryan Nations]]" lead by Richard Butler, [[File:Natlib.png]] "Posse Comitatus" lead by Henry Lamont Beach and [[File:Plcn2.png]] the "John Birch Society" with some unknown Silver legionaries in it but also the former group has influenced other religions or [[File:Cultism.png]] cults such as [[File:Theodemocracy.png]] Mormonism, [[File:New_Age.png]] New Age Spiritualism, the "Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia" lead by Robert Wentworth Little, the "Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis", the "Order of Saint John", the "Sovereign Military Order of Malta", "I AM Activity" lead by Guy Ballard, [[File:Scientheo.png]] Scientology lead by L. Ron Hubbard, [[File:Thelema.png]] Thelema lead by Aleister Crowley, rocket scientist Jack Parsons & Gerald L. K. Smith.

====[[File:HoI4.png]] Kaiserreich====
In an alternative universe based on a popular meme game called Hearts Of Iron IV, the man called William Dudley Pelley has supported [[File:Long.png]] Louisiana Governor Huey Long since 1932 and wrote endorsements of Huey Long's Share Our Wealth plan to urged his followers to join The Silver Legion of America. The Silver Legion has gained some traction with members of the "Ku Klux Klan" but caused a sharp decline in membership following the conviction of Grand Grand Dragon D.C. Stephenson for the rape along with murder of Madge Oberholtzer and in 1934, William Dudley Pelley came into contact with Herbert W. Armstrong who is a the founder of the "Grace Communion International Radio" and a Anglo-Saxon Supremacist. The Silver Legion becomes a paramilitary force for the [[File:FashLong.png]] American Union State during The Second American Civil War to fight against the [[File:Conservative_Posadism.png]] Federalists along with the [[File:Synd.png]] Syndicalists and during the gameplay, you can do a coup with The Silver Legion against leader Huey Long to make William Dudley Pelley the new leader of the American Union State.