William Cooper

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'''Milton William Cooper''' (1943-2001) was the [[conspiracy theorist]] other conspiracy theorists wish they could be.  He first made a splash in the late 1980s trying to peddle his conspiracy theorizing in [[UFO]] buff and [[Militia movement|Patriot Movement]] circles, and in the early 1990s with his radio show "The Hour of the Time" and his book ''Behold a Pale Horse'' which is still easily found in the [[New Age]] section of your local bookstore (ironically, he opposed the New Age movement on his radio show). Although he was swimming in the same waters as [[Alex Jones]] many years before Jones appeared on the scene, Cooper had a reputation for denouncing most of his rival conspiracy theorists as being part of the conspiracy themselves, leaving him an outsider too [[paranoia|paranoid]] even among the terminally paranoid. (Cooper accused New Age [[David Icke]] of teaching the doctrines of mystery religions and fear-mongering [[Alex Jones]] for inflicting hysteria among people with his rants.)  
 
'''Milton William Cooper''' (1943-2001) was the [[conspiracy theorist]] other conspiracy theorists wish they could be.  He first made a splash in the late 1980s trying to peddle his conspiracy theorizing in [[UFO]] buff and [[Militia movement|Patriot Movement]] circles, and in the early 1990s with his radio show "The Hour of the Time" and his book ''Behold a Pale Horse'' which is still easily found in the [[New Age]] section of your local bookstore (ironically, he opposed the New Age movement on his radio show). Although he was swimming in the same waters as [[Alex Jones]] many years before Jones appeared on the scene, Cooper had a reputation for denouncing most of his rival conspiracy theorists as being part of the conspiracy themselves, leaving him an outsider too [[paranoia|paranoid]] even among the terminally paranoid. (Cooper accused New Age [[David Icke]] of teaching the doctrines of mystery religions and fear-mongering [[Alex Jones]] for inflicting hysteria among people with his rants.)  
  
Born in 1943, he was formerly in the US Air Force (like our other friend, [[Texe Marrs]]), fought in [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]], and eventually was given an honorable discharge.
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Born in 1943, he was formerly in the US Air Force (like our other friend, [[Texe Marrs]]), fought in [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]], and eventually was given an honorable discharge. It is unknown at what point he went batshit insane.
  
 
First he believed that the UFO people were there, then he believed that he had been tricked into believing it. Somewhere along the line he believed that there was UFO tech being used in Vietnam, but if the UFO people were on our side they probably would have sicced something like Dr. Manhattan on the Viet Cong.
 
First he believed that the UFO people were there, then he believed that he had been tricked into believing it. Somewhere along the line he believed that there was UFO tech being used in Vietnam, but if the UFO people were on our side they probably would have sicced something like Dr. Manhattan on the Viet Cong.

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Milton William Cooper (1943-2001) was the conspiracy theorist other conspiracy theorists wish they could be. He first made a splash in the late 1980s trying to peddle his conspiracy theorizing in UFO buff and Patriot Movement circles, and in the early 1990s with his radio show "The Hour of the Time" and his book Behold a Pale Horse which is still easily found in the New Age section of your local bookstore (ironically, he opposed the New Age movement on his radio show). Although he was swimming in the same waters as Alex Jones many years before Jones appeared on the scene, Cooper had a reputation for denouncing most of his rival conspiracy theorists as being part of the conspiracy themselves, leaving him an outsider too paranoid even among the terminally paranoid. (Cooper accused New Age David Icke of teaching the doctrines of mystery religions and fear-mongering Alex Jones for inflicting hysteria among people with his rants.)

Born in 1943, he was formerly in the US Air Force (like our other friend, Texe Marrs), fought in Vietnam, and eventually was given an honorable discharge. It is unknown at what point he went batshit insane.

First he believed that the UFO people were there, then he believed that he had been tricked into believing it. Somewhere along the line he believed that there was UFO tech being used in Vietnam, but if the UFO people were on our side they probably would have sicced something like Dr. Manhattan on the Viet Cong.

He also believed that there were several gunshots involved in the JFK assassination. Likely enough they came from the grassy knoll. Or maybe the goat did it. Who knows? We do know that in one of his books, which made him one of the stars on the UFO lecture circuit he says that the UFOs did the New World Order and the Moon landings. Oh, and his book contained the text of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, which he prefaced by a note that it wasn't Jews who did it, but bankers, in order to discredit the Jews. That Jewish people are widely associated with bankers is, of course, a total coincidence.

If you've heard of him at all, you've probably seen his book, or you heard the radio show he had on shortwave. He was on such stations as WRNO, WWCR, and WBCQ. Frequently people called into his show on WBCQ complaining that the Voice of America was jamming the station. Considering Allan Weiner's - the owner of WBCQ - past trouble with the US government,[1] this may not be so far-fetched, but it's unlikely that Cooper's show was the reason why it was jammed.

The popularity of his 1991 book Behold a Pale Horse in New Age bookstores marked the first real penetration of classic Illuminati conspiracy theorizing into New Age circles, where it had previously not been a factor. David Icke and several others soon made a cash cow out of this market, and no thanks to Cooper and Icke conspiracy and UFO theories are now a staple part of the smorgasbord of ideas making up the New Age. Ironically, Cooper had opposed the New Agers as a satanic cult (or a rudimentary to the global religion) in his radio show, while his works are popularized in the New Age circles.

Among other things, he claimed to be a general of the "Second Continental Army of the Republic,"[2] (almost like Mark Koernke's "Colonial Marines"), and that any attempt to arrest him for such minor things as "beating up a doctor with a wrench" and "saying the IRS doesn't exist" will be met with armed resistance - and it was.

The Apache County, Arizona sheriff's department raised a ruckus on his property late one night, pretending to be a bunch of meddling kids in order to flush him out. According to police accounts, once Cooper learned who they were, he came at them with a handgun. Police not liking people shooting at them, he was shot and killed, and perhaps beaten.[3]

He at least did some good in his life. He encouraged pirate radio (late in life he openly operated a low power FM pirate radio station in his Eager, Arizona hometown) and free speech. And, for what good it's worth, he seems to have popularized the term sheeple.

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  1. Before starting a commercial shortwave station, he had operated a number of unlicensed (pirate) radio stations in his youth. Seriously! He wrote a book about it: Access to the Airwaves, ISBN-13: 978-1559501637
  2. [1]You can't make this shit up, folks.
  3. [2]Yeah, there's an autopsy report somewhere on here that points it out.
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