Remember, Remember... A Man Named Cooper
America had its own 'fifth of November' event... and it should never be forgot
An incident unfolded on the night of November 5th, 2001, that is oft forgotten, even by those who claim the ‘conspiracy’ mantle as their own.
On that fateful night, local authorities attempted to arrest Milton William ‘Bill’ Cooper, (a man former president Bill Clinton had once referred to as, “The most dangerous radio host in America”), on what many considered to be trumped-up charges of assault and endangerment.
He had already let it be known he would not be taken alive, no matter the force which came for him; as such, a shoot-out occurred when deputies attempted to ensnare him at his home, and Cooper was gunned down and killed.
So what made this man so dangerous… and why does he still matter today?
If the modern conspiracy movement has a ‘godfather,’ his name is William Cooper. A thoughtful yet oft irascible patriot, he was discussing government corruption and plans for a ‘New World Order’ long before it was quasi-fashionable.
Before Q… before Alex Jones… there was Bill Cooper.
His public profile began in earnest with the publication of his 1991 book, “Behold a Pale Horse.” A clearinghouse of conspiracies at the time, Cooper attempted to unify them in a manner few before him had. While he eventually set aside some of the claims he made in this tome, believing he had been deliberately mislead with bad intelligence, it still set a general foundation for his future endeavors.
These included his shortwave radio program (remember, this was a time long before podcasting, much less the proliferation of the Internet). Called “The Hour of the Time,” it was where he would ruminate about the globalist drive toward dominion, along with many related topics.
Some of those topics included…
-- The movement toward a cashless economy, so that Authority could track all of your purchases via computer; if you chose not to comply, you would be cut out of commerce, medical services, or pretty much anything where money was involved.
-- The rise of school shootings, due to children being over-medicated with psychoactive drugs like Ritalin and Prozac.
-- Utilizing those events, along with other gun-related incidents, as justifications to diminish - then eventually overturn - the second amendment.
-- An increasingly propagandist media driving an Agenda at the behest of Authority - using race, class, and regional differences to divide Americans - that we could be more-easily conquered.
-- The continuing consolidation of the ‘Uniparty,’ well before the name had been popularized.
So… any of this sounding familiar to you? Odds are, if you are discussing anything even remotely ‘conspiratorial’, Bill Cooper was dissecting it two-three decades before you.
He was a bane to those in power, no matter what positions they held or what groups they represented. While he was not always right, he was always thinking, questioning even himself, while encouraging others to do the same.
In fact, he demanded it…
“Listen to everyone, read everything, believe nothing until you, yourself, can prove it with your own research… Only free‐thinking, intelligent people who are prepared to root through all the crap and get at the truth should be listening to [my] show. Everyone else should just turn off their radio. We don’t even want you to listen.
- William Cooper
In other words, ‘Question everything’… again, sound familiar? He was a man who, in his own way, rigorously pursued a more natural, Liberty-infused life, and promoted it without shame though his radio show.
So is it really a surprise the Elites saw him as a peak-level threat?
Their first substantive salvo was to file charges against him in 1998, claiming ‘tax evasion’ (because that is the charge they ALWAYS rely upon when they can get their target on nothing else). He resisted, and since the events of Ruby Ridge and Waco were still fresh in the memories of citizens they decided to treat him with kid gloves, lest they inadvertently create (another) ‘anti-government’ martyr.
However, a unique opportunity created itself with the allegations of ‘assault and endangerment;’ the Feds now had a backdoor way in. They could out-source their raid to local authorities, keeping their own hands clean, and since Clinton was now out of office and George W. Bush had been installed? The Waco stigma was far less prevalent.
And even beyond that? The terror attacks of September 11 had occurred two months before, and with the public attention (driven by the aforementioned propagandist news media) focused entirely on that and the new war with Afghanistan? Both Ruby Ridge AND Waco had become back-burner concerns, if concerns at all.
All of this, taken together, created the perfect time and environment to finally strike.
Speaking of 9/11? Perhaps Cooper’s most chilling moment came about on June 28th, 2001. CNN had somehow magically found the location of the (allegedly) most-wanted-man in the world, an individual named Osama bin Laden, and hosted an on-camera interview with him.
Cooper was searingly apoplectic.
He took to his radio show and railed about the absurdity of CNN being able to find someone that the most powerful intelligence agencies on Earth (including the CIA and Mossad) supposedly could not locate, and how ridiculous it was to accept their proclamations that ol’ Osama was just too elusive - too danged crafty - to be found.
He was convinced something very ugly was afoot. As his trust in Authority had already dropped to barrel-bottom levels anyhow, Cooper - as chronicled by Marc Jacobson in his book, Pale Horse Rider - had this to say…
“I’m telling you to be prepared for a major attack!” [The target would be a large American city.] “Something terrible is going to happen in this country. And whatever is going to happen they’re going to blame on Osama bin Laden. Don’t you even believe it.”
Less than three months later the Twin Towers were brought down… and two months after that, William Cooper was dead. Coincidence?
Look, if you happen to be one of those who insist on believing in 'coincidence’ that is fine; you do you. However, even the most casual of critical-thinkers should - at minimum - never trust ‘coincidence,’ especially when it is this blatant.
For the record? I do not believe in - nor do I trust - ‘coincidence.’
So while England has its Guy Fawkes and his ‘gunpowder plot,’ we have our own martyr related to the fifth of November. Yes, he was - like Fawkes - a complicated, imperfect individual (which provided fodder for spurious personal attacks), but also was a man who stood - right up through his death - with absolute conviction.
While we do not yet have a catchy poem or stylish mask with which to honor our own uncompromising legend, William Cooper’s words - and his courage - can live on through us, in myth and memory.
Because if truth be told? I know of no reason, this government treason… should ever be forgot.
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Incredible stack. I hadn't thought of Cooper lately. Time to revisit.