My Thoughts On The Late Bill Cooper
Norio Hayakawa
Norio Hayakawa Civilian Intelligence Network
The world will always remember Bill Cooper as an egotistic paranoia
monger. Indeed, to many he was an arrogant, obnoxious, choleric, self-
aggrandizing, rude, vitriolic and vengeful person.
Perhaps he was all of this and much more. But no matter how negative
his personality is described to be, we must admit the fact that he
did indeed make a tremendous impact among hundreds, if not, thousands
of his listeners, whether in front of his astounded lecture audiences
or through his "shocking" radio programs.
I first met Bill back in 1989 in West L.A. when he was just an
unknown speaker and where he spoke for the first time at a gathering
called UFORUM. I was quite stunned then with his hypothesis on the
Secret Government. It really sounded so fresh at that time because
unlike most UFO speakers of that time he convincingly injected "UFOs"
to a "one-world government" right-wing flavored conspiracy theory. I
was so impacted by his hypothesis that I became a volunteer and
helped him organize his first successful major public appearance that
same year, which was held at Hollywood High School. That became the
historic launching pad for his national lecture circuit. And the rest
is history.
Later, in December of that year, I even attended the controversial
National MUFON Conference held in Las Vegas in which Bill Cooper was
perhaps the most controversial speaker aside from John Lear and Bill
Moore and others. The Bill Cooper of then was very much into ufology,
it seemed. Even in 1991 when Gary Schultz and I organized the first
Ultimate Seminar in Rachel, Nevada (25 miles north of Area 51), we
were surprised to see Bill Cooper as an attendee. I remember quite
well when we lead the people to the White Sides hill for a climb to
see the base, Bill Cooper could not make the climb due to his leg and
he was even cracking up jokes about it.
In 1993 Bill Cooper, Eustace Mullins, Jordan Maxwell, Vladmir
Terziski, Dr. Robert Strecker, Anthony Hilder, a couple of other
conspiracy speakers and myself were all invited to speak at the First
International Conference on Global Deception to be held in the famous
Wembley Arena in London. Because of concerns for security due to the
controversial nature of the conference, the bulk of us decided not to
travel to England. Nevertheless, Bill Cooper had the guts to go and
speak at the conference. I admired him for that.
By 1993 I had completely abandoned the so-called "extraterrestrial
hypothesis" of the origins of the so-called UFO phenomena and began
to promote the hypothesis that the entire UFO phenomena was a
brilliantly concocted, staged and manipulated man-made deception by
elitists to bring about certain agendas. I completely disassociated
myself with "ufology". I was quite surprised to learn that, later on,
Bill Cooper also began to depart from "ufology" and was also
beginning to hypothesize that the "UFOs" had nothing to do
with "aliens" but was a manipulation of the government to bring about
fear to create a one-world government. Cooper began to admit that he
most likely had been shown disinformation by the government while he
was in the service. On this point, I truly commended Cooper for his
admission. Cooper began to state that he was not a ufologist. It was
Cooper who coined the term "ufoology" and I also commended him for
it. However, Cooper had a tendency to label anyone that didn't agree
with him as "agents of CIA", etc.
After moving to Arizona, he shifted his focus to the Patriot Movement
(the militia movement), although in reality he was just a one-man
militia, simply promoting his view on the Constitutional Republic
through his radio programs to thousands of listeners.
Besides his other numerous negative traits, Cooper had an
uncontrollable alcoholic problem. But despite his eccentric,
obnoxious personality, deep in his heart I believe that he wanted to
be a good person. Unfortunately he brought an end to his tumultuous
life by his self-fulfilled prophecy through his violent act. My heart
goes out to Annie and the children. But my heart goes out just as
much to Deputy Marinez, at the young age of 40, who was shot by
Cooper and who is still in a critical condition. Even if the Deputy
should recover, he will most likely live the rest of his life with
brain damage and paralysis. I feel so sorry for the Deputy's wife and
his children. Cooper will have to answer to God for his actions, no
doubt.. May we all learn from this tragedy.
http://www.konformist.com/2002/cooper/cooper-ruffinp.htm
Ruffin Prevost On Bill Cooper
RuffinP@aol.com
Ruffin Prevost is the editor of Parascope
Aside from Charles Overbeck and also my dad (a longtime follower of
para-politics and closet conspiracy theorist) William Cooper was the
biggest single influence in getting me interested in the field. Some
friends and I heard him while in college speaking on a local radio
show, which got me tuning in to "The Hour of the Time" on shortwave,
which in turn got me reading Behold, A Pale Horse. Say what you want -
- and there's plenty to say -- about Cooper's credibility, or even
his sanity, but it was his intense passion and jaw-dropping claims of
the impossibly terrifying that got me hooked into conspiracy
research.
Sadly, I haven't kept up with him very much at all over the past
several years, except for learning bits and pieces now and then of
what seemed like his steady slide into repetitive patterns of
prevarication, inebriation and antagonistic confrontation. As for the
specifics of his death, I read the account from the Apache County
Sheriff's Department (which his web site confirms as accurate), and
it sounds like they tried -- albeit in typical hamfisted manner -- to
serve an arrest warrant for aggravated assault without it turning
into an armed seige while he was in his house.
Perhaps the deputies' tactics (and maybe even their motivations) were
less than optimum, but it's doubtful anyone would have died, cops or
Cooper, if he had allowed himself to be booked and bailed out. He
would have had the moral high ground at that point, and been in a
better position (not the least of which includes being alive) to
fight whatever nonsense the cops might have been harassing him with.
So much of what I heard from Cooper over the last few years was so
full of bitter hatred and dreadfully paranoid animosity that it
doesn't surprise me at all that it ended this way. He was always
talking about going out guns-a-blazing. Live by the sword, die by the
sword. Armed resistance (ostensibly in self-defence) is a last
resort, and one I don't think Cooper had the moral authority to
exercise in this instance. Jack-booted dramatics by overzealous cops
in the name of self-aggrandizing power is never a good idea. (I don't
know the details of Apache County's deputies, but Waco is a great
example.) However, I don't think being a violent martyr over an
aggravated assault warrant is such a great idea either.
If it was a bogus arrest, better to let it happen and then sue and
use the publicity to expose the abuses of power. He would have better
served his cause(s) if he had lived to speak, write and inspire
another day. That's how Cooper got me started, and it's a shame he
won't be doing anything like that ever again.
http://www.konformist.com/2002/cooper/cooper-beldo.htm
Bill Cooper Is Dead
Jaye C. Beldo
Netnous@aol.com
Some sad news below about the demise of one William Cooper. I never
met the author of Behold a Pale Horse in person but we locked horns a
few years ago in an internet flame war posted on the Konformist Web
Site. I accused him of fear inducing people via the well known
Zapruder Film so they would buy his best selling book and he
responded by calling me a 'New Age pimp' amongst other unsavory
things.
I did admire the guy for his Pit Bull personality if not his book. We
managed to reconcile with one another off line and I realized that he
wasn't just another manic paranoid, that he did have a sense of humor
and spirit which are rare qualities indeed in the world of
conspiracy. Robert Sterling told me that William was closer to the
truth than any one else in terms his knowledge of sinister cabals at
large. Let us remember Mr. Cooper by keeping the fighting spirit
alive here in the Fourth Reich. (which may indeed last a thousand
years this time, if we don't.
Sincerely,
Jaye C. Beldo
http://www.konformist.com/2002/cooper/cooper-robertm.htm
William Cooper Epitaph
Robert D. Morningstar
marstar@escape.com
I was sad to hear of the death of William Cooper who was shot to
death by an Arizona deputy sheriff during a shootout in which the
deputy was wounded.
William Cooper was one of the most knowledgeable experts in the field
of "conspiracy science", the Illuminati, Freemasons, Ufo's and the
New World Order. He was a longtime critic of the Warren Commission
Report and JFK Cover-up. He was a U.S. Navy veteran who rendered many
years of "Silent Service" on submarines and in Naval Intelligence. He
was a man who did his duty as a "patriot" as he saw fit. Misguided
though he may have been at times,
Cooper always acted from his "conscience" and sought to warn all
Americans of the dangers of "creeping Socialism" and Nazism in
America.
He was a longtime admirer of President John F. Kennedy. Cooper, who
had been a member of the DeMolay Society as a boy, revealed to this
writer the arcane symbolism. significance and meaning of the
architecture of Dealey Plaza in his own words, "'an open-air temple'
to the foundations of Freemasonry in America". Cooper also taught me
the real meaning of "007".
I met Cooper in New York City in 1992 and spoke to him several times
thereafter regarding the doctoring of the Zapruder Film and the JFK-
Tippit Body Swap into mid-1990's. We discussed UFOlogy at length and
there are few around today who know as much about the subject as did
William Cooper, who had seen a UFO over the Pacific Ocean "as big as
an aircraft carrier" tumbling end over end, entering the ocean and
rising again from it. Cooper stated that the waters parted before the
UFO struck the surface of the oceans "like the parting of the Red Sea
in the movie, "The Ten Commandments".
Cooper invited me to join his team on the JFK Assassination but I
could not see eye-to-eye with him on the subject of Secret Service
involvement in the assassination of JFK.
In particular, I disagreed with him completely on his thesis that
William Greer, the SS driver shot the president with a pistol. I felt
that he was misinterpreting the doctored film and that a conclusive
proof was impossible in view of the deletion of more than half the
frames.
I also found Cooper too radical for me in his call for violent action
against the Federal government. He was a gun-totin' Westerner who saw
himself continuing in the lineage of Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie.
Deep within his soul, Cooper possessed and nurtured the mythic image
of the Revolutionary American standing at Concord Bridge or on the
ramparts of the Alamo. He always said he'd never surrender and that
he would go down shooting.
William Cooper was true to his word and his conscience to his very
last breath. Whether I agreed with his views and tactics or not, I
view him as "a good American". Cooper was a masterful writer and the
author of Behold a Pale Horse, a book well worth reading.
With my sympathy and condolences to his family, his friends and
followers I conclude with this epitaph:
"Rest in Peace, William Cooper, an American Patriot...Well done!"
Sincerely,
Robert M*
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