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*