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SUBJECT: COOPER "FAQ" FILE: UFO2419
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So many have wondered at Milton William Cooper and his recent
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past that I had to compile a short number of notes about him.
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In the few short years that Bill has been around the UFO convention
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circuit, he has met with much grief from the bleeding edge of
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technology, called "electronic message systems." This has come
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to mean a variety of computer based information services and the
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denizens of what we impetuously infer to as "the network."
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Bill literally started out on the wrong foot with Fido-Net and
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several other private networks, with claims of the "last" revision
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of his semi-published works. The works have reached compilation
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in a book _Behold A Pale Horse_ that Bill still hawks on his radio
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broadcasting venture. Of these writings, almost all went out in
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flames as Bill viciously "defended attacks" upon his published
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and not so published musings. To say that Bill's earnest efforts
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were merely "attacked" is an understatement!
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People came out of the woodwork (from lurking) to question a great
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deal, if not all by generalizations, of Mr. Cooper's work. His claims
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of government control of the human race have yet to abate as a result.
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If I were to describe the tortuous path the way his opinions and
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details, represented as "factual information" that he would stand
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behind always, I would have to use 30 or posts to present a
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definitive example of the meanderings of his "last revisions."
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To say that this guy has feet of clay might be appropriate.
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Immediately after his brief career as Audio Visual clerk in
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a briefing station overseas, in which he went AWOL ten days in
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a drunken binge, and subsequent discharge, Bill has represented
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on-air that he holds an Associates degree in photography.
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His interest in UFO's has apparently waned, possibly because
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of an incident where he was set up with a fictitious set of files
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known as the KRILL files, to which the authors publicly confronted
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him with as fabricated and that he deliberately plagiarized the
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information contained to his own ends. Bill toured the UFO lecture
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circuit for a number of months afterwards as a guest speaker and
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picked up on the idea of using a computer bbs system to promote
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his ideology(s) among computer users. With the advent of CAJI,
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the Citizens Against Joint Intelligence (?), Cooper found an
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audience with conspiracy theorists in some pretty unlikely places.
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Lately we find Bill broadcasting via shortwave and satellite
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radio, and has for the last two years passed on various themes
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of impending doom, gloom, financial collapse of the government.
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Of the last few months in particular, Mr. Cooper has espoused
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the creation of lawful, civilian militias with lawful arms.
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Among his wares that he has sponsorship from, Bill advocates
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the overthrow of the United States government, not so much
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because of his "Indictment" statement papers of years ago,
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where he alledges that the aliens have a secret treaty with
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the world's governments. No, Bill now blames the country's
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economic ills on the various financial institutions involved.
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Of these and various ethnic groups are decried as being the
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villains and we being the victims, the persuasive arguments
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are made for the purchase of foodstuffs, gardening stock, arms
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and various precious metals as currency in an anarchistic era
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ahead of the world's culture. This, as of tonight's reading,
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was due to the supposed revocation of the United States
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Constitution when the United Nations charter and treaties
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were embarked upon as legal instruments of world peace.
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Tonight's broadcast presented again, in detail, precisely why
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Bill Cooper is so popular. He presents topical questions that
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we see emerge in front of us about the state of the world and
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he feeds off of the attendant paranoia that modern life contains.
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We pilot always into an unknown future, Robert Heinlein wrote,
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and the fears of everyday life, though much numbed by conditioning
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of our culture, however intentional by pressure groups, news
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media and commercials that are shaping our lower behavior.
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What Cooper portrays as a conspiracy of world proportions,
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the ration mind can see as only a thin broth of half-investigated
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"truths" disguised by a compelling monologue of righteous
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indignations mixed with ranting speculations that sidetrack
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any effort from serious inquiries about the actual facts and
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their social background. Stir in anthems of military overtones
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and beat to a froth with patriotic themes and interviews with
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cultural "victim-ologies" as audio testimonials as factual
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affidavit-able facts and you have a radio show that appeals
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to many audiences, all of them not quite bent on getting at
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the truth what-so-ever.
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It's actually kind of ironic that the very audience that he
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sells his "agit-prop" to, his very own "flock" for his fleecing,
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is not counted publicly as the "sheeple" that he claims to
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be trying to awaken in our nation. His claims of socialism
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and anarchy are hallmarks of his fear-mongering mannerisms
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and surely his name will fade if we but ignore further mention
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of his agenda to fleece the "sheeple" and let his efforts
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sputter out on the nations computer and broadcasting networks.
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That about all I'll ever need to say about his intents, his
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actions, his past or his future. His claims will not withstand
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the tests of time and his brief popularity will fade...
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