“I believe that any man without principles that he is ready and willing to die for at any given moment is already dead and is of no use or consequence whatsoever,” Cooper wrote in the creed that began his book. And, in his book, he suggested it was an honorable way to die. That Cooper would die in a shootout with authorities seemed fated. “Unless we can wake the people from their sleep nothing short of civil war will stop the planned outcome,” Cooper wrote in the book’s opening pages. Citizens must soon fight for what they hold dear.Ĭooper saw his mission as increasingly urgent. If you think shadowy forces are pulling the strings, it is because they are. “The middle class is begging the government to do away with the 2nd Amendment.”Ĭooper’s work describes a conspiracy that is timeless: Nearly all that has been told to you is illusion. Cooper said such incidents would hasten the call for gun control. Though portions of the book are dated, some paragraphs can strike readers as eerily prescient.Ĭooper described a CIA plan to induce in people, via drugs and hypnosis, the desire to shoot up schoolyards.

Pale Horse Rider by Mark Jacobson