More Executive Orders: Behold a Pale Horse pp. 125-130

Our chapter begins with the title HR 4079 & FEMA, and I seriously thought that his post was going to be me explaining why we were skipping this chapter. I figure we had learned our lesson two posts ago when Cooper just reposted a law he didn't understand along with a treaty someone told him was bad. Why do this again to ourselves? Then I kept reading the title of the chapter (this is a long one): 

H.R. 4079 & FEMA

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Tool That Can Be Used to Establish the Police 

State

Patriots and Tax Protestors: 

YOU MUST NEVER BE FOUND AT HOME ON

                    ANY HOLIDAY

Your life depends upon how well you can obey that rule.

I was still skeptical. After all, sometimes Cooper provides introductions to things that he merely cuts and pastes into this book. To be honest, dear reader, I really wanted to skip this chapter, but I soldiered on and I'm glad I did. This chapter isn't just a reposting of HR 4079 (1990); it's something completely different--it's a transcript of an audiotape message Cooper sent out to people that were in his patriot network. Short of listening to his radio show this is the kind of thing that Cooper was known for. So pushing on is the best thing that we can do. 

The transcript was made by a person named Richard Murray. I find this strange, it's Cooper's book, and I've heard Cooper's radio show--he, unlike Alex Jones, prepares. What he says, he reads, so why someone named Richard Murray is doing the transcription is weird to me. Why not just copy Cooper's notes directly? 

"[Begin tape]..." and here we go. Cooper begins strong, I have to admit that, he tells us that there is a man named "Buster Horton" a FEMA agent, who is the head of the interdepartmental unit that will become the government in the event of an emergency. It's good, it sets the atmosphere and gives us a central villain...and then Cooper completely drops it. Who is Buster Horton? I have questions and the internet isn't giving me answers. Well, it gave me a likely candidate actually. Lyndon LaRouche, of all people, blamed a Buster Horton who was the jury foreman during his trial for running a major fraud scheme of being a member of the secret government. This must be the same person. The LaRouche document claims that he was a member of FEMA and an acquaintance of Colonel Oliver North and an FBI agent named Oliver "Buck" Revell who led the investigation against LaRouche. The LaRouche article provides no citations or reasons we should believe these connections, though, from the time of that article, I think that Cooper may have gotten his information from LaRouche's organization. There's a lot of overlap between the beliefs of Cooper and LaRouche: both believed that a secret society controlled the world. For LaRouche it was the Tri-Lateral Commission that was the source of all evil (along with the Queen of England) and for Cooper--well I'm surprised he hasn't named dropped the Tri-Lats yet, but it's any group that he poorly understands, and thinks wields a ton of power. 

FEMA, as he explained in the last chapter, will take over the US in the event of an emergency. In the conspiracy theory world, this means that, at any point in time, the president can just declare an emergency activate FEMA and then we're under martial law. They think this because they think that the government is brutally efficient, swift, and monolithic. As I write this, I doubt that you could get 75% of the House of Representatives to agree that gravity is a real force. Cooper writes, "If the president had declared a national emergency, that could have triggered it. Any instability in the Middle East -- anything, in fact."

Our author cites here executive order 11051 from John F. Kennedy. This, Cooper claims, is the outline of what FEMA can do in the event of an emergency. It predates FEMA, but that's nitpicking, the OSS predated the CIA but they served a similar function in the beginning. Cooper thinks it odd that 11051 covers all domestic crises but never mentions nuclear war. It's true, the order does not mention nuclear war but in 1961 it didn't have to, it also doesn't mention a list of domestic crises either. It's a national emergency preparedness order, which mostly is logistical information in the event of a crippling national crisis. 

"It gives authorization to put ALL Executive orders into effect in times of national emergency declared by the president, increased international tension or economical or financial crisis."

I don't know what this means. Executive orders are in effect when the pen of the executive branch signs them. The line tells me that Cooper either doesn't know how executive orders work or he knows that his audience doesn't know. Honestly, the former is better than the latter.

Cooper lists executive orders 10995-11005. Originally I read every one of these and then listed Cooper's claim versus the reality, but that became boring to read so I'll use two as an example (because the second one he made a mistake and I think it's humorous):

10997: Cooper claims that this is the government takeover of utilities. In reality, I'll just quote it directly, "these plans and programs shall be designed to provide a state of readiness in these resource areas regarding all conditions of national emergency, including attack upon the United States."

10988: The claim is that the government will take over food resources and farms. Reality: This order grants federal workers the right to collective bargaining and is one of the EOs that began a program of desegregation in federal contractors. This one is so far off I think he wrote down the wrong number. Which he did, he meant 10998 which directs the secretary of agriculture to submit a plan for food resources in the event of an emergency.

Every single one of these EOs is a disaster preparedness directive by President Kennedy to the various departments that would make up his cabinet. They follow a similar format in that Kennedy is telling each person in his cabinet, "In the event of a national crisis, formulate a plan to continue on if you don't already have one." Kennedy, the president who presided over the Cuban Missile Crisis might have a reason to do this. 

From these executive orders, Cooper claims that Nixon combined them into a single order EO 11490. This is actually correct. It also seems a bit unnecessary in that Nixon could have just let the Kennedy orders stand, but perhaps Johnson had done something that made this necessary, I don't know I'm not a presidential historian. The weird error here is that Cooper brings President Carter into it and I'm not sure why. 

I know that Carter created FEMA via EO 12127, but Cooper never mentions that. He goes from Nixon to Carter, without mentioning 12127, and then to HR 4079. The missing Carter EO is interesting because it shows Cooper's sloppiness, it's the literal EO that created FEMA and he's leaving it out? Take this seriously Bill. 

Now we jump to HR 4079. This was, among us normies, a little-known bill that died in committee. Newt Gingrich proposed it and what it said was that the government would declare a 5-year drug and crime-related emergency. This bill wasn't an issue. Gingrich draws it up and it gets referred to a subcommittee on crime where it dies. 

Among Cooper's ilk, it's a bit more infamous. The first provision in the bill is that it declares an emergency. If we combine this provision with Nixon's EO 11490 we've got a federal takeover of the government...which is weird because the federal government is already in charge of the federal government via the identity principle. What HR 4079 does is create those FEMA prisons every conspiracy theorist in the last 30 years has been crying about. 4079 authorizes the military bases that were being closed throughout the US to be reopened and converted to prisons. Cooper believes that this is where the Patriots and Tax-protestors are going to be incarcerated. 

What follows is an elaborate web of connections that all but guarantee the passage of 4079. 4079 was drawn up by the CFR and the Tri-Laterals (I knew Cooper would bring them up eventually). This tape is a call to action for us to write our Representatives and Senators to implore them to vote down this bill. The Constitution is in serious danger. 

I find these calls to action in Cooper and other conspiracists to be absurd to the point of insulting. Look, Cooper, I've been paying attention: our enemy is omnipotent how can my elected representative stop them with a vote in the house. Why do the conspiracy puppet masters care about elections? Why don't they just neuter the result of the election? 

Conspirator one: we shall dominate the US?

Conspirator two: we cannot, for their Constitution forbids it.

Conspirator one: Drat, if only that were not in place. 

I'll close with a note: Cooper (or Murray) says that, as of January 8th 1991, the bill may have secretly been passed, having been signed into law by Bush on 11-29-1990. We should keep this in mind because it gives us a possible date of writing as late 1990/early 1991. Cooper does not know, and never bothers to find out, that this bill never went anywhere.