Total Takeover: Behold a Pale Horse pp. 132-135

A quick note on my page numbers: I skipped nothing, the last section ended at 130, then Cooper put up works cited, and then a blank page. I should have kept the page numbers going last week but I didn't so here we are. 

This week, we have more FEMA nonsense. I know, I'm getting rather bored with it too, but it is important that we understand what these claims are because they continue to pop up from time to time. The entire controversy over the "Jade Helm" exercise was based on the FEMA conspiracy theory. Since there's a Democrat in the White House the right usually screams about it for a bit. We aren't seeing this too much with Biden because the former president is still pushing the stolen election conspiracy theory and they've also got AI and UFOs to worry about. Your average right-wing conspiracy theorist has too much on their plate right now to really try to ramp up some old-fashioned FEMA fears. In the 90s though - this was their jam so it's our jam too. 

The chapter begins...er, I'm not sure this is a new chapter. Unlike, every other chapter Cooper doesn't title this one. However, he did cap the last section we read with a work cited page and you don't do that unless that chapter is over. It's strange and I think I know what Cooper is trying to do. 

He's attempting to make an addendum to his chapter because where we begin isn't his writing anymore. His claim is that the next 12 pages are from Dr. William R. Pabst of 1434 West Alabama Street, Houston at phone number 713-521-9896. I'm not doxxing anyone, this is how the section begins. A quick search of the address shows that it is currently an animal hospital. The building is clearly house shaped, so it is entirely possible that Dr. Pabst is a veterinarian who worked out of his house. Without getting into county records or making a phone call, I'll just assume that Pabst was a vet. 

These 12 pages are details of Pabst's investigation into the FEMA camp conspiracy and an update on the 1976 lawsuit he filed against certain people on behalf of us. The lawsuit is numbered as: 76-H-667. Pabst doesn't give us more context than that and every attempt I made to find the suit ended up just circling back to Cooper's book or other people citing Cooper's book. I learned that this suit was filed in the Southern District Court of Texas, but their website turned up empty. I'm not sure if this is because the court's website doesn't have records available going back to 1976 or if Pabst is making all of this up...or if there is a Pabst at all. Incredibly, a thread on abovetopsecret.com, has people coming to the latter conclusion because no one can find any information on who this guy is. The information being provided is so specific, but it could be a bluff because this information would have been much more difficult to find out in the late 70s. 

Cooper/Pabst begins with a weird story from Nazi Germany about a man wanting to buy a baby carriage. The man worked at the factory but the Nazis wouldn't let him buy one so he secretly stole part after part until one day his wife and he could assemble it. Yet, when they assembled it, they created a machine gun instead of a baby carriage. I do not know what the point of this story is, that baby carriages become weapons when you aren't allowed to buy them? That the man built a gun instead of a carriage? That the Nazis couldn't control human ingenuity? I really have no clue. What's even more confusing is that the story is prefaced with, "You have no doubt heard the story..." I have plenty of doubts that anyone has ever heard that story before. 

The next paragraph begins with Cooper/Pabst claiming that the situation we are facing is exactly like the one that the German in the story above faced...I still have lots of questions. Our good veterinarian is now going to connect two things: Executive order 11490 which I breezed over last week. This is the order that Nixon signed which directed all Executive agencies to create a plan in case of a national emergency (Nixon's EO merely combined the dozen or so that Kennedy signed) with a new Constitution for the "Newstates of America." Get this, the new constitution doesn't even have a Bill of Rights. 

Cooper/Pabst of course realize that what we call the "Bill of Rights" are all amendments to the Constitution. In other words, the founders of the country drew up the Constitution and then added things they forgot to put in. Rewriting the Constitution could merely include the Bill of Rights as part of the document with none of those amendments and everything would be fine. 

The Cooper/Pabst story is that you'll be separated from your family and assigned to a factory whenever the government decides, yet I've never seen a reason for any of this. What is the purpose of the government's plan here? 

What Pabst/Cooper hate is anything that they feel has authority over us. They are, ultimately, anarchists though they would hate to be called that because anarchism has a stigma attached to it. The list of Hypotheticals though is pretty detailed. The Postal workers will be in charge of registration, the Treasury Department will be in charge of assets, Justice will create a national police force, the Commerce Department will be in charge of distribution, etc. 

The State Department will be in charge of keeping people from escaping the US and replenishing our stockpile of narcotics. I guess we'd run out of drugs. It's always weird to me that these right-wing conspiracy theorists are obsessed with drugs (left-wing conspiracists are as well but for a vastly different reason). The US is going to run out of weed, so the State Department is going to have to keep the stocks full. I know that these conspiracy theorists believe that "they" use drugs to control "those people" so that they are in a continual life of crime, but that wouldn't be necessary in the New World Order. 

Most of the Pabst/Cooper document is just fleshing out the details of how the New World Order would come into being. It's interesting from an administrative perspective to see it thought out for once, but they hinge the entire fear on the EOs that were signed by Kennedy/Nixon. They find some importance because Kennedy's EOs never mention what the emergency would be: but, to repeat from last week, he didn't need to; it was nuclear missiles in Cuba, the embargo, and the very real possibility that the world was going to look like the end of Dr. Strangelove. 

I must confess though that they have a point when they indicate that none of the EOs have an end date. They should be specific to the calamity involved and I do get that disasters do not follow a schedule, but some limitation ought to be placed on government chronologically rather than just an indefinite time going forward. While I do not think that any of these EOs are the first step toward fascism, putting a backstop in would be helpful in silencing the conspiracy theories.