Population: Behold a Pale Horse pp. 178-181

I knew that this was coming, but I was going to wait on the commentary until chapter 15 hit. Famously (infamously), Cooper is going to include, in this book, the entirety of the notorious anti-Semitic tract "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. I was going to discuss the history of this work then but at the bottom of page 178 (PDF) he says this: 

"I managed to locate a reference to The Protocols of Sion dated in the 1700s (see chapter 15, page 269). This plan for subjugation of the world correctly outlined exactly what has happened since the Protocols were discovered, and that is all that is needed to confirm the authenticity of the information contained within the document. It is clear that the Illuminati has planned to rule the world for centuries."

This paragraph is all that there is, save one sentence in the beginning of the next paragraph, "They have followed the plan outlined in the The Protocols of Sion." 

I feel as though I have to address some preliminary issues before we get to it in nearly a hundred pages (it begins on page 267 of my PDF). Cooper includes this work because, like all conspiracy theorists, he thinks page count means that he's more correct. It's why David Icke's non-sensible ramblings tower beyond 500 pages or that Alex Jones always brags about how large the stacks of his sources are. He also includes it because the 90s Militia movement fully embraced the Protocols along with the Turner Diaries. Cooper is going to make a claim that he doesn't mean this to be anti-Semitic. Racism, anti-Semitism, etc. are all distractions by "them" to keep us divided. He said this earlier in this book and in his radio show "The Hour of the Time." While he's done those things, he's included this, and I'm sorry Bill--but you cannot include this work and not be considered anti-Semitic.

What Cooper is trying to do is play both sides. My cynical nature wants to believe that he's doing this because not including it would be a glaring omission by the people most likely to buy his book. By including it he risks the ire of groups like the ADL, but those groups will already dislike him for his veiled references to global bankers and demonizing people like the Rothschilds. He attempts to have it both ways, but no one can pull this off. If one were to create an archive of books necessary for conspiracy literature as a reference you could include the Protocols, but any attempt to insert this book into a worldview makes it anti-Semitic. 

Cooper will claim in chapter 15 that we should read the word Zion as Sion, Goyim for Cattle, and that the elders are really the Illuminati; but he doesn't change the words in-text. Whether Cooper is an actual anti-Semitic theorist or he's playing to the crowd he knows I cannot say--but it's immoral either way because the result is that he's disseminating this notorious fraud to people who are likely to skip his disclaimer. We will cover this when we hit chapter 15. 

However, we have to dwell on it in the abstract for now. He's claiming he found a reference to it dated to the 1700s--absolutely not. This is impossible without a time machine. The Protocols first appeared in the closing years of the last Tsar's regime. I've written about it here, and I'll repeat one sentiment from that article: if the Okhrana didn't write it they definitely allowed it to be published. This dates it, at the earliest, to the early 20th century. However, we do know that the work is a plagiarism of an earlier work titled "A Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu" and it was a satire of the reign of Napoleon III. This means, that at the very latest it would have to be from 1870. 

Cooper brings this work up because he wants to claim that the book outlines the New World Order's plan for depopulation. I'll say this about it: it really does not. The Protocols discusses a domination plan to undermine the world's governments and laws--to place all of civilization under the Elders' control. While he's getting one thing wrong he might as well get another: "Joseph Campbell explains this concept excellently in his series with Bill Movers called "The Power of Myth." Cash will disappear and with it most crime will also disappear; but total control of each individual will be the price we pay."

I've not seen this series with Bill Movers, but I've read Campbell's book and no, it does not. There is nothing about a cashless society in Campbell's book. Cooper could use "this" to explain the previous sentence where he writes, "Since religion helped to create the population problem, it will not be tolerated except for the approved state-controlled religion which will evolve according to man's needs." 

But that would be wrong too. Cooper may mistake the evolution of myth in various societies for the development of a state-run religion, but he would have to be grossly ignorant or purposefully ignorant to make that mistake. Population concerns seem to be the focus of this chapter, which again, he titled the "Logic of the New World Order." 

Here is the strangest part of the chapter: "ACCORDING TO PLANS, MANY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE BETWEEN NOW AND THE YEAR 2,000; BUT IF THESE PLANS ARE NOT SUCCESSFUL THE HUMAN RACE COULD BECOME EXTINCT."

The New World Order/Illuminati wants to lower the population and preserve the human race and Cooper is opposed to this? The last two pages of the chapter see-saw between agreeing that something needs to be done and Cooper imploring his readers to oppose anything that could be done. He claims that we must learn to live with nature and not against it, which is great; but then he wants to resist any recommendation by the enemies of mankind to save us. 

I have realized that Cooper's idea of the "New World Order" is not defined. It's a meaningless phrase in the same way that Gary Allen redefined the words "COMMUNIST" and "SOCIALIST." It's just a thing that he uses as the villain in his story. Can the evil NWO also be the ones that are trying to save us? I have no idea what Cooper's point is at the end of this chapter, but I do know one thing--he's referenced UFOs and aliens a few times. I think he's prepping us for some heavy alien stuff coming in the future.