Harassment: Behold a Pale Horse pp. 337-341

Last week we discovered that an ancestor of Jonathan May’s was given a benefit by King Charles I, and no one in his family ever knew this. He then began to invest and set up charters for thousands of different businesses (?) in order to collect on it or something. He was, as he claims, already a successful businessman and this was just more money for him. We left off with his claim that, “I discovered that a minute cartel controlled all banking policies worldwide, and that the provision or non-provision of ‘money’ was all controlling.”

Because we just finished reading the Protocols inside this book, I have a certain expectation for what May is going to claim (hint: I think he’s going to blame the Jews), but I do have to suspend that. So far we know very little, and what we do know is very difficult to verify. This is largely because May likes to brag alot. He’s a very successful businessman, even though he has no education. He claims that he is known for finding things at good price, which, in a pre-internet world would be a very good skill. Hell, in a post-internet world it would still be a good skill though there would be more people doing it.

May claims that he ran into resistance in the banking industry. That industry, he claims had no room for “highly determined but very independently-minded individuals.” He describes himself as an “entrepreneur.” This is a red flag at half mast for me. I cannot tell whether it is going up or down, but given that he is using a general term like this, and not describing specifically what it is that he does; I’m thinking he’s in “business” and if you just give him a bunch of money, he can turn it around for you.

Which I think may be the case since his problem with the banks is that they won’t extend a line of credit to just anyone with gumption and an idea. For that, you already need to be rich, and have something you can set as collateral. May decides that he’s going to be that person. He claims that he set up a few businesses across the Middle East and “elsewhere” to provide financial investment to businesses that the banks would not lend to. May and his partners took a cut, but then they did the silly thing of advertising their successful business. This attracted attention from “them.”

Up until now, he’s been fairly realistic in the story. I think it’s mostly exaggerated but it feels like there is a foundation to it. His story becomes rather difficult to believe after this. “They” find out about his lending business and he becomes harassed by a small-town police force. They pull him over for “tires, speeding, etc., etc.” We’re never told what small town this is, which is an indication that the red flag is on the way up.

This is a trope among conspiracy theorists—to brag about all of the times they’ve been harassed for their actions. I’m not one to say that police harassment doesn’t happen, but I am one to say that so far—May is complaining that the police pulled him over for traffic violations and he’s mad about it. In response, May opens a butcher shop, seriously, but he’s so good at it that the competition burgles it repeatedly. In order to protect his property he sets up a realistic looking shotgun powered “man-trap” and the police get involved again telling him to take it down. He complains that this is just another sign of the police trying to harass him because he’s the best businessman ever. We aren’t told where this happened, but creating a trap to kill a human being is illegal in both the US and the UK. He claims that they dropped the charges because his intent was not to kill but to protect his property and even “they” couldn’t argue that. I think that, if this happened, they dropped the charges because the shotgun was fake. In response to this, he purchased a mountain lion as a “guard dog.”

Bullshit.

Outside of a Colombian drug lord, you can’t just buy a mountain lion. It’s also completely unnecessary, a sufficiently large dog is just as much a deterrent: I don’t mean a mastiff or a Dane either—in fact, a simple “beware of dog” sign is usually enough. The police are mad, May is just too awesome to be left alone and the harassment begins again. His family disowns him because of the mountain lion, which I kind of understand. We have a Great Dane and my mother will no longer come over because of it; I can only imagine what a mountain lion would do.

May hires some PIs and discovers that the local police inspector, the one in charge of the harassment is involved in drug trafficking. After this the police harassment really steps up, he’s charged and convicted with holding stolen property (boots and a dinghy). Again, I’m calling bullshit.

May finally divulges a date. In 1980 he leaves this part of England, which means that all of this took place in the 1970s. He wants us to believe that the police, at the behest of “they,” couldn’t muster a charge larger than theft? Given that he bounces from place to place, he could just disappear. A 1970s copper has a lot of freedom, and one that is being directed by the powers that be to harass someone that has no friends, no family, and no contacts…on that has international business ties. Yeah, this petty theft charge is some weak sauce bullshit.

If we read the introduction to this book carefully, we remember that Cooper himself suffered an interesting series of escalating harassment. Friend of both Alex Jones and former president/convicted felon Donald Trump, Roger Stone also claims to have been the victim of targeted harassment. Jones says that when he was a kid he discovered that the local police were involved in a drug smuggling operation and his family had to leave Dallas (or Houston, it’s hard to remember because he lies all the time). There are pieces of this story that can be checked, and each time he provides a concrete detail it’s very trivial. The theft, the man-trap, the charge of theft; none of this adds up to the jet-setting international businessman that he claims to be.

He leaves the UK and heads to Oklahoma, which is where we will pick up his story next week.