As the older I get I tend to stray away from what would be considered conspiracy theory (not so much as something like 9/11 or the Kennedy assassination, or just the government being incompetent in general, but more kooky stuff).
Anyways, a year or so back my friend told me about Behold A Pale Horse, and the economic parts of it, and how it’s just a scam. Well, I knew from the start it’s some anti-capitalist conspiracy stuff. I was helping my mom move today and she handed me a bunch of conspiracy books, one of them was that book. I read through the economic parts, and well, some of it is pretty pathetic.
Apparently the text provided are pulled from a military operations manual, but if that’s the case the military knows less about economic theory than I thought. They compare how an economy works to that of electricity! I figured I’d post this for people who have not heard of it (or are bored).
Read from Apparent Capital As “Paper” Inductor (page 43 in the book) to Amplification Energy Sources (page 58). (The pictures on the site were not in the book).
Wow, I had never heard of this guy or that book. What a world! the more insane and wacked out your claims, the more followers and notoriety you collect. I guess.
I read “Behold a Pale Horse” by William Cooper [now deceased under mysterious circumstances] , roughly 20 years ago- and thoroughly enjoyed it, despite the wackiness of the economic theory he presents [I’d just read “Human Action”- twice[:)]
My reaction at the time was: " what a great, vivid imagination- EITHER this guy is a genius at inventing a story, and therefor perhaps a great fiction writer- OR a great comedic writer [I laughed a whole lot], OR, horreur of horreurs, he is not making this stuff up" . [:O]
To this day I have not decided which.
Shadow Government?
All I can tell you is that at the time I seriously doubted his claims about a secret “shadow” government with facilities housed deep underground in the side of a mountain outside a small town in Virginia(?) [it’s been a while since I read it so I may have named the wrong state].
Curious, I went to the local library and did a search for the town, using a large scale [probably 1 in. to 10 miles or less] US atlas [i.e. an atlas of the US , state by state, printed and published in the US] , and the town did not even appear to exist.
Then I discovered , near the bottom of the atlas pile[ the books were too big to be on regular shelves], a British atlas edition [probably “The Times”], also featuring fairly large scale maps of US states, and lo and behold, the town he named in his book as being the location for the shadow government was clearly shown.
Hmmm.
This does not mean that Mr Coopers claims about a shadow governments existence are accurate, BUT, the very fact that the town where he says it is located is omitted from at least one major publishers US atlas’ editions certainly did/does arouse suspicion, at least in my tiny warped mind! [e.g. see my signature line below]