William Cooper, national militia movement leader, killed in shootout with law officers

Arizona Republic/AP ^ | 11/6/01 | Mighty Mouse

[Mighty Mouse]

EAGAR - A national leader of the militia movement has been killed and an Apache County sheriff's deputy wounded in a shootout, authorities said.

William Milton Cooper, 58, of Eager, had hosted a talk show broadcast on the Worldwide Christian Radio out of Nashville, which receives it via phone from his home in St. Johns. He had millions of listeners worldwide, including Timothy McVeigh.

[eternity]

Hopefully more information will be available. Would listen to him on WBCQ shortwave out of Maine.

[GVnana]

What brought this on?

[MitchellC]

Hm, wow. His show was very wacky, to say the least. He couldn't seem to keep the conspiracy theory story straight from one day to the next.

[wita]

Seems to be the only way to get rid of people who can't or won't afford government demands for payment of hard earned dollars, for services that some feel they neither want nor need. Of course there are two sides to every story, but I can guarantee we won't be hearing Mr Cooper's side.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Cooper refused to get a driver's license or pay federal income taxes

Well then he deserved to be arrested. No hero here.

Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's.

[Gaytriot]

Most likely himself.

[Texasforever]

The local police were NOT serving the federal warrant they were serving an aggravated assault warrant for him putting a gun in the face of one of his neighbors. At least get the facts straight before the canonization.

[Texasforever]

I'm no militia nut, but it wouldn't surprise me if the deputy had been dropped by friendly fire. Better have a look at Mr. Cooper's autopsy report, too, just to be sure he wasn't shot in the back.

Yep you don't sound like one either.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Cooper refused to get a driver's license or pay federal income taxes...

Since when are either of these things worthy of being shot down dead?

[PRND21]

IDX

[Valin]

see reply #9

[DrLiberty]

Is our system a system of Caesar? I think not. At least it wasn't meant to be. After all, what's to stp Caesar from taking the other half of your income? Or everything?

This is America. Freedom rules. get it?

[Yellow Rose of Texas]

heads up ladies.

[The Bolt]

You haven't been living on mars for the last seventy years have you?

[goodieD]

Unless it doesn't belong to Caesar in the first place.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Yeah, I get it. America is founded on the RULE OF LAW. Some ranting militia nut prancing about and publicly defying the law is just as disgusting as a Clinton and Reno publicly defying the law.

[Demidog]

Some ranting militia nut prancing about and publicly defying the law is just as disgusting as a Clinton and Reno publicly defying the law.

And of course those old founding fathers in Boston who defied the law were all nuts too eh?

[Dr. Frank fan]

I agree that he deserved to be arrested.

However, in the USA we don't have a "Caesar", so I cannot endorse that second point you made.