Well then he deserved to be arrested. No hero here.
Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's.
Since when are either of these things worthy of being shot down dead?
An Apache County sheriff's deputy was shot in the head and is in guarded condition. It happened during a shoot-out with a man with militia ties. That man, William Cooper, was shot and killed.
It happened late Monday night in the small town of Eagar, Arizona ... 230 miles northeast of Phoenix.
Deputies were serving William Cooper an arrest warrant for assaulting one of his neighbors. The federal government also wanted him for tax evasion.
Cooper had warned officers and federal agents that if they ever came for him, he would not go down without a gun battle.
On his website, Bill Cooper claimed the federal government has targeted his family. He said the nazi Gestapo had threatened him. He believed in UFO’s and he didn't believe in paying taxes.
Cooper wrote if authorities ever tried to arrest him, they would be met with armed resistance.
He ran a small radio show called An Hour of the Time - out of Eagar, Arizona. The focus was predominantly anti-government. Cooper was well known in militia circles.
Timothy McVeigh was a fan of Cooper's, he even reportedly tried to recruit cooper to help him at one point before the Oklahoma City bombing.
But early Tuesday morning - deputies had a warrant - but as promised, Cooper wasn't going quietly. Cooper was shot and killed.
Apache County Deputy Rob Marinez took two bullets to the head. He's expected to survive.
The deputy used to live in Mesa and friends there say he's the sort of cop you want to have around if things get tough.
Deputy Marinez is married and has three children.
He's definitely found a legal way to avoid taxes now.
With this article attempting to link Cooper with McVeigh as Cooper's most notable achievement now lends more credance to Cooper's bizarre conspiracy theories. Why would any pressman not report on Cooper's mother of all conspiracy theories relating US government ties to an underworld and extensive writings which sprang birth to the X-Files as much as Gene Rodenberry gave life to Star Trek? Instead their linkage is that McVeigh read Cooper's writings?
With Gene Rodenberry's demise, will his obituary read that the Unabomber and Timothy McVeigh watched his TV shows and read some of his stories?
His programs were fascinatingly weird.
I never quite figured out what he believed,
but it was something to the effect that a secret society of Masonic illuminati
that dated back to Babylonian times
was trying to take over the world.
It seems every figure of note was in it,
he even mistrusted Pat Buchanan because he belonged to some Catholic society or other.
Perhaps someone can clarify his beliefs for me.
Is it true, by the way, that he did not lose his leg in a military engagement,
but rather, had a motorcyle accident while drunk?