Cooper attended KKK events and had his nearly imaginary ‘militia’ train with them. Cooper said that while he wasn’t member of the Klan, the organization itself was “misunderstood,” and patriots should support them because they were vigilant monitors of threats posed by the U.S. government to American sovereignty and would probably be one of the only groups, along with his, to survive the coming alien/ human or just human/ human wars (Mail & Guardian “Govt Aids nut linked to Ku Klux Klan” Sep. 8, 2000).