The Piper Doctrine remains in effect
Almost ten years ago Michael Collins Piper died in modest circumstances, but his anti-Jewish theories and beliefs have gained many new converts
Recently I wrote about an episode in 2006 that illustrated the paranoid delusions within the 9/11 Truth Movement. It is difficult to know today what the scope of the damage was for the Sam Danner hoax given that so much of the information from that period is no longer available on the internet. However, one of the players in that saga was a significant thinker in anti-Jewish circles and his works today have even greater relevance than they did during his lifetime. Michael Collins Piper, as I wrote in the previous article, was well acquainted with a number of other 9/11 Truthers that had significant followings, but this association was only a small part of a life and career driven by his almost obsessive hatred of the Jews wherever they may be.
In my upcoming book Piper and other 9/11 theorists will be profiled in order to show the cultures and personalities that have supported the belief in the “Dancing Israelis” and other poorly evidenced 9/11 hoax theories. In writing about the Danner Affair, I listened to dozens of hours of The Piper Report. As a result, I came to understand how so much of today’s discourse about Jewish conspiracies is derived from a set of ideas that Piper helped develop and articulate. Here are some examples:
In his 2013 book False Flags Piper made the case that members of dissident movements like his were often fooled into pursuing irrational red herrings (false flag events) and thereby discredit themselves through a process known as cognitive infiltration proposed by the Jewish liberal legal scholar and Obama White House aide Cass Sunstein in a 2008 white paper.
In his 2006 book The Judas Goats Piper argued that the dissident right that he was a part of had to deal not only with external enemies like law enforcement and intelligence agencies, but also impostor members who would lead them down the wrong path.
In his 1993 book Final Judgment Piper expanded on doubts about the Warren Commission Report on the assassination of John F. Kennedy expressed by friend Mark Lane in his book Rush to Judgment, pointing his finger at a new culprit: Israel which he alleged murdered JFK due to quarrels over their nuclear programme and the registration of the American Zionist Council as a foreign agent.
But if one were to distill an attitude out of his life’s work it would be this: “It doesn’t matter how Israel [or the Jews] did it, just that they did”. This was stated in reference to 9/11, but it might as well be applied to any other problem in the world. I call it the Piper Doctrine, which holds that the most negative lens be applied to a Jewish related story no matter what the circumstances and regardless of the foundation of evidence. Two examples from his radio show stick in my mind the most, neither of them related to 9/11:
On July 28, 2006 a gunman entered the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle building and opened fire, killing one and wounding five. Reacting live to the shooting, Piper cautioned the listeners to consider whether the victims were innocent or perhaps their support for Israel had caused the resentment that led to the shooting. The lone fatality was Pamela Waechter, a 58 year old woman who worked as the head of communal outreach and fundraising at the JFGS. Waechter had been born in Minnesota as a Lutheran and converted to Reform Judaism when she married her husband. The gunman Naveed Haq was a US born Pakistani American.
In response to the 2008 Mumbai Attacks when 175 people in India were murdered in an attack by the Pakistani Lashkar e-Taiba terror group, Piper derided the fact that one Jewish American victim Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his Israeli wife Rivka were garnering so much attention and grief among the media. Holtzberg was a member of the Chabad hasidic group. He contrasted that to the Indian victims and even to the Jewish American Rabbi Leibish Teitelbaum, a member of the Satmar hasidic sect which is known to be anti-Zionist.
What Piper neglected to mention was that Teitelbaum was murdered precisely because he was staying at the Chabad House run by the Holtzberg’s which is the only place for kosher food and other religious resources for Jewish travelers like him. Whether this was a lie by omission or simply an oversight is irrelevant at this point, because the Piper Doctrine was in effect.
Roving ambassador of hate
Sometime in the late 1990s and early 2000s Piper began to realise the value of reaching out to other anti-Jewish movements and political figures around the world. Unlike others before him, Piper put in more overtures to leaders in the Arab and Muslim worlds as well as Japan and Russia. As such, while Piper was a dissident voice at home he was influential over the leaders of states abroad as documented in a 2008 article by University of Virginia at Wise political scientist George Michael.
Piper had a long working relationship with former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad who had dominated Malaysia for two decades before retiring in 2003. Piper collaborated with Mohammed’s aide Matthias Chang, a Christian Chinese Malaysian who had similar views on world events, writing the book Future Fast Forward. Chang would be charged and later acquitted for financial crimes in Malaysia in a case that may have been politically motivated, although other accounts hold that Chang and other coconspirators had looted Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund and got off scot free.
In 2003, Piper was hosted by the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-Up in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and delivered a talk on Zionist control of the American media. The Zayed Center was founded and financed by Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, the Emir (prince) of Abu Dhabi and first President of the UAE.
Perhaps just as significant has been Piper’s open questioning of the identity of the 9/11 hijackers and the culprits behind the attacks. On Dec. 31, 2001 the Arab News, an English daily and online newspaper partially owned by the Saudi government, published Piper’s article asking whether the hijackers were Arabs at all, speculating that they may have been oriental Jews.
In 2006 Piper personally appeared in New York City to support the appearance of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a sworn enemy of Israel and Holocaust revisionist. As a result, he became ingratiated with Ahmadinejad’s circle of supporters and was invited to be a personal guest of the president in Teheran for a conference on Holocaust revisionism.
From conspiracy theorist to conspiracy topic
Piper’s ideas and theories regarding 9/11, JFK, and undue Jewish influence over American politics have resonated much after his death, although much of it goes uncited. For many years he was one of the most sophisticated thinkers and convivial personalities among the western world’s radical racist circles, but in his later years thanks in part to financial trouble and ill health he became increasingly bitter and conceited. On June 1, 2015 his dead body was found in a Coeur d’Alene, Idaho hotel room, having died within the previous week. Piper had moved their within the past year after losing his job at the American Free Press newspaper. He had suffered from several heart conditions, neuropathy and diabetes.
Nevertheless members of his wider community claimed that the Mossad had murdered Piper including Veterans Today’s Gordon Duff, citing the names of investigative journalists like Michael Ruppert and Garry Webb who had been “suicided”, and saying that Piper’s myriad of health problems had been “induced”. By this perhaps Duff meant that the Mossad had controlled Piper’s diet, exercise and other lifestyle choices and any hereditary factors that caused him to die of a heart attack. In response to Duff’s article Piper’s good friend Mark Glenn, himself a virulent Jew hater, disputed the notion that Piper had been killed in a statement revealing his painful last few months of life that included for a period living with Glenn and his family. For this Glenn was denounced for being part of a coverup, and of course there was the later “revelation” by a former colleague that Piper was just about to start writing a book that would expose a new sinister conspiracy theory.
Piper’s lifelong fight against Jewish influence in America appears to have been to the detriment of his own prosperity, dying unmarried and childless. According to him, the rights to his book royalties were with his former employers at the American Free Press. While it is apparent that Piper was reimbursed by his hosts for his travel and accommodations during his journeys abroad, it does not seem as if they were paying him any other compensation. He became resentful of others like acquaintance Alex Jones for their personal success which was in contrast to his own poverty.
The need to see a deeper Jewish conspiracy behind world events was a central part of Piper’s life work and his death, and a perversion of the 2000’s era anti-war movement which hinged on exposing the lies about false evidence of WMD in Iraq. Had he lived longer however he may have benefited from the current political and media climate to experience a career revival, as other radical personalities like E. Michael Jones and Brother Nathaniel Capner have. Certainly in regards to not only 9/11, but the assassinations of JFK and RFK, present day theorists like Ryan Dawson harken back to Piper and are not deterred by the fact that no new evidence has emerged to confirm his hypotheses. James Lindsay has lately been attempting to label this movement from realist/rationalist points of view among conservatives to romantic/emotional ones as the “woke right”, but it is truly nothing new. Unfortunately, until this wave of madness burns itself out the rest of us may have to content with its symptoms.