#2722: Robert "Lil Dog" Crooks

More minor morons – but this one from a group we haven’t covered sufficiently well: Robert “Lil Dog” Crooks is a militiaman and anti-immigration activist who, at least (still) in 2018, led a small band called the Mountain Minutemen guarding stretches of borderland in Southern California against the invading hordes from the south. But Crooks got some attention already back in 2007, when he produced videos appearing to show a Mexican immigrant being shot by vigilantes that was posted to YouTube and emailed to other anti-immigration activists: “This video shows how to keep a ‘Home Depot’ parking lot empty,” wrote Crooks, chiding other anti-immigration activists for daring to “talk the talk” but not “walk the walk.” When it dawned on him that authorities had taken notice, he quickly asserted that the video was a hoax.

He got some attention again for his involvement in trying to stop the “migrant caravan” in 2019 – a caravan of “cockroaches” and “ditch crickets”  but still part of a secret plot by Mexico to take over the Southwestern U.S., a conspiracy theory known as “la reconquista.” The ultimate goal, according to Crooks, was of course a “New World Order”: “These entities, these diabolical manifestations in this plane of consciousness [wtf?], they’re trying to destroy the sovereignty of this nation, and have been from the onset. It’s pushing for the New World Order, pushing for the elitist [?] takeover and the domination of and the destruction of America.” They are out to establish a “One world government”, the “Total domination of the human species.” Crooks has also done border patrolling with neo-Nazi Harry Hughes.

That said, not all enemies come from across the border, as Crooks sees it, and he has been involved with various conspiracy theory groups, including the Oath Keepers, in particular in connection with an effort to revive the Patriot movement back in 2009. He is also a supporter of Joe Arpaio, which is sufficient to qualify him for an entry here by itself.

Diagnosis: At least he is committed and tireless. Dangerous.