Was 9/11 an Inside Job?
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Did the U.S. government plan and execute the 9/11 attacks? Does one internet video hold the shocking evidence? What does this man... 
...Have to do with this man? 
If you own a computer, odds are you have seen Loose Change, a slickly-produced viral internet video making the case that the U.S. government planned and executed the 9/11 attacks. No, I don't know why it's called "Loose Change." If you haven't seen it yet, you will soon. The Loose Changers will make sure of it. They sell this thing like they're getting a commission. In a single day I had four different people on four different forums try to get me to watch it. 
How viral videos are spread And most of the people who watch it, come away convinced. 
The film is a rapid-fire collection of video clips set to techno music, attempting to prove that:
They've sold more than 100,000 copies of this thing on DVD. It's been downloaded millions of times. But is it bullshit? There are basically two views on the subject, and I intend to provide both equally. You can make up your own mind. One side says... 1. The 9/11 Conspiracy guys are liars. Here's how it started. There was a teenager named Dylan Avery. 
According to his own site, when he was 18 he was doing construction work on a bar owned by James "Tony Soprano" Gandolfini. No, I didn't make that up. 
Anyway, Avery wanted to be a movie director. At a party he seized the opportunity to buttonhole Gandolfini, and the two had this conversation: Avery: Mr. Soprano! I'm a huge fan! That's pretty much how Avery tells the story, if you read between the lines. Dylan Avery wanted fame. Badly. How far would he go to get it? With Loose Change, we would find out. He sat down and started writing a FICTIONAL SCREENPLAY about he and his buddies finding out 9/11 was a government conspiracy. Fictional. Sort of an The X-Files episode. Avery mentions this in every interview he does. Since he had no money to film his own movie, he started cutting together video and photos off the internet, creatively editing them to make them scary and ominous, cutting the visuals to fit the story, making a fake documentary. Like Spinal Tap, only about mass murder. So, for instance, in his screenplay, the Pentagon was hit with a missile and then was covered up for the public as a plane crash. Avery sifted through photo after photo of the Pentagon attack, all showing hunks of airplane scattered everywhere... 
Including big pieces that have the Airline logo right on it (background)... 
...And close-ups of burned-up landing gear wheels (shown side-by-side with a regular 757 wheel, for comparison). 
All these pictures blink across Dylan Avery's monitor until FINALLY he finds a shot that doesn't show any wreckage. He saves it, puts it in the video, and writes voiceover that says NO PLANE HIT THE PENTAGON and NO PHOTOS SHOW ANY EVIDENCE OF A PLANE. 
From Loose Change. "Where's the wreckage?!?!?" Now obviously, hundreds of people were in the Pentagon that day, dozens of witnesses saw a plane crash, hundreds of people cleaned up airplane parts and charred bodies, air traffic controllers saw the plane fly in on radar, pairs of light poles more than 20 feet apart were knocked over when the massive wings of the airliner mowed them down like grass. But that's okay. He's just making a fictional movie, it's all in fun. So he does the whole video like that. He cuts sound bites in half, saving the part where a flight instructor says something like, "I met the hijacker and he was a bad pilot," and deleting the part where the same guy says, "but you don't exactly have to be fucking Chuck Yeager to crash a plane into a building." Without that second part, it sounds like the guy is saying the hijacker couldn't have done the flying. He has literally edited the words to make the guy say the opposite of what he said. But again, it's just fiction, a "what if" movie, a "War of the Worlds" broadcast. It was supposed to be a student film, his resume for the world, a viral video that would get his name out there. I have to admit, it was a great idea. But then... Conspiracy buff Phillip Jayhan ambles into Dylan's life, waving around a sweaty wad of money. Jayhan, by the way, says the world is run by a massive satanic cult that enslaves prominent politicians by delivering kidnapped boys for them to molest and then blackmailing them about it later. 
World leaders gather for massive Satanic ritual Okay, that's probably true. But the point is Jayhan offered to pay for Avery to get his little film off the ground. Only, the thing is, Jayhan didn't think it was fiction. Jayhan, who believed in every available conspiracy prior to 9/11, believes that the WTC planes had missiles on them that were fired at the towers and that's why they fell down. Oh, and also there were bombs in the towers. Or something. Avery, realizing now that the financial future of his film and his dreams of fame and fortune lie entirely in selling Loose Change as a factual documentary, miraculously discovers that, in fact, the plot behind 9/11 is real. After all, which is going to have a bigger impact on you: A friend who comes to work and says, "dude, I totally sat down and wrote a ghost story last night, wanna read it?" Or The same friend running up in a panic and saying, "DUDE, A FUCKIN' GHOST SHOWED UP IN MY HOUSE LAST NIGHT!!!" You're going to get the same story either way. But it's a much bigger impact if he presents it as fact. Now, if his goal is just to be creative, he'll have no problem admitting it's fiction and letting people criticize it as such, even if it means the work goes unnoticed. But if he's Dylan Avery, and his goal is to become famous, he'll do the one that he knows will get him noticed. From that point on, Loose Change was a "documentary." And man, it got Dylan Avery hella noticed. Now, at age 22, Avery is doing four or five interviews a day with the likes of Salon and TIME magazine and dozens of talk radio shows. 
He, along with friends Korey Rowe and Jason Bermas, have knocked out updated and prettier editions of Loose Change. They are the stars of a 9/11 "Truth" movement (as they call themselves), a cabal of smaller conspiracy groups, some of whom believe no planes hit the towers (they were missiles with airplane holograms around them) and others who simply believe Bush hired the hijackers to do it. People have asked me, "why would he do it if he didn't believe it was true?!?!?" I know why. You do, too. Why do people have blogs? Why do people line up for American Idol auditions? Why is Hollywood full of food service workers dreaming of stardom? Where do Japanese game shows get their contestants? 
Why do I have this website? Everybody wants the attention, the validation. It's just that some will do more to get it than others. You see, there's a dark underside to this thing. Those conspiracy buffs who have catapulted Loose Change into stardom, you surf their sites and a similar theme comes up again and again. They'll talk of "Zionism" and the "Zionist" conspiracy. They'll talk of Jewish bankers who secretly run the world. They'll talk about how maybe the Holocaust didn't happen, or wasn't such a big deal after all. That's a common theme among the 9/11 conspiracy crowd. I'm not suggesting that Avery denies the Holocaust. In fact, other 9/11 "Truth" members have snidely dismissed Avery and his crew as "Holocaust promoters." No, what I'm saying about Avery is that he will gladly align himself with neo-Nazis if that's what it takes to become famous. For instance, Loose Change is filled with screen grabs of newspaper headlines that mention things like missing planes and bombs at the World Trade Center... but all of those shots are from the American Free Press... 
...A Neo-Nazi newsletter obsessed with the Zionist takeover of the world (yes, that's DavidDuke.com on their "links" page). 
Every time you see a newspaper headline in Loose Change, it's pretty much always from the American Free Press. Meanwhile, I had a good chuckle the first time I saw the Loose Change end credits, where they boast research done by "Killtown." 
Now, memory told me "Killtown" was a white 80's rap group... 
...But a quick Google search turns up a "Killtown" who is a member of the Loose Change forums. Here we have him talking about, you guessed it, how the Holocaust was no big deal. Word. But hey, which of us wouldn't hitch our wagons to some neo-Nazis if it meant career advancement? That doesn't make him a bad person, does it? Well, this does. Listen to Avery laughing his ass off about the hijacking victims: ____________________ (Dylan Avery, being interviewed by radio talk show host Jack Blood):____________________ Or maybe you'd like to hear the guys talk about Bernard Brown. First, picture Avery sitting at his computer, sorting through those Pentagon photos, all the ones showing the plane crash. Picture him writing his fictional screenplay. Bernard Brown was a Pentagon employee. His 11 year-old son died on board Flight 77 (the one that hit the Pentagon). The father happened to not be at work that day, or else you could have had the horrific situation where the son would have been a hostage on the plane that, upon crashing, killed his own father. Remember this is a real, actual person, who actually lost his son. Now listen to Avery say that Bernard Brown was in on the conspiracy and intentionally took a day off to "go play golf" while his own son... 
...was being burned alive in a plane crash he helped plan. Playing golf, while his son dies. That link was the text. Here's the audio. Dylan Avery, who knows this is fiction. Who has seen the evidence he left on the cutting room floor proving these planes were hijacked. And he accuses this grieving father of murdering his own son... ...Because it will help sell his movie and advance his film career. Really, the whole Loose Change thing would be funny if it wasn't for the murderous lies and horrific deaths and the Nazis. 
Members of the Jury, "The 9/11 Conspiracy guys are liars" rests its case. But there is another side to this argument and they will now be heard. |
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@MOOSE WTC is the first Steel building to collapse due to fire. You see, open fires can't melt steel, they don't get hot enough. There are dozens of cases of steel buildings catching fire for hours and not collapsing. There are no other cases of steel buildings catching fire and collapsing.
what feeds all this is the fact that the govt. runs the worst investigations ever....
-the Warren Commission, I mean c'mon man, a bunch of guys who
didn't want to be there rushing thru an investigation whose conclusions
a number of them didn't agree with
- RFK they lost alot of the evidence, guy gets shot in back from the
front.... nothing to see here folks we got our man
- MLK , a man whose convicted assassin the King family supported
most of the time it's poor investigation and convict the first person
who looks like they might have done it.... even 911, they don't really
know the identities of the culprits as a good number of the 'named'
suspects have turned out to be alive, it appears they were victims of
identity theft..... so you get rushed investigations that end up with lots of
unanswered questions that are fodder for all sorts of speculation....
jdavid's post is win!
It amuses me that these 9/11 truthers spend all their time agonising over a conspiracy that probably didn't happen (9/11) and don't seem to have too much problem with (ahem): absolute, unequivocal evidence of criminal negligence leading to mass deaths, lying under oath, presenting false evidence with knowledge that it IS false to achieve a criminal end, and repeatedly breaking the Geneva Convention. Avery's ilk rage and scream about an inside job on Sept. 11. What an injustice. True injustice doesn't affect them, though. No 'Loose Change' on Hurricane Katrina! The criminal mishandling of that disaster by the Bush mob, a crime that only the blindest Republican dumbass would deny, a crime for which there is gigatonnes of clear-cut first-hand evidence...that doesn't matter! Torturing people, lying about torturing them, holding them without trial, wiretapping American civilians without warrants, covering up deliberate murder by army forces, faking hero stories, lying about exactly who carried out the 9/11 attacks, rigged elections, driving people to suicide (poor Dr Kelly), Karl Rove committing treason....all of that happened because of 9/11, but because it has no link to hologram planes and fake cellphone calls from aircraft, it's no big deal. Avery and his lot don't care about all that, because it can be proved. It's all about bombs in the towers, man, which can't be proved. Spike Lee and other people have documented real crimes by the people Avery indicts, but the silly Loose Change has been seen by far more people than Lee's epic on Katrina or any of John Pilger's painstaking, minutely verifiable reports of atrocities and murder committed by 'us'. God, human beings are stupid.
One detail missing from the part on the hijackers with their box cutters is that they also told the passengers they had a bomb. That's gonna make you think twice about charging them, even if they're only holding box cutters (or plastic spoons for that matter).
tburger: Being on fire for 7 hours tends to do the trick for most buildings.
Has anyone done the following research? Checked out (especially in the North Tower)if all the big financial, government or insurance companies' top 3 guys (executives) were in the building or not on that day. If not a single one of them were there, I would start to wonder why? So far, I cannot find anyone who has done this or knows how to find out.
great article...
I have a retarded, bipolar cousin who believes in every conspiracy theory out there. right now he is jizzin his pants over this whole "Nibiru" nonsense....
Please, from a loyal cracked reader and lover who supports and consumes all of your awesome advertisers products (even scientology!! Zenu bless you!!!), make a nibiru rebuttal, so I can use your jokes against my cousin.
What I want to know is........... This is an email I sent to Davis Avery...
Let me ask you if you were at ground zero moments after it happened? Did you see the victims jumping out of the windows of WTC1 or WTC2 and landing on the pavement? or the days after it happened? Did you see any of the bodies of the firemen or civilians that were carried out? Did you see the airplane engine sitting on Liberty St? Did you see the pieces of houman bodies raining down from above? Did you see any of this? I really dont think you did.
I f*****g hate your loser guts, disrepecting the men and woman who died there that day.
chadachada, I'm fairly certain that
1. Seeing a stewardess get her throat slit would stun you to immobility for a little bit.
and 2. They said they had a bomb on board. When passengers on Flight 93 heard that these assholes were ramming planes into buildings, they realized these assholes had nothing but box cutters and a plan to use the plane as a wrecking ball, they decided to do something about it. But until that point, the passengers on all planes thought this was 'merely' a hijacking with a bomb. They didn't want that s**t detonated, obviously. So don't you dare call these people pussies, when they faced the most horrifying event of their lives leading up to their deaths, and when some of them fought back when they weren't sure if a bomb would be detonated or not. You f*****g disgust me.
Just like Dylan Avery does. Moon landing 'truthers' are bad, JFK conspiracy theorists are worse, but there's nobody as malevolent or as twisted as these fucktards. When someone showed me the video in eighth grade, and acted like it was plausible, I wanted to yell at her for being gullible and ignorant, but I realize that's what they all would say to me. Blaspheming the memory of 9/11, either for recognition or because your mind is so twisted you actually believe everything you say, sickens me. Hopefully these people will die out in time, so forty years from now we don't have to have people like Gerald Posner writing 1,000 page books to convince the next generation that Bush didn't orchestrate the attacks.
This information is all fair enough, but just out of curiousity, was there any explanation for WTC 7 collapsing the way it did?
Unless I missed something in the article(?) for I am at work.
You know what I think was a real coverup? Yesterday. What bullshit. I know, I was there, yesterday, and it's not what They are saying it is! A friend of mine thinks the day before yesterday was faked too, but that's just f*****g crazy.
While I agree that the passengers of 3 of the flights must have been total f*****g pussies to submit to 4 or 5 men with BOX CUTTERS, it'd be pretty retarded to believe that this whole thing didn't happen. Seriously, f*****g box cutters.
There's something seriously f*****g wrong with that Dylan Avery kid. Also this kind of stuff just disgusts me. There's a line between wanting attention and being the world's biggest dick and proceeding to make you about as morally righteous as Hitler. That line is taunting a man who lost his son.
Thank you for this article.
This 9/11 conspiracy theory enrages me when the others are just silly. Because the United States was victimized by this atrocity, it is beyond offensive to imply we did this to ourselves. It was clearly the worst day of President Bush's life. I'll never forget the look of terror in his eyes when he got the news. Nor can I forget him tearing up with sorrow just a couple days of sleepless nights later. These assholes are the moral equivalent of Holocaust Deniers.
My fear is that their twisted films will change history. We have lived to see how the average joe accepts JFK's assassination was carried out by a CIA conspiracy. We were attacked in the most viciously evil way possible. To change the facts purposely for his own glory makes Dylan Avery and his ilk even more evil. They are victimizing us over and over again with their disgusting fictional crap..
May he burn in Hell!
I watched the first edition of Loose Change and I remember them making some not-so-subtle remarks about gold that was stored in the basement of the WTC, which *mysteriously* went missing after the attacks.
So, their original theory was that our government was run by leprechauns.
Now, they stick to the idea that the U.S. gov't. organized the 9/11 attacks for an excuse to invade Iraq.
Even though the U.S. gov't. has always acknowledged that Iraq was not part of the terrorist attacks and this is the biggest criticism of the American people regarding the War in Iraq.
Sigh. Can't someone even make up a semi-convincing conspiracy theory?
thank you, jdavid! the problem with conspiracy theories in general is they have an annoying habit of jumping to an answer using this kind of anti-logic. they've confused benefiting from an event with planning and causing the event. there seem to be plenty of other reasonable options (even ones where bush & co are total dicks) but they're often ignored in favor of two poles: either bush pressed the button himself or else the government is infallible and we're bravely going to war to make the world a safer place. both sides of the aisle look like idiots at this point by rabidly defending only the farthest opposite ends of crazy. wake up, the planet is complicated and thinking that a small group of dudes could pull this off with so many people and variables to contend with is naive at best.
Hey, MA Russel, how much of Zeitgeist can a fellow Canadian possibly believe? i mean, even I, a 16 year old, know that most of it was bullshit. Coincedences are inebidable, it's part of LIFE. If 9/11 wasa conspiracy, then the us would be in one of two things
1) They would be at war with the modern world, or
2) They would be in a second civil war.
This isn't likely, it's almost f*****g assured.
wow. that was very serious for a cracked article, or an article from any source.
i have a new respect for cracked now
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@xanaphia
"You see, open fires can't melt steel, they don't get hot enough. There are dozens of cases of steel buildings catching fire for hours and not collapsing."
Tell me wouldn't a plane crashing into a building cause structrual instability since something very heavy smacked right into it? Also it wasn't just an ordinary fire you had jet fuel being splashed and burned.
That would be enough to weaken one section it's not the steel girders being melted it's them being weakened that causes a building to collapse.
Highway overpasses which have steel girders have collapsed when a fuel tanker burned on the overpass. The steel girders got melted by the fire and failed. Also when other substances are bunred they can make a fire burn much higher then the initial fire source would indicate.
Buildings have lots of plastics, ceramics and other subtances that while requiring an inital higher point to make flamable once done they burn a lot hotter then the fire that caused them to burn.
"Huge leaping flames from an exploding gasoline tanker melted the steel underbelly of a highway overpass in the East Bay's MacArthur Maze early this morning, causing it to collapse onto the roadway below and virtually ensuring major traffic problems for weeks to come.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/29/BAGVOPHQU46.DTL#ixzz0WC1E57Ud