Was 9/11 an Inside Job?
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:
- No plane hit the Pentagon - it was a cruise missile;
- The hijacked planes didn't bring down the World Trade Center, the buildings were wired with explosives ahead of time;
- Flight 93 didn't crash in Pennsylvania and in fact landed safely elsewhere. The passengers were in on the conspiracy.
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!
Soprano: That's great, kid.
(Glances at bodyguards)
Avery: You know, I want to be a director...
Soprano: Like I give a shit. The deformed kid who cleans my fuckin' gutters wants to be a director. You got an idea for a movie?
Avery: Well, no...
Soprano: Then what the fuck are you comin' up to me talkin' about bein' a director?
Avery: I've always wanted to-
Soprano: Shut up. Listen to me...
(Nods toward bodyguards, who approach from across the room)
Soprano: ...Let me tell you the problem with kids like you. You don't wanna direct. You don't wanna tell stories. You wanna be a director. You wanna walk down red carpets with a fuckin' starlet on your arm. You ain't got nothin' to say to the world. For you, the movies, the work, it's just a means to an end. Limousines and cocaine, right?
Avery: Yes! That sounds great!
Soprano: People like you are a cancer. You're the most dangerous people in the world because you'll do anything for the spotlight. You'd tattoo a Swastika on your head if you thought it would get you a movie deal. The people who make it, the people who deserve to make it, the ones who get respect... they're the ones who got something to say to the world.
Avery: I don't under- Ooomph! My crotch!
(Soprano's bodyguards deliver several vicious blows to Avery's body, then dump him into an alley).
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 write for 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:
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(Dylan Avery, being interviewed by radio talk show host Jack Blood):
Avery: Ha Ha Ha Ha! Have you seen how small those things [box cutters] are? Like, if I was on a flight, with, you know, at least 50 other people - because that's the smallest number I think was on 9/11* - if I was in the cabin, with 50 other people, and five people - I don't care if they're Muslim or not - stand up with box cutters and say they're gonna hijack the plane, I'm gonna laugh in their face!
Blood: And these pilots, I mean, we interviewed Debra Burlingame, whose brother Chick was the one sup-posedly flying that plane that hit the Pentagon-
Avery: Oh, that's right! I heard about that!
Blood: -And of course she is a TOTAL shill for the Republican Party, she also spoke at the [Republican Na-tional] Convention. And is it ABSURD that she went on and on about how her brother was ex-military, how she knows that her brother and the other pilots fought for their lives, against these deadly terrorists-
Avery: Yeaaah, yeah. Whatever.
Blood: (mocking an Arabic accent): It is my preevilege to keel you with thees box cutter!
Avery: Ha ha!
Blood: Didn't Rumsfeld say, right after this happened, that they had actually done this with plastic knives and not box cutters?
Avery: Yeah, he said that in the same interview where he said that a missile hit the Pentagon.
Blood: OH MY GOD! HE'S GOT A PLASTIC KNIFE!
Avery: HAHAHA!
Blood: RUN!
Avery: HE'S GOT A BUTTER KNIFE FROM BREAKFAST! OH, NO!
Blood: Take the plane, sir. We don't want any trouble.
Avery: HE'S GOING TO SCRATCH ME A LITTLE BIT! HUH HUH!
Blood: UN-BELIEVABLE! Well, that's exactly what we're saying. That's an overused term, or underused term, "unbelievable."
Avery: (Still laughing): It's ABSOLUTELY unbelievable!
Blood: (doing accent again): It's un-bee-leevable!
Avery: What's even MORE unbelievable is how people will DEFEND this!
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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.
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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.
The towers collapsing looks nothing like a controlled demolition. In a demolition, buildings go from the bottom-up. The collapse cleary started towards the top where the planes hit. This was a either the worst demolition in history or planes actually brought down the buildings. I vote planes.
ReplyFact: We knew OBL was determined to attack the U.S., likely through hijacking our aircraft. All of this was in the Aug. 6th PDB received by Bush. Where's the justice? Accountability?? Oh, but I forgot, we only impeach for b.j.'s...
ReplyLol, I actually thought this article would be unbiased. Until I read it.
ReplyI always thought the conspiracy guys where full of s**t, the only thing that they said that sounded even relatively plausible was that they had a bomb on the plane. I would like to point out that 1) I'M 14 and 2) I've been studying military tactics, technology and other fun stuff for OVER HALF MY LIFE, and there aren't many explosives that can be smuggled aboard a plane that could level a building, and not an entire city. So either way they're full of shit. >=/\P
ReplyYou know what I find funny? The U.S. government just spent $5 trillion on setting up the biggest conspiracy in world history, but they didn't do their homework and figure out how BUILDINGS FALL? After all this METICULOUS planning, they made a mistake that some fourteen-year-old in his underwear surfing the internet (that's how I picture truthers) stumbles on a video and thinks "hmm, THAT seems FISHY..." If anything, it would be better for their cause if they just admitted that the building falls like it's supposed to, and save the government having to find and pay-off EVERY ENGINEER IN THE WORLD. And you know what? This one grainy video is all the "evidence" that some truthers have. Nothing else. For others, it's the only reason they believe it themselves.
Reply1) I'm not a truther, and two I'm wearing pants. lol, jk (the usual)
These guys are even more fucked up then I realized. But you did miss one important point. They're secretly pawns of the Lizard People!!!
ReplyThe titanic was an inside job
ReplyThe iceberg did try to get "inside" the ship...
I'll interrupt the usual comment s**t to say something half relevant but this article kind of reminded me of it.
ReplyI'm Ryan, I live in New York and am bros with a ton of Jews. They are some chill ass dudes and I luv em But f**k Israel. I'm not a neo Nazi (and it enrages me that you can't say that without being labled as such), but if you agree with what they are doing in palestine right now then you can go f**k yourself.
that is all.
1. Yeah that has nothing to do with the article
2. If you think Palestine and the Arabs are completely innocent in the whole Israel issue you're f*****g stupid. They've done just as much harm to themselves as Israel has to them.
@Dobalina
Of course every sane person knows this, it takes both both hands to clap after all.This is a conflict between two terrorist entity: The Israeli regime and the Palestinian's.
The only possible 9/11 conspiracy theory that holds any chance of credence is the incompetent actions of the Air Force and FAA on that day. The Air Force successfully scrambles fighter jets to catch up with commercial aircraft 40 or 50 times in any given year should something go wrong with a commercial flight. They often catch up with the plane in 15 to 20 minutes after being notified. If a commercial plane's transponder is turned off, if the plane strays off course or if they lose radio contact with a particular flight the Air Force is sent up. All three things happened with all 4 of the highjacked airplanes on 9/11. The fact that NONE of the highjacked planes were correctly found by the fighter jets is easily the biggest mistake that was made on that day or in all of the weeks/months leading up to 9/11.
ReplySomewhat more understandable when you realize that there hadn't been a hijacking in almost 20 years, and that prior to this, all scrambles had been in response to threats from outside US airspace. But still not exactly a shining moment for our first line of defense.
The only time jets had been scrambled and caught a plane was with Stewart Paine in the late 90's. It took them over an hour to reach. Finally, to give a shootdown order, the President had to be reached via a complex network that took to long.
Guys, theres no foot in the video of the chinese guy getting kicked in the crotch. It must have been a missile...
ReplyConspiracy!!!!
Twas a black steel beam. In the game show, you have to say a tongue twister and if you fail, you get sacked. :D
I love how someone can say a cruise missile hit the Pentagon even though a bunch of people who live in Washington and Virginia saw the plane.....
ReplyYes, but like the article mentioned, these missiles projected holographic images of planes AROUND them... if you can use your imagination...
james buchanan and abraham lincoln made shady backdoor dealings with southern leaders prior to secession in order to initiate a bloody civil war that would allow them to eradicate slavery while giving the south a propaganda coup worldwide!
Reply1860 Truth!
This article is f*****g SCHOLARSHIP. And also I'd like to see Wong's career trajectory that took him from KBR black ops to Cracked. It's got to be hoot.
ReplyHahaha, he generally talks about how he was doing data entry before this, so that would be my guess.
I think our commenters missed the point of the article. There's an asian guy willingly getting hit in the crotch. The rest of the article is just there to add some bulk.
ReplyRead the article in September.
ReplyCame back for the comments.
Has anyone in the 9/11 Truthist movement ever actually read the 9/11 Commission Report?
ReplyBut THEY wrote it.
But you see, Bryan Jennings died three days before the release of the NIST report, which obviously means that he, the TRUE witness to the bombing of 7, was silenced by the government!
CONRIPACSY, MAN!!
Come on people, of course it's an inside job! And it makes perfect sense that everyone kept quiet if you consider those involved are nearly all reptilian shape-shifters. As for the others, well their memory clearly got erased by CIA reptilian agents using a memory eraser similar to the ones in Men in Black. There is obviously no other more rational explanation!
ReplyYou lie! It was obviously Cthulhu in disguise as three separate planes, one of which was hundreds of miles away from the others, who was responsible for all of this! The government just doesn't want the public to know that Cthulhu and a resurrected Jesus are providing the modern world with technology! The people in the Twin Towers and the Pentagon found out and had to be eliminated! It's SOOOOO obvious!
Gomby, that is in all seriousness, the most rational theory on this page.
The end game and the reason 911 occurred was to set in motion a plan of attack to start WW3 beginning in Afghanistan?sp and ending in Iran and though I don't totally agree on Israels complete complicity, in being a Jew myself, I am fully aware and saddened to know that there are some true Jewish scumbags right up there with Karl Rove, Penis Cheney and the Lucifer bush family, I.e. wolfowitz, pearl and the largest commiter of fraud to so far get away with it..........Larry (Satan in human form himself) f*****g silverstain! New world order, one world got and its on its way to fruition ad you will be slaves whether you support them or not that is, unless you are an eliteist yourself but you probably wouldnt be reading this if that were true...I mean, what did you REALLY think was going on on 911? Do you actually believe that Osama yo mamma could pull it off without his bush family bedmates helping him? Osama had nothing to do with it and I'm quite certain that dubya was livid when he found out Obama yo mamma killed Osama HIS mamma's adopted too tall bearded baby bastard son. These racist, facist, narcissistic, Marxist communist bastards have a taken their game to a whole new level as the elite of terrorists and when you try to stand in their way, you'll get the john oniell deal who was probably dead before the wtc collapsed ad not by an airliner. Who's john oniell you ask? Watch the documentary "who Killed john oniell" and you will not only see what we already know but you'll probably scratch your collective heads and say.....wtf. I don't believe it. Believe it, we've been trying to tell all of you that have you hands over your ears saying la lalalalalala so you cant hear it. Fix your ignorance while you have time and to the stupid, enjoy whats left of your lives as sheeple schnauzers!
Reply Hide All See All 7 RepliesI can quite honestly say I have no idea what you said, besides the whole Schnauzer thing.
Have you seen how adorable they are? Awwhhh, I wanna be a Schnauzer. I'm okay with being one if that means I *have* to ignore your ranting.
Too long. Did not read. Go put it in an under-appreciated blog post.
1) No.
2) You know that fascism and Communism are diametric opposites, right? Like... you can't be both. They're... they don't work that way.
3) Seriously, no.
Honestly, I TRIED to read this, and I couldn't focus between key words (and these pretty much sum up the whole post): eliteist, dubya, racist, facist, narcissistic, Marxist communist, (fascist AND communist? impressive...") elite, sheeple, schnauzers.
...I like slut-puppies better.
funny thing is that you act as if even if it were true, we as a people would do anything about. People have know the government has been f*****g them over for a while. It's a common know fact that politicians are money-minded ass hats. Also, I'm pretty sure posting stuff on the internet and withholding stuff in the "documentary" that is released to the public are not helping you're cause. Maybe if you didn't believe in every crackpot theory such as, most of the ones you just talked about, people wouldn't look at you like a hypocrite. Believing everything someone says to you just because it is against the media and contreversial is just as sheepish as believing the media. And you're a schauzer!
Cavemanhippy, it appears that I owe the idiot who posted "Dickfart" 1,500 times an apology. He did not write the most pointless, tastless, incomprehensible comment in the history of Cracked. You did. None of what you're saying makes any sense. Your entire comment is an afront to all accepted concepts of organization, spacing, formatting, spelling and grammer.
And even if it were readable, it would still be utterly bat s**t insane. Are you saying that Osama is actually George W Bush's mother? And that he has a baby with a beard? And WTF is up with the Schnauzer thing? I'm fairly sure that's never been an insult.
Finaly, I must ask;1)Are you a realative of Mr. Avery, and 2) how much lead paint have you eaten recently?
You fkn Schnauzers are sofa king we Todd it! Don't you understand that the penis cheney/dubya bush admonishtr8ion is trying to do to us (Truthers) what they are succeeding in doing to you (ignorant & stupid alike...ignorance can be repaired with knowledge and enough of an open mind to see this is NOT a party conspiracy but an eliteist entitlement but stupid is to the bone like a poor repubiclican, p8riotic, redneck who makes 15k a year and still thinks dubya is an intellectual even though he went AWOL during Viet Nam and still had the audacity to say "bring it on!" when told the troops in Iraq were going to be used as target practice for the insurgents while being protected by the secretion service as if he were going to be fighting them off with the troops. What a scumbag coward)
Reply...I like Slut-puppy better.
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I mean, honestly, have you Schnauzers ever built a fire in your fireplace (that's ass-u-me-ing you can afford such a place that has a fireplace for its clim8) with a steel gr8 to hold the wood? I dont know about you slut-puppies, but I have and had a steel gr8 that lasted over 20 years (my parents home mind ewe) before it lost its structural integrity and came apart at the weld points but the steel remained intact without even the appearance of beginning to bend, melt or disintegr8 as is what happened to the three wtc towers. Physics 101 would show that steel doesnt begin to lose its structural integrity until it reaches at least 1500°f HOTTER than it could possibly have reached on 911 with the jetfuel, carpet and office accomod8ions as the heat sources and that's being conserv8ive as the temps were more likely less than 1300°f at the most. The two towers hit with airliners were hit not at the base where the steel was 4" thick in rectangular beams but above the top skylobby where they were 2"&3" thick columns where your heat explan8ion could begin to hold h2o. So how, preitel?sp does steel at the base come apart into nice little, managable, 30', bite sized feces if not professionally orchestr8ed by a team of literal demolition scientists? A controlled demo of this enormity had never been attempted before or since and just for the record, never before or since has a steel framed bldg ever come down as a result of ANYTHING but controlled demo or earthquake. So convince me that you naysayers will meet your makers when the new hitler admonistr8ion
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesYes... this, it is... Science?
As much as I h8 to say it, I don't think that your fireplace gr8 is comperable to a exploding/plane-crashed building. s**t burns, motherfucker.
I do like "SlutPuppies" though, so a 1+ for you!
Also, I like the "nice little, managable, 30', bite sized feces". Keeping it classy!
I love that I can hop on the internet, read some articles, and am almost guaranteed to find a bigger retard than I found in the same place yesterday.
Except a fire in your fireplace or woodstove isn't nearly as hot as jet fuel. Dun dun dunnnn.