Charlie Sheen Joins the 'Truther' 9/11 Conspiracy Theory Fringe
By Peter Roff, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
"Truthers" are the people who believe the 9/11 terror attacks were an inside job. That the Bush administration had advance knowledge of them and let them occur. In the more extreme version of an already extremist theory, truthers believe the U.S. government itself carried out the attacks as an excuse to take the nation to war.
At the very least the truthers question the official version of events and want the government to reopen the investigation. In a way, they have a lot in common with those who to this day refuse to believe that Lee Harvey Oswald fired the fatal shot in Dallas.
One prominent truther is former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga. Another is former Obama White House aide Van Jones (whose resignation late Saturday came after it was learned his name appears on a truther petition demanding further investigation of the events surrounding 9/11). Another is, believe it or not, actor Charlie Sheen, who currently stars on just about the only comedy left on CBS that anyone watches. And Sheen wants a face-to-face meeting with President Obama so he can ask him to personally order an investigation into the "9/11 cover up."
Sheen's request, says syndicated radio host Alex Jones—on whose program Sheen is scheduled to appear Wednesday and Friday—"takes the form of a letter to the President in the context of a fictional meeting between the two entitled '20 Minutes with the President,'" that Jones says he has published "exclusively" on his Web site.
According to Jones, Sheen's letter "cites evidence, backed up by a substantial online bibliography, that alleges to prove the official story behind 9/11 is a fraud and that this conclusion was also reached by the majority of the 9/11 Commission members, a fact that mandates President Obama to reopen the investigation into the terrorist attacks."
In a release published Monday, Jones says the actor is now urging "grass roots political organizations and individuals across the country to go to press conferences and other public events and demand answers about the truth behind 9/11."
"We cannot allow governments to continue to advance their political agendas by exploiting forged pretexts," Sheen is quoted saying, "and the fact that big budget hit pieces against 9/11 truth are still being rolled out proves that the establishment is upset that the population is waking up to false flag terror."
For several months now, a number of liberal writers—including several of my bloleagues here on Thomas Jefferson Street—have challenged the Republicans to repudiate the "birthers." These are the folks who believe Barack Obama was born someplace outside of the United States and, as such, is constitutionally ineligible to hold the office to which he was elected in November 2008. To them, and I am speaking of my colleagues in journalism now, the birthers are an illegitimate political force who refuse to recognize reality.
Fair enough. But the truthers are at least as much of a fringe element as the birthers. They are, perhaps, just as influential—in an intellectual and political sense—as the birthers and the Democrats need to deal with them.
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opionion, nothing else
Wow. With as much ignorant opinion sprinkled throughout this article as there is, I have doubts as to whether I can believe anything this guy writes. yes, i realize this is an opinion column. what i don't understand though is what the purpose of it is?
Ignorance isn't always bliss!
Common Sense of TN you're the biggest idiot and most ignorant moron I have ever seen. No one from the groups who believe that 9/11 was an inside job ever claimed that those planes didn't fly into those towers. It was very clear on all the video footage that indeed it happened and even an idiot like you could see that it's a fact. Oh, and by the way, you wrote "To not believe that those planes did not fly into those buildings at 500 mph is lunacy". This is a double negative which really means that believing that those planes flew into those buildings at 500 mph is lunacy. This is further evidence of what an idiot you are. I wonder if you had to go to school to be this stupid or if you were simply born this way.
Secondly, you mentioned the passenger manifest. Let me ask you Mr. moron, have you actually seen and/or read the passenger manifest yourself, or are you just taking what the mainstream media reported at face value? If you're telling us that in your entire miserable life you've never heard of cases where government officials or the media had lied to the public then I'd have to say that your level of idiocy has just risen to yet a higher degree.
And finally there is the matter of the intense heat. It is quite obvious that you had bought into the lies the mainstream media was selling about the extreme temperatures reached by the burning jet fuel. God I can't believe how stupid people like you can be!!! As a pilot, I can confidently tell you that jet fuel burns hottest when given the perfect mixture of oxygen, meaning when the oxygen to fuel ratio is at its optimum as it would be inside a jet engine. Any pilot or scientist could easily confirm that it would be impossible to reach this optimum oxygen to fuel ratio on the impacted floors of the WTC. And even if it were possible, the resulting heat would have vented into the atmosphere (since heat is an energy that flows from hot to cold) because it is not an enclosed area like inside a jet engine and hence the temperature would not have risen high enough to melt the steal beams. Now, I don't expect an idiot like you to know this, but, at the very least, I was hoping that you would have the slightest bit of intelligence to research it before you write stupid comments like that.
I know, I know, you're going to say that it's your opinion and you're entitled to it. And, in that case, that would be the only thing you are right about. Yes you are entitled to your opinion no matter how stupid you are! I swear if they gave out awards for stupidity, you'd win the Nobel prize.
I say kudos to Charlie Sheen! And I say to you and other idiots like you stop being such sheep and buying into the propaganda that the mainstream media sells and do some research and educate yourselves before you bash others who have done such research.
Charlie Sheen the Truther
I'm not surprised that Sheen and his brainwashed leftwing friends still like to blame the USA,Bush,CIA,FBI,etc. for all the world's problems.They could care less when terroists threaten and attack our country and the free world;in fact, I think this is what they want to happen (even with their favourite Democrat in office).Maybe Charlie should read Brigitte Gabriel's books. Or would he even be so open-minded?
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