Some musicians who have been brave enough to speak out about 11 September 2001.
Hip hop and rap
Immortal Technique
Felipe Andres Coronel.
All they talk about is terrorism on television
They tell you to listen, but they don’t really tell you they mission
They funded al-Qaeda, and now they blame the Muslim religion,
even though bin Laden was a CIA tactician
They gave him billions of dollars, and they funded his purpose
Fahrenheit 9/11, that’s just scratchin’ the surface.Bin Laden didn’t blow up the projects
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Bush knocked down the towers
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I was watching the towers and though I wasn’t the closest
I saw them crumble to the earth like they were full of explosives
What’s interesting about that song, and others like it, is that I see more people starting to not be afraid. I don’t know where they were hiding their balls before. Now all of sudden I think everyone thinks its cool to be subversive because it sells records but, you know, I was rhymin’ and talkin’ about stuff like this before hand; I wasn’t the only one.
What inspired that line?
The line about the explosives comes from actual interviews and comments from firemen about the way they saw the buildings collapse - some saying they heard “loud explosions” when the buildings were collapsing. Some people have speculated that it was simply each floor caving in, but that would sound different. These are professionals saying this.
… the lyrical substance on your track, The Cause of Death, really sparked my interest back in 2003—I definitely had never heard stuff like that talked about so explicitly in a song. That track came out soon after 9/11, and I’m wondering what kind of extreme critical feedback you got on that joint after it was released?
I got death threats, I’ve had government agents of all types come knocking.
It’s just a shame that when they come these people usually send a worker to do the bosses’ job. None of the people they sent were ideologues. Eventually when I spoke to them, many left disillusioned with the job they had and the mission they were sent to do. I think the government realized that I just wasn’t going to be triggered and play their stupid little game.
— Immortal Technique Interview - The Point of No Return - RAW CULT, 2019
Jadakiss
From Yonkers, New York.
Over the years, the rapper Jadakiss has depicted a world of drug dealing, murder and other assorted mayhem without raising many eyebrows.
But seven words in his new song Why?— “Why did Bush knock down the towers?” — has gotten Jadakiss the most mainstream attention, and criticism, of his career.
It caught the ear of white America,
he said proudly during a phone interview with The Associated Press.
It’s a good thing. No matter what you do, somebody’s not going to like it, but for the most part, most people love the song.
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Jadakiss doesn’t really believe Bush ordered the towers destroyed — he says the line is a metaphor, and that Bush should take the blame for the terrorist attack because his administration didn’t do enough to stop it.
They didn’t follow up on a lot of things properly. It’s the president of the United States. The buck stops with him.
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He talks up Fahrenheit 9/11 as an important, must-see movie — he’s watched it twice …
— Rapper Jadakiss blames Bush for Sept. 11 in new song - USA Today, 16 Jul 2004
Ruff Ryders/Interscope artist Jadakiss — also a member of rap trio the Lox — is receiving a lot of attention for his single Why?
The song questions President Bush’s involvement in the events of September 11, 2001, with the lyric “Why did Bush knock down the Towers?” …
As for the controversial line, the Yonkers, N.Y., rapper’s view is unwavering. Referring to the events of September 11, Jadakiss says:
That’s why I put it in there like that. A lot of my people felt that he had something to do with it.
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Interscope head of rap promotions Kevin “Always Bet On” Black isn’t concerned about the controversy.
“Why? is the biggest record,” he says. “It touches the heart and says things that a lot of people are afraid to say.”
— Hit Rap Song Asks: Why Did Bush Knock Down The Towers? - Prison Planet, 12 Jul 2004
Macklemore
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Benjamin Hammond Haggerty.
Rose to international success collaborating with producer Ryan Lewis as the duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (2009–2016)
List of awards and nominations received by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Wikipedia
911…bush knocked down the towers
Paris
Oscar Jackson Jr. From San Francisco, California.
Known for his highly charged political and socially conscious lyrics.
Influenced by the Black Panthers, he was once a member of the Nation of Islam.
The War On Terror is a sham. It’s the greatest hustle in the history of this country. The selling of fear, the endless terror alerts, the unjust wars, the staged 9-11 tragedy - all pre-agreed upon and put into effect for the benefit of a select few.
The following information is intended to clarify exactly what the real story is behind the Bush Administration’s so-called “War On Terror,” and to shed light on the US-Sponsored, self-inflicted and pre-agreed upon “enemy creation” that led to the attacks on September 11th, 2001.
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Understand the label “conspiracy theory” is a tactic that the media often invokes to immediately discredit voices of dissent and people who seek truth. The tactic of creating manufactured enemies for personal gain has been around for as long as there have been conflicts. Of course there’s no concrete proof of a conspiracy - the media would never allow that - but rather an abundance of evidence that points to a conspiracy on behalf of US interests.
— What Would You Do If You Found Out That The U.S. Was Responsible For The Terror Attacks On 9-11?
They warnin’ me about Osama or whatever Picture me buyin this scam I said never… Now ask yourself who’s the one with the most to gain (Bush) ‘Fore 911 motherfuckas couldn’t stand his name (Bush) Now even niggas wavin flags like they lost they mind
Arrested Development
Two-time Grammy Award-winning hip hop group formed in Atlanta in 1988.
Group founder and lead vocalist, Speech:
All they need is a lot signatures because they want to do another investigation on 9/11 to see what really happened. And I think it’s important because there’s really been no official investigations, as done by a neutral party about what’s been going on. … Sign the petition and try to get some understanding, some truth with this.
— Hip Hop Artists Arrested Development Endorse NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative - 911blogger.com
Pop, country and folk
Harry Belafonte
Popularised calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. His career breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist. Best known for his recordings of Day-O (The Banana Boat Song), Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora), Jamaica Farewell and Mary’s Boy Child. Three Grammy Awards — including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award — an Emmy Award and a Tony Award.
So I say let us redefine terrorism. It is not just Bin Laden sitting in Afghanistan, if it is in fact he who did what they say he did.
Willie Nelson
Won 12 Grammy Awards from 57 nominations, in addition to the Grammy Legend Award in 1990 and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. And a shit load more.
Ranked number 54 on Rolling Stone’s “200 Greatest Singers of All Time” list in 2023.
Has acted in over 30 films and co-authored several books.
Involved in activism for the use of biofuels and the legalisation of cannabis.
Alex Jones: What’s your take on 9/11? Do you question the official story?
I certainly do. And I saw those towers fall, and I’ve seen an implosion in Las Vegas. There was too much similarities between the two. And then I saw the building fall that didn’t get hit by nothing. So how naive are we? What do they think we’ll go for?
AJ: Are you saying you started having questions, or that little voice in your head - did you have a bad feeling the day it happened? Is that what you’re saying?
The day it happened. I saw one fall and it was just so symmetrical - and I said, “Wait a minute, I just saw that last week at the casino over in Las Vegas,” and you see these implosions all the time, and the next one fell and I said, “Hell, there’s another one.” And they’re trying to tell me that an airplane did it and I can’t go along with that.
Willie Nelson: Twin Towers Were Imploded On 9/11
In 2010, during an interview with Larry King, Nelson expressed his doubts with regards to the attacks and the official story. Nelson explained that he could not believe that the buildings could collapse due to the planes, attributing instead the result to an implosion.
These two buildings imploded, and the one next to it, nothing hit it. No plane hit the one next to it. It just decided to fall on its own. So, naturally, I have questions.
— 9/11 Willie Nelson questions the World Trade Center implosions on Larry King - YouTube (1:23)
Jim Corr
A member of the Irish folk/rock band The Corrs, the other members being his three younger sisters Andrea, Sharon and Caroline.
The Corrs have sold 40 million albums worldwide.
The Corrs have been nominated for two Grammy Awards, won one Brit Award and been nominated for another.
The Corr siblings were appointed as honorary MBEs in 2005 by Queen Elizabeth II.
I discovered that there were just so many anomalies. It was obvious to me that the official story just could not be true.
— The Late Late Show - Jim Corr & Lord Christopher Monckton, January 2011
[a photograph of the Pentagon in the immediate aftermath of the explosion] showed this 14ft-diameter hole and there was no imprint from the wings, there was no imprint from the vertical stabiliser and there was no imprint from the steel and titanium engines and I’m going what on earth’s going on here?
When you study 9/11 it becomes very apparent … it was a staged terrorist attack, what they call a false flag operation … [that] was carried out by rogue elements in the Bush neo-con administration.
I’ll be presenting information to the public that I believe is being suppressed by the mainstream media in relation to 9/11 and the engineered financial crash.
When I was first confronted with this information I thought it was crazy as well but out of curiosity I looked some of it up and once I kept studying it I found it quite amazing that what I was being told was backed up by quotes from various people in power and that reinforced for me what I had been told.
I get my information from highly qualified architects, engineers and professors and they tell me that nano-thermites were found in the dust at 9/11 and there is no other explanation for them to be there unless it was a controlled demolition.
— Irish songwriter Jim Corr believes 9/11 was staged - IrishCentral.com, November 2010
Jim Corr: 9/11 - The Uncomfortable Truth - JimCorr.com, August 2008
Michelle Phillips
Former member of the Mamas & the Papas.
Her voice was described by Time magazine as the “purest soprano in pop music”.
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.
After the Mamas & the Papas’ disbandment, she started a successful acting career in film and television.
Nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 1973.
Starred in Knots Landing from 1987 to 1993.
Author of California Dreamin’: The True Story of the Mamas and the Papas (1986).
I have so many questions now that I have actually seen and know details about 9/11 that just don’t add up at all to the Commission report.
Paul Berenson: There’s actually not much that adds up.
None of it adds up.
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There’s going to be a very interesting book that comes out. … [by] David Ray Griffin. It’s called The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions. It might already be out. It might be something that I think everyone ought to sit down and read. … The DVD that I have just seen, called Connecting the Dots, shows a close up of video taken of the [WTC] buildings coming down. And you actually see the explosions 20 to 30 stories below the demolition wave as the buildings are coming down. You see these puffs of smoke blowing out the floors below them. And that’s never addressed, never talked about at all. … And you know that a steel-framed building has never, ever collapsed before or since because of fire.
You know I think that what’s really difficult is for American people to wrap their minds around the fact it is possible that our government had something to do with this attack.
Matt Cardle
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Won the seventh series of The X Factor.
Asked if he was a ‘renegade revolutionary’ in his post-X Factor career, Cardle told The Big Issue:
Well, there’s a lot of conspiracy … I’ve gotta be careful what I say.
The whole 9/11 thing … something’s not quite right there. I think the way it was portrayed on TV and who was responsible and the way it happened was not the way it happened.
Quizzed on whether the US government led by then-president George W Bush was behind the attacks, Cardle reportedly responded with ‘vigorous nodding’ and added:
I don’t wanna comment!
But yeah, it’s just not what they say it is. Other conspiracies might be true and the one I believe might also be bullshit.
But all I do know is what they’re saying is bullshit. From the things I’ve seen … I don’t care what anyone says. To not question it is silly, I think.
Dan Tyler
His songs have been recorded by, among others, Eddy Arnold, The Oak Ridge Boys, Bobby Blue Bland, Keith Whitley, Candi Staton, Kenny Rogers, Agnetha Fältskog, LeAnn Rimes, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, B.J. Thomas, Dr. Hook, the Cox Family, Eddie Rabbitt, S-K-O, and Paul Overstreet.
The importance of the 9/11 truth movement cannot be overstated. Like me, millions of patriotic Americans question the official explanation of the attacks. The questions and the number of citizens asking them will increase until a tipping point is reached and a new, aggressive investigation initiated.
From this new inquiry, truths will emerge which will shake this country to its foundations and, hopefully, restore our constitutional democracy. Until that happy day arrives, however, the powerful forces aligned against 9/11 truth will fight with fury and abandon. We must be strong and resolute and take inspiration from apostles of peace like Gandhi and King. At the most basic level, the struggle is love versus fear.
As a follower of Jesus, I pray we are witnessing the last days of the corporate imperial war machine, which, desperate for new battles and the energy resources to power itself, finally went too far and self-destructed in an orgy of lies, chaos and death. This monster’s dying throes will be terrible to behold, but do not doubt the historical significance of the events playing out before us. Future generations will thank those who had the courage to face the dragon and slay it with the sword of truth.
As a songwriter, I turn phrases for a living. I’ll leave you with this one: From seeds of doubt, flowers of truth will sprout. Be strong, brothers and sisters. We shall prevail!
Visibility 9-11 welcomes singer/songwriter Dan Tyler - Free Download - Internet Archive
David Rovics
His music concerns both topical subjects such as the 2003 Iraq war, anti-globalization, anarchism, and social justice issues, and also labour history.
Rovics has been an outspoken critic of former President George W. Bush, the Republican Party, John Kerry, and the Democratic Party.
Has described himself as an “anti-Zionist Jew from New York”.
Rovics is critical of the United States government’s policies and claims that “the U.S. government’s foreign policy represents U.S. corporate interests” and that “the U.S. government does not like democracy either at home or abroad”.
The planes hit New York City
And thousands now are dead
“It was Arab terrorists”
This is what you said
Well if that is the truth
Then what have you got to hide
And what were you doing
On the day all those people died
Chris Videll
Vocalist and guitar player for Reigning Hounds.
Song: 9/11 Was an Inside Job - mp3
Rock and metal
Matt Pike
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Best known as the guitarist of stoner metal/doom metal band Sleep and the frontman of High on Fire.
Won the 2019 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for the song “Electric Messiah”.
Lyrically, I think this is the album that’s going to basically get secret people to shoot me.
Dude, I say a lot of fucked-up shit! [Laughs]
It’s not even like, wake up and smell the coffee; it’s like, dude, wake up and realize that it’s not a theory any more – it’s a fucking conspiracy fact.
We’re being manipulated on a daily basis. And yes, 9/11 was an inside job, but that’s like the least of my fucking worries.
— High on Fire Talk Aliens, Acid Trips and Why New Album ‘Doesn’t Suck’ - Rolling Stone
Corey Taylor
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Lead singer of both the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Slipknot and the Grammy Award-nominated rock band Stone Sour.
As of 2019, Slipknot had sold more than 30 million records worldwide.
Has also worked with several other acts, including Junk Beer Kidnap Band, Korn, Disturbed, Apocalyptica, Code Orange, Anthrax, Steel Panther, Tonight Alive, Falling in Reverse, Soulfly, Damageplan, Tech N9ne, Ho99o9 and the Clay People.
Interviewer: You bring up 9/11 — there are books, there are films like Loose Change that suggest that the U.S. was even complicit in letting it happen …
Corey Taylor: Or had a hand in it. Everybody wants to talk about conspiracy theories. Look at the film! You show me a hundred yard trench that leads up to the Pentagon. You show me the wreckage. Show me and I’ll be like, all right, I was wrong. You can’t see it. If a plane that size had flown into the goddamn Pentagon, there would have been so much damage. There would have been hazmat people there protecting against jet fuel. You would have seen the wings for Christ’s sake. You would have seen something. A plane that big does not vaporize.
There are too many questions and not enough answers. At the time, I understand why nobody asked questions, because we were all paralyzed. But if the government is lying to them about other shit, is it so out of the question that they’re lying to you about this?
Killing Joke
English rock band formed in Notting Hill, London, in 1979.
Influenced many later bands and artists, such as Metallica, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden.
No one believes in 9/11
Ministry
Founded in Chicago in 1981.
Nominated for six Grammy Awards.
Frontman and lyricist Al Jourgensen (b. 1958) - a Cuban-American singer, musician and music producer - was also the primary musician of several Ministry-related projects, such as Revolting Cocks, Lard and Buck Satan and the 666 Shooters and is closely related with the independent record label Wax Trax! Records.
Do you still think that jet fuel brought down the World Trade Center?
(Laughter)
Does anybody else see a problem here?
If the government has nothing to hide,
why are they so afraid to answer a few questions?
This story does not add up.I’m on a mission to never forget
3,000 people that I’ve never met
We want some answers and all that we get
Some kind of shit about a terrorist threat
Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies
Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies
Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies LiesI’m on a mission to dig up the truth
You think we’re stupid and there’s no proof
Well let me tell you that the time has come
To pull the trigger on the smoking gun
Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies Lies …America has been hijacked
Not by Al Qaeda, not by Bin Laden
But by a group of tyrants.
That should be of great concern to all Americans.
Dustin Kensrue
Lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist in the rock band Thrice, as well as a solo artist.
Ricky Warden: I also wanted to know about Broken Lungs, that song that was about the World Trade Centers. Do you believe that’s something that was perpetrated by our government or …
Dustin Kensrue: I believe that we’re most definitely not being told the truthful truth and I’d say probably not much of the truth. There’s parts of me thinks things don’t add up about that day’s events, but you’re not allowed to discuss it. In the media you’re not allowed to talk about it — you’re labeled unpatriotic. From the time that people started realizing there’s holes in this, the President [Bush] was on the news saying, “Don’t listen to anyone who says this. They’re not patriotic.”
And so we’re largely self-policing with that kind of stuff. So, If the general population doesn’t hear about it from the mainstream news then when anyone talks about they say, “Well I haven’t heard about it. So, that must not be true — crazy conspiracy theorists.” …
I firmly believe that there was explosives in those buildings. So, basically the 9/11 Commission Report is a sham. It never set out to investigate what actually happened. Its stated purpose was to find out how our security systems failed and what happened from that perspective.
If people are interested in it I’d recommend checking out a book called The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions by David Ray Griffin. It’s very comprehensive. It just goes through the 9/11 Commission Report and then talks about the things that were either added or omitted. So, there’s absolutely no mention [in the 9/11 Commission Report] of Building 7 which was a 50-story skyscraper that wasn’t hit by a plane. It had a fire in it and it fell.
— Interviewed by Ricky Warden Jr. on OutlawVideo.tv, Oct 30 2009
Tom DeLonge
Best known as the co-founder, co-lead vocalist, and guitarist of the rock/pop-punk band Blink-182.
As of July 2016 the group had sold more than 50 million albums.
Blink 182 star Tom DeLonge has followed in the footsteps of Charlie Sheen by becoming the latest celebrity to publicly doubt the official version of events behind 9/11 and voice his belief that the attacks were an inside job.
DeLonge is the lead singer in Blink 182, a southern Californian punk/pop quartet that has had two US Billboard number one selling albums and whose 1999 album Enema of the State went platinum five times over.
During a hosting spot on a San Diego’s KAVA-FM radio station, DeLonge talked with Professor James Fetzer about evidence of 9/11 inside involvement.
We do know that the buildings came down in a fashion extremely similar to a controlled demolition of a building - we do know that expertise that is needed to fly those gigantic planes into that exact location could never have been achieved by someone that just learned how to fly a small plane,
said DeLonge.
Discussing the failure of NORAD to enact standard operating procedure and intercept the planes and Norman Mineta’s testimony about Cheney’s orders ‘still standing’, DeLonge stated,
Cheney knew that the planes are coming in and he capped the order to leave it alone so it could hit.
It’s so weird how our own government did it to us. 9/11 was not perpetrated by a bunch of people that just learned how to fly planes.
— Summary of radio interview with James Fetzer, 14 May 2006 - InfoWars
Warren Cuccurullo
First worked as a guitarist for Frank Zappa during the 1970s.
Also a founding member of Missing Persons in the 1980s.
Joined Duran Duran in 1986, becoming a long-term member of the band until 2001.
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022 as a member of Duran Duran.
We do need a new 9/11, Alex — a new 9/11 investigation.
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I’d been talking to Luke and Danny from WeAreChange about sending you guys a video, just you know, putting a few things down, saying how much I support 9/11 Truth and how important it is.
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People have to be woken up and they have to unite.
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Right now, we’re seeing a slow, controlled demolition of the myth of 9/11.
— From a lengthy audio interview about 9/11 on The Alex Jones Show, 17 Sep 2007 (Dead link to mp3. The quote was posted here.)
Cuccurullo did a benefit show for the firefighters in New York in 2007.
Evan Dando
Frontman of the alternative rock band the Lemonheads.
Has also embarked on a solo career and collaborated on songs with various artists.
In December 2015, Dando was inducted into the Boston Music Awards Hall of Fame.
Dando uses both hands to pick up his piece of the World Trade Center.
Open the window,
he commands.
The towers were right there. That morning really fucked me up. The second plane was so close, it went shoom, right over my head.
He pauses and absentmindedly pats the pack of Marlboro Lights in his shirt pocket.
Because I was so close, I know what really happened. I shouldn’t get into it, because I’m not a political person, but they were blown up by bombs. They were not taken out by those airplanes. Those fires were going out and then the buildings blew up. What I saw and heard that day was a crime, and not by the people they’re saying. That’s all I’ll say.
He pauses.
I’m worried about our country. But then again I’ve been worried about America my entire life.
— 171 Minutes With Evan Dando & Juliana Hatfield - New York Magazine
Will Rigby
Known for being the drummer of jangle pop band the dB’s, a band he formed along with Peter Holsapple, Chris Stamey and Gene Holder in the late 1970s.
Has played with Steve Earle, Matthew Sweet, Laura Cantrell, Kelly Willis and many others and has released two solo albums.
When the 9/11 Commission Report was released, I remember thinking, “Oh, well, glad that’s over with.” But I kept hearing “What about WTC 7?”
When I sought out the videos of that building falling, I knew something was rotten.
And I quickly realized that, if WTC 7 could only be a controlled demolition, then the whole story had to be lies.
Since then, I have studied the evidence for years, and there is no escaping the conclusions:
- That all three WTC collapses were controlled demolitions.
- Or that the Air Force standdown was not a coincidence or incompetence.
- Or that the rules of engagement of off-course planes were changed shortly before 9/11 to require either Cheney’s or Rumsfeld’s approval first, and quietly changed back thereafter.
- Or that the supposed attack planes’ identification numbers remained on the books for over a year afterward.
- Or that the anthrax attacks were from inside the US government.
- Or that the “dancing Israelis” went on Israeli TV and said “We were there to document the event.”
- Or that the “put options” were traceable, and were hushed up because of who made them.
- Or that the Bush administration told allies in July 2001 that we were going to invade Afghanistan by October.
- Or that unexploded nanothermite (which only the US government, and possibly Israel, has the facilities to make) was found in the WTC dust.
- Or that Barry Jennings (RIP) and William Rodriguez’s experienced bombs detonating in the WTC buildings before they fell (and in Rodriguez’s case, before the first plane hit).
- Or that the official explanation of the WTC collapses violates basic laws of physics.
- Or that there is known history of previous false flag attacks.
- Or that the clocks at the Pentagon stopped several minutes before the official time of impact/explosion.
- Or that the corporate media is covering up and enabling crimes of the greatest magnitude.
- And on and on…
My current tiny contribution to the movement is to put up flyers around town, sort of guerrilla-style bulletin boarding of links to truth websites of all stripes. They are usually taken down fairly quickly, although one has been up at the bagel joint for over a week.
I greatly admire and appreciate the work of David Ray Griffin, Richard Gage, Steven Jones, Kevin Ryan, Peter Dale Scott, and the other courageous souls who have held up the torch of truth for us all.
Your presentations have convinced me that the evidence supports, and only supports, the controlled demolition explanation.
— Statement in support of the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth petition - AE911Truth
Geza X
Geza Gedeon.
A personality in the Los Angeles punk scene in the late 1970s.
Produced records for a number of early California punk bands including the Dead Kennedys, Germs, Redd Kross, Black Flag, The Avengers and The Weirdos.
His productions of Holiday in Cambodia for Dead Kennedys and Lexicon Devil for Germs separated California’s punk sound from others at the time with its eccentricity, humour and spunk, making Los Angeles and San Francisco very different from the scenes in New York or London.
I have watched many videos and read books by qualified professionals. It is “obvious” that some form of ‘inside’ orchestration was necessary to cause the collapse of the buildings.
The “owner” of the WTC complex admitted on national television that he had ‘pulled’ Building 7 to aver[t] further tragedies. How the “hell” did they rig explosives in there during a national emergency? They had to be installed before the fact, something requiring months of preparation.
Only the gullible have fallen for the official story.
— Statement in support of the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth petition - AE911Truth
Alternative and experimental
Liars
Australian-American experimental rock band formed in Brooklyn, New York, in 2000.
Angus Andrew is the founding and only constant member.
Their “favourite film” is Loose Change, a 9/11 documentary made by debut filmmakers Dylan Avery, Jason Bermas and Korey Rowe – the latter serving in Afghanistan and Iraq during 2002-3. It’s by no means perfect. KRS-One hollering about “party people” on the soundtrack over footage of the planes hitting the towers is disarmingly inappropriate. But its intelligent, point-by-point dissection makes a dry counterpoint to the dual dominance of the Fox Networks’ near-hysterical patriotism and Michael Moore’s hugely successful polemicism. To wit: How could jet fuel vaporise six-tonne titanium engines? How can you make a cell phone call from 32,000 ft?
Says Liars’ Angus,
It’s not that we all three unanimously agree with the views expressed in it. But if you believe just one of the points it’s interesting.
It’s about debate, differing views rather than any one version that solidifies into received wisdom, before lamination and insertion into the folder marked “history”.
Says Aaron:
[The film] is direct. They made it, distributed it on the internet. It’s about access. It’s an abstract comparison, but it’s like how home recording saved music.
Interviewer: Why did you choose this film?
Angus Andrew: … When we got ahold of this one film it really put the whole debate in a new perspective for us. And we were very sort of impacted by it.
Julian Gross: I think it’s also the fact that it’s something that is interesting or that should be brought up. I don’t know why it’s never been brought up anywhere. …
Angus Andrew: … When Julian found this documentary, it just knocked the wind out of me and all my ideas of conspiracy and things like that needed to be rethought.
And I then did the big test, and I took it to my parents … and I was happy to see that they were equally bowled over.
And so I think it’s not only important to be thinking and talking about this 9/11 thing, but equally the idea of conspiracy. I just think it’s this kind of taboo word that maybe should be redefined in these political climates, because, who do you believe?
Stephen Paul Taylor
Was in duo Trike for five years before branching off into his solo project in 2014.
Trike won a $20K award from The Gong Show (in Vancouver) in 2011, toured 22 countries, recorded an album in Denmark and Belgium and played hundreds of shows.
Currently lives in Berlin, Germany.
Everybody knows shit’s fucked
I don’t give a good goddamn, your Uncle Sam is a motherfucker
I don’t wanna see him again
Have to pretend, count to tenYou blew up your towers to justify a war
Well I don’t really care what your arms are for
More money on defense; fuck hospitals
Fuck human beings, fuck humanity
Fuck human beings, fuck humanity
Fuck human beings, fuck humanity
Fuck human beings, fuck humanity…
There’s no explanation for the third building
Falling, toppling, extinct we sing
Over what we are as a race
We don’t face the fact; the government fucks us in the ass
Creating another Pearl Harbor, killin’ its own kind
What for?
Oh, I don’t know motherfucker
I guess money’s on the mindEverybody knows shit’s fucked
Everybody knows shit’s fucked
Everybody knows shit’s fucked
Everybody knows shit’s fucked
Everybody Knows Shit’s Fucked - YouTube
Here’s the Story Behind That Catchy “Everybody Knows Shit Fuck” Song - gawker.com
The String Cheese Incident
From Crested Butte and Telluride, Colorado, formed in 1993.
Their music has elements of bluegrass sounds, as well as rock, electronica, calypso, country, funk, jazz, Latin, progressive rock, reggae and psychedelia. All members write original compositions and sing.
Bethanne Patrick: Hi, this is AOL’s Book Maven, Bethanne Patrick, and today I’m speaking with Ann Coulter who is just out with a new book called ‘Godless: The Church of Liberalism in America.’ Ann, you just told me you were out until 3AM last night with Bobby Weir.
Ann Coulter: My life-long crush.
Bethanne Patrick: I love it. You have to tell us more about why you got to go out with Bobby Weir. Everyone should know that Ann Coulter is a big Dead-head.
Ann Coulter: Yes, well they saw an interview I did recently and invited me to the show. It was at Radio City Music Hall, and it was one of the greatest nights of my life. I was like an Orthodox Jew meeting Moses. Bobby is of course every girl’s lifelong crush and he’s every bit as cool and as wonderful as I could hope he could be. And the band, ‘String Cheese Incident’ started for them. It was one of the greatest nights of my life.
People are often incorrectly surprised that there are a lot of conservative dead heads. I’d mentioned that in an interview, and actually on the ‘Tonight Show,’ that one of my friends — who was a fellow dead head — would get up in the morning, smoke a bowl, turn on Rush Limbaugh, and start making his candles for ‘Grateful Dead’ merchandising. I met his brother at the show.
Bethanne Patrick: I’ve heard this a lot. You’re not the first conservative to be a big Grateful Dead fan. How do you reconcile the free-wheeling ideas and lifestyles of other Dead-heads, and the band itself, with your own, very hard-core, right-wing, conservative beliefs?
Ann Coulter: I actually think the lifestyle is more consistent for a right-winger. I mean, the smoking issue, for example. Conservatives don’t have a problem with personal freedoms. Liberals are the ones going around taping up no smoking sings every place. And this is one of the things I always loved about ‘Dead’ shows, they genuinely were friendly, or we were, since I considered myself one of them, genuinely interested in other ideas, and they wouldn’t get angry and pouty, and call you a fascist and walk away. You could talk about anything.
A lot of my San Francisco Dead-head friends were total Dead-heads, and often, I admit, many of them gravitated towards liberalism because of their interest in drug legalization laws. However, you start with that and the whole edifice starts to fall of the usefulness of government regulation generally.
Bethanne Patrick: So, how is your reception at these events? Bobby and Phil and everyone else, they see Ann Coulter and they don’t say, ‘Oh my gosh, run away, she’s evil.’ They say, ‘Oh, we embrace her, we love her, she’s our greatest fan?’
Ann Coulter: Well, I had a great time, they were all very friendly. The ‘String Cheese Incident’ band members were hilarious, and they agree, obviously, on many conservative principles, on capitalism, for example. ‘String Cheese Incident’ famously — and I found out last night that it was my former fiancé who was the lawyer who brought the case — ‘String Cheese Incident’ sued Ticket Master so they could sell tickets at different prices. Ticket Master had total control of it, and they now have control of it. So, they’re totally with me on that, although, I must say, they said to me, ‘You have to explain why you support George Bush.’ And I said, ‘Ok, I’ll give you a thirty-second explanation,’ because what they were talking about was Iraq and not tax cuts, for example. And I said, ‘Ok, I’ll give you a thirty-second explanation,’ and I began with the attack on 9/11. And they did say something that cut me off at the knees and I could go no further. They think it was an inside job and then I just laughed and said, ‘You know, if you think it’s an inside job, the rest of my explanation falls apart.’
Trevor Moore
One of the three founding members of the New York City-based comedy troupe the Whitest Kids U’ Know (WKUK).
Two of the videos from the special, High in Church and Kitty History, are very different concepts, both really amazing. Where does the idea for these videos come from?
With Kitty History, I’m a big fan of conspiracy theories, just all across the board, not even that I believe all of them, but I just love conspiracy theories.
One day, I was sitting down and started to think, OK let’s take the ones that I do believe, the ones that are provable in some way, the ones that have easily Google-able facts.
Let’s take those and put them in a line and see if I can connect the dots between them. And it actually makes a linear story. You can go from point A to point B. In the song we go from the JFK assassination all the way to 9/11, and there is a direct line that makes a story.
Then I thought, can I put this all in a song and make it rhyme, and I did, but it wasn’t particularly funny. Then I started thinking, well what if I use the juxtaposition of taking this really dark and kind of depressing song and putting it to a surf-pop Beach Boys tune. So, I did that and that was kind of funny.
Then at the end, I was like, oh wait and what if it was kittens! So that was the final piece. Once I laid it all out using multiverse theory where there has to exist a planet where everything happened exactly like ours, except the only difference is that everyone is a kitten, then all of a sudden it was really funny.
— Trevor Moore from ‘Whitest Kids U’ Know’ Talks About His New Comedy Special - The Interrobang
Electronic
Aphex Twin
Richard David James.
His idiosyncratic work has drawn on many styles, including techno, ambient, acid, and jungle, and he has been described as a pioneering figure in the intelligent dance music (IDM) genre.
Journalists from publications including Mixmag, The New York Times, NME, Fact, Clash and The Guardian have called James one of the most influential and important artists in contemporary electronic music.
Won a Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronica Album for Syro.
I keep forgetting that most people are totally friggin’ oblivious to how they are being programmed and controlled from birth upwards from your name, being a ‘citizen’, which basically enters you into a contract, it goes on from there.
Recently, when some journos were saying, “So you actually believe 9/11 was an inside job?” attempting to paint picture of me bein’ a crackpot, I was totally shocked – they were intelligent people but still they didn’t get it.
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I’m really, really sorry to all folks who might be reading this but if you believe the ridiculous story that is being peddled about 9/11 from the mainstream media then you are absolutely gullible
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Not believing the mainstream media is very hard for some folk who have put their trust and faith in the state and press; breaking that faith will not be an easy process for many.
[11 September 2001 was] just the tip of the iceberg … but how do you break this stranglehold on humanity? You have to start somewhere to break the illusion and 9/11 is a pretty big weak point in the illusion, but still so many are fooled.
— Aphex Twin: “If you believe the official 9/11 story you are absolutely gullible” - The Guardian
Aphex Twin Doubles Down On 9/11 Truther Comments - (same story, longer quotes)
Classical and session musicians
Elias Davidsson
International human rights and social justice activist.
Author of 20 volumes of original compositions for musical education.
On July 22, 2004, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (a bi-partisan Congressional body) issued its Final Report on the events of September 11, 2001. This document of over 500 pages is posted on the internet. It has been presented as the “unanimous conclusion” of the Commission members on what happened on that day and on the reasons for the failure to prevent the attacks.
The Commission exonerates American public officials from any blame for such failure, which according to its Chairman, Thomas H. Kean, resulted from failures of “policy, management, capability and, above all, a failure of imagination”.
Yet, the Commission has studiously disregarded a wealth of evidence, testimonials, contradictions, anomalies and questions, which both independent researchers and families of victims have referred to. The Commission left large areas of inquiry shrouded in mystery.
The number of anomalies that has been reported by independent researchers regarding 9/11 is staggering. A simple google-search with the string “unanswered questions 9/11” yields over 20,000 sites. These extend to the alleged reasons for the collapses of the two World Trade towers and the lesser known collapse of WTC-7 (which was not hit by an aircraft), the implausibility of a passenger aircraft hitting the Pentagon and disappearing without trace, the alleged shooting down of UA 93 in Pennsylvania, the lack of debris of the crashed planes, the removal and destruction of forensic evidence, the relaxed conduct of various public leaders on the fateful day, prescient remarks by US leaders, and so forth. Many, though not all, of these anomalies are discussed in Prof. David Ray Griffin’s book The New Pearl Harbor*, published earlier this year. …
The above account demonstrates that far from closing the story of 9/11, the report of the Commission of Inquiry may be considered as evidence of a criminal cover-up by the members of the congressional Commission. Such a cover-up may have unforeseeable consequences for the American people as well as for world peace. I appeal to all those who initially felt compassion towards the families of the victims of 9/11: Please do not let these families down in their quest for the truth. They are entitled to know who committed the crimes, who assisted in their commission and in which circumstances their beloved died. We all should insist that the full truth, and nothing but the truth, on the crime of 9/11 be revealed.
— An unresolved mystery: The mass murder of 9/11 - Global Research
*[Follow-up book: The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-up & the Expose by David Ray Griffin.]
Elias Davidsson: 9/11 Truth as a Human Rights Issue - SoundCloud
Before I came across the book Hijacking America’s Mind on 9/11 by Elias Davidsson, I believed in the official narrative on 9/11. I read the book twice. It shattered completely my former belief.
— Hijacking America’s Mind On 9/11: Counterfeiting Evidence - Book Review - Counter Currents
Member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth
Jim Wellman
Former member of The Brand New Heavies (soprano and tenor sax, keyboards).
Subsequent solo work with Roy Ayers.
9/11 is the boldest ever attempt to manipulate a democracy and manufacture consent for subsequent policy (Propaganda).
Following many other suspected ‘false flags’ the cynicism and scale of this plot is unprecedented, and the entire future of the world and especially the future of democracy revolves around either its success or its exposure.
Though there are thousands of reasons for doubting the official story of 9/11, these reasons rely on circumstantial evidence/testimony, and while persuasive in their entirety (If a person has time to investigate them), they still lack the swift killer blow of persuasion needed to draw more attention to the issue quickly.
I believe that the ‘freefall / demolition’ argument of the Towers, but especially WTC 7 is the quickest and most persuasive evidence that can expose and explain the “plot”.
The problem is attracting attention to the issue and explaining the impossibility of WTC free fall to a public without entry level physics knowledge.
It is obvious that there are many people / organizations who produce media intent on dissemination and dissuading people from questioning the official story, and the ‘battleground’ is the media, but you can’t argue against ‘freefall’ if you understand it.
— Statement in support of the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth petition - AE911Truth
Adam Syed
Professional violinist in the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra and other groups.
I am also a concerned citizen who sees it as my civic duty to spread the word to my fellow citizens with regard to the corruption that occurs within our government and corporations.
I believed the official story of 9/11 and the WTC “collapses” for the first 4 years. While I might have had some dormant skepticism about the official story prior to 2005, it was after the Downing Street memo, which proved beyond a shadow of doubt that the Iraq War was definitely based on lies, that my 9/11 skepticism came to the surface.
After about six months of reading books and examining documentaries (including “rebuttals” to them), I was 100% certain that the official 9/11 story was false.
Wondering to myself how I could have been blinded by the obvious for so long, I then realized how powerful the psychological barriers are to 9/11 truth.
— Statement in support of the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth petition - AE911Truth
Ace Baker
Veteran of sessions, national & world tours, TV shows.
Credits include: The Supremes, Mary Wilson, Alan Thicke, Arsenio Hall, Peaches & Herb, Fame, Iron Butterfly, and Ice T.
I hear people knockin’
9/11 truth
They call us tin foil
hat wearin’ kooks
What about the jet planes
flyin’ all around
While “our” mighty air defenses
were standin’ down?They say that we should blindly
Believe “our” government
Before you start your preaching
Let me ask you this my friend …Have you forgotten
What we saw as one?
Oh those towers turned to dust
They were blown to kingdom come
Have you forgotten
Just how fast they fell?
Office fires can’t do that
No there ain’t no way in hell
And you try to blame it all
upon Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?They destroyed the molten metal
From the WTC
It’s too incriminating
For you to see
That would blow the cover
That would solve the crime
The biggest inside job
Of all timeSome see a police state
Comin’ into view
After 9/11 man
I’d have to say that’s trueHave you forgotten
What we saw as one?
Oh those towers turned to dust
They were blown to kingdom come
Have you forgotten
Just how fast they fell?
Office fires can’t do that
No there ain’t no way in hellThe “confession tape”
Looks nothing like bin Laden
Have you forgotten?They got their new Pearl Harbor
To justify their wars
The power and the money
That’s what they did it for
Have you forgottenAll the people killed?
As the empire marches on
Down to the oil fieldsHave you forgotten
About “our” Pentagon?
All the loved ones that we lost
To the Neo-Cons.
Face the truth
Forget about bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
Have you forgotten?— Blown to Kingdom Come - Have You Forgotten | 9/11 Truth song by Ace Baker