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Charlie Sheen Challenges President Obama to Re-Open 9/11 Investigations

Steve Edwards | 13.09.2009 22:30 | Anti-militarism | Other Press | Terror War

Eight years on and in the aftermath of Hollywood actor Charlie Sheen's 9/11 challenge to President Barack Obama, journalists of the world's media conglomerates have been slow responders to follow the trail of evidence. Sheen posed numerous questions in a YouTube video directed at the President and claimed in a supporting document that the official 9/11 story was a cover-up that fitted an historical pattern of government scripted attacks as pretexts for war.

Sheen wants Obama's ear
Sheen wants Obama's ear

Charlie Sheen & journalist Alex Jones team-up
Charlie Sheen & journalist Alex Jones team-up

Soil dumped at Pentagon crime scene
Soil dumped at Pentagon crime scene


Hollywood actor Charlie Sheen has publicly challenged the US President to reconsider what he claims is a fiction: the official 9/11 story. The intriguing piece of news creation on September 8 has apparently shocked America, but so far the crisis of an actor thinking independently and doing a much-discouraged activity called 'research' has not translated into any serious soul-searching among the professionals of the world’s media empires.

In an online video address to President Barack Obama, Sheen has posed serious questions about some of the inconsistencies in the official 9/11 story. Holding a transcript titled "Twenty Minutes with the President" to draw Barack Obama’s attention, Sheen stated it outlined the evidence that contradicts the official version of 9/11. The transcript is fictional and is written as though he had a 20-minute meeting with President Obama. In the video, Sheen said he had sent the President a copy and called on "Mr President" to initiate a new congressional investigation into the terrorism of 9/11.

The YouTube video makes use of footage from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, news stories and documentaries filmed subsequently to support his claims of a cover-up and implied by its construction that some in and out of the US government have much to hide. Sheen's questions focus on the lesser-known third tower to fall that day, Building 7; firefighters' statements regarding multiple explosions in the towers prior to and during the collapses; the mystery over what hit the Pentagon; US government connections with Osama bin Laden; lax air defense; mysterious in-flight cell-phone calls; and the 9/11 Commission's failure to conduct a professional and thorough inquiry.

At the same time as publicly pressuring President Obama to re-open investigations into 9/11, Sheen called on his fellow Americans to "wake up, stand-up and demand the truth." President Obama marked this year’s anniversary with a public speech on the Pentagon lawn, where eight years before the crime scene was covered-up when trucks dumped loads of soil within days of the attacks.

The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post and The Sun responded with slur-pieces that framed Sheen as a ranting actor with no business challenging the official story. The Telegraph‘s TV features editor Michael Deacon wrote a sarcastic piece claiming Sheen's publicity was “a rant of pure ego,” but like 'real' journalists from most of the other publications, Deacon chose not to take the time to thoughtfully synthesize the evidence on offer.

However, The Boston Globe reported that Sheen challenged ABC's Meghan McCain, radio show host Rush Limbaugh, and Fox TV's talking heads Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly to join him on Larry King Live to debate his claims. An internet-based news service, PrisonPlanet.com, that focuses its reports on what it claims is a New World Order agenda to control the planet by the global elite class, reported that Sheen made the challenge on journalist Alex Jones's PrisonPlanet.TV saying, "Let's do it."

Noting that all of the character assassinators had failed to contest the facts Sheen raised, Reuters stated that comparing people who contest the government's position on 9/11 to holocaust deniers "completely ignores the fact that six of the ten 9/11 Commission members, along with scores of other highly credible former and current officials, intelligence professionals, military officials, scientists, structural engineers and architects, and legal scholars have all publicly questioned the official version of the events behind September 11."

Sheen also posted the fictional transcript on a website called InfoWars.com, also owned by Jones. In his "Twenty Minutes with the President," the “transcript” poses that 9/11 was a pretext for the systematic dismantling of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and that the Obama administration was "reading from the same playbook" as the Bush administration. Sheen's creative writing has “Obama” becoming tetchy when the “President” felt his understanding about the meeting was breached and said, "I’m having a difficult time sitting here and listening to you draw distorted parallels between the Bush/Cheney regime and mine."

The transcript of a fictional meeting with the 44th President of the United States is a device for Sheen to place his views on the Obama administration into the public domain, such as Obama's about-face on promises he made while wooing the American public to vote for him. The fictional President Obama said the actor had "wandered blindly off topic" after he had challenged "the President" for reneging on various campaign hooks, like saying he would end warrant-less wire tapping, stop the CIA's practice of rendition flights and abolish the Patriot Act. This piece of legislation is very contentious for many patriotic Americans, including Sheen, as he implied that it subordinated provisions in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In his video, Sheen said to Obama, “We want our country back.”

The fictional “President Obama” said that it was important that the country moves forward, to which Sheen as “Sheen” replied it is difficult to do so when there is "a bottomless warren of unanswered questions surrounding the day and its aftermath."

In this imaginary encounter, the actor as author went on to draw parallels between the 9/11 terror attacks and historical incidents such as the sinkings of the USS Maine and the Lusitania, and the Gulf of Tonkin incident which drew America, respectively, into the Spanish-American War of 1898, World War I and the Vietnam War. Sheen’s Sheen said he was pointing to a pattern of official pretexts for war, which Alex Jones explained in his 2006 documentary Terrorstorm, are known as "false flag operations." Such clandestine operations are the work of criminally infiltrated governments, by groups who attack their own civilian or military people, then blame it on a real or perceived enemy in order to draw a nation into armed conflict.

Sheen's Obama responds sarcastically toward Sheen's fictitious version of Sheen when the actor claimed the official 9/11 story, the investigation and subsequent findings by journalists points to US government cover-up of the terror attacks. Sheen uses his imaginary meeting piece to "read out" 20 bullet points of serious inconsistencies with the official story, including placing former Vice President Dick Cheney under suspicion for having made himself the head of the military command three months before the attacks. This finding is a serious problem for the US government, since the official story says none of the four hijacked airliners were confronted in the air or shot down by the air force, as the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is trained to do.

In a radio interview with Jones, Sheen said that what the world is being asked - with the official 9/11 story - is to believe that on one day "a new form of physics" came to be and to suspend everything people know, all their experience and all their knowledge and stand it on its head. Sheen stated that he knows a work of fiction when he sees one and said that the official 9/11 story is "not even a very good one." The actor argued that Americans and the world need the truth.

Sheen is not alone in his claims, as there is a “9/11 truth movement” that possibly numbers in the tens of thousands, with numerous websites, documentaries and books that each acknowledge the dedicated work of teams of people from all walks of life including aviation and construction professionals, scholars and researchers and journalists and filmmakers.

For instance, in his book 9/11 Revealed: The New Evidence, researcher Ian Henshall stated that there was a "wall" created in the FBI that separated earnest agents from criminal ones at the bureau and also from those at other departments including the State Department, the CIA and the Pentagon. Other authors such as Peter Dale Scott, Webster Griffin Tarpley and Mike Ruppert go further and claim that deep state criminals periodically conduct "re-adjustments" to extend the power of the global capitalist class.

The fictional transcript by Sheen contains Obama's signature humor, talking style and astuteness, and provides an intriguing situation which places the real Obama in a tricky position where he can either pretend he did not receive it, ignore the publicity and risk possible repercussions later from the public and law enforcement officials; or risk his presidency and possibly his life by signing off a new congressional investigation. After speaking to the “President” for his "allotted" twenty minutes, the actor finishes his scripted version of the fictional meeting with number 44 by saying, "Be on the right side of history." Sheen's “President Obama” promised nothing at the end of the make-believe meeting, except that he and his staff would "be in touch."

Like the lax air defense on 9/11, the slack journalistic effort so far to follow up on Sheen's claims makes the phrase "news is the first take at history" redundant. It would perhaps be better replaced with a telegram: "OBAMA PHOTO-OP ON PENTAGON LAWN MAKES SEPTEMBER 11 2009 GROUND-HOG DAY SCENE OF MORE COVER-UPS STOP" and send it across all the newswires.

Then it will be interesting to see if new news stories test the “9/11 legend” by making it through "the wall" of the world's biggest media conglomerates to become the news it deserves to be and, if so, how it might be framed on that wall for public consumption.

Steve Edwards


Sources
Charlie Sheen’s Video Message to President Obama can be viewed at
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyKR2-A0KPU&eurl=http://www.infowars.com/charlie-sheen-demands-obama-reopen-911-investigation-in-video/&feature=player_embedded#t=392

Twenty Minutes with the President
Reported by Charlie Sheen (Sheen's fictional transcript with President Obama) Tuesday, September 8, 2009
 http://www.infowars.com/twenty-minutes-with-the-president/

And Charlie Sheen's well prepared documentation ...

 http://www.prisonplanet.com/20_minutes_bibliography.html

“Charlie Sheen's 9/11 rant is pure ego” Michael Deacon at:
 http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/michaeldeacon/100009318/charlie-sheens-911-rant-is-pure-ego/

“Breaking: Charlie Sheen demands Obama meeting on 9/11 cover-up” at:
 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/09/obama-charlie-sheen-911.html

“2½ screws loose” at:
 http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/screws_loose_Geo3Wya43KUtJCRuTkZwIO

“Sheen Challenges 9/11 Truth Debunkers to Larry King Live Debate” at:
 http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS201956+11-Sep-2009+PRN20090911

“Sheen Challenges 9/11 Truth Debunkers to Larry King Live Debate” at:
 http://finance.boston.com/boston/?GUID=10053488&Page=MediaViewer&ChannelID=3197

“Sheen Challenges 9/11 Truth Debunkers To Larry King Live Debate” Paul Joseph Watson at:
 http://www.prisonplanet.com/sheen-challenges-911-truth-debunkers-to-larry-king-live-debate.html

9/11 Documentaries...

Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup (2009) Dylan Avery
Demolitions: 9/11 Mysteries. (2007). Sophia Smallstorm
Terrorstorm (2007). Alex Jones InfoWars.com
Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement. Alex Jones (2007). InfoWars.com
9/11 In Plane Sight (2006). Dave vonKleist
Zeitgeist – The Movie: The Final and Revised Edition (2008). Peter Joseph Zeitgeist.com
Jones, Alex (2007) Interview with Aaron Russo. InfoWars.com  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nD7dbkkBIA &  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5420753830426590918

Books ...

Henshall, Ian (2007). 9/11 Revealed: The New Evidence. Carroll & Graf Publishers; New York.
Henshall, Ian & Morgan, Rowland (2005) 9/11 Revealed – Challenging Facts Behind the War on Terror.Constable & Robinson; London: UK.
Ruppert, Michael C. (2004). Crossing the Rubicon – The Decline of the American Empire, New Society Publishers.
Scott, Peter Dale (2008 The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire and the Future of America University of California Press: CAL
Scott, Peter Dale (1996). Deep Politics and the Death of JFK. University of California Press; Berkeley: CAL.
Tarpley, Webster Griffin (2007) 9/11 Synthetic Terror – Made in USA. Progressive Press; Joshua Tree: CAL.

Websites ...

 http://www.911truth.org/
 http://www.historycommons.org/project.jsp?project=911_project
 http://911scholars.org
 http://www.ae911truth.org
 http://911research.wtc7.net
 http://www.deceptiondollar.com
 http://www.globalresearch.ca

Article

Scott, Peter Dale (June 11, 2008). “9/11, Deep State Violence and the Hope of Internet Politics.” Global Research.ca. Retrieved on July 23, 2009 from  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9289

Steve Edwards

Comments

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Charlie Sheen

13.09.2009 22:52

A Hollywood actor! Man, that's really someone with his finger on the pulse of National Security. So what does he have that Joe Bloggs in the streets doesn't? Newsalert: Joe Bloggs calls for 9/11 investigation ... but he's not a movie star? So who gives a f*ck what movie stars think? (Do they think?)

starstruck


Old News

14.09.2009 01:56

Charlie Sheen has publicly denounced the official version of events on 9/11 for several years now and has done several TV interviews stating why.

Dodd G


Charlie Sheen

14.09.2009 07:56

Long and well documented problems with drugs, alcohol and mental health issues. Is he also the Messiah? That would make at least four. Does 9/11 truth have anyone remotely credible backing its pathetic 'inside job' claims?

Big Lizard


Alex Jones is abit of an idiot

14.09.2009 08:29

Charlie Sheen does himself no favours mixing it up with Alex Jones, who seems to embrace every crank conspiracy theory going to a fault, including believing anything that comes out of conspiracy loon-forecaster Texe Marr's mouth

dark side of the moon


Ratchet and pull em.

14.09.2009 09:22

Why do so many people 'apparently' have such a problem with 9/11 being a conspiracy?

Its bizaare, the US government kill, assasinate and butcher its way around the world for the big buck in the sky and always have done. Its because the incident rate of psychosis is so high in the US. They are nutters.

Why wouldn't they kill nearly 4000 of their own citizens just to extend their power.

Seriously, why wouldn't they do this?

Whats the problem guys?

I'm not a terrorist but I would believe a talibani over a yank every time.

Conspire conspire.


For once, this is not about a celebrity

14.09.2009 09:51

Lame attempts at character assasination will not make the questions go away.

All truth goes through three stages. First it is riduculed, then it is violently opposed and then it is accepted as self-evident.

David Hoxton


Questions do not go away......

14.09.2009 10:48

.....because like the 'whack a mole' game, everytime they are refuted with counter evidence the same old crap simply pops up somewhere else and the whole process starts again. The reason these questions go 'unanswered' in the minds of any truther is that every time they are answered, truthers simply ignore anything which counters their claim.

There is no evidence that 9/11 was an inside job. Everytime someone comes up with so called incontrovertible proof, it turns out on closer inspection to be nothing of the sort. The 'serious' scholars they put forward turn out, on closer inspection, to be nothing more than long standing cranks. Take the recent example of the allegedly peer reviewed paper by Strephen Jones et al on thermite at the twin towers - turns out they still have not proved that what they found was anything more than paint chips (why are they not submitting the chips for independent analysis?). It also turns out they tested them in air rather than an inert gas, which was rather poor scientific practice and they topped this off by publishing their results in a vanity journal with no academic standing.

So, is Charlie Sheen their best hope now?

Frankly, if you really think their are outstanding questions around 9/11 take your queries over to the 9/11threads at JREF. There are many properly qualitifed scientists and true 'skeptics' on that site who are very adept at debunking bollocks. See how you fare there with your 'unanswered questions'.

Good Grief


Some answers to the questions that will not go away...

14.09.2009 13:50



...may be found here

 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23488.htm

Please consider donating to Information Clearing House.

Messenger


911conspiracy a form of anti-semitism

14.09.2009 15:07

No, you're absolutely right Big Liz and friends. Goverments have been vilified for far too long now. The people need to stop decenting and get behind their fairly elected representetives. The army never shot and killed innocent people in N.I and blamed the I.R.A. Saddam got rid of the WMD's before they liberated Iraq. The good and honourable police were right in their procecution of Stephan Kisco and their restraining of Ian Tomlinson. The palestinians are illegal squatters and are just jealous of the zionists ability to be loved and respected by all peoples. I even read today that a guy who got accused of burning his three kids to death and was executed in Texas after 12years on death row, was in fact innocent. Bollocks he was just jumping on the conspiraloon bandwagen trying to blame others. Bush, Blair and the persecuted Zionists will be fondly remembered by all who have sat at their table of love. Our leaders are genuine, humble, peace loving people,full of humanity and respect for all living things, only a conspiraloon would see it as otherwise.God bless the West and Israel

K Lune


Conspiraloon.

14.09.2009 15:43

"No, you're absolutely right Big Liz and friends. Goverments have been vilified for far too long now. The people need to stop decenting and get behind their fairly elected representetives. The army never shot and killed innocent people in N.I and blamed the I.R.A. Saddam got rid of the WMD's before they liberated Iraq. The good and honourable police were right in their procecution of Stephan Kisco and their restraining of Ian Tomlinson. The palestinians are illegal squatters and are just jealous of the zionists ability to be loved and respected by all peoples. I even read today that a guy who got accused of burning his three kids to death and was executed in Texas after 12years on death row, was in fact innocent. Bollocks he was just jumping on the conspiraloon bandwagen trying to blame others. Bush, Blair and the persecuted Zionists will be fondly remembered by all who have sat at their table of love. Our leaders are genuine, humble, peace loving people,full of humanity and respect for all living things, only a conspiraloon would see it as otherwise.God bless the West and Israel"

Ha ha.

Now thats what I call a conspiracy. And one that is GENUINELY unbelievable!

anonymous.


Never mind Charlie Sheen

14.09.2009 18:00

...what we NEED to know is which sides Jordan and Peter Andre are taking on this utterly vital and topical issue.

CH


Well...

14.09.2009 19:06

I watched this video last night and found it quite depressing, it's fully of adverts for Alex Jones's money making, rabid and right wing web sites and the evidence it presents seems to be based on the Loose Change 2 era -- it raises several questions that are dubious at best, like the 'no plane at the pentagon' hoax. As for appealing the President of the US Empire...

The article above also makes reference to some totally discredited sources like Dave von Kleist...

Of course the pro-imperial trolls, above, are just as depressing, but not as bad as they were when this story first broke...

Actor Charlie Sheen Questions Official 9/11 Story
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/03/336431.html

Since that thread, which has several videos of the collapse of WTC7, there was the news that the BBC announced it before it happened:

BBC World footage from 9/11 announcing WTC7 collapse 23 mins before the event
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2007/02/363848.html

And then NIST admitted that the top of the building accelerated at the rate of gravity for 2.25 seconds into it's own footprint -- 8 stories worth of collapse:

NIST Admits to Partial "Freefall" Collapse of WTC7
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2008/12/415719.html

Chris