I'm generally not open to even hearing conspiracy theories, and I am somewhat of a Bush supporter, but I found this article just too interesting. Is Sheen from Ohio, BTW? I've never heard of this Prison Planet, but I'd heard the same talking points before, so I'll assume its accurate:

 

Actor Charlie Sheen Questions Official 9/11 Story

Calls for truly independent investigation, joins growing ranks of prominent credible whistleblowers

 

Alex Jones & Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | March 20 2006

 

Actor Charlie Sheen has joined a growing army of other highly credible public figures in questioning the official story of 9/11 and calling for a new independent investigation of the attack and the circumstances surrounding it.

 

Over the past two years, scores of highly regarded individuals have gone public to express their serious doubts about 9/11. These include former presidential advisor and CIA analyst Ray McGovern, the father of Reaganomics and former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury Paul Craig Roberts, BYU physics Professor Steven Jones, former German defense minister Andreas von Buelow, former MI5 officer David Shayler, former Blair cabinet member Michael Meacher, former Chief Economist for the Department of Labor during President George W. Bush's first term Morgan Reynolds and many more.

 

Speaking to The Alex Jones Show on the GCN Radio Network, the star of current hit comedy show Two and a Half Men and dozens of movies including Platoon and Young Guns, Sheen elaborated on why he had problems believing the government's version of events.

 

Sheen agreed that the biggest conspiracy theory was put out by the government itself and prefaced his argument by quoting Theodore Roosevelt in stating, "That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

 

"We're not the conspiracy theorists on this particular issue," said Sheen.

 

"It seems to me like 19 amateurs with box cutters taking over four commercial airliners and hitting 75% of their targets, that feels like a conspiracy theory. It raises a lot of questions."

 

Sheen described the climate of acceptance for serious discussion about 9/11 as being far more fertile than it was a couple of years ago.

 

"It feels like from the people I talk to in and around my circles, it seems like the worm is turning."

 

 

Suspicious collapse of buildings

 

Sheen described his immediate skepticism regarding the official reason for the collapse of the twin towers and building 7 on the day of 9/11.

 

"I was up early and we were gonna do a pre-shoot on Spin City, the show I used to do, I was watching the news and the north tower was burning. I saw the south tower hit live, that famous wide shot where it disappears behind the building and then we see the tremendous fireball."

 

"There was a feeling, it just didn't look any commercial jetliner I've flown on any time in my life and then when the buildings came down later on that day I said to my brother 'call me insane, but did it sorta look like those buildings came down in a controlled demolition'?"

 

Sheen said that most people's gut instinct, that the buildings had been deliberately imploded, was washed away by the incessant flood of the official version of events from day one.

 

Sheen questioned the plausibility of a fireballs traveling 1100 feet down an elevator shaft and causing damage to the lobbies of the towers as seen in video footage, especially when contrasted with eyewitness accounts of bombs and explosions in the basement levels of the buildings.

 

Regarding building 7, which wasn't hit by a plane, Sheen highlighted the use of the term "pull," a demolition industry term for pulling the outer walls of the building towards the center in an implosion, as was used by Larry Silverstein in a September 2002 PBS documentary when he said that the decision to "pull" building 7 was made before its collapse. This technique ensures the building collapses in its own footprint and can clearly be seen during the collapse of building 7 with the classic 'crimp' being visible.

 

The highly suspicious collapse of building 7 and the twin towers has previously been put under the spotlight by physics Professor Steven Jones and Kevin Ryan of Underwriters Laboratories, the company that certified the steel components used in the construction of the World Trade Center towers.

 

"The term 'pull' is as common to the demolition world as 'action and 'cut' are to the movie world," said Sheen.

 

Sheen referenced firefighters in the buildings who were eyewitnesses to demolition style implosions and bombs.

 

"This is not you or I watching the videos and speculating on what we saw, these are gentlemen inside the buildings at the very point of collapse."

 

"If there's a problem with building 7 then there's a problem with the whole thing," said Sheen.

 

Bush's behavior on 9/11

 

Sheen then questioned President Bush's actions on 9/11 and his location at the Booker Elementary School in Florida. Once Andy Card had whispered to Bush that America was under attack why didn't the secret service immediately whisk Bush away to a secret location?

 

By remaining at a location where it was publicly known the President would be before 9/11, he was not only putting his own life in danger, but the lives of hundreds of schoolchildren. That is unless the government knew for sure what the targets were beforehand and that President Bush wasn't one of them.

 

"It seems to me that upon the revelation of that news that the secret service would grab the President as if he was on fire and remove him from that room," said Sheen.

 

The question of how Bush saw the first plane hit the north tower, when no live footage of that incident was carried, an assertion that Bush repeated twice, was also put under the spotlight.

 

"I guess one of the perks of being President is that you get access to TV channels that don't exist in the known universe," said Sheen.

 

"It might lead you to believe that he'd seen similar images in some type of rehearsal as it were, I don't know."

 

The Pentagon incident

 

Sheen outlined his disbelief that the official story of what happened at the Pentagon matched the physical evidence.

 

"Show us this incredible maneuvering, just show it to us. Just show us how this particular plane pulled off these maneuvers. 270 degree turn at 500 miles and hour descending 7,000 feet in two and a half minutes, skimming across treetops the last 500 meters."

 

We have not been able to confirm that a large commercial airliner hit the Pentagon because the government has seized and refused to release any footage that would show the impact.

 

"I understand in the interest of national security that maybe not release the Pentagon cameras but what about the Sheraton, what about the gas station, what about the Department of Transportation freeway cam? What about all these shots that had this thing perfectly documented? Instead they put out five frames that they claim not to have authorized, it's really suspicious," said Sheen.

 

Sheen also questioned how the plane basically disappeared into the Pentagon with next to no wreckage and no indication of what happened to the wing sections.

 

Concerning how the Bush administration had finalized Afghanistan war plans two days before 9/11 with the massing of 44,000 US troops and 18,000 British troops in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and in addition the call for "some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor," as outlined in the PNAC documents, Sheen stated, "you don't really put those strategies together overnight do you for a major invasion? Those are really well calculated and really well planned."

 

"Coincidence? We think not," said Sheen and he called the PNAC quotes "emblematic of the arrogance of this administration."

 

A real investigation

 

Sheen joined others in calling for a revised and truly independent investigation of 9/11.

 

Sheen said that "September 11 wasn't the Zapruder film, it was the Zapruder film festival," and that the inquiry had to be, "headed, if this is possible, by some neutral investigative committee. What if we used retired political foreign nationals? What if we used experts that don't have any ties whatsoever to this administration?"

 

"It is up to us to reveal the truth. It is up to us because we owe it to the families, we owe it to the victims. We owe it to everybody's life who was drastically altered, horrifically that day and forever. We owe it to them to uncover what happened."

 

Charlie Sheen joins the rest of his great family and notably his father Martin Sheen, who has lambasted for opposing the Iraq war before it had begun yet has now been proven right in triplicate, in using his prominent public platform to stand for truth and justice and we applaud and salute his brave efforts, remembering Mark Twain's quote.

 

"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."

 

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/200306charliesheen.htm

Charlie's dad Martin Sheen is from Dayton.

well of course that kind of talk is all over new york all the time. personally i have no doubt the truth is somewhere in the middle. we'll never know.

 

btw, actor james woods had a much more memorable and very real pre-9/11 experience. he was on a plane that was a for real dress rehersal for the attack around august, 2001....and he is the one who noticed the obvious terrorists and reported it. i remember reading about that on the news that summer, but thought well he plays nutty characters in the movies so maybe he's just wacky. guess not. read all about it here from o'reilly's show if you want a reality check chill:

 

http://www.prisonplanet.com/transcript_actor_james_woods.html

 

Where is Riverviewer when you need him?

I'm not an actor, and Charlie Sheen is no engineer.  The explanations make perfect sense to anyone who knows what the hell they're talking about.  The armchair engineers are hopelessly ignorant about what they speak.  If this profession was so easy, there wouldn't be so many English majors in college.   

 

...and anyone who has paid any attention to this Administration knows what a poor decision-maker George W. Bush is in the heat of the moment.

 

^agreed..

The simplest answer is usually the correct one.  I believe that is Ocam's theorum?  There were no explosions, no bombs.  The impact destroyed the fire protection, the jet fuel ignited huge fires, metal weakened, and the floor slabs collapsed one-on-top-of-the-other, like pancakes.  I do not see the inconsistencies.  If the planes had hit the Empire State building, it would not have collapsed so dramatically, because it is a masonry clad structure with masonry used as fire proofing, and masonry enclosed exit stairs.  The world trade center buildings were clears span from core to exterior skin, and open in floor plan.

And as for the Pentagon....  I have seen the marked-up floor plans indicating which columns were damaged, and which were completely eliminated.  Needless to say, it was consistent with a plane flying into the building.

 

On average, Americans are so illiterate in science that there is no way they could possibly understand the causes of building collapse, hence the proliferation of the conspiracy theories.  Note how the conspiracy theories are all conveniently devoid of any kind of rational scientific explanation for anything.   

 

 

  This is not a well written site...but there are interesting points ....  http://www.thewebfairy.com/killtown/index.html

 

  Being a memeber of the Cleveland Fire Department, we were called to Hopkins Airport for the plane from Boston...while we were there, the skies were erily empty when the (found out afterwards) plane headed to D.C. flew overhead.....but what I saw, along with others there...was a military type jet on the trail of the jetliner (approx 1-2 min behind)...this was never mentioned on the news...but we saw it!  Who knowswhat really happened, but it was interesting info.

 

As for building "7" collapse at the WTC..makes no sense the way it fell...there was minimal fire damage and the building imploded.  No other steel structure in history has collapsed like that, and some have been through much more extensive fire damage.  (read the history of what was in building 7, then things seem to get more confusing!

 

The one strange thing about the Pentagon that baffles me...where are all the plane parts, luggage, of even bodies at after the crash?  The lawn wasn't even touched!  Interestingly enough, the security cam on site caught an inmage of something crashing into the building, but the speed and the angle of impact don't seem to equal that of an airplane....

 

This topic will always be debated and no answers will ever be good enough for either side....but it's interesting to talk about!

 

 

Well, the validity of the answers depends on how much you believe in science.  I'm quite satisfied.

 

Plane parts went into the building.  The plane telescoped--collapsing on itself--as it entered the building.  You have to remember that we're talking about an aluminum tube striking a reinforced concrete building with five floor diaphragms.  The shear forces on the shell of the plane must have been incredible.  Due to the telescoping, the back sections of the plane were found near the A/E road inside the Pentagon, where the blast pressure was relieved upward.  A co-worker of mine tripped on the black box near the A/E road, and this is also where the landing gear and tail sections were found.  Temperatures likely exceeded 1500 degrees F--enough to sufficiently weaken the concrete--so it is likely that much of the plane simply burned up.

 

As for the bodies--there were plenty.  I was told that there were Pentagon employees who were sitting at their desks, as if they were merely asleep.  I was at the site two weeks hence and witnessed 18-year-old privates hauling several bodies out of the building within an hour's time.  Every time you saw a refrigerated truck backing up to the building, you knew they were about to come out with another body. 

 

The lawn of the Pentagon wasn't touched because the plane didn't hit the lawn.  The plane struck and entered the building, and the explosions ripped through the building until they were relieved by a vertical channel (the A/E road) in between the "C" and "B" rings.

 

Guess all you want.  To me, it's a bit more meaningful than something that just happened on TV that day.

 

On average, Americans are so illiterate in science that there is no way they could possibly understand the causes of building collapse, hence the proliferation of the conspiracy theories.  Note how the conspiracy theories are all conveniently devoid of any kind of rational scientific explanation for anything.   

 

 

Thats why CSI does so well ;-)

Charlie's dad Martin Sheen is from Dayton.

 

And went to ColDay's alma mater, Chaminade-Julienne.

I thought the plane that went into the Pentagon actually crashed into the ground and the building itself did not bear the full force of the impact.

 

For my two cents, since I stamp and weld metal all day, the explanation of why the buildings collapsed made complete sense.  To bad it made all the sense in hindsight.

Any conspiracy theory that fails to link itself to JFK's assassination and the moon landing hoax is clearly unfounded.

Excuse me for just simply stating but I wish actors would stick to acting instead of politics and psuedo-knowledge. Anytime I hear a celeb sharing an opinion on these types of subjects it always seems to smack of condescension to the masses (although the masses usually deserve it..but I'm not part of the masses.) :wink:

Any article that refers to Charlie Sheen as "a highly credible public figure" has credibility issues of its own.

Now, if you need an expert witness on drugs and hookers, Charlie Sheen might be your guy.

 

I fall under the LIHOP category

 

http://newyorkmetro.com/news/features/16464/index.html

Where is Riverviewer when you need him?

 

Sorry, fell behind for a few days...but what do you need me for?  To discuss the theories of a bubble-headed moron spouting off on engineering and global politics as though he has a brain in his head?  I agree with Haynesm007: 'Any article that refers to Charlie Sheen as "a highly credible public figure" has credibility issues of its own.'