Part V, 2nd half
I thought I'd use my 666th post on JREF to bring you our exciting conclusion to
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents: Loose Change 2nd Edition. We hope you have as much fun reading it as we had writing it (barring the occasional throbbing headaches that brainstorming multiple riffs in a row gave me). I can't believe it's finally over. Wait, yes I can. What I can't believe is that, despite my best efforts, I wasn't able to piss off any truthers with this.
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Dylan: So what about the hijackers? On September 14th, 2001, the Department of Justice released the names of the alleged 19 hijackers. But on September 23rd, the BBC reported that Waleed Al Shehri was alive and well in Casablanca, Morocco.
[Waleed] ... attended flight training school at Dayton Beach in the United States ... he left the United States in September last year, became a pilot with Saudi Arabian airlines
-BBC,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middele_east/1559151.stm
MIKE: [as Waleed] “Aw crap, I’m running late on the 10:15 from Riyadh to Damascus, and I’ll never be able to get the 9:25 from Boston to the symbol of American greed in time!”
Dylan: They also tracked down Abdulaziz Alomari, who is an engineer with Saudi Telecoms, and lost his passport while studying in Denver.
"I couldn't believe it when the FBI put me on their list. They gave my name and my date of birth, but I am not a suicide bomber. I am here. I am alive. I have no idea how to fly a plane. I had nothing to do with this."
-The Telegraph, 9/23/2001
MIKE: Lucky bastard, he must have gotten birthday parties on December 24th and May 28th every year!
Dylan: In the same article, FBI Director Robert Mueller admitted that "the identity of several of the hijackers is in doubt."
CROW: [as Robert Mueller] “Okay folks, it’s September 23, so we’ve been on the investigation for 12 long days already. I think that’s enough to get all the facts straight, don’t you?”
Dylan: So how many hijackers turned up alive? At least nine of them.
TOM: You know, Dylan Avery told me he had nothing to do with this documentary, and neither did the other 124 listed in the US phone directory.
Dylan: Wail M. Alshehri is alive and well.
[Wail M. Al-Sheri] is a pilot whose father is a Saudi diplomat in Bombay. "I personally talked to both father and son today."
-Gaafar Allagany, Saudi Arabian Embassy, LA Times, 9/21/2001
MIKE: Hmm, man with the same name, head of the Saudi Embassy’s information center, yeah. Sounds credible to me!
Dylan: Mohand Alshehri is alive in Saudi Arabia.
“According to eh Orlando Sentinel, the Aaudi Arabian embassy confirmed that ... Mohand Alshehri ... [is] not dead and had nothing to do with [9-11].”
-American Free Press, 10/12/2001
CROW: Aw no, not the AFP again!
TOM: [saluting] “Sieg Heil!”
Dylan: Khalid Almihdhar is a computer programmer in Mecca.
"I want to think all of this is a mistake." Almihdhar was watching TV at home when friends saw his photograph on the news and began to call to see if he was still alive.
-Chicago Tribune, 10/04/2001
MIKE: [as Almihdhar’s friend] “Hey dude, are you still alive?”
CROW: [as Almihdhar] “Uh, no!”
MIKE: [as Almihdhar’s friend] “Oh. Hey, wait, what?”
Dylan: Salem Alhazmi works at a chemical plant in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.
Salem Al-Hazmi is alive and …not one of the people who perished in [Flight 77]. His passport had been stolen by a pickpocket in Cairo three years ago.
-The Guardian, 9/21/2001
TOM: [singing] “I work here at this plant, putting in my long hours
So why do people think that I helped bring down the towers?
It’s all because some terrorist had swiped my old passport
Now I see my name in every Al-Jazeera news report!
I should have checked freecreditreport.com
So they wouldn’t think I killed myself aboard a flying bomb!”
Dylan: Saeed Alghamdi is training to be a pilot in Tunis.
"The FBI provided no evidence of my involvement in the attacks. You can't imagine what it is like to be described as a [dead terrorist] when you are innocent and alive."
-The Telegraph, 9/23/2001
CROW: [as Alghamdi] “They were nice enough to show me evidence for that other Saeed Alghamdi’s involvement though. Man, was that guy clever!”
Dylan: Ahmed Alnami is an administrative supervisor for Saudi Airlines.
"I'm still alive, I had never even heard of Pennsylvania." He never lost his passport and found it very worrying that his identity appeared to have been stolen.
-The Telegraph, 9/23/2001
TOM: [as Alnami] “See, I don’t pay much attention to the news. America? Never heard of it.”
Dylan: We already covered Waleed and Abdulaziz. And last but not least, Mohammed Atta's father claimed to receive a phone call from his son on September 12th.
MIKE: [as Atta’s father] “My son didn’t kill himself in a terrorist attack, but if he did, that would be awesome! Death to America!”
Dylan: On September 20th and 27th, Mueller admitted on CNN that there is, "No legal proof to prove the identities of the hijackers."
TOM: For most people, the world stood still on 9/11. For truthers, their brains have stood still since the first week after 9/11.
Dylan: Indeed. After all, not even the official autopsy for Flight 77 lists the hijackers, and the opening paragraph makes no mention of their absence.
CROW: “The terrorists didn’t consent to cheek swabs before boarding the planes, and don’t even ASK about the semen samples…”
Dylan: So if there's no proof the the hijackers were members of al Qaeda, or if they were even on the planes in the first place, what justification do we have for bombing Afghanistan?
TOM: Because everyone knows the Taliban were paragons of human rights, justice, and equality, who could not have been harboring the terrorists who had just attacked us.
Dylan: Oh, that's right. The Bin Laden confession tape. On December 14th, 2001, the government released a tape, allegedly of bin Laden confessing to the attacks of 9-11, which they claimed to find in a house in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
CROW: [as gov’t agent] “It’s a good thing we got to it in time, because the couple that lived there was just about to record one of their ‘home movies’ over it.”
Dylan: Except there's a number of things wrong with this tape. One, the tape itself is of very poor quality.
TOM: Uh-oh, I think someone’s jeaaaalous.
Dylan: And two, the man in the video looks and acts nothing like bin Laden. According to the FBI's website, Osama is left-handed. Yet, in this video, he is writing a note with his right hand.
MIKE: Maybe it’s because in Islamic culture, you’re not supposed to write with the same hand you use to WIPE YOUR BUTT!
Dylan: Not to mention he's wearing a gold ring, which is forbidden by Islamic law, and is never mentioned in the FBI's description of him. Compare this video to four other pictures of bin Laden. Does anybody else see a problem here?
CROW: Well, I might be a little more suspicious if bin Laden masturbated while downing a bag of pork rinds and washing it down with beer.
Dylan: Until the government can prove without a shadow of a doubt that Al-Qaeda was behind September 11th, The American people have every reason to believe otherwise.
TOM: They wouldn’t be very GOOD reasons, but they’ve still got reasons!
“It is easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where government officials might quite legitimately have reasons to give false information out. It's an unfortunate reality that the issuance of incomplete information and even misinformation by government may sometimes be perceived as necessary to protect vital interests.”
-Solicitor General Theodore Olson, whose wife Barbara was killed on September 11th, 2001.
MIKE: [as Michael D. Brown] “Hurricane floodwater is good for you! And who wouldn’t want a free backyard pool?”
Dylan: And now for the last question of all. Why would our government do such a thing? I hope you're sitting down.
MIKE: Well yes, but I’m tempted to jump to my feet, point at you, and laugh out loud.
Dylan: First, we have Larry Silverstein, the man who purchased the World Trade Center in July, 2001.
CROW: He covered all his tracks, except for legally changing his last name to Smith.
Dylan: After September 11th, Silverstein demanded $7.2 billion dollars from his insurers, claiming that each plane counted as a separate act of terrorism. However, on December 6th, 2004, the courts only rewarded him with 2.2 billion dollars.
TOM: Ah, he was just $5 billion short of the cost of rebuilding. He still made out like a bandit!
Dylan: Next we have the put options that were placed on United Airlines, American Airlines, and Boeing. According to the San Fransisco Chronicle, more than 2.5 million dollars has remained unclaimed.
MIKE: [as investor] “Eh, I’ll just take a rain check on collecting my post terror attack stock profits, so it doesn’t look suspicious.”
Dylan: As for 9-11 itself, Reuters reported that Convar, a German computer company is responsible for helping companies and accountants in New York restore their data from over 400 hard drives that were recovered from the World Trade Center's rubble. Convar recovered information from 32 different computers that suggested insider trading took place on 9-11.
CROW: The Convar workers were able to immediately identify and return Trekkie Monster’s own hard drive upon discovery of its contents!
Dylan: Richard Wagner, an expert at Convar:
“There is a suspicion that some people had advance knowledge of the approximate time of the plane crashes in order to move out amounts exceeding 100 million dollars. They thought that the records of their transactions could not be traced after the main frames were destroyed.”
MIKE: They should have known better than to preface every e-mail message with, “Once Operation: Airborne Inferno commences, we can all pull out!”
Dylan: After their analysis, Convar handed the results over to the FBI. Although the FBI was legally bound to investigate who was responsible, to date they have done no such thing.
MIKE: The Truth is so far out there that they forgot to look for the stuff back here on Earth.
Dylan: Moving on. According to Wikipedia,
TOM: “T3h j00z were in ur tower… stealin ur gold!11!!1!”
Dylan Cont’d: "One of the world's largest gold depositories was stored underneath the World Trade Center." In 1993 the value of the gold was estimated at one billion dollars, rumored to be owned by Kuwaiti interests. When the World Trade Center was destroyed, the amount of gold, "Far exceeded the 1993 levels." "The gold was finally recovered in its entirety in late 2001."
Or was it?
CROW: Damn that Simon Grueber, he got away again!
Dylan: On November 1st, 2001, the Timesonline reported that a large amount of gold was discovered in the wreckage of the World Trade Center.
TOM: Because it’s so much easier to remove the gold once it’s buried under millions of tons of rubble.
Dylan: Mayor Rudolph Giuliani announced that more than $230 million dollars was recovered from Ground Zero. However, the Comex metals trading division was storing gold bars for the Bank of Nova Scotia, Chase Manhattan Bank, The Bank of New York, Hong Kong, and Shanghai Banking, totaling $950 million dollars. And that's just one company.
MIKE: Goldfinger was really red in the face, after he went through all that trouble to build that cobalt and iodine atomic device, and the terrorists had to ruin his plans.
Dylan: Rumor has it that over $160 billion dollars in gold was stored in the World Trade Center. So where did all the gold go? Remember the gold that was found in November, 2001? Reuters reported that it was discovered in the back of a 10 wheel truck, along with several cars in a delivery tunnel underneath World Trade Center 5. No bodies were recovered.
CROW: Unfortunately, the weight of 6,500 tons of gold bars being stored in one place quickly punched a hole and crashed down through to the center of the Earth.
Dylan: As workers got closer to the gold, authorities began restricting access to Ground Zero, joined by FBI and Secret Service agents. One worker who was directed away from the tunnel told a reporter, "If I tried to go down there, they would have shot me."
ALL: [flapping their arms] “Buc, buc, buc, CAW!”
Dylan: Heavy-machinery operators and others worked under the watchful eye of more than 100 armed officers.
TOM: I wonder what the NYPD is feeding their officers to make them grow so many arms.
Dylan: So, let me get this straight. Gold from World Trade Center 4 was found underneath World Trade Center 5, in an empty delivery truck, with an empty escort of cars. I think it's safe to say that they were running away from the South Tower. The question is, how did they know to flee from their stash, when not even the firefighters inside the South Tower expected it to collapse?
CROW: So how the hell do you find gold in an empty truck?
MIKE: How do you find meaning in an empty life?
TOM: How do you find brains in an empty truther’s head?
Dylan: 167 billion dollars in gold. 200 million is found. And that's just the money.
TOM: $167 billion in gold bars? It seems like everything related to 9/11 is weightless.
Dylan: After September 11th, President Bush had and continues to have permission to do and say whatever he wants, all under the pretext of 9-11.
MIKE: He even admits it too!
CROW: [as Bush] “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
Dylan: The Patriot Act.
CROW: Dylan just doesn’t want the government to spy on him nekkid.
Dylan: The Department of Homeland Security.
MIKE: I forget, what’s the difference between an amber alert, a carmine alert, and a hyacinth alert?
Dylan: Afghanistan.
TOM: Yeah, all they did was harbor and fund those non-existent terrorists who never attacked us!
Dylan: Iraq.
TOM: You don’t need 9/11 to justify that; George just wanted to laugh at Baghdad Bob’s antics!
Dylan: It's time for America to accept 9-11 for what it was:
CROW: We must no longer discriminate against 9/11 for its sexual orientation.
Dylan Cont’d: A lie which killed thousands of people, only in turn killing hundreds of thousands more, to make billions upon trillions of dollars.
MIKE: Trillions, huh? Well as a paid government shill, I demand to know when I’m going to start seeing some of that money!
Dylan: Are you angry yet? You should be.
CROW: You’re not the boss of me, Dylan!
Dylan: Every single attempt to investigate and uncover the truth behind 9-11 has been blackballed, ridiculed, and harassed by both the government and media alike, for even daring to question the official story.
TOM: Remember, kids, if you’re persecuted for your beliefs, it makes you RIGHT! Just ask David Koresh!
Geraldo: Jimmy Walter, you spent nearly 2 million dollars on an advertising blitz to convince people here in New York and elsewhere that 9-11 was a self-inflicted wound. Jimmy, welcome. Why are you doing this?
TOM: “Because that $2 million I inherited wasn’t going to spend itself!”
Jimmy Walter: Thanks for having me, Geraldo. I'm doing this because a fool and his money are soon parted.
CROW: “Waaaaah, my 2 million dollars! Where’d it all go?”
Jimmy Walter: I'm a patriot trying to defend this country from the real terrorists, who have damaged and changed our country.
MIKE: “…And are attacking that poor defenseless Bin Laden guy! Seriously, what’s the deal with that?”
Jimmy Walter: I am asking the same questions that the widows and orphans, parents and friends of the victims of 911 are asking, and have not had answered by either the 911 Commission, nor by any real investigation to the mass murders, that 66% of New Yorkers want investigated.
TOM: I’m just thankful we have real patriots like Jimmy Walter ready to throw himself in harm’s way should the “real terrorists” ever strike again.
Dylan: I'll say it again. Why are they hiding from us? What are they hiding from us?
CROW: Probably the hot steamy affair “they” were having with the Holocaust deniers?
Dylan: And what's it going to take until people in this country give a damn and do something about it?
TOM: [as V] “A vicious and voracious violation of volition?”
CROW: Widespread usage of Newspeak?
MIKE: A three-drink minimum at Dante’s bar?
Dylan: America has been hijacked. Not by Al Qaeda. Not by Osama bin Laden. But by a group of tyrants, ready and willing to do whatever it takes to keep their stranglehold on this country.
TOM: If Bin Laden is so harmless, why don’t you arrange a playdate with him? I’m sure he’d be happy to help you stick it to The Man!
Dylan: So what are we going to do about it?
MIKE: Sit on our asses and post stuff on conspiracy forums?
Dylan: Anything.
Share this information with friends, family, total strangers. Hold screenings, conferences, whatever you have to do to get the word out. It's up to you. Ask questions. Demand answers.
CROW: Stick fingers in ears. Ignore answers when given. Make stuff up when convenient to suit your arguments.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT 9-11, VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITES:
WWW.GEOCITIES.COM/KILLTOWN
WWW.LETSROLL911.ORG
WWW.PRISONPLANET.COM
WWW.911PROOF.COM
WWW.911BLOGGER.COM
CROW: Come on Dylan, nobody wants to see you and your conspiracy buddies in a circle-jerk!
FEATURING RESEARCH BY
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BBC
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KILLTOWN
MIKE: The BBC’s mommy should have told it not to hang out with people like that.
VERY SPECIAL THANKS:
NATE
WITHOUT WHOM, THIS DOCUMENTARY WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST FOREVER.
THANKS BUDDY.
TOM: I tried to slash Nate’s tires on that day, I swear!
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MIKE: “Hey Dylan, is your fridge running?”
TOM: “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?”
CROW: “I’m looking for someone named Ahmed Adoudi!”
LOUDER THAN WORDS WAS FORMED IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE RELEASE OF LOOSE CHANGE, AND CONSISTS OF:
KOREY ROWE / DYLAN AVERY / JASON BERMAS
MIKE: That’s nothing to brag about, you know!
IF YOU ENJOYED LOOSE CHANGE, CHECK OUT THESE OTHER 9-11 FILMS:
911:IN PLANE SITE
911:THE ROAD TO TYRANNY
PAINFUL QUESTIONS
MARTIAL LAW
MIKE: Thanks for the warning! [Picks up Tom and leaves, while Crow follows them out]
[Mike and the bots are back on the bridge, reflecting on the film. Mike is clutching his forehead as if he’s got a massive headache, Crow is twitching his head in a strange manner, and Tom’s head globe seems to be filled with smoke, which is seeping out of the top.]
MIKE: Oh man, I don’t think I’m ever going to live that one down. So guys, what have we learned today?
TOM: I learned that just asking questions is the same as demolishing an established body of knowledge, that the information that comes immediately out of a crisis in the following days is just as good as any, and that paranoia is patriotic.
MIKE: [nodding] Okay, okay. So Crow, what about you?
CROW: I learned that you can stave off criticism of your beliefs, no matter how idiotic, by wrapping yourself in the American flag. That way, if anyone challenges you, you can accuse them of undermining the core values that the United States was founded on!
TOM: I also learned that the real revolutionaries are not the ones who push for change or protest government policies that are harming society, but the ones who sit at their computers making slideshow videos, posting armchair anarchy on conspiracy forums, and finding new ways to insult debunkers.
CROW: Yeah, it’s always easier to find a scapegoat to blame all of society’s problems on, than to do actual research or take a real stand out in public with affirmative action or civil disobedience. I mean, what has THAT ever accomplished?
MIKE: I’ve learned never to sit through a long boring conspiracy video like that again. I don’t know what I’m going to do if Pearl decides to pull “9/11 Mysteries” on us next time though.
TOM: Oh yeah, funny you should mention that, Mike.
MIKE: What do you mean?
TOM: Well, it just so happens I’ve prepared for the unlikely event that we’re ever subjected to another conspiracy video. I managed to pull a few strings, and have brought in a couple of ‘specialists’ to deal with the situation, should it arise. Hey guys, you can come in now!
[A couple of elderly muppets enter, stage right.]
STATLER: Well, I’ll tell you one thing about this documentary. It made me think!
WALDORF: Me too—about the sad state of our education system!
BOTH: [cracking up] DOHOHOhohohoho!
MIKE: Let’s check in on Pearl and see how she’s doing.
[Inside Castle Forrester, we see that despite having donned a royal tiara, robes, and scepter, Pearl is looking quite disheveled and distracted. Outside the castle we hear the sounds of chaos from a rioting angry mob. The occasional thrown rock sails over the ramparts and clatters into the room.]
PEARL: Oh, hi there, Nelson. I’m afraid you caught us at a bad time. You see we’re a little preoccupied at the moment.
MIKE: [confused] Uh, what’s going on down there?
TOM: What happened to your plan to unite truthers everywhere?
CROW: Yeah, didn’t you succeed in bringing about your revolution of revolutionary change?
[The Observer can be seen in the background with a push broom, sweeping up all the thrown rocks into a pile.]
PEARL: You see, the funny thing about that. Even though we managed to take control and rally all the conspiracy theorists behind us, it’s their nature to automatically assume that whoever is in charge is behind everything that goes wrong. In other words, blame for 9/11 has shifted to, well—us.
MIKE: Ouch.
[Pearl heads out to the balcony to try and smooth things over.]
PEARL: People, listen, there’s no need to be irrational! I can explain everything if you’d just give me the... [A mushy tomato hits her in the face.] All right, that does it! The gloves are off! [She retreats into the castle.] We’ll show them. Ready the cauldron of molten steel!
BOBO: [nervously] Uh, there’s a slight problem.
PEARL: What?
BOBO: The steel is taking too long to melt using normal kerosene fuel. Should I try heating it up with thermite instead?
[Pearl clocks Bobo on the head with her scepter.]
BOBO: OW! Okay, okay! What if I use the thermate then?
[Pearl clocks Bobo on the head again.]
BOBO: OW!
PEARL: Never mind! I swear, do I have to do everything myself? [Turns back to the camera] See you next time, when hopefully we’ll have the situation under control.
[Roll credits. The stinger clip from Loose Change is shown.]
Dylan: Until the government can prove without a shadow of a doubt that Al-Qaeda was behind September 11th, The American people have every reason to believe otherwise.
[The End]