Panelists Alex Jones, Robert M. Bowman, James H. Fetzer, Steven E. Jones, and Webster Griffin Tarpley talk about the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Among the issues they address are various theories concerning the origins of the attacks, charges of a government and media cover-up of key facts, the results of investigations into the attacks, and public perceptions of the events of September 11, 2001. Participants also call on citizens to question official versions of the terrorist attacks, examine independent sources of information, and conduct grassroots education campaigns to change public opinion. The two-day event, American Scholars Symposium: 9/11 and The Neo-Con Agenda, was held in the ballroom of the Sheraton Los Angeles Downtown.
Bio
Lt. Col. Robert M. Bowman
Robert M. Bowman (born 1934) was the former Director of Advanced Space Programs Development for the U.S. Air Force in the Ford and Carter administrations, and a former United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with 101 combat missions. He holds a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.
Despite his involvement with space programs and defense, he emerged as an early public critic of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, also aka "Star Wars") during the Ronald Reagan administration. Bowman founded the Institute for Space and Security Studies, and its publication Space & Security News (1983), and authored two books on the subject of SDI. He is also a critic of an outgrowth of the SDI program, the Bush administration's proposed National Missile Defense.
He is a member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, founded in January 2006 by James H. Fetzer. Because of the beliefs Bowman holds regarding U.S. complicity in the September 11, 2001 attacks, he is also part of the movement to impeach George W. Bush. He spoke at a September 11, 2005 rally in New York City held by members of the New York 9/11 Truth Movement.
-- American Scholars Symposium Website
Prof. James H. Fetzer
Prof. James Fetzer founded Scholars for 9/11 Truth, a group of about 200 faculty, students, and scholars who question the official scientific account of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The group was founded on 15 December 2005.
The group believes that the investigations by FEMA and NIST regarding the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings are inadequate, and that crucial facts and question pertaining to the attacks have been ignored by senior government officials. These questions include: What caused building #7 to collapse? Where is the science that explains how all three WTC buildings collapsed close to the speed of gravity? Why was the vast majority of the evidence immediately discarded and/or is inaccessible to independent researchers? The group is petitioning congress for access to the remaining evidence in order for scientific research to be carried out to determine whether or not explosives were utilized to bring down the WTC buildings.
According to their website, "The members of S9/11T are encouraged to take an active role by devoting themselves to reporting the results of research on 9/11 to the nation and the world by means of lectures, articles, and other venues."
-- American Scholars Symposium Website
Alex Jones
As featured in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Dallas Morning News, The Los Angeles Times, The Austin-American Statesman, and The Austin Chronicle, Alex Jones has created a powerful platform in an attempt to re-create a Bill of Rights, freedom-orientated culture in the face of an ever more federalized and security-obsessed America. Alex Jones broadcasts nationwide on the Genesis Communications Radio Network.
Jones has produced fifteen documentary films to date exposing the police state, the New World Order and government sponsored terrorism. His most recent is Martial Law, a three hour blockbuster which exposes the brutal treatment of protesters at the 2004 RNC conference, the real story behind 9/11, the occult connections of secret societies, the push to make Arnold Schwarzenegger the first foreign born president and much more.
-- Infowars.com
Dr. Steven E. Jones
Steven Earl Jones is a professor of physics at Brigham Young University who conducts research in nuclear fusion and solar energy.
Recently, Jones has also investigated the hypothesis that the World Trade Center Twin Towers and WTC 7, which all collapsed nearly symmetrically on September 11, 2001, were brought down by pre-positioned explosives.
In 1973, Jones earned his bachelors degree in physics, magna cum laude with honors, from Brigham Young University, and his PhD in physics from Vanderbilt University in 1978. Jones conducted his PhD research at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center from 1974 to 1977), and post-doctoral research at Cornell University and the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility.
-- American Scholars Symposium Website
Webster Griffin Tarpley
The iconoclastic Webster Griffin Tarpley is an activist and historian best known for his George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1992), which has become an underground classic on the Internet at www.tarpley.net.
He co-authored American Leviathan: Administrative Fascism Under the Bush Regime (1991), which identified many tendencies which have become prominent today.
An expert on international terrorism with decades of experience, he directed the study Chi ha ucciso Aldo Moro? (Who Killed Aldo Moro?) which was commissioned by a member of the Italian government and published in Rome in 1978.
Against Oligarchy, a collection of Tarpley's essays and speeches, appeared on the Internet in 1996. He also wrote Surviving the Cataclysm (1999), an analysis of the world financial crisis. Parts of these works and all of the Unauthorized Biography can be viewed on the Internet, at www.tarpley.net.
-- American Scholars Symposium Website
Alex Jones is himself an inside job!
He will peddle any old story as long as it gets him airtime.
He tarnishes anything he touches with the 'conspiracy/alien anal probing' brush.
911 needs serious attention such as the 911truth movement not Alex 'the conspiracy publicist' Jones.
Two things convinced me the truthers were on to something big. First, the official government story changes whenever new evidence surfaces. Secondly, follow the money trail.
The official story is very easy to disprove, it is a "series" argument. It is like a string of old christmas lights, if one bulb goes out so do the rest. All the bulbs of the official story are dead.
The hole in the ground at Shanksville is puny. On scene reporters from the local FOX affiliate state ON TELEVISION that they are at the sight and see no evidense of a 757 having crashed there. "No smoke, no fire, just a hole in the ground". When asked by a second reporter how big the hole was the first reporter said "about 10 by 15 feet" "There is no evidence of a plane having crashed here" That report was never seen again and we would never know except it survives on-line. You can watch it, you will recognize the second reporter on scene.I have found over 300 things wrong with that day, I stopped looking out of utter disgust. NOTHING of the official story stands up to examination. WAKE UP PEOPLE. WE ARE BEING LED LIKE CATTLE. I have limited space so here are a few starting points: YOUTUBE: "Only aired once about Pentagon", "9/11 flight 93 rare footage", "9/11 coincidences" parts 1-19,. GOOGLE:" PAINFUL DECEPTIIONS"84 minute version. There were hundreds of people testifying that bombs were going off below them as they descended. BOMBS WENT OFF IN THE BASEMENTS BEFORE THE PLANES HIT. That fact started my investigation and changed my view of the world radically. TURN OFF YOUR TELEVISIONS AND THINK FOR YOURSELVES. Yours in liberty, SHARK6
9/11, Oklahoma City, and the London bombings on 7/7/05 (tube station and bus) were all blatanty inside jobs. How can 3 steel framed skyscrapers fall at near freefall speed unless each floor was taken out in sequence as the buildings collapsed? These buildings were taken down by controlled demolition just like an old sports stadium or casino in Vegas.How can 4 massive airliners, known to be hijacked and bent on mass destruction not be intercepted for over one hour and forty eight minutes over the skies of NYC and Washington D.C.? How is it that not one of the 8 pilots on the 4 planes transmitted a hijack/distress code (it takes one second). Why is there no wreckage of a 757 at the Pentagon? No wings,no engine,no tail section,no luggage,no bodies... . The "hole" in the Pentagon was not much larger than a garage door, the structure did not cave in for another 20 minutes or so. You cannot hide a 757 people, I'm sorry. We have been decieved. The evidence at Shanksville does not fit the "official" conspiracy theory. Once again, we are supposed to believe for the first time in aviation history 2 757's completely evaporated-how convienient. The wreckage is there,scattered over miles.
A good introduction to the uninitiated. My first exposure to the truth of 9/11. I have done much research since and am sadly convinced 9/11 was a self-inflicted wound to advance an agenda.
A very thought provoking program. Steven Jones' presentation raises a lot of questions. He actually provides evidence, although still inconclusive, supporting the possible government involvement in the 9/11 attacks. The corrosion of the steal in the all of the buildings' attacks due to iron, sulfur and the thermite reaction, is very suspicious. Jones even has a sample from one of the buildings. Worth giving a listen too. However, other presenters like James Fetzer come off like "crazy liberals." This unfortunately will not help their cause. Still too many people have traces of evidence for this theory to be ignored. Worth looking into.