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| 9-11: The Road to Tyranny | |
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| Directed by | Alex Jones |
| Produced by | Alex Jones |
| Written by | Alex Jones |
| Starring | Alex Jones |
| Editing by | Alex Jones |
| Distributed by | Alex Jones |
| Release date(s) | 2002 |
| Running time | 144 minutes |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove |
| Followed by | Martial Law: 9/11 Rise of the Police State |
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9/11: The Road to Tyranny is a self-distributed 2002 film written and directed by Texas-born filmmaker and radio host Alex Jones. It is viewable online and is a popular download on peer-to-peer networks.[verification needed]
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[edit] Synopsis
In 9/11: The Road to Tyranny Alex Jones claims that all major 20th and 21st century terrorist attacks were financed by governments. The September 11 attacks, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the Reichstag fire, and the incidents at Ruby Ridge, Idaho and Waco, Texas were actually instigated or exacerbated by the federal government as a means of further centralizing power and creating fear in the populace so they'll willingly surrender some of their constitutional liberties for safety. Jones claims that powerful figures in politics, business, academia and finance are actually members of a secret cabal sworn to bring all the nations of the world and their peoples under their control. Jones refers to them as "bloodthirsty satanist globalists" or the New World Order. Jones claims their goals are a worldwide police state, extermination of 80 percent of world population, indefinite suspension of all civil liberties, and the keeping of secret life extension technology (possibly allowing immortality) to themselves. Jones accuses such organizations as the United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and the Federal Reserve as being in collaboration with the globalists and acting as their front groups.
Alex Jones refers to this as the problem-reaction-solution system, a phrase actually invented by David Icke. The government creates crises, the people react by demanding that they be protected from future acts, and the result is more restrictive legislation.
To back up his claims of historical examples of the problem-reaction-solution system: Jones references:
- The Romans' persecution of Christians under Emperor Nero, who according to Jones "set the city ablaze as he fiddled" so he could rid Rome of the Christians. Historians believe this to be false. Nero is not known to have started the fire, and the fiddle was not invented until the 16th century) However, the term fiddle does not necessarily need to be taken literally. It likely could mean the alternate definition of to occupy oneself in an aimless way.
- The sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor, Cuba and the blaming of the attack on the Cubans to instigate the Spanish-American War. Jones assumes the U.S. Navy sank the ship, while the most commonly accepted reason is machine failure.
- The Reichstag Fire. According to Jones (against general agreement among historians), Adolf Hitler ordered the Reichstag governmental building to be firebombed and the German Communist Party blamed so he could rid himself of political opposition under the guise of national security. One man, Marinus van der Lubbe, who was found near the building, was arrested and executed after confessing to the crime. He was indeed a communist, but historical evidence discovered years later seems to exonerate him and call into question the validity of the confession. Shortly after van der Lubbe's death, three other men accused of being conspirators: Georgi Dimitrov (acting as his own attorney), Vasil Tanev and Blagoi Popov, all Bulgarians, were acquitted. Hitler angrily decreed that henceforth treason — among many other offenses — would only be tried by a newly established Volksgerichtshof (People's Court) which later became infamous for the enormous number of death sentences it handed down while led by Roland Freisler.
- Japan's attack on the United States Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941. Jones claims that although President Franklin Delano Roosevelt has promised to keep America out of the war, he and American military leaders had known for some time that the Japanese were planning an attack on America — most likely their base at Pearl Harbor due to it being geographically possible, unlike the base at San Diego. Jones claims that radar and code-breaking equipment were removed from the base months before the attack, and that twelve days before the actual attack, a communiqué from Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto had been intercepted detailing the date and time of the attack. See also Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge debate.
Template:Alex Jones Jones also insists that President John F. Kennedy, while he used to be a servant of the elite, learned what was really occurring and decided to become a leader of the people and issued an executive order to break up the CIA, abolish the Federal Reserve, and bring American troops home from Vietnam. For that, Jones believes President Kennedy was assassinated. After his assassination, Kennedy's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, reversed his directives.
Jones also covers psychological warfare, the use of microchips implanted in people, government mind control devices, Australia's plan to halt overpopulation using biological weapons, the populations of entire towns becoming ill from ultra-low frequency sound weapons employed against them (he also cites the "Kokomo hum"), a worldwide program to kill people using fluoride in the water supplies (both plain water and fluoride are toxic in sufficient quantities), the police manipulating political speeches using sonic nausea weapons, aspartame being one of the biggest killers in the United States, vaccines being deliberately contaminated by cancer viruses and mercury (which is also toxic), and many other similar theories.
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Another incident Alex Jones covers is the case of Abby Newman, a Ferrum, Virginia woman who, on September 12, 2000, was stopped at a checkpoint by Virginia state troopers who demanded to see her driver's license and registration at a routine checkpoint. [1] [2] Newman refused to comply, citing their lack of probable cause and specifically told the troopers they could not search her car. Ultimately, Newman was arrested for assault on a police officer and resisting arrest. The search turned up nothing illegal, but Jones cited the troopers' behavior as they searched Newman's car as being "un-American". At a trial in which Ms. Newman represented herself, a jury found Abby Newman not guilty of all charges.
Alex Jones also prominently highlights the Operation Northwoods document, a proposal written by Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1962. The document described how the United States military could generate public support for military action against the Cuban government and Fidel Castro via various false flag actions, including simulated or real state-sponsored terrorist acts on American soil or against Americans in foreign lands, specifically the American base at Guantanamo Bay. Jones says "President Kennedy was not amused" and removed Gen. Lemnitzer as chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Once believed to be an invention of conspiracy theorists, Northwoods was released to the public under the Freedom of Information Act in 1994.
[edit] Impact
Image:Alexjones.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Alex Jones.]] Alex Jones asserts that the movie has achieved great popularity in a short time, indicating that some of the arguments first presented in 9/11: The Road to Tyranny have been reiterated in other places. He has also referred to it as his best movie. Jones has authorized the downloading and distribution of 9/11: The Road to Tyranny on the infowars.com website. [citation needed]
While mainstream critics have generally not commented on the film, Internet Movie Database users have rated the film 6.7 out of 10, although only 225 voters have participated in the voting as of September 2006. [3]
