Post by Bonhomme Richard on Jan 31, 2015 9:02:51 GMT -5
Seattle Seahawks and Pete
Carroll have the 9/11 Truth
movement on their side going
into the Super Bowl
By Marissa Payne January 30 at 1:34 PM
Most Seattle Seahawks fans love Coach Pete Carroll because he’s cultivated a football team
great enough to get to and possibly win the Super Bowl two years in a row. There are a few
fans, however, who are cheering the Seahawks and Carroll on for a less obvious reason:
These fans see Carroll as a leader of a very different group — the 9/11 Truth movement.
“He kind of became an instant celebrity in the 9/11 Truth movement,” Danny Torgersen, a
member of the 9/11 Studies and Outreach Club at Arizona State University, told USA
Today on Friday. “He’s won the Super Bowl once, he might win it again. That’s lots of
credibility and popularity.”
Known more simply as “Truthers,” this group believes the World Trade Center’s twin
towers in Lower Manhattan came down on Sept. 11, 2001, as a direct result of U.S.
government planning. As to whether Carroll is Truther himself, however, that’s highly
debatable.
“Is Seahawks coach Pete Carroll a 9/11 truther?” Deadspin asked in 2013. “That all
depends: Does badgering a former four-star general about whether 9/11 was real make
one a truther?”Although Carroll’s never publicly stated he does not believe what most people consider
fact (that the terrorist group Al-Qaeda perpetrated the 9/11 attacks), rumors have
circulated for years that he’s a truther. Deadspin reported that during a 2013 meeting with
retired Army Gen. Peter Chiarelli, who happens to be a Seahawks fan, Carroll pressed him
about several 9/11 conspiracy theories.
“Every 9/11 conspiracy theory you can think of, Pete asked about,” former NFL linebacker
Riki Ellison, who reportedly introduced Carroll to Chiarelli, told Deadspin. “And he didn’t
stop at 9/11 — he had lots of questions about the role of the military today,” added Ellison,
who said he was at the meeting.
Carroll’s skepticism about the military’s role in Iraq is a known fact. Last year, the 63-
year-old coach publicly vocalized his opinion on the U.S. invasion of Iraq while making an
anecdote about trading Percy Harvin. He said if he was in charge of the war in Iraq, he
would’ve employed a very different strategy; Carroll advocated less “shock and awe,” and
more “talking and listening” to Seattle Times columnist Jerry Brewer.
No matter Carroll’s actual views on the military or 9/11 or politics in general, though, the
very fact that his name is even slightly associated with the 9/11 Truth movement is good
enough for some.
“I believe that the implied support of Pete Carroll does help our cause,” Matthew Mills, the
Brooklyn man who sneaked past security to shout “Investigate 9/11!” while Malcolm
Smith was being presented with the Super Bowl MVP trophy last year, told USA Today.
“Every single 9/11 skeptic that I have ever spoken to has great respect for him.”
Carroll is apparently fine with that association, too.
“Any notoriety is good, I guess,” Carroll told USA Today. “I will always be interested in the
truth, yeah.”
Carroll have the 9/11 Truth
movement on their side going
into the Super Bowl
By Marissa Payne January 30 at 1:34 PM
Most Seattle Seahawks fans love Coach Pete Carroll because he’s cultivated a football team
great enough to get to and possibly win the Super Bowl two years in a row. There are a few
fans, however, who are cheering the Seahawks and Carroll on for a less obvious reason:
These fans see Carroll as a leader of a very different group — the 9/11 Truth movement.
“He kind of became an instant celebrity in the 9/11 Truth movement,” Danny Torgersen, a
member of the 9/11 Studies and Outreach Club at Arizona State University, told USA
Today on Friday. “He’s won the Super Bowl once, he might win it again. That’s lots of
credibility and popularity.”
Known more simply as “Truthers,” this group believes the World Trade Center’s twin
towers in Lower Manhattan came down on Sept. 11, 2001, as a direct result of U.S.
government planning. As to whether Carroll is Truther himself, however, that’s highly
debatable.
“Is Seahawks coach Pete Carroll a 9/11 truther?” Deadspin asked in 2013. “That all
depends: Does badgering a former four-star general about whether 9/11 was real make
one a truther?”Although Carroll’s never publicly stated he does not believe what most people consider
fact (that the terrorist group Al-Qaeda perpetrated the 9/11 attacks), rumors have
circulated for years that he’s a truther. Deadspin reported that during a 2013 meeting with
retired Army Gen. Peter Chiarelli, who happens to be a Seahawks fan, Carroll pressed him
about several 9/11 conspiracy theories.
“Every 9/11 conspiracy theory you can think of, Pete asked about,” former NFL linebacker
Riki Ellison, who reportedly introduced Carroll to Chiarelli, told Deadspin. “And he didn’t
stop at 9/11 — he had lots of questions about the role of the military today,” added Ellison,
who said he was at the meeting.
Carroll’s skepticism about the military’s role in Iraq is a known fact. Last year, the 63-
year-old coach publicly vocalized his opinion on the U.S. invasion of Iraq while making an
anecdote about trading Percy Harvin. He said if he was in charge of the war in Iraq, he
would’ve employed a very different strategy; Carroll advocated less “shock and awe,” and
more “talking and listening” to Seattle Times columnist Jerry Brewer.
No matter Carroll’s actual views on the military or 9/11 or politics in general, though, the
very fact that his name is even slightly associated with the 9/11 Truth movement is good
enough for some.
“I believe that the implied support of Pete Carroll does help our cause,” Matthew Mills, the
Brooklyn man who sneaked past security to shout “Investigate 9/11!” while Malcolm
Smith was being presented with the Super Bowl MVP trophy last year, told USA Today.
“Every single 9/11 skeptic that I have ever spoken to has great respect for him.”
Carroll is apparently fine with that association, too.
“Any notoriety is good, I guess,” Carroll told USA Today. “I will always be interested in the
truth, yeah.”
