We are here today to begin draining the cesspool of lies and distortion we refuse to drown in any longer,” proclaimed actor Charlie Sheen at a recent 9/11 conference in Los Angeles. “We are here today to unleash a juggernaut of truth.” The fighting words proved that Sheen wasn’t about to back off on the questions he raised just weeks earlier.

In the spring of 2006, Sheen called Alex Jones’s Austin-based radio show and said on-air, “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.”

It was a breakthrough moment for the 9/11 Truth movement and a personal triumph for Sheen. At the 9/11 conference in L.A., Sheen introduced Jones as “my friend, my comrade, my brother in arms.”

“I stand with Charlie Sheen,” says Jones. “I stand with his amazing courage. The American people responded to him going public because they realized he was putting a lot on the line, and that he had nothing to gain from this except his country’s freedom. Charlie Sheen went on my radio show and questioned the official 9/11 fable, knowing it would be a huge news story, knowing the stuff in his past, knowing he’d be a prime target. But he had been studying it for years, and it was tearing him up being silent.”

During the interview, Sheen said that from day one, he thought the collapses looked like controlled demolitions. He also called on the government to show the American people the confiscated surveillance tapes of the Pentagon attack.

As soon as Charlie went public, so did the hit pieces.

“It was an orchestrated attack,” says Jones. “And Charlie was told, ‘You need to shut up or you’re not going to like what happens.’ So Sheen went on The Jimmy Kimmel Show and said ‘I have a right as an American to do this.’ That’s when they dropped the hammer on him. And he just took it. It was one of the greatest examples of courage I’ve ever seen.”

“Fear is never a good reason to do nothing,” says Sheen. “Everybody’s making a big deal about what I did; I just felt like I was pursuing the truth.”