"Now his voice rumbled up from his chest and he began to 
    illuminate the dark levers that move the film industry 
    and, by extension, the world. "There's been 
    conglomeration under six principal princes — they're 
    kings, they're barons! — and these six companies have 
    control of the world," he said, referring to such 
    corporations as Fox and AOL Time Warner. His voice grew 
    louder as his ideas took shape. "Michael Eisner 
    decides, 'I can't make a movie about Martin Luther King, 
    Jr. - they'll be rioting at the gates of Disneyland!' 
    That's bullshit! But that's what the new world order is." 
    There was a storm of applause. "They control culture, 
    they control ideas. And I think the revolt of September 
    11th was about 'Fuck you! Fuck your order-' "

   "Excuse me," a fellow-panelist, Christopher Hitchens, said.
   " 'Revolt'?"

   Whatever you want to call it," Stone said.

   "It was state-supported mass murder, using civilians as 
    missiles," said Hitchens, a columnist for Vanity Fair and 
    The Nation.

    Stone wagged his head and continued. "The studios bought 
    television stations," he said. "Why? Why did the 
    telecommunications bill get passed at midnight, a hidden 
    bill at midnight? The Arabs have a point! They're going 
    to be joined by the people who objected in Seattle, and 
    the usual ten per cent who are against everything, and 
    it's going to be, like, twenty-five per cent of this 
    country that's against the new world order. We need a 
    trustbuster like Teddy Roosevelt to take the television 
    stations away from the film companies and give them back 
    to the people!" There was more applause, and a few 
    uncertain murmurs. "Does anybody make a connection 
    between the 2000 election" - for the Presidency - "and 
    the events of September 11th?" he asked, and added 
    cryptically, "Look for the thirteenth month!" He went on 
    to say that the Palestinians who danced at the news of 
    the attack were reacting just as people had responded 
    after the revolutions in France and Russia....