Joining the chorus of anti-government voices after September 11, Louis Beam theorized that the U.S. government knew of the attacks beforehand, but allowed them in order to create "a jump point for a global police state." In a December 12, 2001, diatribe posted on his Web site, Beam claimed that

in time, you will, despite your every intention not to, despite your fear of this terrible truth, come to believe - two, three or more years from now - that men in the government who had the power (but not the will) to stop the events of 09/11/01 allowed the "Attack On America," just as men in government did December 7, 1941.

Seizing on a range of other conspiracy theories surrounding "similar events,"

Beam instructed,

Do not limit your thinking to that which you are told - by those responsible to some degree - for the murders at the world trade center [sic], murders just like those committed at Pearl Harbor, of John F. Kennedy, the shooting and burning at Waco, the clear complicity of government agents with the bombers of the Oklahoma Federal Building, of the first (1993) World Trade Center bombing and now the most horrific of all - the murderous destruction of human life in New York this year.

Beam also said he believed that "the government's long range objectives for a military-industrial police state were more important than any temporary 'black eye' they would receive from the bombing, that those in power believed gains for their political objectives would in short exceed any temporary appearance of weakness."