“What I came up with was ... I would get 19 hijackers, and I would hijack four airplanes, and I would fly them into buildings in America, and then issue a communique that said: 20 years of war, you are no safer today than you were before – that for TSA, and Homeland Security, and Iraq, and Afghanistan and all the different things, you are actually no safer, America, today than you were before,”

Bryan Stern · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-11

Stern described a past hypothetical scenario he devised mimicking a 9/11-style attack followed by a propaganda communique.