The Dope Poet Society is known for quickly responding to political events with critical material. In 2000, they released a song “dissing” George W. Bush, and condemning him as a “terrorist". Two weeks after September 11, 2001, the group released their CD "9/11 World Trade". In the title track they allude to Malcolm X’s likening John F. Kennedy's assassination to "chickens coming home to roost", implying that September 11 was another case of "the chickens coming home to roost". In 2003, in response to the US's invasion of Iraq, The Dope Poet Society released the single "War of Terrorism". The song was debuted at Toronto's Metro Hall to a crowd of 80,000 anti-war protestors on February 15, 2003. Jeff Chang wrote in the UK's "New Internationalist", “The Dope Poet Society's song 'War of Terrorism', challenged the moral righteousness of the war and echoed many anti-war activists' concerns that far more insidious motives were driving it.” In an article commissioned by The Centre for Political Song at Glasgow University, Janis McNair notes that "The Dope Poet Society’s track War of Terrorism, expressed a fundamental conjecture of anti-war protestors: the root of the conflict is oil." The title of the group's third CD, “ProIntelPro: Promote Intelligence Program” is a play on the FBI's COINTELPRO operations, as the group's self-proclaimed aim is to “promote intelligence rather than counter it”.