Wesley S. - The reference I was making re: John D. MacDonald's character's observations on conspiracy whackos was from the book: "Condominium". "The Green Ripper" is one of MacDonald's Travis McGee novels.

Interesting thing about Wolfgang's implicit racism observation. Shortly after 911 there was a rumor spread about that the Israelis did it, this rumor was supported by many Arabs and Arab supporters in the mideast going all the way to the poet laureate of New Jersey, and one of the supporting arguments was that the Arabs weren't up to that kind of organization. (But the spread of that lie, along with serialization for TV of an updated version of "Protocols of the Elders of Zion seems to be within their means).