Yeah, yeah.

After 9/11, when the loonies crawled out of the woodwork and the conspiracy stories started, I had a long conversation with a friend of mine—who happened to be an architect—and had worked for a firm that designed tall buildings. And he had NO connection with the U. S. Government.

We went over some of the videos that were appearing on the conspiracy theory web sites, for example, the one that shows small explosions that appeared to be happening all over one of the buildings that a C. T. advocate claimed was evidence that the building was being demolished by planted shaped charges rather than collapsing because of structural damage caused by aircraft impact and the subsequent fire from the plane's full fuel tanks.

He said that the small explosions were transformers shorting out. That there were transformers all over the building, like the things that hang on telephone poles that look like garbage cans and occasionally short out with an explosion and blow the lights for a whole neighborhood.

Why, I asked, did the buildings fall into their own footprint as another C. T. insisted was a sign of controlled demolition? He informed me that tall buildings do that when collapsing, and would hardly fall over like a felled tree as the C. T. was insisting.

HE had wondered when the conspiracy theories started coming out, but he examined the films and all was consistent with the news reports.

Also, I watched the film footage of the planes hitting the towers, and the claim that these were special effects films done in secret by—the various C. T.'s couldn't agree as to whether they were done by Disney Studios or LucasFilm (same with the moon landings)—was obviously somebody's sick fantasy.

Also, there were eye-witnesses in and around New York who SAW the planes fly into the buildings.

Besides, a government conspiracy that big, which would have had to involve a substantial number of people would have produced verification if there were anything to the idea that the U. S. Government did it rather than terrorists.

"Your insanity has been tolerated by us more level headed people up to this point, but our patience is wearing thin."

Who is "us?" And who's patience is wearing thin?

Yes, our patience is wearing thin, but it is with all the freak-out threads that you are starting.

No, Songwronger. Go get help. You're one sick puppy!

Don Firth