The Battle Has Been Joined

Utica rears its ugly head in today's O-D. (Did we honestly think this was going to be easy?)

World Trade Center conspiracy theory bunk

I see the conspiracy theorists are at it again (July 17 letter regarding Building 7). Everything is a conspiracy since the Kennedy assassination (Oliver Stone's movie, before someone brings it up, is historically inaccurate and fiction).

Now, we are to believe the government took down the World Trade Center buildings with explosives, just because it looked like a controlled demolition. I have seen a TV special with architects explaining why the buildings collapsed as they did. Once one floor gave way, it was a "pancaking" effect; nothing conspiratorial about it (other than the hijackers).

We are also to believe the government can keep these grand conspiracies quiet, even though a White House sexual encounter could not be. I will be told I am naive, and not rationally looking at it. I am supposed to believe some Web site full of suppositions and unchecked facts. What rot! It is the gullible, naive and paranoid who believe such baloney.

BRIAN HUGHES

Utica

(Actually "naive" isn't the first epithet that I would cast at this writer. How about "cognitively constipated, television-hynotized tool?")