To the Editor:

Apparently The Post’s wacko-meter was off the day it printed the letter “R.I.P. Guy Barnard; disturbing trend is US’s auto-genocide.”

“Auto genocide,” huh? Your source for identifying this phenomenon? Former CIA operative and psychiatrist Steve Pieczenik. Abandoning productive work, Pieczenik apparently decided to chase a childhood dream and join the circus. The circus, not being what it was, Pieczenik apparently decided that the next best thing was appearing on the Alex Jones show to deny the Sandy Hook massacre. Twenty-one years prior to that, he told “Newsday” that then-President George H. W. Bush was clinically depressed. This got him reprimanded by the American Psychiatric Association. Pieczenik took the reprimand like a mature adult, if quitting and running away is the standard for mature adults these days.

It takes a particularly low level of mental hygiene to take an incident that’s still under investigation and appears to be a classic suicide-by-cop and turn it into a massive liberal conspiracy. Your parents apparently never taught you that it is better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your pie hole and prove your doubters correct.

Joe Einloth

North Royalton