Posted on 07/07/2007 3:47:54 PM PDT by genefromjersey
Maybe it's just me, but I noticed "tonal" similarities in the recent Goldman Sachs threats, and the 2001 Anthrax letters.
What do you think ?
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Hmmm. I see what he means.
It should be investigated to see whether the same person/group wrote both letters.
Somebody please phone the FBI and wake them up.
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Jon Corzine’s (NJ Gov) friend from Goldman Sachs (one of his right-hand men) is suppose to be bringing new businesses into NJ. Don’t know if that is related; but just adding current events for informational purpose.
It depends upon what you mean by "tonal" similarities.
It appears that someone once again sent some letters to the media which he wants to look like letters from al Qaeda. That's probably happened a thousand times in the past 6 years.
I put a lengthy analysis of the Goldman Sachs letters on my web site this morning. Here's the link: www.anthraxinvestigation.com
The Goldman Sachs letters remind me of the pipe bomber back in 2002 who was planting pipe bombs in mail boxes around the Mid-West. He planted them in places that made no sense, until you marked them on a map and connected the dots. He was drawing a "happy face" across the map. Link: CLICK HERE.
The guy who sent the Goldman Sachs letters appears to be writing something on a map of the U.S. by sending letters to newspapers in odd ball places like Corpus Christi, Fort Wayne, Peoria, Bayonne, Seattle, etc.
It’s still an interesting question : copycat or originator ?
The Feebies say: “Not a credible threat.”
Who knows, Ed ?
I wonder: Did the Goldman Sachs letters have the same “poster-style” printing and emotionally neutral (almost robotic) punctuation as the anthrax letters ?
Typically, the reason one sends press releases or OpEds (or letter threats) to 20 small or mid-sized papers is to get the news or opinion\ reported. Sending only to the biggest papers greatly reduces the chances it will get printed.
An interesting observation !
The large papers do feed off the smaller ones at times,as they look for “fillers”.
Here's what one of the Goldman Sachs letters looked like:
To my eye, there's nothing at all similar between these letters and the anthrax letters. This is the writing of someone who routinely and comfortably writes that way. He punctuates normally. (The anthrax mailer didn't have any punctuation is the media letters.)
The handwriting is TOTALLY different. This is clearly the writing of an adult.
Au contraire !
The “Daschle Letter” was properly-(if “robotically”) punctuated-AND-there are similarities between it and the writing on your specimens.
(Other than the envelope, of course.)
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You believe that there is a common reasoning between sending out threating letters and sending out press releases?!
That is absolutely preposterous. It's CRAZY!
You might send press releases to small newspapers for the reason you give, but threats are nearly ALWAYS sent to newspapers you want to threaten., OR you send them to the newspapers which have the widest circulation in the area concerned IF the threat is not against the newspaper.
If it is "typical" for someone to send threats to small newspapers scattered around the U.S., why don't you name a few past instances. It should be easy.
The fact that these letters were sent to smaller newspapers scattered around the country is what makes this a UNIQUE situation. You have to ask: WHY did he do that? And how did he pick the newspapers?
New Jersey tags on to all the bad news.
Be sure to come back and read the posts by Ed Lake on the Anthrax letters.
Forgetting about the press release angle, and thinking just about threats for a bit, it DOES seem like the culprit could have been concerned that his threats would just be thrown out by large newspapers the way some of the anthrax letters were.
That's an interesting idea to explore. He didn't want his threats to be thrown out, so he sent them to small newspapers?
I would think that these days almost all threats are taken seriously -- particularly by LARGE newspapers.
Reportedly, several letters were sent to WEEKLY newspapers in Queens, on Long Island where the letters were mailed.
If there hadn't been an attempt to connect threats to press releases, I would have reacted differently. I apologize for laughing my head off. It was because of the way the suggestion was phrased.
But I still have to wonder how the guy picked the newspapers? It doesn't seem to be just a random sampling. There seems to be a geographical pattern to the newspapers he chose. It can't be just a coincidence that he picked Peoria, Fort Wayne and Bayonne, which are all at about the same latitude. It can't be a coincidence that he picked Corpus Christ, Seattle and Newark, which are at the far ends of the country.
But your suggestion is interesting to think about.
Are the Goldman Sachs and Anthrax Letters Linked ?
doubtful...........why would the cia threaten GS?
Ah: a “truther” weighs in!
Just for the record, and not to overly excite Ed Lake (whose book I own, and have reviewed) the script on the original anthrax letters is not very different from Microsoft’s “Segoe” style-especially when printed out in caps.
WTF are you talking about?
I said the media letters were not punctuated.
Finding "similarities" between the Goldman Sachs letters and the anthrax letters is like looking for things you can use to support your beliefs. You have to look at the ENTIRE writing sample. There are VAST differences.
Yes, maybe he draw his T's in a similar way, but how many different ways can a T be written? You can't just latch onto that and forget about the VAST number of differences: He writes comfortably in both upper and lower case. He writes open 4's. He write's M's with 2 strokes, not 4. He writes N's and E's in two strokes, not 3. He writes W's with 1 stroke instead of 4. He writes "CANNOT" instead of "CAN NOT." It looks like he writes a "Catholic R" instead of a "Public School R." There are VAST differences.
A handwriting expert would instantly say there is NO similarity -- even though YOU might find a character here and there somewhere in both writings which seems similar to YOU.
Did you note the stamp used.
My eyesight is not the best, but it appears to be the Liberty Bell and there are odd terrorist type incidents and threats that are in that area.
I was once a stamp collector and choose the stamp to fit in with the intent of my envelope.
Many years ago, it was common to do so, that is why we have Christmas, Love, etc style stamps.
Interesting that these show all ‘they’ fight against:
It looks to me like he just used the "Forever stamp". Everyone bought them when the price went up. I did. As I recall, there was only a choice of two stamps at that time. I'm still using the single sheet I bought then. I don't even remember what the other one looked like.
I can't see any significance in the stamp he used. I think it's just the most common stamp used by everyone.
What strikes me is the flair with which he writes the letter D. That's his most distinctive writing characteristic.
What probably struck me first, however, was that he didn't capitalize the Y at the beginning of "you CANNOT STOP US." AND he wrote a different form of Y in "Fort Wayne" on the envelope. It could be another distinctive writing characteristic in that he writes Y's differently, depending upon whether they begin a word or not.
This is my last message for today. Signing off. I'll be back again tomorrow.
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