Ed,
Earlier in this thread, you argued that it required specialized knowledge to send out press releases. I suggested that the directory was at the public library and privately I gave the example of kids sending out to a bunch of colleges.
As is your ad hominem style of argument, you made the same derisive comment when I suggested they would send out a bunch in order to have the news reported — given that most would be thrown away. “ROFL” was your response. By my count, 50 or the great majority were thrown away.
In the case of these threat letters, you’ve suggested the perp is drawing a design on a map of the US.
In Amerithrax, you’ve argued that a First Grader wrote the letters. You first repeated that suggestion, when made by someone in a news group, and said it was wild speculation. Now you deem it as FACT.
Might it be given the lack of common sense you show that furniture polish in fact can be used to wipe fingerprints from an envelope and stamps?
The reference to its use to remove fingerprints and cover tracks from a computer disc that you find so bizarre was not a Helpful Heloise tip in how to care for your CDs, it was related to the referenced New Scientist article — in which the virus writer did that to cover his tracks.
http://www.newscientisttech.com/channel/ tech/forensic-science/mg15621028.700
(”There wasn’t even a speck of dust on the table,” recalls Jim Bates, the computer forensic expert who accompanied police on the investigation. In detective slang, the air was thick with the “smell of Pledge” - the furniture polish someone would use to remove fingerprints and cover their tracks.”)
The wetting of a stamp or envelope you imagine by furniture polish is no more (actually, far less) than the wetting comes ordinarily from licking it.
Of course, licking a stamp or envelope leaves DNA unless it says they used a sponge. Perhaps that is the mistake they made. (I don’t recall if they volunteer that they used a sponge). I could see teens screwing up that way. Kaczynski used a sponge and any smart perp would.
In reading the obstruction of justice provisions of the new statute (that led to enhancement of Ben Kahla’s sentence), it would seem to fit the threat letters to Goldman Sachs. So if the parents (or all those innocently involved) want to avoid punishment, they should come forward now. The kids (if they exist) will be treated as minors and get off easy. But any further delay — that is, if that scenario is for real — places them all in a lot of trouble.
A film made on June 28 — the day after the Goldman letters were mailed — shows the spokesman for the imprisoned IANA Vice Chaiman (Al-Timimi’s friend) saying that a volunteer supporting the IANA Vice Chairman had just gone to great effort sending out dozens of press releases. (It was uploaded 8/10) She was very frustrated that no newspaper responded. Now I can personally vouch for the woman and confirm she would never send out such a threat letter. And the fellow I met on 6/28, the Vice Chairman’s closest confidante, although from Queens and in finance, also would not do such a thing. He strikes me as a man of great integrity. But this coincidence is the type that the FBI would want to rule out rather than spending too much time drawing Sponge Bob figure using the 70 dots — the sender would know most would get thrown out and never be heard of and so there was never a chance of a pattern being discovered. I had told the woman, this spokesperson, about Gale Directory of Publications because I was trying to get Holy Land to pay for this particular expensive volume that had emails (that I then might be able to use).
The lack of common sense comes from believing that they knew how to use gloves to handle the LETTERS but didn't know how to use gloves to handle the ENVELOPES. Does that make any sense at all?
Plus, the stamp on the only envelope I've seen was a SELF-ADHESIVE "Forever" stamp. So, there's no concern about leaving behind DNA in saliva. They just apparently couldn't understand how to use gloves to handle stamps, either.
Or the wipe down with furniture polish was for a totally different purpose, having NOTHING to do with fingerprints.