All capitals indicate to me a child's writing, or a writing of a foreigner whose native language does not use the Latin alphabet, or a writing of someone who thinks that by using all capitals he makes the work of a handwriting expert more difficult. (On the last one I think he'd be correct.)
The only problems with my theory of deliberateness are the corrections in the three 'T's and the 'A'. Also, note how strange the 'G' and the 'R' look. These are interesting letters, unlike the more square letters like 'T' or 'A' and they should tell us something about the school of handwriting. They are written differently in different European cultures. Why no mention of that?
I still think that the date itself may be a red herring!
Also, note how strange the 'G' and the 'R' look. These are interesting letters, unlike the more square letters like 'T' or 'A' and they should tell us something about the school of handwriting. They are written differently in different European cultures. Why no mention of that?
I ran across something a few days ago but forget where (maybe in The Washington Times weekly edition or in National Review), which made the point that the R's in the letters do not look like they were made by a person who grew up in the United States. I'm inclined to agree--I don't think that the Latin alphabet was the one the writer used as a child.
The sentence "We have this anthrax" also does not sound like native-speaker English (instead of "We have anthrax" or "We have some anthrax").
This attempt to portray the perpetrator as some white male American-born extremist ("domestic terrorist") reminds me of the Far Side cartoon where the detective has the suspects all assembled in the living room (Nero Wolfe fashion), one of which is an elephant, and is saying, "And the murderer is...THE BUTLER! Yes, the butler...who, I'm convinced, first gored the Colonel to death before trampling him to smithereens."