[freedom4ever]

Haven't Bill and Hillary been strangely quiet and missing from the TV screen during the anthrax stuff? For two or three weks after 9-11, they were on the tube daily. Now they are MIA for at least the last week.

Otherwise, this is an interesting article.

[Ymani Cricket]

The description sounds a lot like the one in Florida we discussed HERE.

Be interested to see the differences between these two. Does someone have a .jpg pic of these two letters mentioned in this article? If so please post.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

"The overall impression is that the writer has lived a long time in America. The numeral 1 is the only indication on the envelope that it could be written by someone from another country, as the American numeral 1 is just a straight line," she said.

I've always thought handwriting analysis was as bogus as astrology. Now I'm certain of it. I know dozens of Americans including myself who use serifs when writing the number 1.

[lute]

This is a very interesting anaylis. To find out the disposition, the approximate age, the nationality and the gender of the terrorist who sent the anthrax is simply amazing.

I'm indeed impressed.

I wonder why the handwriting experts couldn't find information like this from the JonBenet Ramsey ransom note?

But then again we know that money will buy all the justice one can afford.

[dbbeebs]

Graphology is a hoax.

[Clinton's a rapist]

"Many men who wear a uniform write with all capital letters,"

So do many terrorists, kidnappers, extortionists, and mad bombers. I can't imagine why, can you?

[spycatcher]

After an independent analysis I've determined it's an angry male with passionate beliefs. A swarthy, middle-eastern terrorist type who may be in the U.S. He wants to strike out against various people in the US power structure, and may also be considering bombing large buildings, dams, pipelines, power grids, etc.

[NYpeanut]

The writer is very tired and at the breaking point emotionally...is too violent and unable to listen, but feels he is doing the right thing.

Yep, sounds like the impeached rapist, all right.

[piasa]

"Many men who wear a uniform write with all capital letters," said Mrs. Webb, education officer of the British Institute of Graphologists whose previous analyses included serial murderer Dr. Harold Shipman. This habit can indicate a person feels "self-important, dominating, self-focused and independent."

Most youngish engineers from American universities- male and female- that I've encountered, also write with block letters. Physics students do that a lot as well.

[FreeYourMind]

Um, I could have told you the guy who sent the Anthrax was passionate and on the edge even if I hadn't seen his handwriting...

[Aquinasfan]

My study of the writing tells me that the writer is inclined to mail letters containing anthrax to famous people. He also wet his bed in childhood.

[Izzy Dunne]

Handwriting analysts detect a passionate man on the edge

Well, duhhh.
It doesn't take any talent to know that a man who sends an anthrax letter is "passionate" and "on the edge".

[copycat]

Both analysts said they initially thought a child did the writing.

...or a foreigner.

[Straight Vermonter]

I am more optimistic about looking at the letters (especially if they can find those at CBS and ABC) for misspellings and odd word phrasing. If they can find things like these (one letter has penacillin spelled wrong) they can scan the net and e-mails (remember carnivore?) they can have a good idea of who may have written the letters.

[aristeides]

Both analysts said they initially thought a child did the writing.

I think the writer or writers (I suspect there was only one) was/were trying to imitate a child's handwriting, so as to disarm suspicions. Remember the 4th Grade return address on one of them.

[Hatteras]

They wouldn't trust the guys that analyzed the Foster "Suicide Talking Points" letter. Now, were to believe these handwriting analysts?

[smiley]

Yep, there was a time in this decade when you couldn't get the clintons off the stage! I've noticed and have relished in their sudden "disappearances."

[rickmoe]

I dont care... just find the asshole and kill him.

[fnord]

are they going to bring in Miss Cleo next?

[chinche]

Unimpressive speculations made all the more trivial because it assumes that there is a single person who both coordinated the sending of the anthrax and addressed the letters. Here is another near worthless analysis based on how a serious person, with a little time and money, would intelligently begin a terror campaign by mail: The letters were addressed by someone fairly young, say a twelve year old, who was given many addresses and envelopes and told to write in a certain way. The person who managed the addressing of the envelopes then thanked or paid (or eliminated) the person who did the writing, and sent the envelopes off (without knowing their purpose) to another person who added the anthrax, again without knowing what was exactly the powder being added. This third person gave the envelopes to a fourth who knew only that he was to direct them to a fifth or more persons who did the posting. The person or group coordinating the whole thing would have been almost of this loop, except for sending instructions for writing the addresses to the person coordinating the address writing, and making the "powder" available to the person coordinating the envelope stuffing. What would "handwriting analysis" really say about anything? Nothing.

[Twodees]

Well, they've trotted out the handwriting analysts. What's next? Probably some butt naked guy who'll split a live chicken and read the entrails, or toss a handful of bones on a blanket.

The media sinks to a new low here.