Speaking of PETA, there was an interesting tidbit in the WP this morning, about a tarot card left at a past shooting:
A tarot card was also left by John Linley Frazier, who killed a prominent Santa Cruz County, Calif., ophthalmologist, his wife, two sons and secretary at the family residence in 1970. Frazier, who considered himself an ecologist, also tucked a note for the media and police under the windshield wipers of the family's Rolls-Royce.
The note declared World War III against "misuses" of the "natural environment." Although the differences between the cases are obvious -- Frazier bound his victims, argued with them and shot them up close with a handgun before leaving behind fingerprints on the Rolls-Royce -- experts declined to speculate on similarities."
The perp might just be into head games with this one, but three of the shootings were at gas stations, and two were at Michael's, which is owned by a member of the Wyly family, who control Green Mountain.com, an energy comany which is currently being boycotted by environmental fringe groups. This theme doesn't jive with the other shootings, but I'd be giving the ELF roster a hard look, just the same. The suggestion that this is an environmental whacko would probably be studiously avoided by Maryland politicos, I'd assume.