[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this.

This is incredible: The handwritten letter running at least three pages was found sealed and wrapped in plastic in the woods behind a Ponderosa restaurant in Ashland, Va., after Saturday's attack, several sources said. The letter was neatly printed on lined paper and included a number of grammatical errors, including sentence fragments and misspellings.

If there were any good cops left after the PCing of the various police forces, good cops would have taken that letter to every school in the DC metro area. They would have meet with all the teachers and given them a copy of this writing. I can guarantee you that a good teacher would remember if they had a student who wrote like this. Then every teacher who retired in the last 20 years should get a house call from their local cops with a copy of this letter. Of course that is real old fashioned cop work, not today's Diversity Queens planning the next Diversity Quilting party.

PC/Diversity driven fools on the staff can't even take a message from the sniper. I have posted several times that in the first 2-3 days, this sniper left a message or someone who saw him left a message and it was lost, buried or thrown away. This is even worse than I thought.

[clintonh8r]

Yeah, Grampa, maybe the cops could ride around to the schools on their bikes and do some cool community policing, you know, rappin' with the youths and such.

[billclintonwillrotinhell]

Excellent ideas. With the handwriting from the lengthy note, I think it's very possible police could solve this case with some good old-fashioned shoe leather - door to door until you run out of doors. I'm afraid that Moose and the FBI have just surrounded themselves with a bunch of wishy-washy brain doctors and profilers whose theories probably are changing as often as the weather.

[per loin]

Even faster would be to release this letter to the public.

[hole_n_one]

CNN had a reporter with a camera behind the Ponderosa Steakhouse in the brush where it is suspectedthat the shooter was positioned,......and where the police had searched for evidence.

I grabbed this pic on Sunday night, at most, a mere 24 hours after the police scoured the site for evidence.........

What is with all that "evidence" just strewn about?

[MPB]

If there were any good cops left after the PCing of the various police forces, good cops would have taken that letter to every school in the DC metro area. They would have meet with all the teachers and given them a copy of this writing. I can guarantee you that a good teacher would remember if they had a student who wrote like this. Then every teacher who retired in the last 20 years should get a house call from their local cops with a copy of this letter. Of course that is real old fashioned cop work, not today's Diversity Queens planning the next Diversity Quilting party.

Don't you realize we're talking about the DC area? Don't you realize that probably 80% or more of all high school "graduates" from the DC schools have problems forming complete sentences when talking, much less when writing. :)

Show that letter to the teachers there and you'd have a list of tens of thousands of names of former students that it could be.

[DBtoo]

The grammatical and spelling errors could have been done on purpose. Whoever is doing this is too smart to write something in their own handwriting full of mistakes. I think the note was written the way it was to throw off the investigators, not that it takes much to do that.

[eno_]

What is says to me is that the shooter is a foreigner. Good handwriting is no longer a priority in U.S. schools, but penmanship (sounds quaint, doesn't it) is still taught in Europe and former European colonies.

It is possible to simulate a foreigner's bad grammer. But for three neatly handwritten pages? That's a lot of work. I have OK comprehension in a couple foreign langauges, and can get by verbally, but without a dictionary and a grammar refernce, it would hours for me to compose a letter that long. Too many contradictions. It makes me think the bad grammar and spelling are genuine.

[pttttt]

PC/Diversity driven fools on the staff can't even take a message from the sniper. I have posted several times that in the first 2-3 days, this sniper left a message or someone who saw him left a message and it was lost, buried or thrown away. This is even worse than I thought.

The tipline is a fiasco, especially considering what technology can do now. When police set up something like that, they should expect and even hope that the killer will call. According to the Today show, they were scribbling stuff down on carbon paper - easy to lose - and handcarrying it to different jurisdictions. With the off the shelf technology there is today, every call should be digitally archived and pattern-analyzed (there's another outfit in the state of Maryland, No Such Agency, that could give them some pointers on what to buy or borrow). But apparently that isn't happening.

[Mr. K]

Thet's the single most productive idea I've heard all day.