i've been on my bestest behaviour ... 
Posted on 10/24/2002 2:38:22 AM PDT by wewillnotfail
Overnite, two men arrested while sleeping in their car at a reststop in MD. John Mohammed aka John Williams and his stepson Lee Malvo. Mohammad is thought to be the likely shooter.
Is the white truck now out of the picture or does it have anything to do with the new threat issued this afternoon? Explosives being driven around by someone other than the "sniper"?
About the duck/decoy thing...this is what I came up with on the Tarot card cryptogram...
10/24/02
I haven't messed with cryptograms in years. One night (VERY late) I was thinking about the only published message the murders left to the police. It was obviously a simple alphanumerical thing, where each letter of the alphabet has a corresponding number. I used only the first letter of each word in the Tarot message. The problem was, what the corresponding NUMBERS corresponded to. The key to the cryptogram hit me like a ton of bricks: the killers wanted to communicate with police...and others, via the all too willing, hysteria-mongering news media. The numbers had to correspond to the numbers on a deck of Tarot cards. After that it was easy.
I only decided to do this a few days ago...then was afraid to publish it, because I was afraid of messing up the investigation, or something (not that the killers were likely to read this website.) Now that it probably doesn't matter, here it is.
D: (4; Emperor card) - "Who's in control" or more likely: "I am in control."
E: (5; Hierophant) "This won't be easy, but it can be done. The solution is there. Find it. Bring it to you."
A: (1; Fool) "Pay attention. Watch your step or you will fall and look like a fool."
R: (18; Moon) "When Someone else is in control, you have two choices: chase your tail and howl at the moon, or do something constructive [or do this - or these positive thing(s)]"
M: (13; Death) "The old world, the old life is dead. This is a time of change and new beginning."
P: (16; Tower) "The Tower, which represents lies and deception, must [had to?] be destroyed to make way for something new to be built."
O: (15; Devil) "You must free yourself from the Earthly bonds of greed, lust, ambition, decadence [yeah, yeah, yada, yada. Prostletyzing bastard.]
L: (12; Hermit) "Keep your distance. Speak to no one. Contemplate what you do not understand."
I: (9; Hanged Man) [PAUSE for a time, then life must go on] "Sacrifice [or surrender your mind] and all will be made clear. In order to gain, you must give: money, time, a belief [etc]"
C: (3; High Preistess) "I know all about you. Your tools, how you think, how you do things."
G: (7; Chariot) "You are my opposite; my enemy. I will conquer, and you will follow my path. I have complete faith in my cause. My path is the right path."
Comments: Chilling stuff.
1:) Not enough to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is a foreign, or foreign Muslim, terrorist.
2:) No unequivocal proof it's a homegrown Johnnie Jihad wannabe, but this is NO white supremicist, redneck, Skoal chewing gun nut.
3:) While the author hints at specialized training and a knowledge of Police tactics and procedures, it is unclear whether he is saying he's a police officer, military special ops, or a mujahadine.
4:) Beyond the Usama type prostyletizing and veiled references to 9/11/01 and Armegeddon, this is clearly an extortion note.
5:) This person hates the US government in general, and US foreign policy in particular.
8:) This person likes and has probably participated in media-popular protests, such as anti-war, anti-WTO, pro-Palestinian. MAYBE environmental.
CONCLUSION:
1:) Possible Muslim American terrorist.
Uh, Mass deportation. Internment camps. Reinvent Saudi Arabia as the Republic of New Texas.
i've been on my bestest behaviour ...
That means releasing a bulletin Monday still could have saved him.
I think you can sense some of that relief in this thread.
But, it's not over. It's just beginning.
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