[annalex]

All decisions, I am sure, were done by an alphabet agency committee and not by Chief Moose himself. That way, the system never places any personal responsibility on anyone. Yet the results were truly criminal: a suspicion of a white perpetrator was published and a suspicion of a black one was not, delaying the capture.

The links to Islam were actively downplayed by the media, based solely on the assertion that "I am God" would not have been written by a Muslim. That would be understandable as an attempt to reduce panic. But the media did nothing else to reduce panic and in fact, greatly increased it with vacuous 24-hour coverage.

[aristeides]

Did the tarot card in fact say, "I am God"? The facsimile of the cover sheet of the three-page letter published by the Washington Post over the weekend had, "Call me God". Isn't that likely to be what the tarot card said too?