Posted on 11/13/2006 10:21:14 AM PST by mucho muchacho
The man arrested on Saturday for sending more than a dozen envelopes containing "fake anthrax" to anti-war celebrities, journalists, and politicians may have ties to the conservative supersite Free Republic, RAW STORY has found.
Chad Castagana, a 39 year old Californian named as the FBI's prime suspect in the case, is due in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles today, where procecutors are expected to file criminal complaint against him for sending threatening letters through the U.S. mail. Castagana has an extensive online history, often writing about science fiction and conservative politics, and many bloggers are convinced that he is also a contributor at the conservative activist Free Republic website under the name Marc Costanzo.
Earlier today, users at the liberal websites Democratic Underground and Daily Kos brought to light the similarities between Castagana's Internet footprint and Costanzo's writings at Free Republic, and RAW STORY has found a series of eyebrow-raising connections between the two men.
Link (wasn't able to include it as a source URL)
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Fake_anthrax_hoax_by_conservative_blogger_1113.html
(Excerpt) Read more at rawstory.com ...
No kidding. I got into an argument with a village voice writer a while back. He didn't like my comments about a story he wrote so he FReepmailed me to call me dirty names.
Perlstein?
:-p
LOL Thats the one. I couldn't remember the name till you said it.
I will try searching...
"may have ties to the conservative supersite Free Republic"
Because he may have posted here, he has "ties". What does he do, run the site? Just about anyone can post here.
He stopped posting a while ago. I think the fact that people kept citing all his erroneous predictions from the prior months was bothering him. He preferred to make bold new predictions without the unfair critique of his previous mistakes.
Wow, is right. Smears w/o facts.
Perlstein's work is eminently forgettable.
I tried looking - but am not a member of DU, so don't have access to search (?) I can't figure out to search there... The ONLY thing I saw was that article (Radar?) that I posted - over at DU, they're so stupid, they are saying FR is down, yet I've been posting/reading here for last few hours...
Provocature, playing both ends against the middle?
Pretty easy to do given the climate.
Zot!
Too bad he lives in California, or we could have a different meaning to the term, Hanging Chad.
...sorry, gang...
OMG- they are now saying I was a co-conspirator... Maybe they should read my anthrax posts hoping no harm comes to anyone... I should sue the pants off em.
Zot 'n Roll!
it was nexus-lexus...an engine used to spot plagarism.
CGEB
They now have dragged me into it... Maybe they should read this: http://freerepublic.info/focus/f-news/1731811/posts?page=53#53 and this http://freerepublic.info/focus/f-news/1731811/posts?page=52#52
To: PghBaldy
I hope everyone is safe and unharmed, and that it is not anthrax.
53 posted on 11/03/2006 7:39:57 PM PST by PghBaldy (This hominid named Kerry annoys me.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Whoops. I just posted an article from a diff source. I hope it is nothing.
52 posted on 11/03/2006 7:37:20 PM PST by PghBaldy (This hominid named Kerry annoys me.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] WELL, if they keep this up, I'll have my lawyers sue them.
I guess UPS hasn't delivered the load of chickenshiess yet. I KNKEW I should have used DHL.
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