Posted on 11/14/2006 9:29:45 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Over the weekend, authorities arrested 39-year-old Chad Castagana on suspicion of sending threatening letters to media outlets and the homes of several public figures including "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann.
On Tuesday, Olbermann spoke to Radar Online senior writer John Cook who has been covering the story. Cook said Castagana appeared to be admirers of conservative pundits Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin and Laura Ingraham.
"Ann Coulter and Malkin...sort of present a kind of rhetorical world view where they have their troops out there," Cook said, "and I think he thought of himself as one of their troops and wanted to live up to their standards."
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Castagana has also been identified as a gushing online admirer of Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin and Laura Ingraham. And the Web site RawStory reports that many bloggers believe he is also a contributor, under a different name, to the conservative Web site FreeRepublic. In fact, the name used is supposed to be Marc Costanzo.
~~snip~~
COOK: Well, we should point out the evidence is not conclusive, but—it’s circumstantial, but it’s good evidence. It appears that Mr. Castagana was a poster to the FreeRepublic, which, as you know, is an online library of some of the most thoughtful right-wing thinkers out there. And his—the Marc Costanzo alias that he used, his profile said, “Ann Coulter is a goddess and I idolize Malkin and Ingraham.” And there are a lot of posts that suggest that he’s a big fan of Malkin and Coulter.
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OLBERMANN: Until it, you know, bursts into gunfire. Nobody wants to see that in any direction. It’s madness.
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(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Aren't we all?
Now to expose MD4Bush.
Gee, I wonder.
Olbermann should never have left "Sports Center."
You know the (unwritten) rule. Pictures, please.
Bump for tomorrow!
Who is to say whether this freakshow really leaned left or right personally and how much he posted was real and fiction?
If he was BANNED FOUR TIMES FROM THIS SITE IN THE PAST then he obviously was trying to exploit your site for some frothing, rabid personal agenda that he knew was against your policies.
.
Oh Hell...They're prolly looking
at me too, after nthat nastypost
I made about Sandra Day O'Conner.
Just my luck to have used a final
line similar to this idiot.
*My* line was referring to state
sanctioned redress, not vigilantism.
He's a dip. It's not unlike the DU or DK populace that would like to nuke Washington and supports the destruction of the United States.
Won't defend the guy. FR is still the best reading I've had. I "feel" good when I get my FR fix. Keep up the great work!
I've told the Admin here to report a poster to the FBI & sent the link to their site as I did it. It's an open forum, so kooks will show up from time to time. When we police our own, the FBI has no need to wade through all of our gibberish.
Thanks for the update Jim.
Ms Morgan had suggested that she'd have no problem with someone convicted of treason "being sent to the gas chamber."
Unfortunately the named person was not a Bush White House person or a conservative -- thus a fervid Olbermann issued the award.
And the daily death threats against Ms Morgan spiked, thank you Olbermass.
So true FRiend.
No -- nobody remembers and nobody mentions it. But some dude who sends nutjob letter threats -- a far cry from cop killing -- gets his half hour on cable thanks to Olbermann. And Olbermann gets to bash his enemies. And everybody in MainstreamMediaLand, where all the eeevvviiilll people are on the right, and all the saints are on the left, goes home happy.
I don't know why anyone would like to take Olbermann off the air. He's a perfect advertisement for liberal insanity. In fact the goofier the libs the better in my opinion. MSNBC did conservatives a favor when they cancelled Savage.
Yup, I remember that. A leftist indymedia poster murdered a cop in Red Bluff, CA and FR's Neil E. Wright who received a blind copied email message from the admitted murderer, tracked him down had a hand in catching the perp:
Red Bluff Police Officer Murdered - UPDATE
Various News and RBPD links | Nov. 24, 2002 | Various
Posted on 11/24/2002 4:43:17 PM PST by Neil E. Wright
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/795212/posts
Suspect in Red Bluff police officer slaying apprehended (Attn: Dashole-Liberal Ideas Create Violence
AP | November 26, 2002
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/796371/posts
Timeline of my involvement - Red Bluff Cop killing
Self | 11/26/02 | Neil E. Wright
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/796409/posts
Murder, Incorporated? (Leftist Cop Killer Seeks A Revolt Against Multinational Corporations)
The Washington Post ^ | April 4, 2005 | William Booth
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1379831/posts
A copy of the left-wing whacko's post bragging about the murder and calling for other leftists yo join his insurrection is still posted to indymedia's blog:
http://www.sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/11/1545326.php
Here's a copy of the left-wing whacko's original email message where he admits to killing the police officer and includes his "Declaration of a Renewed American Independence:"
We apologize to the family and friends of the Police Officer that we killed in Red Bluff, California.
The Declaration of a Renewed American Independence
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Whether yes or no, the question itself becomes meaningless when the 'chains and slavery' we use to protect our lives begin to kill and brutalize us. Throughout the course of human history, governments have established unjust laws, pressing them upon its citizens with the force of a brutal police system. These police systems, in turn, quickly come to abuse their position of authority over the people. Such has been the patient suffering of the present day American. The Intelligent Independence of all American Individuals, although necessary for strong and free-minded communities, is rapidly being encroached upon and destroyed by the foot soldiers of our Law Enforcement Agencies.
There is a 'War on Crime' being fought in our country today, and while a portion of this war is fought to protect us, in many forms, including the 'War on Drugs,' it is also used as an excuse to unbearably disrupt the lives of inoffensive Americans. By attacking individuals and activities we hold dear, this 'War on Crime' has, in effect, been declared on all of us. We therefore must hold the Police as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace, Friends. We are eager to end the destructive aspects of this War and resume friendship with those Police who simply desire to protect their fellow citizens. But both police brutality and unjust laws exist, and we are not content to simply obey them. Honor, justice, and humanity forbid us from tamely surrendering that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, which our innocent children have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of delivering future generations to that wretchedness which would inevitably await them, if they were to inherit from us a National Police State.
We, the Freedom-Loving People of America, hereby solemnly publish and declare- -That any adult consensual act, whether declared illegal by legislature or not, is, in the truth of human existence, not a crime, but a Non-Crime. -That people in America 'guilty' of Non-Crimes are, and by right ought to be, Independent Individuals working together in community, Free From Interference by any Law Enforcement Agency. -That they are absolved from allegiance to any harmful laws. -That as Independent Individuals they have the right to be free from racial profiling, to physically defend themselves from unjust arrest, to do drugs, to have any type of adult consensual sex, and to do all other acts and things that free people may by right do.
We further demand that our Police Force cease both brutalizing us and in any way abusing their authority over us. To prove the existence of this police oppression, let facts be submitted to a candid world-
The Law Enforcement Agencies of America: the FBI, DEA, BATF, INS, US Marshals Service, the Secret Service, along with state and local agencies, have defiled our liberties in the following ways-
They have killed over 2,000 people nationwide, without just cause, within the last year. They have attempted to cover up the circumstances of these murders, painting their victims poorly in the media in ways that have nothing to do with the circumstances of their deaths. They have used their desire for excitement to escalate situations that could have been resolved peacefully. They have operated raids in the place of investigations, prioritizing military tactics over social skills, in cases where force was not necessary. They have justified searches off anonymous tips, used 'secret evidence' in court, and detained people without charge. They have used scare tactics to gain compliance, hovering the threat of violence over us. They have allowed 'resisting arrest' charges to turn unlawful arrests into 'lawful' ones. They have arrested people without reading them their rights. They have interrogated suspects while denying them the right to a lawyer present.
They have attacked our spiritual and physical liberties by waging a War against Drugs that are so widely used and enjoyed that this enforcement becomes an insult to both American intelligence and freedom itself. They have extended the War on Drugs to justify all areas of police abuse of power, using it intensively as a harassment and punishment tool for racist purposes.
They have treated people of color as criminals by default, enforcing a violent systematic racism against them. They have behaved as soldiers in an occupied territory, never developing an understanding of the actual social problems and needs of the communities they police. They have enhanced violent crimes between citizens by inciting nearly every major U.S. riot since 1964 with police oppression. They have harassed immigrants of color, and U.S. citizens of color for the possibility that they might not be citizens, even going so far as to gather them all together, write numbers on their arms for organization, and herd them into cattle trucks until their identities have been proven. They have forced illegal aliens into cheap labor by using selective enforcement of immigration laws to control factory workers who demand equal rights. They have established checkpoints within our borders to determine driver's nationalities, using the Trojan horse of 'Order' to set the firm foundations of a racist police state.
They have assisted in the encroachment upon our privacy by probing our identities, activities, and belongings without cause. They have enforced an errant 'lowered expectation of privacy' in our vehicles pulling us over for whimsical reasons and intimidating us into searches. They have concocted transgressions and arrested us when we refuse their assaults on our privacy. They have placed video cameras on our street corners and highways to catalog victimless Non-Crimes, and extort money from inoffensive citizens.
They have hypocritically demanded that we not be armed during our interactions with them, for 'officer safety.' They have enforced gun registration laws, establishing a fundamental step on the way to complete gun confiscation. They have confiscated guns and knives for trivial reasons, severely damaging the American right to revolution, forcing us into channels of change that the authorities themselves control.
They have subverted our personal human interactions by requiring government permission for public gatherings. They have wrenched our public property away from us by closing parks at night, preventing loitering, and harassing skateboarders. They have waged a war on poverty- -outlawing panhandling, public sleeping, and hitchhiking. -allowing our justice system to be controlled by wealth, imprisoning small criminals, but allowing great criminals to go free.
They have harassed our children and stolen away the freedom of their youth by enforcing local curfews and underage drinking laws. They have contributed to an unhealthy social sexuality, declaring the human body 'indecent' by enforcing public 'indecency' laws. They have been the hand of censorship against 'obscenity.'
They have kept us from using fast, though safe, speeds that we know we can handle, becoming the willing tools in using us as a source of revenue. They have sped faster than we do to stop us from speeding.
They have undermined adult consent by waging a war on prostitution. They have wreaked havoc on prostitute's lives by surrounding their profession with danger and criminality.
And throughout all this, they have avoided citizen accountability by- -refusing to give their names and badge numbers. -interfering with documentation of their activities. -seizing private property to fund their departments, under the pretext of the 'War on Drugs.'
The enumeration in this declaration of certain grievances shall not be construed to deny other grievances retained by the people.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress of grievances both in our courts and on our streets. Our repeated petitions have been answered by repeated injury and the foot soldiers of our oppressions have been protected by mock trials. "If you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable." -John F. Kennedy
We now restate our grievances with the force of violence behind them. We fully expect the authorities to denounce our use of violence and declare us 'terrorists,' citing their definition of 'people who use violence to further their own political objective.' But we hold to light the facts- -that these same authorities use violence to further their own political objectives, both domestically with police, and internationally with war. -that the objectives of these authorities are authoritarian and driven by greed for money, whereas our objectives are community-oriented and driven by a passion for human freedoms. -that the self-sanctioned violence of these authorities always produces innocent casualties, whereas our violence has not.
Our violence has delivered neither burned babies nor shattered adolescents. These authorities will, but we will not, club the opposition for nonviolently protesting against us.
We recognize that a policing force is necessary for the safety and happiness of human life. We don't dare say that all police desire to be destructive of our Freedoms. We recognize the Peace Officer. The Peace Officer protects us from thoughtless violence and from organized corruption. The Peace Officer is dedicated to serving and protecting us. They genuinely care for our well being. They will bend the rules for us when they see the situation where a bureaucratic system will do us more harm than good. We respect the Peace Officer and beg them for patience with our action of violence. But any law enforcement system where, as in ours, the enforcers are encouraged not to use their own political judgment, is the basis for Fascism, Nazism, and any form of a Police State Government. Through police department politics, even our peace officers are pressured to support their less honorable colleagues through silence and active participation. The old excuse, "I'm just doing my job," is not good enough to avoid the responsibility of our grievances.
Law Enforcement Officers, we encourage you to think less of the ways that you are tied to your supporting career and more of the better world that your family will inherit if you help us to create it. Think of what our friendship could be worth to you.
If we all truly desire to eradicate the victimization that is caused by crime, we must only police unsolicited violence, coercion and corruption. To eliminate these things, while violence will sometimes be necessary, it is a more worthy and efficient tactic to focus on prevention. We must focus on providing quality education, good jobs, housing and health care. For this to happen all of our police officers must become Peace Officers.
The past can be forgiven. What is important is the future. The only way this country will get better is if we all work together. Help us, Law Enforcement Officers. Please. Help us take back our freedoms. We can't do it without you.
We further encourage all of our neighbors and citizens- We must all support one another's rights. The Homosexuals must support the Christian Creationists. The Gun Rights Advocates must support the Nonviolent Protesters. The Skateboarders must support the Prostitutes. And vice versa. And vice versa. We must all support each other's individual beliefs and rights or we will never again have rights as individuals.
Don't Tread on Us.
Signed,
The American People
Wonder if Keith Olbermann will address any of this?
Arizona FReeper breaks case of Cop Killing in Red Bluff
The Sac Francisco Chronicle ^ | 11/28/2002 | Jim Herron Zamora
Posted on 11/28/2002 9:15:00 AM PST by jdontom
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/797508/posts
Colusa Jury Convicts Cop Killer
FOX40 KTXL ^ | April 5, 2005 | Unknown
Posted on 04/06/2005 9:11:36 PM PDT by Neil E. Wright
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1378920/posts
placemark
Well, whaddya gonna do. The forum is open to the public. You can't keep nuts from signing up to post any more than you can keep your local psychopath out of the grocery store---all you can do is throw them out when they act up.
It would be interesting to see his other four FR screen names, and the posts that got him banned.
It would also be interesting to know which other sites out there were graced with his presence. I'll bet there were quite a few (not that Olbermann cares).
Why does anyone believe what that tool had on his about page? Isn't it a common tactic of trolls that have been repeat visitors to put sympathetic things on their homepage?
The guy is obviously a disturbed nutcase, why has a few comments on his FR page turned into a referendum on Coulter, Malkin, et. al.?
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