Pingaroo
It wouldn't have made a bit of difference to him whether the witnesses wrote about Jesus while He was alive, because Cascioli wouldn't believe it anyway. Judging by his one-man campaign and wild accusations, I would say he is the one who should be charged with “abuse of popular credulity,” since he's appealing to the socialists and communists' beliefs.
And by the way...
He argued that all claims for the existence of Jesus from sources other than the Bible stem from authors who lived “after the time of the hypothetical Jesus” and were therefore not reliable witnesses.
Why doesn't he prove that they weren't reliable witnesses.