Man arrested in fake anthrax attacks an avid free republic poster

[morgan2]

arrest story here

(AP) LOS ANGELES A man was arrested and accused of mailing threatening letters laced with white powder to Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, David Letterman and other high-profile figures, the FBI announced Sunday.

FBI agents took Chad Conrad Castagana, 39, into custody Saturday on charges of conveying false information and sending threats via the U.S. mail, the bureau said in a statement.

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_316214902.html

free republic account under psyudonym marc costanzo

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?name=marc+...


Ok how do I know this, first I searched for Chad Castagana and found many posts using the same expression on the same topic.

examples..
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue279/letters.html#pc

SF Has No Space for PC

W ith the passing away of Lexx ends an intriguing albeit smarmy experiment in sci-fantasy. One that breaks with conventions, or should I say, cliches of TV sci-fi of the '90s. The politically correct pabulum, the multicultural indoctrination, the Bladerunner motifs, and not the least—the steroid mutated superbabes that can punch the lights out of men, but never get punched back in return!?

How about creating a new sci-fi anthology with none of the puerile baggage of Rod Serling, Gene Roddenberry, Rockne O' Bannon, etc., etc. It is time to end their reign of Left-wing innuendo, their anti-American, anti-mankind cynicism and fatalism.

...

The future is not the current events of our world thrown into outer space. The future is not with the Liberals, not with the Multiculturalists (both hate America), and it is certainly not to be found in Canada! The future is not written, the future is unformed.

Chad Castagana


Notice the phase "The future is not with the Liberals, not with the Multiculturalists (both hate America)" He uses this phase often in reference to the scifi show Lexx. So I searched for it on freerepublic and found...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1673525/posts


Let us create a future of infinite possibilities devoid of the agenda of the social engineers who work their corruption on us thru the one way world of television . A world where anything is possible , but not everything is possible . Anything can happen , but not all things can happen at once . That is what 'Time' is for , to keep all things from happening at the same moment . That shall be the only rule of our new fantasy world . That an event happens only once . What has been done , cannot be undone . There is no turning back the sands of time . You can review the past but you cannot change the past . That a vision of a possible future - to the present , must be taken in the context of the present . A Cosmos not governed by compassion or tolerance or equality , but common sense and merit . A Universe of strange and totally new lifeforms and not distorted reflections of human characters , just to make some social allegory ---- THAT is the insipid barren road of Political Correctness that Sci-fi entertainment has been a slave to for so many years . The future is not the current events of our world thrown into Outer Space . The future is not with the Liberals , not with the Multiculturalists (both hate America) , and it is certainly not to be found in some cheapo TV production made in Canada ! The future is not written , the future is unformed . . .
1 posted on 07/27/2006 6:49:44 PM PDT by marc costanzo

Almost the exact same posting, same theme and same expressions. Marc Costanzo is his free republic name, enjoy.

[morgan2]

1. also notice

his last freerepublic posting, Friday night at midnight. He was arrested Saturday... Check it all out before his account gets pulled.

[Jack from Charlotte]

189. Could someone check his party affiliation? It's great to be able to refer to....

The Republican Terrorist Chad Whatever. Tim McVey was found to be a registered Rethug and I always refer to him as the Republican Terrorist. Makes Rethugs.... crabby.

[Ioo]

206. How did we make this connection?

I am unclear how we make the connection from this guy to the Freeptard?

[Ms. Clio]

219. read the OP again -- he used textual analysis

He traced the FReak's use of a specific, distinctive phrase, and found him using it under both his own name and his handle at the Repuglick.

Further examination of his posts under several different names strongly indicates that they are all the work of the same seriously-disturbed individual.

On edit: I would add that this is an established technique that has been used to "out" the author of at least one anonymously-published book.

[chat_noir]

230. he admitted to writing the LEXX article

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1673525/posts?...


To: All
This is the original essay, in whole, that I wrote in early 2001 !
To be sure, the original writing has been cleaned up of typos over the years . .



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


With the passing away of LEXX ends an intriguing albeit tawdry experiment in Sci-fantasy. One that breaks with conventions, or should I say cliches of TV sci-fi of the 90's . The politically correct pabulum, the multicultural indoctrination, the BladeRunner motifs, and not the least; the steroid mutated superbabes that can punch the lights out of men, but never get punched back in return !? ~ ~ How about creating a new sci-fi anthology with none of the puerile baggage of Rod Serling, Rockne Obannon, Michael J. Stracinsky, etc .. It is time to end their reign of unAmerican , cynicism and fatalism ...

Let us create a future of infinite possibilities devoid of the agenda of the social engineers who work their corruption on us thru the one way world of television .
A world where anything is possible , but not everything is possible . Anything can happen , but not all things can happen at once . That is what 'Time' is for , to keep all things from happening at the same moment . That shall be the only rule of our new fantasy world . That an event happens only once . What has been done , cannot be undone . There is no turning back the sands of time . You can review the past but you cannot change the past . That a vision of a possible future - to the present , must be taken in the context of the present . A Cosmos not governed by compassion or tolerance or equality , but common sense and merit . A Universe of strange and totally new lifeforms and not distorted reflections of human characters , just to make some social allegory ----
THAT is the insipid barren road of Political Correctness that Sci-fi entertainment has been a slave to for so many years . The future is not the current events of our world thrown into Outer Space .

The future is not with the Liberals , not with the Multiculturalists (both hate America) , and it is certainly not to be found in some cheapo TV production made in Canada ! The future is not written , the future is unformed . . .

With much thought and reflection,

-'C'-



394 posted on 07/31/2006 6:36:49 PM PDT by marc costanzo ("Love & Hunger, rule the world" -- Yevgeny Zamyatin's 'WE')

[Sydnie]

274. Bingo!

Hansel left a crumb trail, didn't he?

[nashville_brook]

298. for someone who demanded ORIGINALITY from his sci-fi television shows

he sure didn't hold himslef to the same standard with his SOCIOPATHIC 15 MINUTES OF FAME.

mailing white powder is sooooooooo DONE!

[usregimechange]

386. Have we got screen captures?

[Black Adder]

429. Wow.. Great detective work!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love it....

[Arkana]

2. Jesus, Freak Republic is becoming a more fertile breeding ground

for terrorists than Iraq.

[mom cat]

116. I wonder if they have gotten inquiries from the FBI or if they are being

monitored as closely as DU.

[Timefortruth]

383. A few years ago

when Bush made his plastic turkey trip to Iraq, news of the visit was posted at FR either before the President landed, or immediately afterward, I forget which. Either way, it was hours before the media was permitted to release the news of Bush's courageous visit, to serve fake food to prescreened soldiers while their comrades were forced to eat MREs because security prevented them from getting anywhere near the mess hall for Thanksgiving dinner.

I often wondered if the Secret Service was ok with the security breach, and if so, why. Didn't they care about the President' or was it possible that they didn't know. It's hard to believe that the leak was approved.

[mom cat]

441. I can see that the leak might have been winked at to give a bone to

the rabid supporters. That was when Bush was riding high and had an air of invulnerability.

[Timefortruth]

445. It seems to me that if

I were a terrorist or someone who was trying to catch terrorists, I'd hang out at Free Republic rather than any liberal blog. We don't know any government secrets and wouldn't be stupid enough to post them if we did (since bad guys might find the information useful). Also, a potential terrorist would be unlikely to find comrades here since the only violence practiced by the left is the circular firing squad.

[indepat]

141. Breeding ground for the enemy within?

[antonialee839]

316. Ain't that the truth.

[JeffR]

3. Good catch!

[valerief]

4. Very clever. nt

[exlrrp]

138. RUN YOUR ANTI SPYWARE AFTER VISITING FREEP!!!

Be sure and do a spy scan after visiting Freep They attach cookies for spying purposes

[civildisoBDence]

279. That would explain why I've been kicked off FR twice without reason

or so I thought--they must've used the cookie to bust me, because I was booted before posting anything remotely progressive.

Newsprism

[ourbluenation]

377. Nah - I've been posting there for over a year undetected. I don't

think rimjob is that sophisticated.

[ghostsofgiants]

396. The only way they could spy on you with cookies...

Is if they have other domains with which they can track the cookies. That's how advertising agencies do it. Their ads are used on many domains, but are all referenced to a single domain. You visit two sites that have the same ad company's ads, their ads recognize are able to retrieve the cookie that they've originally sent. (Or such is my understanding anyway. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.) So unless FR has a bunch of other sites where they can have their cookies, I'm skeptical of that assertion.

Any cookies from FR are likely to be related to saving login info. (DU uses them for that as well.)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

416. I reject all cookies from all sites, except a minimum needed for login access like DU.

I reject (semi-automatically) all cookies from all sites, except a minimum needed for login access like DU. You can set your browser to reject cookies automatically or request them for OK / deny on a case by case basis. Once denied, they stay denied without bothering you.

DU uses as least seven (7), including one that is committed to last until 2038. I would like DU to clean it up a bit, reduce the number of cookies, and go to "session only" cookies if possible.

Sites with ads tend to use cookies from 2o7.com, but it doesn't matter what the domain name, they can all be cross-correlated via "business partnership agreements", etc.

[upi402]

5. Ingraham, Coulter, Limbaugh, Hanity, O'Reily

They incite these whack patsy types. First it was civil rights advocates, then abortion doctors, now this.
Criminal on its face.

[KingFlorez]

6. Surprise, surprise

One of the Freepers finally came so unhinged they got into trouble.

[malaise]

7. Great work detective

Well he is screwn now. These morons are pure evil.
Any bets he sent this stuff to KO.
add.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

137. Don't you mean morans?

These morons are pure evil.

[treestar]

245. LOL, but "screwn" is correct!

Freeper grammar, LOL.

[rateyes]

294. Sending that white powder was not a very noble

JESTER111111!!!!! I'm series11111.

[kenny blankenship]

8. Is that what Cheney meant when he said terrorists were on the Internet(s) constantly?

Maybe he was talking about Freak Republikkk ?

[Timefortruth]

450. It has to be. nt

[Scurrilous]

9. Good catch!

[upi402]

Here's his bio from FreeRepubic

I am a lifelong Conservative Republican .


I have an Associates Degree in the Science of Electronics .

Ann Coulter is a Goddess and I worship Laura Ingraham and Michele Malkin .

English is the langauge of the United States of America- - our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution are written in the langauge that expresses our civilized freedoms .

Spanish is the language of Banana Republics, beyond that it belongs in a European country .

[JeffR]

15. "English is the langauge..."

Speaks volumes somehow...

[upi402]

20. He probably had a little problem with the potty training and

then became a Republican. I don't buy the "lifelong" thing.

[Swamp Rat]

He'll have plenty of time in prison to think about that "lifelong" thing...

[upi402]

35. Well, as a lifelong Republican he will enjoy the male bonding I'm sure

[smoogatz]

145. I'm sure he'll fit right in with the Brotherhood.

Maybe get him a couple of kewl swastika tattoos.

[elehhhhna]

286. Prolly has a W'sticka on his butt already--

[txindy]

314. That'll make him popular.

As a terrorist, shouldn't he go to Gitmo? That sticker'll make him REALLY popular there! Maybe he could bring some of his FlushLimpballs Gitmo t-shirts with him. He'd be truly special then.

[johnfunk]

191. Y'know, that would look stylin' tattooed on Chad's forehead!

Such things are known to happen in the slammer...

[Ms. Clio]

43. "I have an Associates Degree in the Science of Electronics"

and a lifetime achievement award in moranic assholery.

"English is the langauge of the United States of America."

Then get the fuck out of here until you learn to spell it correctly, douche.

[badgerpup]

57. You can't get an A.S. in electronics, can you?

IIRC, an associates degree, Arts or Sciences, only says you've taken basic 100 and 200 level college courses...various maths, English, Psych, Biology, History, Chemistry...basic stuff.
A.A., or A.S. depends on whether you took more science than liberal arts.
You don't get into the specializing or serious stuff...your major and minor...until you hit the 300 and above...
at least that's the way it worked back when I was in college...

[Ms. Clio]

60. yep, of course he's really just got a B.S. degree n/t

[pinniped]

83. Hey, if Sally Struthers says it exists, it exists!

This guy probably went for the VCR/gunsmithing two degrees for the price of one deal.

[ingac70]

90. Associate of Applied Science.....

otherwise known as an A.A.S

[jmowreader]

140. Yeah, actually you can

All the community colleges in this area offer A.S. degrees in electronics.

When you graduate, you have three career paths open to you: assembling electronic devices, fixing traffic signals, or servicing public safety radios. (In the old days before cheap Chinese imports came into vogue, most ASETs fixed televisions.)

Those are good jobs, but apparently the freeper doesn't want to admit he installs police radios for a living--or at least he did before he decided to become a terrorist.

[Wednesdays]

166. But he never said "community college"

More likely he got into one of those "exciting new career programs" they hawk on commercials during the Maury Povich and Montel Williams shows.

[jmowreader]

249. That's possible too

Do those schools call the certificate you receive an Associates degree? I didn't think they did--if you go to Fayettenam Tech to study Police Radio Repair, you can take the courses on fixing police radios and get a Certificate, or the 100/200-level liberal arts courses as well as the police radio repair classes and get an AS.

However...I think if we really worked hard on chasing down this clown's employment, we'd find he installs car stereos at Circuit City.

[sendero]

424. Back when I went to ..

... build a scope school, they DID offer an Associate's Degree, but not in every state.

[Autonomy]

184. He harasses celebrities for a living

"Authorities said they watched Castagana, who is unemployed, walk from his home to a public mailbox Thursday and deposit several letters."

I wonder how they tracked him down.

[Minnesota_Lib]

360. Probably the same way morgan2 did. Dollars to donuts he included...

...letters in his "unique" writing style. They used Goggle or some other method to search the web for similar phrasing and found this guy who just happened to live in the same area as the postmarks and started watching him. At least that is my best guess.

[Autonomy]

373. Yep, I bet you're right

Google = FBI's best friend

[rexcat]

177. I think you are incorrect on the AA vs AS thing...

An AA degree is the first two years of a BS or BA degree. If one receives an AS degree the classes are more technical in nature and those classes don't typically transfer to the university systems for a BS or BA. This comes from someone who received an AA degree from a community college and went on to finish a BS degree at the university level.

[philosophie_en_rose]

194. I don't think you're correct about that. An AS can also transfer.

There are many degrees (AAs and ASs) that don't transfer, but you can get an AS in biology and transfer into a biology major at a 4-year school. I went spent my last two years of high school at a community college. My AS transferred.

[rexcat]

444. My experience was in Florida...

and very few courses in the AS programs related to BS or BA degrees, they were more technical in nature and did not transfer to the universities. It all depends how the Board of Regents within each state set the programs up.

[Kali]

203. He went to Ralphs College of Electronics down at the strip mall.

Learned how ro rewire his mother's table lamp.

[Erechtheides]

412. associates degrees are generally given by schools that are focused on non-academic certification

[Bluebear]

61. i.e: TV/VCR repair course he found on some matchbook

[JoFerret]

434. Hey. Good decent necessary jobs

When done by decent people.

[many a good man]

104. Don't tell him English is a "European" language

Poor guy has been through enough.

[A HERETIC I AM]

260. Also don't tell him America is named after an Italian.

Amerigo Vespucci

[SouthernBelle82]

290. What I find interesting

is he claims to have a degree in science but he can't spell correctly. I don't know of many scientists who can't spell.

[Ms. Clio]

349. There may be scientists who don't spell perfectly, but he's not one of them

He appears to be just another criminal low-life loser; but of course he had lots of "Conservative" opinions on "law and order" and "illegal aliens" and whatnot.

[JoFerret]

435. Correct spelling is a fetish

Spelling is not this guy's problem. Something much deeper is.

[Virginian]

58. Hope he lives in a state where felons can't vote.

That little act of radical republicanizm may have cost him his right to vote.

[smirkymonkey]

102. Sounds like a total Moran.

"...an Associates Degree in the Science of Electronics???" What is that? Scoring in the intermediate level at video games?

And how dare he speak of the Constitution when he clearly knows nothing about it.

[YOY]

139. Hey, don't bring Video games into this

It's hardly a FReep hobby...unless your'e talking about the rapture game...

They prefer killing caged animals, dry-humping the flag (but shitting on the constitution, preparing for the rapture, and tweaking it up with gay prostitutes on the down low.

[kiki]

109. Lol, translation:

"I haven't been laid in many, many years and I'm hoping this whole 'conservative' schtick will get girls to notice me. Oh Ann, oh Michelle, when will you drop the restraining orders?"

[wicket]

126. I hope he enjoys prison!

[Donnachaidh]

443. what mail order college did he get his degree from?

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww on everything else.

[survivor999]

10. Freerepublic is a terrorist camp, it seems.

Homeland Security should investigate.

[upi402]

12. Well they're on notice now, huh?

Maybe we can come out of our hidy-holes now.

[qnr]

11. Good work n/t

[LeftCoast]

13. We should keep a wiki of FR terrorists

Wasn't there already one or two others?

[Cooley Hurd]

114. Someone should update FR's Wikipedia entry to include this new info...