California man arrested for mail threats to celebs (KO, Pelosi, Stewart...)

[RamboLiberal]

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-11-13T033224Z_01_N12401718_RTRUKOC_0_US-CRIME-LETTERS.xml&src=rss&rpc=22

A California man suspected of mailing threatening letters containing a suspicious white powder to celebrities and U.S. politicians has been arrested and could face federal charges on Monday, the FBI said.

Investigators identified Chad Castagana, 39, of Woodland Hills, California, as the person suspected of sending more than a dozen threatening letters to media outlets and the homes of public figures in various cities, the FBI said in a statement on Sunday evening.

According to a federal search warrant, among those who received threatening letters were Jon Stewart of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show;" talk show host David Letterman; Keith Olbermann of MSNBC; Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, who is set to become Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, both Democrats.

The document, filed on Friday in United States District Court in Los Angeles, said multiple people in various cities, including New York and San Francisco, received letters over the past three months that contained an unknown white powder and various written threats.

In some cases, the threatening letters included expressions such as "Death to Demagogues" and references to Alan Berg, a Jewish talk radio host murdered by white supremacists in Denver in 1984, the document said.

[BlueStorm]

1. Damn!! You beat me to it!!!

I saw this on Comcast's homepage and I was going to post it but my computer froze up.

Blue

[Jack from Charlotte]

31. Someone needs to check his voter registration.......

Just a guess.... He's a Rethug. I love referring to "Tim McVey, The REGISTERED Republican Terrorist," since he was registered as a Repug.

Can someone check out as to whether this guy was a REGISTERED Republican or just a regular Rethug?

[asthmaticeog]

2. Any news from the FBI on the guy who sent *actual* anthrax 5 years ago?

Just curious. I sure am glad they nabbed an attention-whoring assclown who mailed out some Gold Bond, though.

[krispos42]

38. Doubt it. Remember those went away when the Patriot Act was passed n/t

[stonecoldsober]

3. Fricking nutbasket fuckwad!

:grr:

[Wilms]

4. If you ask me, they ought to consider hanging Chad. n/t

:evilgrin:

[valerief]

16. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. Good one. nt

[Dhalgren]

5. This is a warning. There are a lot of these mentally marginal,

right-wing freepers who take all of the demagoguery of hate to heart. I would not be surprised if a lot of Democrats are attacked, assaulted, even killed over the next few months. Some of our opponents do not understand the democratic process, or they do not actually support it...

[Ken Burch]

8. In fact, I'd put the entire Senate Democratic Caucus under extra security protection...

Some of these psychos are probably thinking of trying to take out a few of our Senators just to restore Cheney to the throne.

[KingFlorez]

6. I figured something like this would happen

[OwnedByFerrets]

7. I wonder if he was hired by Sock!

Those of you who listen to Steph will know what Im talking about.:rofl:

[Xeric]

9. do a google search on his name

He appears to be a rightwing nut:

Chad Castagana Said:
8:29 am < Quote >
Congresswoman Katherine Harris is a remarkable lady !
She has perservered a lot to advance the Conservative Cause .
We Red-Bloooded Americans are obligated to support her, siritualy, not just politically !
http://exposetheleft.com/2006/03/15/harris-hannity/


Then there's this nutty comment on a sci-fi site whining about the pc liberalism in sci-fi.
Someone has WAY too much time on their hands. Now he'll have more time to read sci-fi in prison.


Science Fiction Weekly -- Letters to the Editor
"With 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."
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue279/letters.html#pc


What a Moonbat.

[depakid]

21. "What a Moonbat."

Sounds like fairly typical freeper-ese to me.

Very little these folks say or do astonishes me anymore.

[johnlal]

34. More...

Google Chad Castgana, and you'll find these jewels:

The future is not for liberals: http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue279/letters.html#pc

Chad on "Perfect Breasts"
http://www.joebobbriggs.com/letters.asp

More Sci Fi: http://www.theouterlimits.com/messages/messages/375.html

On Gary Condit/ Chandra Levy: http://www.dcist.com/archives/2006/02/27/true_washington.php

On being jumped by the invisible man: http://ufies.org/movies/archives/000117.html

On serial killing: http://www.critcononline.com/emails.htm

A heartfelt condolence to Chandra Levy's relatives.
http://www.legacy.com/Guestbook/Popups/PrinterFriendly.asp?Cobrand=MODESTOBEE&PersonID=1042803

Catherine Harris is a remarkable Lady! http://exposetheleft.com/2006/03/15/harris-hannity/

On teachers having sex with students (notice an obsession?): http://www.hottforteacher.com/pamela-rogers-gets-seven-years/

Hollywood commies: http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/k19thewidowmaker/17.html

A sci-fi geek obsessed with boobies and angry with liberals sending anthrax from his mommy's basement? Sounds like a real winner.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

10. domestic terrorism!

off to Gitmo!

enjoy the '2 vegetables'.

[Rocknrule]

11. I'll bet Coulter inspired him

[bling bling]

17. All those shithead RW pundits convince their listeners that Dems = terrorists.

I see it all the time. The RW editorialists, talk show hosts and pundits have been for years telling their audiences that:

1. God is on the conservative "side"
2. The liberals hate Jesus. We make Jesus very upset.
3. The military is on *their* side. All military personnel are conservative or they are sissies. The Democrats want the troops to die and whoever they are fighting to win.
4. The Democrats getting power will cause America to be attacked again.
5. The Democrats sympathize with terrorists and hate America.


Holy shit!!! Did you see that list??? Whoa, those Democrats are downright evil! Well if that's the case then what kind of unpatriotic sick American WOULDN'T try to rid America of those sick fuck Democrats and their leaders.

This is some pretty fucked up serious bullshit they've been using to convince people that Republicans are the only patriotic, moralistic, pro-family, pro-America, pro-life people in the country and anyone who thinks differently is a traitor who should just leave.

Do they not think that people in their audience might take them seriously?

[ms liberty]

12. Ah, I just asked on another thread if this was the guy who sent one to KO! n/t

[Janice325]

15. I was wondering that myself.

[warrens]

39. Yes, it is. NT

[lpbk2713]

13. It figures!! .... He's a fan of Krazy Katie Harris.

I Googled his name and came up with this ......


Link: http://exposetheleft.com/2006/03/15/harris-hannity/


Check out post #30 at the bottom of the page.

[johnlal]

35. It figures

A fan of B-Movie Starlets and right-wing politics can only lead to Harris. Follow the boobs.

[Shakespeare]

14. Heh. What do you think his FR nick is? n/t

[Scurrilous]

22. Here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2701099

[mom cat]

28. Thanks for the link! Very interesting!

[valerief]

18. Give him a gun and send him to Iraq, if he hates liberals so much. nt

[w4rma]

19. Good. Lock him up for the maximum sentence. (nt)

[Omphaloskepsis]

20. How fucking stupid do you have to be to get caught for this??

Shit.. Wear latex gloves, don't lick the stamp, don't use your mailbox, and don't use your real return address.

What a goober.

[file83]

37. ThoughtCrime!!

:rofl:

[Thor_MN]

41. Hey, don't give them any ideas...

Next thing you know, they will be shutting down DU because of it has blueprints for terraism...

[tuvor]

23. He's a member of free republic.

Still in good standing, apparently.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2701099

[theHandpuppet]

25. Maybe the Secret Service needs to spend more time at FR

Rather than spying on DU? Just a thought.

[pnorman]

24. There's another DU thread on this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2701099

pnorman

[MarkTwain]

26. Please, PLEASE, tell me that he's a Freeper...

... get Homeland Secuirty in there, pronto. Sieze his computer! And the reveal that he's got his thousands of Free Republic posts in folders.

You just KNOW that this has to be the case. No other way.

[onehandle]

27. Of course he is...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2701099

[depakid]

30. I'v been predicting something like this would happen

For several years now. That place is a hate site, inhabited by a lot of very sick and twisted people. I'm almost surprised that it hasn't happened already- or that someone hasn't gotten hurt.

One of these days, Robinson is going to wake up to California troopers- or the Feds knocking at his door.

[Rose Siding]

32. He's an unemployed freeper, who lives with his mother

He taunted KO on FR with the lies about how he reacted to the letter he got-

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2701099&mesg_id=2701249

We could almost have profiled this one for the feds. :rofl:

[bleedingheart]

29. How absolutely stupid and when he is in prison

he can contemplate how absolutely stupid it was...

[Ilsa]

33. Off to GITMO, no lawyer, no habeas corpus. And I hope they

give him a Q'uran by mistake to remind hom of where he is.

[Sabriel]

36. I guess he was a little too slow on the uptake to include Colbert

The satire must've passed him by....

[Anakin Skywalker]

40. Moony Moony Batty-Man!

Hah hah! Who's next?