Look! Down in the basement! It's a nerd! It's a pain! It's Castaganaman!

[Philosoraptor]

Castaganaman! Strange freeper from another planet with powders and postage stamps far beyond those of mortal men! Castaganaman! Folds envelopes with his bare hands, lives with his parents although he's fourty, able to place mysterious white powder in envelopes and send them to liberal celebrities he hates!

Castaganaman! Who, disguised as Chad Conrad Castagana, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the anonymous American way of terror!

Son! Son! Can you lay off the screaming down there in the basement, the neighbors are complaining!

[AIJ Alom]

1. I think he was screaming about that actresses breasts being

unreal ! What's her name, from Puppetmaster 2 ?

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. You mean........ the horse/female impersonator?????????//

ANN, THE MAN????????????

[sam sarrha]

3. it is amazing what a monochrome diet of hate and intolerance can do for someone

[noamnety]

4. The one thing I wouldn't knock him for

is living with his parents.

There's nothing wrong with extended families living together, and it's a sign of the consumerism in America that we look down upon those who don't own their own home or at the very least rent their own apartment.

But that's not the most environmentally sound way to live. This is like bashing people who live in trailers - when, in fact, they have a smaller environmental footprint than the rest of us.

Much of the world lives as extended families, and if we don't, I don't think that makes us superior to those that do in any way.

[Philosoraptor]

5. I admire your sense of fair play

but they would attack any liberal who'd done such idiotic things mercilessly with just such insults, so in my own immature way, I attacked the jerk.

I take your point though, living at home with mom and dad is as common as living alone, and not in itself a reason for ridicule.

[magellan]

6. But living with his parents AND unemployed, at 39

I'll knock that, only because of the hypocrisy. According to FR it's only us liberals who have the audacity to be jobless; all Repugs are gainfully employed.

[Tesha]

19. Why do you think Freepers always shout "Get a job!" at us when we march?

> According to FR it's only us liberals who have the audacity to be jobless

Why do you think Freepers always shout "Get a job!" at us when we march?
"Projection".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

Tesha

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. While I agree with you...

I think this is hysterical for one reason. Freepers love to accuse the very same in DUers and Dems in general. I've yet to meet a Dem who lives in his mother's basement. This guy was straight from central casting. I guess that makes me a bad person and a bad influence on my kids but I cannot help it. :hi:

[Philosoraptor]

8. it's the #1 freeper caricature of a DUer

I've read their sites, and they use this cartoon image constantly.

[TabulaRasa]

9. I don't agree with your defense of this clown

The point is that he lives with his parents (if in fact that is the case), and not that his parents live with him (because he's taking care of them). That's a common thing around the world. What's not common is an able-bodied man of his age asking his elderly parents to pay his bills and look after him, while he jerks off in the basement. I don't have all the details, but it seems like this guy has all the energy in the world to run around mailing fake anthrax, but likely can't even do his own laundry. And these are always the asshats that rant about personal responsibility. Fuck em!

[noamnety]

15. It's not a defense of HIM

It's a defense of living with one's parents. My husband lived with his parents til he was in his late twenties. He was earning a decent salary, but didn't feel a need to throw extra money at an apartment to prove his worth to anyone.

I tend to think in terms of collateral damage - which happens in more places than on a battle field. If we mock a freeper for living with parents, it affects the nonfreepers who live with parents. If we mock freepers who live in trailers, we're also indirectly mocking DUers who live in trailers. Same with mocking someone for being overweight if we disagree with their views, or for not meeting an airbrushed unrealistic standard of beauty. Same with gay bashing. It's okay to expose hypocrisy, but when we start refering to gay people as losers, that's something besides just exposing hypocrisy - it's a value judgment. And I have seen posts implying that he's a loser for being unemployed and living with his parents. This, for example: "What's not common is an able-bodied man of his age asking his elderly parents to pay his bills and look after him, while he jerks off in the basement" is something I imagine would be offensive to folks here who are unemployed and had to do what was necessary to survive.

The point isn't that he lived with his parents. The point is that he's a freaking terrorist. Isn't that enough? The line of ridicule here is like saying "bin laden is a terrorist! (and ps. he lives with his mother.)"

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. Turnabout is fair play

Have you ever visited freeperland? They continually characterize us as living in our parent's basement. There is one cartoon they post that is particularly offensive.

[ck4829]

14. Living at home with your parents is OK

It's the fact that he was committing acts of domestic terrorism... while living at home with his parents that people are finding humorous.

[lectrobyte]

16. Yes, it's one thing to be a 20-something and living at home, he's

39 though...

[noamnety]

18. Do you really equate a person's value

with having their own apartment or house?

Seems a bit culturally myopic to me (and environmentally backwards - like valuing SUVs over bicycles).

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

20. You live with your parents, don't you.

Just kidding- I lived with my big sister for several years after my health forced me into early (and broke) retirement. So I definitely do see your point.

[noamnety]

21. no, I don't

I actually left home when I was 16, and don't have any relatives within hundreds of miles of me.

[lectrobyte]

22. Value? Not at all. Do feel like something is a bit off though, if one

is living with their parents at 40. Not saying that it couldn't happen to me, but not something I'd be proud of, though, either. Perhaps his apparent "failure to launch" contributed to his alleged mailing activity?

[noamnety]

23. Sure sounds like a value judgment

Why does it make you a better person (less "off") to have your own house/apartment?

So much of our materialism and keeping up with the Joneses relates back to these attitudes, it's hard to look at them critically sometimes - we just assume it's "natural" to keep building more and more separates houses for each person, but that's not what's really best, is it?

I'm thinking it's possible we're looking down on the wrong people.

(Uh, looking down on folks that live with extended families, I mean, not anthrax mailers)

[lectrobyte]

25. Perhaps. Let's just say I'd have been much more surprised if he

had been living on his own, and holding down a job, had a SO, etc. etc. Oh, and btw, I lived in my parent's basement a few years out of college, had a job, but trying to save money etc. etc.

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. Did you read that search warrant?

It listed "anti-semitic literature and or left wing hate rhetoric"!!

That has to kill the freepers. :rofl:

[Crankie Avalon]

12. The Rupert Pupkin of the blogosphere...

"Rupert, Rupert what are doing down there?"
"MOMMMMMMMMMM, I have to do this now!"
"I don't mind you doing it, but lower it..."
"MOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!"

[Ian David]

13. I wonder if he's the same guy who posted those threats here on DU?

You know, the ones that got the secret service concerned.

[lectrobyte]

17. Good link with the affadavit here.

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2006/11/the-castagana-correspondence-right-what-you-know.php

[Hugin]

24. Wow... That is some sick stuff.

That mentality is bred under a cultish mentality fostered by the Free Republic.

No wonder there was never any 'serious' investigation of the Anthrax Attack using
the actual pathogen.

They 'KNEW' where such an investigation would lead... Not to Saddam, but, to their
very doorsteps.

[Philosoraptor]

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