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Liberal blog claims "fake anthrax" mailer is a Freeper (Also DUer see post 14)
Raw story ^ | Monday November 13, 2006 | Larisa Alexandrovna and Brian Beutler

Posted on 11/13/2006 10:21:14 AM PST by mucho muchacho

The man arrested on Saturday for sending more than a dozen envelopes containing "fake anthrax" to anti-war celebrities, journalists, and politicians may have ties to the conservative supersite Free Republic, RAW STORY has found.

Chad Castagana, a 39 year old Californian named as the FBI's prime suspect in the case, is due in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles today, where procecutors are expected to file criminal complaint against him for sending threatening letters through the U.S. mail. Castagana has an extensive online history, often writing about science fiction and conservative politics, and many bloggers are convinced that he is also a contributor at the conservative activist Free Republic website under the name Marc Costanzo.

Earlier today, users at the liberal websites Democratic Underground and Daily Kos brought to light the similarities between Castagana's Internet footprint and Costanzo's writings at Free Republic, and RAW STORY has found a series of eyebrow-raising connections between the two men.

Link (wasn't able to include it as a source URL)

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Fake_anthrax_hoax_by_conservative_blogger_1113.html

(Excerpt) Read more at rawstory.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anthrax; chadcastagana; du; freerepublic; who
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To: cripplecreek
No kidding. I got into an argument with a village voice writer a while back. He didn't like my comments about a story he wrote so he FReepmailed me to call me dirty names.

Perlstein?

61 posted on 11/13/2006 12:34:26 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: revco226
I did worse things to my teachers in high school.

:-p

62 posted on 11/13/2006 12:35:38 PM PST by bannie
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To: dead

LOL Thats the one. I couldn't remember the name till you said it.


63 posted on 11/13/2006 12:35:39 PM PST by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: Petronski

I will try searching...


64 posted on 11/13/2006 12:36:26 PM PST by PghBaldy (Reporter: Are you surprised? Nancy Pelosi: No. My eyes always look like this.)
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To: mucho muchacho

"may have ties to the conservative supersite Free Republic"

Because he may have posted here, he has "ties". What does he do, run the site? Just about anyone can post here.


65 posted on 11/13/2006 12:36:57 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: cripplecreek
I figured it was him, he used to post around here quite a bit, under the rather non-creative but honest name "Perlstein."

He stopped posting a while ago. I think the fact that people kept citing all his erroneous predictions from the prior months was bothering him. He preferred to make bold new predictions without the unfair critique of his previous mistakes.

66 posted on 11/13/2006 12:40:21 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Pest

Wow, is right. Smears w/o facts.


67 posted on 11/13/2006 12:40:43 PM PST by debg
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To: cripplecreek; dead

Perlstein's work is eminently forgettable.


68 posted on 11/13/2006 12:42:07 PM PST by Petronski (Living His life abundantly.)
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To: Petronski

I tried looking - but am not a member of DU, so don't have access to search (?) I can't figure out to search there... The ONLY thing I saw was that article (Radar?) that I posted - over at DU, they're so stupid, they are saying FR is down, yet I've been posting/reading here for last few hours...


69 posted on 11/13/2006 12:47:44 PM PST by PghBaldy (Reporter: Are you surprised? Nancy Pelosi: No. My eyes always look like this.)
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To: PghBaldy
A frequent commentor on Democratic Underground, Castagna was also a regular on the right-wing message board Free Republic under the nom de rant, Marc Costanzo.

Provocature, playing both ends against the middle?

Pretty easy to do given the climate.

70 posted on 11/13/2006 12:49:15 PM PST by metesky (My investment portfolio is holding steady @ .05? a can.)
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To: mucho muchacho

Zot!


71 posted on 11/13/2006 12:51:12 PM PST by Doomonyou (I voted and all I got was a FUBAR Congress.)
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To: PghBaldy; All
This post is on DU - check it out CLICK ! Glad they spend so much time here! LOL
72 posted on 11/13/2006 12:51:45 PM PST by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
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To: mucho muchacho
Chad Castagana...

Too bad he lives in California, or we could have a different meaning to the term, Hanging Chad.

...sorry, gang...

73 posted on 11/13/2006 12:52:01 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Closing in on 3000 posts, of which maybe 50 were worthwhile!)
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To: MontanaBeth

OMG- they are now saying I was a co-conspirator... Maybe they should read my anthrax posts hoping no harm comes to anyone... I should sue the pants off em.


74 posted on 11/13/2006 12:53:48 PM PST by PghBaldy (Reporter: Are you surprised? Nancy Pelosi: No. My eyes always look like this.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Zot 'n Roll!


75 posted on 11/13/2006 12:54:26 PM PST by metesky (My investment portfolio is holding steady @ .05? a can.)
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To: areafiftyone

it was nexus-lexus...an engine used to spot plagarism.


76 posted on 11/13/2006 12:54:28 PM PST by soupcon
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To: Triple

CGEB


77 posted on 11/13/2006 12:55:58 PM PST by metesky (My investment portfolio is holding steady @ .05? a can.)
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To: areafiftyone

They now have dragged me into it... Maybe they should read this: http://freerepublic.info/focus/f-news/1731811/posts?page=53#53 and this http://freerepublic.info/focus/f-news/1731811/posts?page=52#52

To: PghBaldy
I hope everyone is safe and unharmed, and that it is not anthrax.

53 posted on 11/03/2006 7:39:57 PM PST by PghBaldy (This hominid named Kerry annoys me.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Whoops. I just posted an article from a diff source. I hope it is nothing.

52 posted on 11/03/2006 7:37:20 PM PST by PghBaldy (This hominid named Kerry annoys me.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ] WELL, if they keep this up, I'll have my lawyers sue them.


78 posted on 11/13/2006 1:09:04 PM PST by PghBaldy (Reporter: Are you surprised? Nancy Pelosi: No. My eyes always look like this.)
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To: mucho muchacho

I guess UPS hasn't delivered the load of chickenshiess yet. I KNKEW I should have used DHL.


79 posted on 11/13/2006 1:09:48 PM PST by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: metesky
Nine months a Regular, I have been here for almost seven years in this present incarnation and close to three years lurking and I am still a new guy.
80 posted on 11/13/2006 1:10:04 PM PST by Little Bill (A 37%'r, a Red Spot on a Blue State, rats are evil.)
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