Right-Wing Terrorist Busted
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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.
Not surprisingly, he was involved in the conservative blogosphere, posting praises of Katherine Harris on Ian Schwartz’s (now of HotAir) blog:
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 !
He’s apparently also a poster on the Republican forum, Free Republic. How many other, more dangerous, terrrorists are hiding in right-wing websites?
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Not surprised. We have had some con posters here that fit the terrorist profile.
Instapundit today:
JOSH MANCHESTER WRITES on why intellectuals love defeat.
ISLAMISTS ARE INFILTRATING U.K. UNIVERSITIES
No Oliver, I am sure you are mistaken. Surely, news of a freeper being busted for sending phony anthrax letters to congresspeople and entertainers would have made it to the Instafluffer’s desk.
George Bush doesn’t care about white terrorists!
Terroristic threats, assualt, and eventually murder is the next phase of the right-wing “Turn Back the Clock” movement.
Since they’ve lost control of Congress (for the foreseeable future), they are desperate and will lash out in all of the evil ways they know how.
Lying, hatred, apathy, bigotry and yes, violence are all hallmarks of right-wingers. We need to anticipate and be prepared for their Jim Crow-era tactics.
“How many other, more dangerous, terrrorists are hiding in right-wing websites?”
By my count – 3.
This yahoo sent fake white powder. Left wing Bush-hating Internet poster Andrew Mickell (McCrae) killed a cop. Which do you think is worse? Left yahoo or right yahoo?
Wow, every time O’Reilly or one of the other blowhards talks about those eeeevil left-wing haters on DailyKos I want somebody to throw this dickwad in his face.
Interesting Dugger chimes in. He was one that I thought fits the terrorist profile.
Who’s objectively worse?
This guy or Mickell. The left Internet yahoo or the right Internet yahoo?
Anybody?
Weren’t we talking about dangerous Internet posters?
Any Andy McCrae fans out there? He hated Rs and Bush too. Went to a good northwest liberal college.
“Who’s objectively worse?”
Pedrugger plays the moral equivalence game. What a hypocrite.
Still no mention of this from Instafluffer.
To answer your question, Oliver, probably the exact same limited number that hang out at anti-WTO rallies, the Democratic Under ground, left-wing blogs, and at factcheck’s dinner parties.
But let’s be serious here. In your almost silly need to make loons and crazies and exclusive domain of the partisan right, you would have to overlook all the violent tendencies the exact same limited number of kooks on the left.
But I know. It fits the style and theme of your writing.
I’m glad they caught this idiot. Give him the maximum sentence.
“Any Andy McCrae fans out
there?”
You’re a scumbag Dugger, a total scumbag.
I know…let’s play that game where we spout names of violent criminals that identify as conservative and those that identify as liberal until somebody can’t think of one. This should waste a few good hours of everybody’s lives without doing anything of consequence whatsoever.
I see McRae and raise you McVeigh! Go.
BD
Nope BD. OW’s topic concerns the Internet and emphasizes a conservative web site. Where’s McVeigh on the Internet? Leftist hater Mickell was all over that puppy.
If we eliminate the Internet, I move right away to the ultimate worldwide statistic of leftists having murdered 100,000,000 and win. Take your pick.
Whos worse, kiddies, this guy or Mickell?
Personally Dugger- it’s pretty worthless to paint an entire party or ‘side’ with the acts of their loons. Both sides have them, and we should do everything we can to stop their stupidity.)
If BD would have stopped before “I’ll see…” he would have written the perfect response.
Exactly.
I presume Dugger is counting the scores of people murdered at the hands of hardline religious fanatics throughout history when he declares “victory” based on his jillion-casualty figure.
Or are the Crusaders and Jihadists “liberals”?
Who cares who is worse? They are both rotten people and should be put away.
(BD- Dugger referred to leftists, not liberals, of which, I assume, communists in Soviet Russia and China he is including. But again- this is one pissing match that is moot. We should neutralize any threats, regardless of ‘whose side’ they come from.)
“I presume Dugger is counting …”
Oh crap. Here it comes …
Actually BD, the numbers for that far back are much less reliable and overall population was, of course, much less. And if we count the Crusaders of Europe as ‘rightists’, do we count Genghis Khan, the Muslim invasions of Europe, the Byzantine war in the 600s-700s as leftists?
No, any way you cut it, leftists have perfected the art of political extremism and mass murder better than anyone in history.
Marty, Agree entirely, but you must understand the basic thrust of OWs original post is to precisely smear all rightists with the actions of this one yahoo. Sauce for the goose?
LoL … pedugger’s returned from getting The Decider doll refunds.
frameone | Nov 13, 2006 12:58:24 PM
“I presume Dugger is counting …” Oh crap. Here it comes …”
Dugger | Nov 13, 2006 12:58:34 PM
“the numbers for that far back are much less reliable and overall population was, of course, much less. And if we count the Crusaders of Europe as ‘rightists’, do we count Genghis Khan, the Muslim invasions of Europe, the Byzantine war in the 600s-700s as leftists?”
Shorter Dugger: You can’t possibly talk about RW message board posters because leftwingers did something twelve centuries ago.
“I move right away to the ultimate worldwide statistic of leftists having murdered 100,000,000 and…”
…get a well-deserved horse laugh. “Left” as in Mao Zedong or Joe Stalin is the same as “left” as in liberal blog poster?
Haw!
I think we need a new corollary to Godwin.
Dugger, you do realize that Muslim fundamentalists and Christian fundamentalists–bitter and violent enemies no matter what point of history you find them–are both on the right wing of their respective societies?
That is, you can have “right wingers” fighting right wingers.
But I’ve fallen into the same stupid trap with you, Dugger. Stalinism was not related to socialism. Neither was Naziism, even though Hitler called it a socialist party. Stalinism was fascism pretending to be communism. Get that through your skull someday.
Between this and your continued insistence that quantitative numbers are all that count (eg, Iraq isn’t that bad because more people died in X city or country), one wonders if you have the ability to look at an entire situation or only its surface.
Is Ian Schwartz our Ian? The kid who occasionally posts on OW’s blog?
Clearly, and yet getting sucked into a pissing match over which side’s idiots are worse is just silly and Oliver knows it.
Oliver got a chance to use the words “Right wing terrorist” and you took the bait. It’s an attempt to create a “talking points” language.
Yep, it’s the same chickenhawk. Who would have thought a lunatic wingnut would post on HIS blog? (Rasing hand).
It was a Freeper? The same place that was one home to Tony Snow and Michelle Malkin? I’m not surprised. I’m dead certain this isn’t the only unstable asshole on that board.
I can’t wait to see what Olbermann has to say about this tonight.
Maybe they don’t get the internet tubes in Tennessee, because neither Glenn nor Glenda have said a word about this all day. Puzzling.
“Oliver got a chance to use the words “Right wing terrorist” and you took the bait.”
Perhaps, but if there is one thing that pleases me re dealing with the left, it is puncturing their assumptions of moral superiority. Most of them have zero idea who Mickell is, for instance – and yet here they are cyber-blabbing about the extremism or right wing Internet posters. And it often results in such silliness as claiming V.Dzhugashvili was not a leftist. So here we a decent sized, Soros funded leftist web site wanting to argue Uncle Joe wasn’t of the left.
So here we have a decent sized, Scotch soaked idiot, wanting to argue that Oliver Willis must atone for millions of dead Russians before he can call a right wing nut a right wing nut.
Again, Dugger–all surface. Stalin said he was a communist, but he failed to practice nearly any of Lenin’s basic tenets of communism, and those he gave lip service to were largely as tools of extending his individual power.
Ivan the Terrible claimed to be an Orthodox Christian. Idi Amin claimed to be King of Scotland. Just because somebody says they are something doesn’t make it so.
There are plenty of fine examples of left-wing hatred and violence to choose from. Weatherman, for instance, or what eventually came of the Sandinistas. But no, Dugger needs to claim that leftism is THE EVIL OF ALL ETERNITY THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE, so he continues his disingenuous claim that Stalin is the iconic liberal that all left-leaning peoples prostrate themselves before.
Dugger | Nov 13, 2006 5:01:55 PM
” … but if there is one thing that pleases me re dealing with the left, it is puncturing their assumptions of moral superiority.”
Because Ted Haggard was doing a demonstrably better job of it?
BD
And most Nazis failed to practice all the tenets of Nazism. So what? They still committed horrendous crimes in its name. Listen, I’ll only tell you this once: Lenin perverted Marx, Stalin perverted Lenin and Marx. But small ‘c’ communism was around before Marx. It matters not. 100 million were murdered in the name of that left wing ‘ideal’. You are merely trying to find a means to excuse the horrible excesses of the extreme left. Are you aware that there are those out there who would deny Hitler was a rightist – emphasizing the ‘socilism’ part of ‘national socialism’?
If you dare approach reason, intellect and logic and wish to argue the problem is political extremism, then I would agree. Then, we must call OW’s example, highlighting a right wing yahoo, as unfair and , historically unbalanced.
Does anybody on FreeRepublic know where the anthrax killer is? How about OBL? How about some of you loathsome cons who post here so often one wonders if you actually work at all? Where are the real bad guys? I’m sure your government would appreciate the help!
“Then, we must call OW’s example, highlighting a right wing yahoo, as unfair and , historically unbalanced.”
Hilarious. Dugger will agree with you if you want argue that political extremism in general is a bad thing but then he’ll tell you that actually pointing out an example of political extremism that doesn’t account for Stalin is “unfair.”
Way to go yahoo, you’re still King Idiot Troll.
I particularly enjoy how Marpedrugger (these chimaeric names are getting a bit difficult to keep up with) are willingly, gleefully ignoring the simple ugly fact that this man was goaded and encouraged by the right wing.
According to these web pages, we on the left are baby murdering terrorists who should be dealt with accordingly. And it’s not just the internet. Their pundits speak wistfully of a time when we are extinct, with perhaps a few remnants left in zoos for people to look laughingly upon. In print we are called Godless, Unhinged, and Traitors. It’s obvious what they are trying to do. They just like to pretend otherwise because they can’t admit to themselves that their souls are that ugly.
And when someone actually takes their rhetoric to it’s logical conclusion and attacks liberals, they leap to point out various lunatics on the left who receive no such support from our side. As if that somehow makes things equal. As if we were as horrendous as they are.
I have no doubt there are lunatics who dwell on both sides of the aisle. But to sit there and declare there is no difference between the two is flagrantly and embarrassingly stupid. And anyone with any sense at all would acknowledge it.
I’ve never heard of this Andrew Mickell fellow before. Can someone show me one of his postings on a left-wing web site? From the WaPo profile, I didn’t glean that he was a big poster in the blogosphere. In any event, he sounds seriously derranged and insane.
Much like Castagana, whom we know to be a poster in the blogosphere.
Jody … “Marpedrugger” … love it!
I should also note that I just checked FR, and the Freepers aren’t bringing up this Mickell guy either. They much be part of the Great Left-Wing Conspiracy.
Jody: Yeah, someone should put up a page describing the evil folks described by right-wing websites. That caricature would make Charlie Manson seem normal. It would be a hoot.
S: Thanks, tho I was merely expounding upon the OW tradition of tacking the name of the latest troll borg onto the collective.
DL: Indeed, such a creature would be unrecognizable. To see monsters on the right, however, you need look no further than, say, the VP’s office. Or better yet, Skeletor Rumsfeld.
I just can’t believe they’re still trying to deny it, even while they place the aforementioned pundits on their highest pedestals. It’s as if they don’t realize their words and deeds have real world consequences-
Waittaminute. I think I just hit upon the root of the problem.
There you go, Jody, nooooooow you’ve got it!
If you seriously think extremism amongst Internet posters is a problem and you don’t know who Mickel nee McCrae is, you are woefully uninformed. But then this site thinks Stalin is a rightist.
Here a hint for you. LOOK IT UP!
I notice the General has written little Ian a letter.
I noticed that you didn’t reply to my point, Dugger.
Show me a single left wing pundit that wishes a right wing newspaper struck on 9/11 and not the Twin Towers. Then show me any web site that approvingly quotes them. For that matter, show me publications that put that pundit on their cover even after they made such an odious remark.
You know what? That’s even a bit specific. Just show me any instance where anyone on the left has dehumanized, demonized, and called for the death of the right wing, to the approval of the rest of us.
Alternatively, you can sit there and pound away on your little caps lock key, thinking it’ll drown out the obvious. Wave your arms around if you think it’ll help.
Jody, You’re all over the map. But creatively intrepreting your gibberish, how about this:
Many families have been devastated tonight. This just is not right. They did not deserve to die. If someone did this to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who did not vote for him! Boston, New York, DC, and the planes’ destination of California — these were places that voted against Bush!
Mike Moore, USA Today Pundit (they kept Moore, fired Coulter) and pal of Jimmuh Cartuh.
As someone who crawled in here and equated a lone nut with the right wing hate machine you shouldn’t go on about being ‘all over the map’, little Dug. Especially considering what you followed up with.
I requested you show me a left wing pundit that approaches the right’s level of hostile discourse, and you gave me a quote that the hijackers used planes from left wing cities.
You even throw in a little meep about how USA today fired Ann Coulter, seemingly because you believe this proves, proves, PROVES the insidious librul bias at USA Today.
So. Your argument is that a columnist making an observation about the 9/11 hijackers-in a newspaper which fired Ann “kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity” Coulter-is ample evidence that the left throws around precisely the same amount of dehumanizing hatred that the right does.
In short, your big, dramatic broadside amounted to a wet fart.
Congratulations.
I didn’t crawl anywhere Jody. Been here a lot longer than you.
And do you keep up with current events? The quote was from Mike Moore’s web site. The thrust of the quote from Moore is that it would have made sense if the terrorists had murdered Americans who support Bush. And Moore was a USA columnist, proinently featured also at the Democratic convention and a darling of Hollywood.
Tell you what, throw in that asterisk next time you are asking for an example, when you really don’t want an example and I’ll pretend there are none.
BTW, like Mikeys quote?
i think pedugger’s done well coming to terms that his beloved has ZERO influence for the remainder of his presidential term.
Dugger, are you telling us what Michael Moore was “thinking”? You have some crystal ball as to his intent? “The thrust of the quote…” is open to interpretation.
and it also proves nothing. and it iaslo is nowhere near Ann “kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity” Coulter’s rhetoric.
Personally, it seems obvious to me that this guy was just trying to impress Michelle Malkin and hoping she’d sleep with hm.
One’s duration on a web page does nothing to indicate one’s age, li’l Dugger. Judging from your usual tone I naturally assumed you just needed your diapy changed. My mistake.
What I was not mistaken about was your usual irrelevance towards the issue at hand. In response to all the instances of rightwing venom I referenced OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, the very best you could proffer up was a misinterpretion of a single column from a moviemaker who could hardly be called mainstream.
See, Michael did not call for the deaths of rightwingers; he was outraged that terrorists were targetting leftwing strongholds. He feels Bush’s policies made those who didn’t vote for him even less safe. Which, go figure, they have.
But I could see how you might interpret it in some other way. Anything to establish false equivalence between him and Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Michael Savage, Little Green Footballs, FreeRepublic, or Redstate. To name a few. Anything to paint them all with the same shit-stained brush.
Anything to be able to hop up and squeal “See? SEE? They’re just as scummy as we are!”
Anything to keep your delusions intact. Because after this last election, that’s all you have left.
I mean, besides all the bile of course.
Jody,
Your admission of a mistake duly noted. Don’t be too ashamed.
And if the Moore quote was harmless, why did he pull if off his own web site right away? After all, it was harmless, right?
Andrew Mickell’s sh*tty deed does not go away and forever puts you on the defensive regarding the extremism of political Internet posters. And your guy, OW, initiated the discussion. Not me. Would have been OK if he hadn’t tried to extrapolate it to the whole RW side of the Internet. Then an argument back is fair game.
Once again you stray from the point. You continue to just bound along like a toddler with ADD. My mistake was clearly understandable on the face of it.
The point, of course, is that the right supports and encourages this sort of behavior among it’s orcs, whereas the left does not.
And in your attempt to cite otherwise, you had to go and once again prove me correct. Moore’s comment could indeed be interpreted incorrectly by low-minded types (ahem), so he pulled it.
It wasn’t celebrated by the left, and he wasn’t planted on the cover of time for his ‘hilarious and controversial’ views.
In fact, pretty much any statement from anyone on the left that could even be remotely construed as hostile to anyone gets pounced on by people from both sides of the aisle. Just ask John Kerry.
You were so desperate, so determined to get one over on me, you walked right into it. And you’re so dim, so confoundingly deluded, that you still don’t see it.
And you never will, either. You have too much emotional capital invested in it. You couldn’t handle being wrong, so you heap more bullshit on, in the vain hope that it’ll blot out the glaringly obvious.
Which is the fact that the right is pushing for this sort of behavior.
Jody
I’ve excused your first mistake.
But you just said the left does not encourage this kind of behavior. Look at the Moore quote. Then, who, Jody, in the ‘Mother of God Hell’ was that sitting next to Jimmuh Cartuh at the convention???!! Who did USA today give a column to? Who did they fire? Who got nominated for a friggin Best Picture Oscar?
And you look at that quote more closely. He says the people who died did not deserve to die and then talks about the people who voted for Bush (who did not die). You can bend over backward and find some remote excuse for Moore, but the b*astard was saying it would have made sense if the Ts had murdered red staters and by implication, that they deserved to die. Go ahead and excuse it all you want, but you have zero moral authority, if you do, to criticize anything Coulter or anybody else says.
Start going Mr Pretzel.
Sigh. And so, Dugger piles the bullshit bulwark ever higher…
As we’ve established in two, count ‘em two, posts, Mr. Moore’s comment is readable as a call for the death of rightwingers only in the same way that people against the war in Iraq are pro-terrorist. That is, only in fever dreams of the most delusional freeper types.
Dugger’s whole argument is clinging to this single out-of-context quote. That’s literally the best he can do. Meanwhile I can drop dozens of quotes of fully endorsed right wing malice, and he knows it.
I could easily demand he defend Ann Coulter’s “The only way to talk to a liberal is with a baseball bat”. It’s more relevant to the argument, as the arrested party from the original post worshipped her. It’s also a direct quote of hers, and not out of context. She said it, she meant it, and the whole right wing defended it.
But really, defending the atrocities on his side was never really Dugger’s intention. His entire argument, as I have stated from the getgo, is “You’re no better than we are”.
As I have said, he’ll never allow his delusions to falter.
Tho it does surprise me that a George W Bush supporter would invoke pretzels