Would Chad Castagana have stopped at borax and baking soda if he wasn't caught?

[ck4829]

A search warrant of Castagana's Woodland Hills home revealed "possible chemicals that could be used to make weapons of mass destruction or literature that shows how to make it."

On an old van parked in the driveway of Castagana's hillside home, the phrase "Death to all liberals" is inscribed on the van's dirty back window.

http://dailynews.com/news/ci_4654304

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Probably not.

You see, its all about the thrill. It gets harder to get the thrill each incident, so one must escalate.

[lapfog_1]

6. Absolutely...

and it may have also been "dry runs" to see if he was getting the right addresses. As soon as he started getting confirmation that his weapons were being delivered to the right address and he might easily have upped the ante. All depends on what other things the police find.

[wakeme2008]

2. Yes but only because he had no money

:shrug:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I'm thinking he wouldn't.

This guy really is the archetypal freeper, the unemployed, unmarried guy who still lives with his parents, nothing much to do besides wanking over the wackjob heroines of the frothing Right like Michelle Malkin, and fantasizing about winning their love and admiration by smiting the degenerate Left. But it's all fantasy. A guy like that would reasearch WMDs and fantasize about using them on the despised Liberal Media and the running-dog tools of the International Communist Conspiracy, but he would have neither the wherewithal nor the gumption to do anything. It's easier and more satisfying for a loser like that to stay in the basement eating Cheetos and typing one-handed love letters to Ann Coulter.

[Lex]

4. Another right-wing nut like Timothy McVeigh

and those guys just escalate.

Thank goodness the cops caught this guy.

[Eric J in MN]

8. Timothy McVeigh practiced blowing things up...

...in his backyard.

While I don't know what the anthrax hoaxer would have done next, I'm glad he was caught.

[Canuckistanian]

14. But McVeigh was ex-military

He had the training, the know-how... the PTSD.

Castagana had moral outrage courtesy of Rush Limbaugh.

[Canuckistanian]

5. I'd say... not likely

In my opinion, I'm sure he had delusions of grandeur, but he wouldn't have had the guts (or brains) to go out and actually take a risk to procure such materials.

But, in the end, what he was doing was FAR more dangerous than what José Padilla did.

But somehow, I'm guessing, Castagana will get a fair trial.

[AlCzervik]

7. probably not, i think he would be the type that would go back to the last

place he worked and bring a firearm.

[Berry Cool]

9. We dare not underestimate the potential danger of guys like Chad.

The day we do is the day we end up shaking our heads, saying, "Gosh, no one ever thought he'd do anything like THIS."

[stevedeshazer]

10. Not unless his mom upstairs gives him an allowance.

She must pay for his internet access so he can post at Freeperland!

[BanzaiBonnie]

11. So, I missed what exactly happened

I heard something about a DUer involved in digging up info on this guy. What is a good source to get a play by play of how this went down?

[Eric J in MN]

15. Link to AP story.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-threats14nov14,1,2041201.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california

[txindy]

12. Probably not. He wasn't getting the attention he craved.

At least, that was my impression from his pathetic posts in freeperville that folks here snagged before that site was scrubbed. He wanted freeps to post details about his crimes, yet no one bothered to answer him. Now's he's been arrested and we're told that at least one of his recent letters was to a previous target. If he was already repeating himself, well, an escalation certainly doesn't sound out of the question.

[pa28]

13. Doubt it. But either way he's still a terrorist.

I really hope he is punished to the fullest extent of the law.

[A HERETIC I AM]

16. Well, since handling biochemical weapons is something every nimrod that lives in his moms basement

can readily locate constituent parts for, safely assemble and effectively deploy, WHY NOT?!?

I mean, we all can do it, right? All you need is a few printed pages from the web and a dust mask.

Please. He would have been found a stiff 2 days after he mailed the first truly dangerous letter IF he actually made it to the mailbox without choking on his spleen first.

[lectrobyte]

17. We can't say one way or the other. I see the guy as dangerous,

because he took up a lot of time and effort to track down, not to mention the poor folks on the other end of his jokes. And while maybe he'd never ever get possession of some anthrax, after his mass mailings failed to get the attention he wanted, he decides to get some guns and go shoot up all the evil liberals down at City Hall one afternoon to show the world his power.

[Tatiana]

18. I don't think so. AND, I suspect, he was involved in a lot more than fake anthrax mailings. n/t

[blogslut]

19. I think Castagana might be clinically, mentally ill

Like, for real.

I watched a television interview with one of his neighbors. She described him as constantly talking to himself as if he were carrying on a conversation with an imaginary listener.

[Starlight]

21. Keith Olbermann said he's 39, unemployed and lives with his parents.

I think we can reasonably assume he's not 100% mentally stable.

[leftofthedial]

20. he was escalating

and would have kept on

[flying_monkeys]

22. Truth be told, we all have "possible chemicals of mass destruction" in our homes

It isn't hard to have chems that could qualify as "chemicals of mass destruction" in one's house and garden.... Fertilizer and ammonia is a good start....


I think this is reaching - - While sending Borax or MSG to public figures is despicable, it isn't really *quite* the same as flying an airplane into the WTCs....


Chad is more a 'terrorist lite' if ya ask me....