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Marine veteran seized by FBI for Facebook posts

HP995

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Young former Marine posted political views on FaceBook. Some friendly officials arrived to ask a few questions and then cuff him and take him to a mental facility with no due process.

http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/jailed-for-facebook-comments-marine-sues/

His most popular posting:

http://wtvr.com/2012/08/21/full-text-brandon-raubs-proclamation-take-our-republic-back/

Arguments over whether he incited violence:

http://communities.washingtontimes....an-government-detain-you-over-facebook-posts/

This guy believed 9/11 was inside job, so I would have disagreed with some of his views, but so what?

I'm amazed this can happen now, just grabbing people, and submitting to mental facility seems to be a new trend. If recent veterans are feared and viewed as dangerous, given extra scrutiny, then gun owners might be too.
 

Grapeshot

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This goes back to Aug 2012 - Rutherford Institute announced it was defending.
https://www.rutherford.org/publicat...arine_arrested_incarcerated_in_psych_ward_det


The shifting fortunes of Marine veteran Brandon J. Raub moved in his favor Thursday after a Hopewell judge criticized his forced relocation to a veterans hospital in western Virginia for mental treatment and then ordered him released.

The case raises anew concerns about Virginia's civil commitment proceedings for mentally ill people, proceedings that were overhauled after Virginia Tech mass murderer Seung-Hui Cho underwent a similar process that upon closer scrutiny was shown to be full of deficiencies and miscommunications between caregivers and the judicial system.

Raub's release follows a procedural error, the failure of a special justice to check off on a petition for involuntary admission to a hospital the elemental findings about Raub's mental condition. Sharrett likened the faulty order to an arrest warrant that lists no specific illegality..
http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/f...cle_14bc317f-49f0-5151-a07f-1529fc131c66.html
 
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joanie

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This guy believed 9/11 was inside job, so I would have disagreed with some of his views, but so what?


I knew, or at the very least had a strong feeling the tuesday morning I woke up to this on the news, That elements of our own government, in bed with certain corperations and a banking cartell was involved. When the "men in caves with box cutters" explanitaion came out, I had no doubt this was an inside job. Years later, more and more comes out in favor of that assumption, the truth has a way of coming out given time. I've lost friends and distanced family over this belief, even been locked up for it, but I can't force myself to believe what I know to be a lie. The evedence is too overwelming, the wars, the loss of rights and freedoms, DHS, TSA, NDAA, all a result of 9/11..



I'm amazed this can happen now, just grabbing people, and submitting to mental facility seems to be a new trend. If recent veterans are feared and viewed as dangerous, given extra scrutiny, then gun owners might be too.


Were all crazy conspiracy theriosts, "Tinfoil hat wearers" if we doubt anything fed to us by our wonderfull government and the corprate controlled media. We should be put in mental intitutions, no better yet, we should be disapeared under NDAA, and if anyone would dare ask where we are, they should be as well for believing we ever existed in the first place.

"What this bill of rights thing you keep going on about? Hey police, check out this person, they think we have rights!" Well, it's right here in the constitution,,, "Come with me sir or mam, get in the back of the car"
 
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