Are they sending a message to others?
Update: Circuit Court Judge Allan Sharrett dismissed the case and Brandon Raub has been released.
Marine Corps veteran was detained by Secret Service, the FBI and local Virginia police for posting anti-government language on Facebook. There is a state law in Virginia that allows people to be detained when recommended by a mental health professional. I would say that Virginia, Secret Service and the FBI are trampling his first amendment rights of free speech. The deeper question is whether the government is sending a message to anybody speaking their mind about our government.
A local civil liberties group in Virginia called the The Rutherford Institute dispatched a lawyer to defend Brandon. Every American should be sending him support and condemning the actions or our government in trampling Raub's Constitutional rights. When government starts to decide about what speech is allowed because dislike the language, we are all in trouble. Questioning are government is not only our right but our duty, the government shouldn't get to decide how are free speech is exercised. There are limits of course to free speech but usually they are about causing direct harm or threatening someone directly. If these types of anti-government speech got us all detained the federal and state government would need many for hospitals.
What are the afraid of?
Jefferson wrote "Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism." The founders didn't want mindless sheep to be rounded up and told what to do. The federal government surely takes a different view of those who oppose their power and control of this country. From the unconstitutional Patriot Act, to the National Defense Authorization Act and States deciding whom to detain for mental evaluation for exercising free speech.
Raub's mother, Cathleen Thomas, said by telephone that the government had overstepped its bounds. "The bottom line is his freedom of speech has been violated," she said. There will be some that will speak of security over the rights of Raub expressing his dissatisfaction with our government. We have lost much liberty in the cause of security, we have sacrificed it daily and only a few have spoken about the injustice done to liberty. Will Raub be the first of many who have become disenchanted with our government? The founders in their wisdom gave us the right to change government, right in the Declaration of Independence.
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
I stand with Brandon J. Raub, side by side and shoulder to shoulder to protect our freedom and liberty from a government that no longer cares about them. Sharpen your ax, sharpen your aim and be prepared for tyranny to come knocking when you are calling for change.
You can listen to Brandon speak by phone from the psych ward on my blog.
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Comment by David J Edwards on August 29, 2012 at 3:36am Like Stalin and Khrushchev did it... Lock dissenters in asylums. Let them rot.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn was sent to forced labor camps, but he knew how it worked.
How-To claim you are Crazy for BIG Profit and Brownie points from the Dictators they suck up to...
http://lisaleaks.com/2012/08/23/confirmed-psychiatric-manual-dsm-iv...
Vern Shotwell doesn't like Wikipedia, but on this matter, it gives a good perspective on how pervasive this one book can become. It's used internationally. It also explains some of the basic weaknesses of the approach and lists some psychiatrists who disagree with the analysis and methods used. Could be useful information for the lawyers of a person grabbed and held like Brandon Raub was.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_M...
It's a good idea to save that kind of info on your hard drive, paper, and on a backup storage medium (flash, DVD, etc.). Could come in handy for some Patriot in stuck in a nut-house and in great need of help.
Comment by joana briggs on August 28, 2012 at 11:22pm It is working when we are scared!! That was the purpose to warn us so we shut up. If they were concerned for his sanity it would not have been handled so publicly. There will be more warning shots so get ready to duck.
Comment by Lawrence Brown on August 25, 2012 at 6:22pm John: Obama has elected to call anyone who disagrees with him terrorist and will pick you up and jail you without warrant or proof. There are many of us on his terrorist watch list. The real terrorist go free AKA liberal,socialist,communist muslims. One by one disappear from society by illegal in office. MSM is sleeping with Obama. They are getting each other off.
Comment by Ann on August 25, 2012 at 6:03pm John,
You are in dreamland. This Marine was playing a lyrics game on Facebook with his brother and sister! They picked him up on lyrics from songs! Think about it John, and watch what you say. You may be next.
Comment by John Wiant on August 24, 2012 at 11:12pm I am actually more inclined to trust the FBI (any kind of police at the state, county or Federal government levels) than I am the average Democrat these days. I think that Marine must have said and/or written something that was way over the line. Don't forget all Marines have far more training than the average person, in terms of their potential to be dangerous. Somebody / somewhere is probably just doing their job, and they surely knew the guy would be let go in short order. The thing to remember is that: The overwhelming evidence (which is everywhere if you ask me), the Democrats and Left Wing Liberal Progressives are the crazy people. Oh sure, Conservatives and Tea Party people are against BIG Government (and all the typical incompetence and corruption that goes with it)....... but they're also by far the most patriotic and Conservative and respectful of the Constitution. Guess what? So are most "cops."
I tend to think most police are virtually the same as former soldiers. In fact, I'm kind of hoping tons of soldiers will return from the Mid East and BECOME police (of various sorts) in the near future. Also, I remember one of the things I learned in a concealed carry course: Never threaten anyone, and never ever fire a "warning" shot. In short: when it comes to actual serious danger, shut the hell up and just be ready to defend yourself when/IF you need to. Police are highly trained to look for potential danger. I'm not saying that Marine did or said anything all that dangerous, but........ he MIGHT have.
Comment by David J Edwards on August 24, 2012 at 10:43am According to reports, the real name of Seal Team 6 member who wrote the book called "No Easy Day" was revealed by FOX News and AP yesterday. He wrote under the pen name "Mark Owen".
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57499520/ex-navy-seal-comprom...
Comment by Wesley Lennon on August 24, 2012 at 8:20am For all that I have said on the www, blogs, YouTube and many others, it's too late for me to lay low, so why stop now? O's leaks have damaged our National Security, calls in Hollywood to give them information about the raid, and a movie is made "Zero Dark Thirty", was to be released in October, but has been held back (likely due to the Leak mess he has found himself in). Then a Seal Team 6 member writes a book called "No Easy Day" by Mark Owen, but the Pentagon wants the release of the book stopped...why? Because he may have exposed details which would harm National Security. What's left to tell?
Obama already outed the Dr. in Pakistan who is now in prison there, then he exposes the STUXNET virus, a joint effort with the U.S. and Israel (was Israel setup?). The damage done will take years upon years to get anyone to trust the U.S. again with secrets. Then without a warrant or notice, Brandon Raub is arrested on mental stability charges.
Comment by Kory Wittman on August 24, 2012 at 6:59am Comment by Kory Wittman on August 24, 2012 at 6:58am Comment by Doug Nicholson on August 24, 2012 at 2:30am According to the updated headline on this article, "Update: Circuit Court Judge Allan Sharrett dismissed the case and Brandon Raub has been released."
I hope he sues the crap out of every agency involved in this travesty of "justice".
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