Reply With QuoteListen up, never post anything on Facebook or Google + that is detrimental to the US government.
Same can be said of civilain jobs as well.
Carry on...
Marine vet put in psychiatric hospital because he posted 'the government is evil'
Chesterfield man ordered held for evaluation after Facebook posts
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2...at-ar-2144481/
Read the rest of the article at the linked page.HOPEWELL, Va. --A Chesterfield County man taken to a psychiatric ward last week after being interviewed by federal and local law enforcement officials about posts on his Facebook page was ordered detained for up to 30 additional days, his attorney said Monday.
Brandon J. Raub's mother, Cathleen Thomas, reported that she spoke with her 26-year-old son at a Monday morning hearing in the John Randolph Medical Center in Hopewell. "He is in good health. That I can tell you," Thomas said.
She referred questions to her son's attorney, the Charlottesville-based civil liberties organization The Rutherford Institute.
At the hearing, Raub, a Marine veteran who has criticized the government, was ordered by Special Justice Walter Douglas Stokes to be held in detention "for statements that are controversial and terrorist in nature," said the institute, which provides free legal services for people who have had their constitutional and human rights threatened or violated.
An Aug. 5 post on Raub's Facebook page said, "If you are unaware of the great amount of evil perpetrated by the American Government, I suggest you take … your head out of the sand. The day of reckoning is almost at hand."
Raub, who served military tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, was taken to the hospital Thursday after talking with Secret Service, FBI and Chesterfield police officers who questioned him at his home, he said in a phone interview Saturday. He was taken to the Chesterfield police station and then to the hospital, where he was being held against his will, he said.
"This man has not been charged with a crime. He's in a jail — you can call it a hospital, but he is confined, police are there, he cannot leave," said John W. Whitehead, an attorney who founded the institute. He said the institute is looking into whether due process was followed.
If the facts reported here are true, I hope this guys sues the pants off of everyone involved.
Listen up, never post anything on Facebook or Google + that is detrimental to the US government.
Same can be said of civilain jobs as well.
Carry on...
And here was I thinking stuff like that would only happen in the UK.
Like that one guy who tweeted "I'd love to blow this place up" or something after his flight got cancelled - and in all seriousness was charged with issuing a threat.
Or the boy who was arrested for hateful Tweet about Tom Daley ...Originally Posted by muck
A teenager has been arrested by police investigating abuse of Team GB diver Tom Daley on Twitter.
After coming fourth in the men's synchronised 10m platform diving event on Monday, the 18-year-old from Plymouth received a message telling him he had let down his father, Rob.
Rob Daley died in May 2011 from brain cancer.
A 17-year-old boy was arrested at a guest house in the Weymouth area on suspicion of malicious communications.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19059127
https://www.facebook.com/brandon.raub?sk=wall
11th August
'Dear Friends,
I know many of you think I'm going crazy, and are wondering just why I have been posting the things I have been posting. I don't have the energy to explain. Just know that a new beginning is coming.'
The guy should never have been arrested it didn't even merit a warrant nor arrest .. it was done simply because of who it was said at and he was part of the olympic team ... when you look at others in the spotlight that get much worse as usual .. a rule for one and a rule for another ...
election year......
Va. judge orders release of detained veteran
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/V...an-3810234.php
Read the rest of the article at the linked page.A judge on Thursday ordered the release of a former Marine who was detained for psychiatric evaluation after posting strident anti-government messages on Facebook.
Prince George County Circuit Judge W. Allan Sharrett said at the end of a one-hour hearing that the involuntary commitment order issued by a magistrate against Brandon J. Raub was invalid because it contained no allegation or basis to hold him, according to the head of a civil liberties organization that represented the 26-year-old veteran.
"This is a great victory," Rutherford Institute executive director John Whitehead said. "He's a good human being. He just got caught in some weird bureaucratic meanderings and the judge recognized that there's really no true facts to hold this man in a psychiatric ward."
Raub's family was expected to pick him up from the Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center later Thursday. His mother, Cathleen Thomas, did not immediately return a voicemail message.
Thank goodness. This is America, you can't just send someone away for posting stupidity on facebook.
The Department of Precrime can. Preventative detention based on profiling.
Old news.Almost a week old.
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