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Brandon J. Raub, Former Marine, Detained After Anti-Government Facebook Postings
RICHMOND, Va. A former Marine involuntarily detained for psychiatric evaluation for posting strident anti-government messages on Facebook has received an outpouring of support from people who say authorities are trampling on his First Amendment rights.
Brandon J. Raub, 26, has been in custody since FBI, Secret Service agents and police in Virginia's Chesterfield County questioned him Thursday evening about what they said were ominous posts talking about a coming revolution. In one message earlier this month according to authorities, Raub wrote: "Sharpen my axe; I'm here to sever heads."
Police acting under a state law that allows emergency, temporary psychiatric commitments upon the recommendation of a mental health professional took Raub to the John Randolph Medical Center in Hopewell. He was not charged with any crime.
A Virginia-based civil liberties group, The Rutherford Institute, dispatched one of its attorneys to the hospital to represent Raub at a hearing Monday. A judge ordered Raub detained for another month, Rutherford executive director John Whitehead said.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/brandon-j-raub-marine-detained_n_1817484.html
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choie
(4,111 posts)the head of the Rutherford Institute was one of Paula Jones' attorneys against Clinton...just sayin'
former-republican
(2,163 posts)Renew Deal
(81,873 posts)This guy is bragging that he will: "Sharpen my axe; I'm here to sever heads."
Enough is enough with these psychos.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)that the sun came up again?
rasputin1952
(83,130 posts)after all, "it's the left that are "insane"...yeah riiiight. The RW has the massive majority of crazies.