In a hearing before a judge on August 20, government officials again pointed to Raub’s Facebook posts as the sole reason for their concern and for his continued incarceration.
If there is no other item than his Facebook postings (such as threatening email), this IMO is an egrigious abuse of the law. I read every one of Raub's Facebook posts - they only go back to July or so. Only one could remotely be construed as a specific threat against individuals - and those were not named, just implied.
IMO this is gross overkill after Virginia Tech and the other shootings we've seen recently. I am glad Rutherford got involved with this. This kind of precedent needs to be nipped in the bud.
Thanks for the information.
At the risk of riling the FReepers who hate me for too often criticizing a certain long-running, late-night "nonpartisan" radio show -- which I shall never mention again by name -- the host and guests of that show say those things all the time.
There have been no claims of the Bush family and molesting children but the Bush family is regularly blamed for everything else. So arrest George Noory and the produc.. uh, I mean . . . D'oh!