[dirtboy]

Here is where I see the problem to be - from the local police report:

http://wtvr.com/2012/08/20/chesterfield-police-raub-resisted-officers-was-taken-for-evaluation/

Chesterfield Police assisted federal authorities in their efforts to interview Brandon J. Raub on Thursday, Aug. 16. After speaking to Raub, officers believed him to be in need of further evaluation.

Chesterfield officers at the scene contacted Chesterfield Mental Health Crisis Intervention. Crisis workers recommended that police take Raub into custody and bring him in for evaluation.

Chesterfield police took Raub into custody for evaluation in accordance with Virginia State Code § 37.2-808 Emergency custody.

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So what is wrong with § 37.2-808 that someone who has not made a specific threat to anyone can be involuntarily committed?

This is why conservatives were very concerned about such laws in the first place - that political views would become grounds for commitment.

And I don’t agree with Raub at all, he’s a truther and I loathe truthers. But he has a right to post what he wants on a website that allows such.

[Eagles6]

I agree.