Posted on 08/16/2015 10:59:15 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
This article will make you angry. The US Government is actively seeking those who criticize government, specifically Barack Obama, and arresting them without charging them. They are remanded to mental health institutions where they are given “training” on how to view the world. Remind you of a little book that George Orwell wrote? It gets worse. Most of the victims of the government’s kidnapping scheme are veterans.
From The Rutherford Institute:
In the four years since the start of Operation Vigilant Eagle, the government has steadily ramped up its campaign to “silence” dissidents, especially those with military backgrounds. Coupled with the DHS’ dual reports on Rightwing and Leftwing “Extremism,” which broadly define extremists as individuals and groups “that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely,” these tactics have boded ill for anyone seen as opposing the government.
One particularly troubling mental health label being applied to veterans and others who challenge the status quo is “oppositional defiance disorder” (ODD). As journalist Anthony Martin explains, an ODD diagnosis
“denotes that the person exhibits ‘symptoms’ such as the questioning of authority, the refusal to follow directions, stubbornness, the unwillingness to go along with the crowd, and the practice of disobeying or ignoring orders. Persons may also receive such a label if they are considered free thinkers, nonconformists, or individuals who are suspicious of large, centralized government… At one time the accepted protocol among mental health professionals was to reserve the diagnosis of oppositional defiance disorder for children or adolescents who exhibited uncontrollable defiance toward their parents and teachers.”
The case of 26-year-old decorated Marine Brandon Raub—who was targeted because of his Facebook posts, interrogated by government agents about his views on government corruption, arrested with no warning, labeled mentally ill for subscribing to so-called “conspiratorial” views about the government, detained against his will in a psych ward for standing by his views, and isolated from his family, friends and attorneys—is a prime example of the government’s war on veterans.
Raub’s case exposes the seedy underbelly of a governmental system that is targeting Americans—especially military veterans—for expressing their discontent over America’s rapid transition to a police state. Here is a news story by RT (Russian Times) about Brandon Raub. Apparently the corporate media in the United States won’t tell his story:
VIDEO
To underscore how big this story truly is, John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute is the lead attorney defending the innocent victims targeted by the Obama Thought Police. Whitehead is quite famous for his defense of the Bill of Rights for the past several decades.
This is big. Obama wants everybody to think like a brain-dead zombie while he transforms America into Orwell’s 1984. Wake up.
Outcry after military veteran detained for anti-government Facebook posts [VIDEO]
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.
“For government officials to not only arrest Brandon Raub for doing nothing more than exercising his First Amendment rights but to actually force him to undergo psychological evaluations and detain him against his will goes against every constitutional principle this country was founded upon,” Whitehead said.
Raub’s mother, Cathleen Thomas, said by telephone that the government had overstepped its bounds.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/20/outcry-after-military-veteran-detained-for-anti-government-facebook-posts/
Not surprising at all.
FUBO!!
And the goat he rode in on
You only get to “Question Authority” when Democrats are not in the White House. Then its the highest form of patriotism.
Sounds the The American Cowboy Elimination Act.
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
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Better disconnect yourself from the Internet and smash your computer.
>>And the goat he rode in on
When you say, “the goat he rode in on”, are talking about riding on the goat’s back?
After all, he is muslim.
Ordinary political institutions; i.e. elections will no longer correct these abuses. Organize get leaders! I still think that there is a possibility that the negro community organizer from Chicago will suspend the coming elections.
“We will PROVE we are not a Police State... by arresting anyone who accuses us of being a Police State.”
Makes sense.
Which heads did he want to sever?
it is interesting because for most non criminal detaining at psychiatric hospital it is a three day hold that can be extended if the person is not cooperative once hospitalized.
Well, if I’m arrested for speaking (typing) my mind and beliefs, I daresay I will be quite proud of myself.
It’s all part of the leftist scheme to undermine the second amendment by defining as many of our citizens as possible as incapacitated so they can have reasonable cause to confiscate their weapons.
There are four lights.
I would thinks this just rubbish ‘talk’ except I deeply respect the Rutherford Institute & Constitutional Attorney John Whitehead
This is why I don’t post on Facebook (see my tagline).
As for arresting those with anti-regime and anti-half breed, most of us on FR should expect a visit.
I think Obama’s minions are capable of all sorts of evil but I don’t buy this. I would believe they target conservatives with the IRS and possibly pass up conservatives for promotions, etc. but “re-education camps” seem beyond the pale. You would think family members would speak up.
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