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To: wideawake
This article is very light on what Brandon Raub posted that got him flagged. I highly doubt it was the one paragraph quoted in this article. Without more specific information, this article is more propaganda than reportage.

The column is not propaganda. It is a warning.

I do not have a Facebook account, so I could not see what he wrote--that's why I did not include any of his quotes from FB. The paragraph I quoted in the column is one that I plainly said was posted at another website, not FB. I used it as an example of his general thinking

Later, after I had finished the piece and submitted it to the websites that carry my columns, my editor from American Clarion sent me a screen shot to some of what Brandon Raub said that got him flagged. Here it is: Brandon Raub Facebook screen shot

While what Brandon said was unwise (and NOTHING compared to the dirt bag New Black Panthers), it still falls under the freedom of speech we enjoy in America. This is just an example of the Obama administration flexing its commie muscles on the American people, and that's not propaganda; it's the truth.

10 posted on 08/23/2012 6:41:17 AM PDT by WXRGina (Further up and further in!)
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To: WXRGina
The column is not propaganda. It is a warning.

It is propaganda. It is intended to elicit an emotional response without providing any detailed account.

I do not have a Facebook account, so I could not see what he wrote--that's why I did not include any of his quotes from FB. The paragraph I quoted in the column is one that I plainly said was posted at another website, not FB. I used it as an example of his general thinking

So in other words, you have read almost nothing he has written, but you believe this single paragraph is representative of his "general thinking"? That isn't research.

Later, after I had finished the piece and submitted it to the websites that carry my columns, my editor from American Clarion sent me a screen shot to some of what Brandon Raub said that got him flagged.

This one screen shot - which, if authentic, is definitely an illegal threat - may have gotten him flagged, or it may have been many others that were similar or worse. We simply do not know.

While what Brandon said was unwise (and NOTHING compared to the dirt bag New Black Panthers), it still falls under the freedom of speech we enjoy in America.

First, it is playground morality to say: "they got away with it, so I should too."

Second, you do not have freedom of speech to tell other Americans "I am coming for you." That is a threat, not an opinion.

This is just an example of the Obama administration flexing its commie muscles on the American people, and that's not propaganda; it's the truth.

Actually, that's your opinion - which you have confused with "The Truth."

In point of fact, Raub was taken into custody by the state of Virginia and not the federal government, despite the fact that he was threatening federal employees.

12 posted on 08/23/2012 6:55:01 AM PDT by wideawake
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