Posted on 08/24/2012 6:13:32 AM PDT by lward99
A former Marine who was forced into a psychiatric ward for anti-government Facebook postings has been freed from the hospital by a Virginia circuit court ruling handed down Thursday.
Judge Allan Sharrett dismissed the case against Brandon Raub, 26, who had been detained by government officials in Richmond, Va., and transferred to a VA hospital in Salem, Va. The judge called the petition to continue Raub's forced detention “so devoid of any factual allegations that it could not be reasonably expected to give rise to a case or controversy.”
Read more: http://times247.com/articles/32virginia-veteran-raub-freed-from-psychiatric-ward7#ixzz24T8MZTLR
(Excerpt) Read more at times247.com ...
When I first found out about this story, I read all of Raub's Facebook comments and felt their had to be something else, such as a threatening email, to warrant this action. When I found out that all the government had was his Facebook posts, to me the action clearly became unwarranted, and thankfully a judge agreed.
I thought the FBI was in on this arrest....
If this is correct, what is the FBI doing enforcing state laws????
If this is not correct, then I will stand corrected
The stances taken by the parties involved were downright Orwellian.
How about toasting men, women and children alive and then shooting the ones running from the burning compound in Waco, Tx?
That doesn’t rank right up there as one of the scariest government actions?
Send comments about this to the Rutherford Institute at
staff@rutherford.org and ask that the identities of the specific FBI and local LEOs be revealed for public scrutiny and that they be prosecuted for kidnapping and false imprisonment.
Let me simplify it for you: Bush’s Fault!
“It was indeed a raw abuse of power, yet in a stunning display of naivete there were Freepers aggressively defending said abuse of power.”
There are more than a few who never, ever see anything wrong with ANY “law enforcement action: “If you hadn’t done you wouldn’t have anything to worry about.”
There are four big lessons here:
1) Federal LEOs are getting twitchy;
2) federal LEOs are monitoring through whatever mechanism(s) a lot of personal albeit electronic communications;
3) federal LEOs are monitoring ignorant or indifferent towards Constitutional restrains;
4) not all federal personnel are willing to give carte blanche to an American commissariat.
That reveals a LOT of federal deficiencies and weaknesses. Not bad reconnaissance results for one - this time bloodless - incident.
BumP!
“WHICH government officials....”
Exactly. We the People expect a little more accountability on this!!
“It was indeed a raw abuse of power, yet in a stunning display of naivete there were Freepers aggressively defending said abuse of power.”
You got that right. I don’t know why some of these freepers are even here. I suspect some of them are lefty trolls.
Good grief...this sounds like the old USSR in action. If you don’t agree with the government, you are judged to be mentally ill and “institutionalized”, a euphemism for “imprisoned”
It could happen to everyone on FR...but not without a fight.
Agreed.
We have had four statist presidents in a row. However much they may or may not have had real differences on other policies, increasing the scope, scale, ability, and militarization of federal law enforcement has been a seamless work of cooperation and amity.
Whoever is elected in November will do the same. I don’t know whether to be relieved or worried that if it is Romney it will break the string of substance abuser presidents since Clinton.
“It could happen to everyone on FR...but not without a fight.”
If there was a fight that FReeper would be summarily executed in his or her home, and the usual chorus here would say “they had it coming when they resisted” and even get off a few witticisms about it, not missing the comedy value and all.
“You got that right. I don’t know why some of these freepers are even here. I suspect some of them are lefty trolls.”
Some surely are. But not all statists are on the left.
Now the judge needs to direct the DA to file charges against those in gov’t responsible for the outrage.
“This monstrous erosion of civil rights was met with much applause by a large group of people on this site...”
It sure was and you were a Commie traitor if you dared disagree. I believe it had been written during the Clinton administration and they were waiting for the opportunity to ram it down our throats.
I read the linked account of supposedly heavy-handed over-reaching government behavior - I don’t see any big grievance here - after all, they didn’t shoot Raub’s dog or his mother.
They’re just servants of the People, doing the bidding of the People’s representatives, in patient expectation of a secure and golden pension.
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