Posted on 08/17/2012 7:05:52 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Just released, a Marine Veteran, Brandon Raub who served in Iraq and Afghanistan was taken by FBI and Secret Service agents around 7 p.m. on August 15, 2012 for his patriotic non-violent Facebook postings.
According to his mother on a radio talk show hosted by Josh Tolley, she said, “He was handcuffed, was not read his rights…I want that to be heard very clear. He was not read his rights…he was handcuffed, put in the back seat in Chesterfield County, Virginia police department vehicle. And um, he was taken to…directly to John Randall Psychiatric Hospital in Hopewell, Virginia and that is where he is right now.”
“Now what I was told by an FBI Agent, her name is Sargent...I’m sorry, Agent Sherry Granger…she called me on my phone and told me that I am with the FBI and we have taken your son. And he has been arrested by the Chesterfield police department because he assaulted and resisted arrest. He assaulted an officer and resisted arrest is what she told me and he’s been arrested and taken to the Chesterfield police department.”
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May I have an upper bunk, please?
Click on his name in the article and it takes you to his facebook page.
He is basically saying he is “starting the revolution”
“9-11 was an inside job” and some other stuff.
For a nano second, it made me wonder about posting here. Wow just wow. That poor mom must be living the worst nightmare anyone can imagine. Can anyone here think what a second term might look like? That is why I will hold my nose and just fill in the dot.
Just wondering if they will go after the former Seals, Special Forces, CIA and Special Ops people who made the commercial denigrating the Food Stamp President for taking credit for killing Osama and leaking classified information? The “One” doesn’t take criticism lightly. I can hear him screaming on the phone to Eric the Corrupt now: “Eric, get off your lazy a$$ and file some charges against those insolent white crackers who had the audacity to slander their leader and god”!
Another link to this source newsblog was pulled in the past by the Administrators here. Somehow, I find this story hard to believe - for now.
All you have to do is say something like “Please don’t arrest me.” and they can charge you for resisting.
SO why isn’t Jesse Ventura in a cell with him?
I swear, we’re living in the go**amned Twilight Zone.
Some of his Facebook posts were one-liners and threatening.. however, there’s probably another three or four million other posts on Facebook that are similar. My guess is they have something further on this man.
It is usually on a much lower end of the food chain,the losers at the Veteran’s Affairs come to mind,who are likely to try and lock you up through a medical hold.
Why the FBI is after that guy over his Facebook postings,is kind of strange.Usually they would have him put away somewhere other then a hospital.
The problem with that situation is you can accept arrest but even if it is later found to be unlawful,you will be so pumped full of drugs that you are unlikely to do anything about it.
It would be kinda nice to have more details on this case.
Thanks!
Spot on.
This looks like a nothing burger to me.
Gen. Walker "resigned his commission after being publicly and formally admonished by President John F. Kennedy (JFK). [Civilian, conservative activist and anti-communist Edwin Walker] was an attempted assassination target of Lee Harvey Oswald on April 10, 1963 . . . [Walker] was temporarily held in a mental institution on orders from President Kennedy's brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. RFK demanded that Walker receive a 90-day psychiatric examination. . . [but a] coalition of liberal and right-wing leaders [forced] Attorney General [Robert Kennedy] . . . to back down, and Walker spent only five days in the asylum . . . ."
I might add.. Walker's conservative and anti-communist views caught the wrath of that era's MSM and they published lie after lie about him including that he led violent attacks on blacks at a Mississippi university. Walker sued but the SCOTUS ruled the the wire service (AP I believe) simply made a mistake. I think that when General Walker reached his 80s the Congress granted him the retirement that he forfeited when he resigned his commission to fight against communism in the U.S.
A lot of this information was verified from wiki -- Hey! How about that? It may be that lefty nutcases can no longer go 24/7 making wiki into wiki graffiti -- unless they simply have yet to do their sharpie attacks and vandalize the authentic accounts contained in the wiki -- Walker was a W.W.II special forces hero and Korean War vet. (He led the troops at Little Rock, Ark. under orders from President Eisenhower 1959, IIRC.)
My emphasis above.. if this Marine is being treated like JFK and RFK treated Edwin Walker we damn well better see to it that the Marine gets the same protection that Edwin Walker got. Even the ACLU helped Walker back then. Now?
The lesson here is: if you’re going to do it, don’t post about it on Facebook or anywhere else. Just do it.
““The people responsible for poisoning the America people from the sky will be held accountable. And there is going to be justice.””
He is a chem trail believer as well?
Won't be the first time that a Democrat president ordered his DOJ to prosecute his critics.
We haven't reached the point where conservatives are charged en masse but there is precedent -- and yes it was a Democrat president. Yes it was W.W.II but those charged were long-time, pre-war FDR critics and critics of the U.S.S.R. The U.S.S.R. was a combat ally against the Nazis thus the sedition charge for criticizing the U.S.S.R. To try to insure conviction the FDR DOJ included known Nazi sympathizers, totally unrelated to the FDR critics, in the group charged.
The current administration of Marxist-Alinsky radicals (psycho spoiled brats actually) are just looking for the excuse.. it's taken them decades to get this far and the ain't quitting without fighting.
Talk about a one-stop shop for stupidity.
Of course, being stupid isn't enough to get one arrested. I strongly suspect it will turn out that this guy e-mailed or called in a specific threat to somebody.
People get so much obvious enjoyment from being outraged - just a headline is enough. I've had almost hope that anyone will actually read a full story or investigate its background, but the skepticism on this thread is encouraging.
PJ O'Rourke (speaking of the Left) called them the Perpetually Indignant long ago in "Parliament of Whores." It's obviously spread across the entire political spectrum.
Somehow I think there's some sort of self-important thrill that people get from constantly expressing outrage. It's clear the desire for doing so impairs the ability of people to rationally assess evidence, though.
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