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U.S. Marine Arrested for Facebook Posts
Salem News ^ | 8/19/2012 | Tim King

Posted on 08/19/2012 10:24:36 AM PDT by ponygirl

Feds retaliate against another critic of the U.S. government.

(SALEM / RICHMOND) - A decorated U.S. Marine who served his nation in two wars, Brandon Raub, of Richmond Virginia, was arrested for airing his critical views of the U.S. government on Facebook this weekend. We just reported yesterday that a Human Rights activist in Bahrain is being prosecuted for six Twitter messages. Politically, this country is increasingly resembling Bahrain and other nations that arrest those who speak out critically over federal policy.

His mother, Kathleen Thomas, says it is another case of the word 'terrorist' being applied to arrest and detain a citizen. You can hear the pride she feels for her son when she explains what he has been through, and by all counts Ms. Thomas makes her points loud and clear.

The law enforcement officials rolled up to the man's home around 7:00 last night. "He was there, the FBI, Secret Service and Chesterfield Police showed up in a storm," she said.

Thomas says her son was questioned about why he was writing certain comments, "He basically said 'I have some disagreements with the government and share this', and they said, 'You have to go with us'".

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; again; cw2; cwiiping; facebook; govtabuse; military; raub; socialmedia
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1 posted on 08/19/2012 10:24:48 AM PDT by ponygirl
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To: ponygirl
A decorated U.S. Marine who served his nation in two wars, Brandon Raub, of Richmond Virginia, was arrested for airing his critical views of the U.S. government

I guess Mr. Raub was under the mistaken impression that The Constitution he fought to defend, was still in effect. Silly boy!

2 posted on 08/19/2012 10:27:29 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ("Get that evil, foreign, muslim, usurping bastard out of MY White House!" FUBO GTFO!)
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To: ponygirl
More information from Zerohedge: (Brandon's comments included observations that 9-11 was done by the government (even going to such length, and an interestingly detailed thesis, of providing evidence to augment this), the War on Terror is a lie, Americans are killing innocent people in the ME, the current federal banking system is corrupt and unfeasible to Americans, and that the George Bush's family rapes little children)

Wouldn't exactly call some of that "patriotic," but whatever.

3 posted on 08/19/2012 10:28:50 AM PDT by ponygirl (Be Breitbart.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Yeah, until I know more about what he posted there, I’ll withhold judgement.


4 posted on 08/19/2012 10:31:15 AM PDT by ponygirl (Be Breitbart.)
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To: ponygirl

> The agent asked about whether her son was violent, Thomas
> explained that he was not, but that he loves his country.
> She asked the FBI agent if freedom of speech still exists
> in the United States.
>
> “Yes we still have freedom of speech”, Grainger
> reportedly said.

All is well, then.


5 posted on 08/19/2012 10:31:36 AM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: ponygirl

‘Truther’ dude gets taken away in a paddy wagon. Was a straight jacket mentioned?


6 posted on 08/19/2012 10:31:42 AM PDT by Theoria (Rush Limbaugh: Ron Paul sounds like an Islamic terrorist)
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To: ponygirl
9-11 was done by the government...
the War on Terror is a lie...
Americans are killing innocent people in the ME...
the current federal banking system is corrupt and unfeasible to Americans...
the George Bush's family rapes little children...
I think there is circumstantial evidence to prove all of the above

WTF?

7 posted on 08/19/2012 10:34:06 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. -- George Bernard Shaw)
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To: Lazmataz

ping


8 posted on 08/19/2012 10:35:14 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. -- George Bernard Shaw)
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To: ponygirl

Regardless of hos postings..it’s a free Country..?


9 posted on 08/19/2012 10:35:49 AM PDT by maineman (BC EAGLES FAN)
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To: ponygirl

Regardless of his postings..it’s a free Country..?


10 posted on 08/19/2012 10:35:59 AM PDT by maineman (BC EAGLES FAN)
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To: ponygirl

I don’t think any of that is what got him in trouble.

It was essentially threatening to kill people over it that did.


11 posted on 08/19/2012 10:36:21 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ponygirl
strange he was arrested since he sounds like a 0bammy voter spewing RAT talking points
12 posted on 08/19/2012 10:36:40 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: ponygirl
'I have some disagreements with the government and share this', and they said, 'You have to go with us'".

"I have some disagreements with the Kennedy Administration and I am letting Americans know about them," said former U.S. Army Major General now civilian, conservative activist and anti-communist Edwin Walker. "Put him in the asylum," ordered JFK and RFK.

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.

Walker was a W.W.II special forces hero and Korean War vet. (He led the troops at Little Rock, Ark. school integration 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?

13 posted on 08/19/2012 10:36:51 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: ponygirl

Conservative: Disagree with what he said, but defend his right to say it.

Leftist: Agree with what he said, but arrest him anyway to shut him up. (Making us look bad.)


14 posted on 08/19/2012 10:37:22 AM PDT by twister881
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To: ponygirl
While the information released thus far makes him sound a little nutty but harmless, some of his views sound similar to those arrested for the deputy shootings in St. John's Parish, LA earlier this week.

I wonder if LE somehow linked him to the group.

15 posted on 08/19/2012 10:37:30 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: ponygirl

I looked at the guy’s Facebook page a little bit. He’s a 9/11 truther, but that’s certainly no grounds for arresting him. I didn’t see anything on there that would be the least bit worth arrest and involuntary commitment but I didn’t look back very far, just a few days.

}:-)4


16 posted on 08/19/2012 10:40:09 AM PDT by Moose4 (...and walk away.)
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To: ponygirl; xzins
The guy is a whack job, but then when did it become illegal to be a whack job?

If he is an active soldier and this were a military matter, then why is the FBI, Local Police and Secret Service involved? Shouldn't he have been arrested by Military Police rather than Federal civil authorities and local police?

I have a feeling that sooner or later they will be tracking down everyone on Free Republic and giving all of us the same treatment.

17 posted on 08/19/2012 10:40:49 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
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To: P-Marlowe; mnehring; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you need to threaten to report me to the Admin if I don’t add you to the list...

18 posted on 08/19/2012 10:46:22 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1308 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
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To: Joe 6-pack

One of those arrested was from my town in Nebraska, he was wanted here and in Kansas for threatening to kill police officers, and leading them on a high speed chase where he crashed and got away.


20 posted on 08/19/2012 11:00:20 AM PDT by Husker24
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