Brandon Raub, detained by the FBI and Virginia police several days ago for posts he had made on Facebook, using a Virginia law that allows people to be detained for psychiatric evaluation, has been ordered released.
A circuit court judge has ordered that the Marine veteran detained over anti-government Facebook posts be released from a state psychiatric hospital because law enforcement had no grounds to hold him, Catie Beck of CBS 6 News reports.
Raub is either a crackpot who
believes conspiracy theories about 9/11, or a prophet who sees deeply into the police state the United States is becoming.
The Bill of Rights is being systematically dismantled. Men have spilled their blood for those rights.
Or both. Take your pick.
In any case a circuit judge has found that there was no plausible reason to have detained Raub.
"The petition is so devoid of any factual allegations that it could not be reasonably expected to give rise to a case or controversy," reads a signed statement by Circuit Judge W. Allan Sharrett, which was provided to the Richmond Times-Dispatch Thursday afternoon.
Judge Sharrett adds that he was shocked to find that a magistrate did not include any grounds at all for holding Raub, who was placed in custody for a full week without any charges being pressed.
And the fact that the government felt that they had any right to do so gives, if nothing else,
credence to at least some of Raub's claims.
"Brandon Raub was arrested with no warning, targeted for doing nothing more than speaking out against the government, detained against his will, and isolated from his family, friends and attorneys," Whitehead said. "These are the kinds of things that take place in totalitarian societies. Today, at least, Judge Allan Sharrett proved that justice can still prevail in America."
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