A non-active-duty Marine posted on Facebook that 9-11 was an inside job. We need a revolution, he said.
He did not specify “Ron Paul revolution.” Just a revolution.
The FBI got the local police department to interrogate him in his doorway. Then he was arrested. He was taken to a psychiatric hospital.
When the Web media found out, the police had a PR problem. So, it did the bureaucratic thing. It blamed the FBI.
The FBI also did the bureaucratic thing. It blamed the PD.
The Marine is still “missing in action.” He is still in the local nut house.
How he got there is an official mystery. The FBI says “we know nothing.” The PD says “we know nothing.”
Fans of Hogan’s Heroes will recognize this as the Sergeant Shultz defense. It usually works.
There were people shooting videos of the arrest. Smartphones make things easier to prove.
So, when will he get out? The officials at the nut house are not saying.
Lesson: when you call for revolution on Facebook, say “Ron Paul revolution.” Otherwise, you may wind up in a nut house.
Also, don’t say that 9-11 was an inside job. Say that certain aspects of the operation are curious and need further investigation. Focus on Building 7, which collapsed, despite not having been hit by a plane.
America is a free country, as long as you don’t write or say certain things. You can think whatever you like.
The Marine has this advantage: the Rutherford Institute, a public interest law organization, is now on this case. The FBI and the police department have bitten off more than they can chew. They will find this out soon enough.
But if you say politically incorrect things, you may not be so lucky.
Fortunately, the head of the Rutherford Institute is an old friend. I figure I can say certain things that you may not be allowed to say.
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Published on August 22, 2012. The original is here.
The Rutherford Institute won. He was released. Then the retired marine sued the police department and the psychiatrist who locked him up. He lost his case. The Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal.
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the case of decorated Marine Brandon Raub, who was seized by a swarm of Secret Service, FBI and local police officials and involuntarily committed to a mental institution for a week after posting controversial song lyrics and political views critical of the government on his Facebook page. In asking the Supreme Court to hear the case, Rutherford Institute attorneys were seeking to overturn lower court rulings dismissing the case, which characterized concerns over government suppression of dissident speech as “far-fetched.” In rejecting the appeal, the Supreme Court also refused to establish standards to guide and constrain mental health professionals when they seek to commit individuals and to prevent commitment on the basis of a person’s exercise of his right to free speech.“This case was about more than one Marine’s right to not be targeted for speaking out against the government. It was about whether Americans have the freedom to criticize the government without being labeled ‘domestic extremists’ and stripped of their rights,” said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People. “Unfortunately, in refusing to hear this case, the Supreme Court has left us all vulnerable to the possibility that we can be declared mentally unfit, handcuffed, arrested and locked up against our will simply for exercising our right to speak truth to power.”
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