Group representing Va. veteran says he’s being detained for anti-government Facebook posts

 

RICHMOND, Va. — A former Marine involuntarily detained for psychiatric evaluation for posting strident anti-government messages on Facebook has received an outpouring of support from people who say authorities are trampling on his First Amendment rights.

 

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Brandon J. Raub, 26, has been in custody since FBI and Secret Service agents and Chesterfield Countypolice questioned him Thursday evening about what they considered ominous posts talking of a coming revolution. In one message earlier this month, Raub wrote: “Sharpen my axe; I’m here to sever heads.”

 

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Dee Rybiski, an FBI spokeswoman in Richmond, said there was no Facebook snooping by her agency.

 

“We received quite a few complaintsabout what were perceived as threatening posts,” she said. “Given the circumstances with the things that have gone on in the country with some of these mass shootings, it would be horrible for law enforcement not to pay attention to complaints.”

 

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Whitehead said some of the posts in question were made on a closed Facebook page that Raub had just created and that had only three members, so he questioned whether anyone from the public would have complained about them.

 

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via Group representing Va. veteran says he’s being detained for anti-government Facebook posts.

 

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