Earlier today, 26-year-old former U.S. Marine Brandon Raub was released from a psychiatric facility via a judge’s order, who ruled that the federal government had no legal grounds to hold him.
Tonight on Glenn Beck’s show on GBTV, soon-to-become TheBlazeTV, John Whitehead, Raub’s lead attorney and president of the Rutherford Institute, gave his first interview following his client’s release to discuss the case.
Whitehead told Beck that he and his organization are planning to sue over a provision in Virginia state law that allows authorities to place a person in emergency custody and hold them for four hours unless a magistrate enters a temporary detention order (TDO). Raub was held under this law, specifically Va. Code § 37.2-808, for days.
“We are getting ready to file a civil lawsuit…because [Raub] has been through hell for a week,” said Whitehead. But, he explained, “Under the civil commitment law in Virginia, the police can do this.”
From a previous Blaze report:
On August 20, Raub was sentenced to up to 30 days in a psychiatric facility after he was detained by federal law enforcement on August 16 over some Facebook posts that criticized the U.S. government and questioned the official story behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He also referred to “starting a revolution.”
Whitehead said that veterans have since been contacting him from across the country claiming they too were victims of wrongful detention in psychiatric institutes like Raub. Apparently, there are civil commitment laws in other states as well, he said.
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We are becoming just like Russia. The Communists that the Left claimed either never existed here, or no longer exist here, have become successful at turning us into what Russia used to be - a State where political dissenters could be placed in psychiatric institutions at the whim of the police or the government itself.
ReplyDeleteSoon they will indeed be given drugs to brainwash (as in actually damaging their minds) simply because their dissent will not be tolerated. Look for this to happen in NDAA/Patriot Act detentions as well, especially if Obama refuses to leave office.
Just for info, veterans are given drugs against their will at the order of not simply psychiatrists, but also by nurse practitioners, as well, within the VA system. As an RN on a psych ward, I was given a two-week suspension without pay for refusing to medicate a veteran under my care with a drug he did not need, and at a higher dose than recommended - a drug that had permanent side-effects (tardive dyskinesia).
The nurse practitioner who ordered that the drug be given had never even seen the patient. Not then and not before that night. He was never even chastised.
The nurse practitioner who ordered that the drug be given had never even seen the patient. Not then and not before that night. He was never even chastised.
ReplyDeleteOne good thing about this is that it looks like we are approaching a final reckoning with these tyrants.