Former Marine Brandon Raub Is Locked In A Psych Ward Over His 9/11 Facebook Posts Michael Kelley | Aug. 20, 2012, 11:28 AM | 808 | 5 inShare2 Email More
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YouTube/IamKristenMeghan The former Marine who was detained by the federal government over Facebook posts critical of the government is being held in a psychiatric ward, Peter Bacqué of the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.
"I'm currently in John Randolph in the psychiatric ward being held against my will," Brandon Raub said in a telephone interview with the Times-Dispatch. "[Authorities] were concerned about me calling for the arrest of government officials."
Raub noted that he has been raising questions about 9/11 and signed a petition to reopen investigation of the terrorist attacks.
According to Brandon Raub's mother, authorities from the FBI, Secret Service and Chesterfield County PD came to their door on Thursday evening, questioned Raub about his Facebook posts – which are critical of the official story regarding 9/11 and refer to "starting a revolution" – then handcuffed him and placed him in a Chesterfield PD squad car before taking him directly to John Randolph Psychiatric Hospital in Hopewell, Va.
Raub, 26, has not been arrested. Both FBI Richmond spokeswoman Dee Rybiski and Secret Service Washington spokesman Max Milien said that there are no charges against Raub while the Chesterfield PD said they were assisting federal agents.
When asked about why Raub was placed in a psychiatric ward, Rybiski said that the FBI "had nothing to do with that" and that the FBI typically doesn't "make determinations such as that."
"We went out to interview him because of complaints that our office had received about people coming across his posts and perceiving them as threatening so our office along with Chesterfield County Police Department on Thursday," Rybiski told us. "When we left we had not arrested him, we had not placed our hands on him, we did not detain him and we did not charge him."
The supervisor handling the matter for the Richmond Secret Service is not available for comment today. We are awaiting a call from the Washington office.
Raub said he "talked to a Secret Service gentleman for 20, 30 minutes" and reportedly had a hearing beginning at 10 a.m. today at the John Randolph Medical Center.
"I really love America, and I think that idea that you can be detained and sent somewhere without due process and a lawyer … is crazy," Raub said.
Raub told the Times-Dispatch that he served as a Marine in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2005 to 2011, was a combat engineer sergeant and does not own a gun. His mother said he returned from Afghanistan about a year ago and does not have PTSD.
His Linked-In profile lists his interests as "Investing in Gold in Silver, Owning a Silver Mine, Owning Oil Wells, Owning Land and Agriculture" and says he owns a small business through Numis Network, which he describes as "a MLM or Multi Level Marketing Company that sells silver and operates around a program called the 'Silver Coin of the Month.' I sell silver directly, and offer the opportunity for individuals to create a business for themselves."
Raub wrote five articles about economics and the Richmond Liberty Movement for the website Don't Trade On Me.
More to come as this story develops.
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