From the San Francisco Chronicle: A
judge on Thursday ordered the release of a former Marine who was
detained for psychiatric evaluation after posting strident
anti-government messages on Facebook.
Prince George County Circuit Judge W. Allan Sharrett said at the end of a one-hour hearing that the involuntary commitment order issued by a magistrate against Brandon J. Raub
was invalid because it contained no allegation or basis to hold him,
according to the head of a civil liberties organization that represented
the 26-year-old veteran.
"This is a great victory," Rutherford Institute executive director John Whitehead
said. "He's a good human being. He just got caught in some weird
bureaucratic meanderings and the judge recognized that there's really no
true facts to hold this man in a psychiatric ward."...
Raub,
who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was taken into custody Aug. 16
after being questioned by Chesterfield County police and federal agents
about his Facebook posts. The FBI said the interview was prompted by
complaints from people who read his ominous posts, including some that
spoke of a pending revolution. One said "a day of reckoning" was coming,
and another said: "Sharpen my axe; I'm here to sever heads."
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