A federal court has dismissed a civil rights lawsuit filed by The Rutherford Institute on behalf of a decorated Marine veteran from Virginia. U.S District Judge Henry Hudson called Brandon Raubs assertion that police, the FBI and the Secret Service were involved in suppressing his dissident speech far-fetched.
In August, 2012 uniformed county police officers showed up at Brandon Raubs front door. They introduced Raub to several unidentified agents of the Secret Service and FBI who spoke with him concerning his anti-government Facebook posts. A few minutes later, according to the August, 2013 complaint, one of the federal agents telephoned a Chesterfield County licensed psychotherapist to discuss the situation. The therapist, without observing, meeting or evaluating Raub, recommended that he be taken into custody. Raub was subsequently handcuffed, arrested and medically cleared before being driven to a psych hospital over a hundred miles away from his home.
A circuit court judge later dismissed the petition for involuntary commitment on the grounds that it was "so devoid of any factual allegations that it could not be reasonably expected to give rise to a case of controversy.
But on February 28, 2014 Judge Hudson effectively negated the allegations in the civil complaint that Raub had been a target of systematic surveillance under a Department of Homeland Security program named Operation Vigilant Eagle. What about the therapist who gave statements that prompted Raubs arrest? Also let off the hook.
Interesting to note that Brandon Raubs week long detention at a mental health facility in August 2012 happened at the same time one of the Boston marathon bombers was posting jihadist videos on his YouTube page. Tamerlan Tsarnaev had been interviewed by the FBI in 2011 and was definitely on their radar, but somehow law enforcement officers never made it to Tamerlans apartment to charge him and take him into custody for his political viewpoints.
The feds must have overlooked the multiple jihadi videos Tamerlan had posted and endorsed in the months leading up to the murders. One video features the preaching of Abd al-Hamid al-Juhani, who was an assistant to an al Qaeda scholar in Chechnya, and another features Feiz Mohammad, an extremist Salafi Lebanese preacher based in Australia. Four months ago, Tamerlan also "liked" a well-produced video featuring the black flags of Khorasan, a significant jihadist theme, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Neither Tamerlan nor his Jihadist brother were ever handcuffed, arrested or detained in a psychiatric hospital prior to the bombing.
Ditto for Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, aka Carlos Bledsoe. On April 9, 2009 the practicing Muslim shot up a an Army-navy recruiting station in Little Rock, Arkansas killing Private William Long and severely injuring Private Quinton Ezeagwula. Bledsoe had a history of brushes with the law before he converted to Islam in 2004 at the age of nineteen. In 2007, he went to Yemen where he embraced the need for religiously-inspired violence.
Deported back to the United States in 2009, Bledsoe moved to Little Rock. Later, after his arrest for the terrorist attack at the recruiting station, Bledsoe corroborated other accounts that he had been interviewed by the FBI while in Yemen. Again, Bledsoe was not arrested, handcuffed or taken into custody under issue of a Temporary Detention Order to determine whether he was mentally ill or a danger to himself or others, as was Brandon Raub.
In an online investigative analysis of Bledsoes case, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross explains why Muhammad was not arrested.
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Its difficult to take preventive action against a potential attacker like Muhammad even if authorities have strong information that he has been radicalized and poses a danger. Here, Muhammad had already come across the FBIs radar, yet if they had moved to arrest him prior to the attack, federal authorities most likely would have lacked a compelling criminal case.
Rosss observation is interesting, knowing that the government clearly overstepped its bounds and violated Raubs rights in order to take preventive action but allowed Muhammad to go scot free.
In a third incident of a radical extremist whose speech did not lead to a knock at the front door of his home by federal agents and the police is a Department of Homeland Security employee. Ayo Kimathi, a Black Nationalist making over $100,000 a year, who called for the mass killing of whites and the ethnic cleaning of black-skinned Uncle Tom race traitors on his website. The latter group includes President Obama (a treasonous mulatto scum dweller), Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Rev. Al Sharpton, Lil Wayne, among others.
When Ayos direct threats against Obama, white people and other public figures came to light, he was put on paid administrative leave. But not until December 6, 2013, four months later, was Ayo fired from his job at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. To date, he has not been arrested, handcuffed or hauled off to a mental health facility.
If Brandon Raub were a black militant and/or Muslim and had added a few "Allahu Akbar's" on his Facebook posts, government officials evidently would have left him alone. If he were liberal, progressive, socialist and Democrat he apparently would have been protected under the First and Fourth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
So the lesson from the Raub case is that conservatives of all colors, right-wing veterans, gun-rights advocates, traditional family supporters, tea party organizations and schoolchildren wearing pro-America T-shirts, to name a few, no longer enjoy the guaranteed rights to speak, assemble, or post views critical of their government on social media without fear of retribution.
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