Update on Brandon Raub’s detention

 

Brandon Raub, the Marine Corps veteran and Chesterfield, VA resident detained by federal agents, will be moved to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Salem, VA. Virginia CopBlock posted a messagereferring to Raub’s move about 6:00 pm this afternoon.

Chesterfield County Police and federal agents detained Raub on August 16th, citing allegations that a number of posts to his facebook page were “terroristic” in nature. Raub was detained on a mental health warrant, and has not been formally charged with any crime. Special Justice Walter Douglass Stokes for the General District Court for the City of Hopewell, VA denied a request for a stay of transfer earlier this afternoon.

 

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Brandon Raub not released following hearing

 

Brandon J. Raub’s was taken into custody by Chesterfield County Police the evening of August 16th. Robinson is accused of making threatening face book posts. Raub is an honorably discharged Marine Corps veteran and supporter of Congressman Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign.

Initial reports of Raub’s detention assert that his detention was the result of a Virginia mental health warrant, a civil procedure allowing for the preemptive incarceration of individuals deemed a threat to public safety, despite the accused not being formally charged with a crime. Virginia law requires that people subject to involuntary mental health treatment be guaranteed a legal hearing within 72 hours of incarceration.

 

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Richmond veteran detained by Secret Service

 

Brandon J. Raub’s was taken into custody by Chesterfield County Police the evening of August 16th. Robinson is accused of making threatening face book posts. Raub is an honorably discharged Marine Corps veteran and supporter of Congressman Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign. Initial reports of Raub’s detention assert that his detention was the result of a Virginia mental health warrant, a civil procedure allowing for the preemptive incarceration of individuals deemed a threat to public safety, despite the accused not being formally charged with a crime. Virginia law requires that people subject to involuntary mental health treatment be guaranteed a legal hearing within 72 hours of incarceration.

 

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Julian Assange press conference

 

Julian Assange, the Australian born founder of the transparency group Wikileaks, issued a public press conference from the London, UK Ecuadorian Embassy earlier this morning. Today’s press conference was Assange’s first contact with journalists since his seeking asylum from the Ecuadorian Embassy in June of this year.

Assange had been confined to house arrest in London, pending appeal of extradition to Sweden on charges of rape. Assange continues to defend his innocence, claiming that any sexual behavior had been consensual, and that the charges are politically motivated slander designed to discredit Wikileaks.

 

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‘Mostly on the Edge’ by Karl Hess

 

‘Mostly on the Edge’ is the incomplete memoir of the late Karl Hess. Hess’s is most famous for being the primary speechwriter for Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential campaign. Hess was a pivotal figure within the 20th century libertarian movement, involved with many of the key leaders and fellow travelers of the movement.

I have participated in most of the major cultural and political-social movements of our time, excepting only one. I am not now, nor have I ever been, a liberal. I’m a classical laissez-faire liberal, but not your modern, mainstream, big-government liberal. Heaven forbid.

 

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‘The Wizards of Ozymandias’ by Butler Shaffer

 

Butler Shaffer’s latest work, ‘The Wizards of Ozymandias’, is the author’s latest exploration of the conflict between inertia of the state and the order of civil society. Shaffer presents “institutionalism”, “the transformation of organizational systems from convenient tools, into their own purposes for being”, as the primary danger afflicting modern civilization. Shaffer’s analysis relies heavily on the analytical framework of Austrian Economics, as well as Hayek’s concept of “spontaneous order”.

These destructive influences can be analogized to a virus which, if left unchecked by inattentiveness, can metastasize and overwhelm immune systems. This virus is institutionalism, or the transformation of organizational systems from convenient tools, into their own purposes for being.

 

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‘Scott Horton Show’ partners with Future of Freedom Foundation

 

Yesterday, August 16th, radio host Scott Horton announced a new partnership with the Future of Freedom Foundation. The ‘Scott Horton Show’ is an independent radio interview show carried on the Liberty Radio Network , as well as a number of California radio stations. Horton’s interviews have included a variety of investigative journalists, retired military and intelligence officials, and foreign policy analysts.

 

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