Bob Unruh writes in a March 3 WorldNetDaily article:
You write something on Facebook that someone in the government doesn’t like. The result? You’re in handcuffs and taken to detention in a mental institution.
No charges, no rights, no freedom.
Not in America, you say?
But that’s almost exactly the scenario that is being defended by a federal judge, who now has dismissed a complaint filed over a veteran’s treatment.
A federal court dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Rutherford Institute on behalf of Brandon Raub, a decorated Marine. The nonprofit legal group said in a statement Monday that Raub “was arrested by a swarm of FBI, Secret Service agents and local police and forcibly detained in a psychiatric ward for a week because of controversial song lyrics and political views posted on his Facebook page.”
But missing from Unruh’s article — as it is from previous WND articles about Raub — is what Raub actually wrote on his Facebook page that drew such attention.
As we detailed, one of those “controversial song lyrics” was the line “Sharpen my axe; I’m here to sever heads,” from a song by the obscure Canadian hip-hop group Swollen Members. Raub also penned a rant in which he rails against the Federal Reserve and the income tax and invoked 9/11 trutherism, concluding, “WE MUST TAKE OUR REPUBLIC BACK.”
Unruh is dishonestly reporting this story by claiming what Raub wrote was merely something that “someone in the government doesn’t like.” Red flags were raised about Raub’s writings with good cause. The writings are so disturbing and so undermines Raub’s case, in fact, that Unruh won’t tell you what he said.
But this yet another one-source Unruh special, this time providing only the point of view of Raub’s attorneys at the right-wing Rutherford Institute.