Do you know better than the psychologists who said Raub was a danger to others?
The psychologists who's report was thrown out of court? This is a soldier who was deployed in two wars, and thus has every reason/is entirely entitled to be in less than perfect mental health. Few people are in perfect mental health. This guy was a 'truther', a soldier home from two wars who both held and openly expressed a belief that elements of his government were or could have been complicit in the attacks of 9/11. Being in his particular circumstances, a little paranoia would be entirely understandable as well.
Now think about it. If you're a veteran soldier of two major wars who's coping with the stress of those experiences, while also taking a controversial position against a supposed secret conspiracy at the highest levels of government,
and the FBI abducts you in the night and holds you without respect for any of your basic rights, how do you think you're going to perform on a 15 minute psych evaluation..? The judge ruled there were no adequate grounds for holding the guy. That pretty clearly indicates there were no adequate grounds for holding the guy. I'd seem pretty damn crazy too I wager if the RCMP showed up at my door, put me in cuffs, and dragged me off in the night without reading me my rights, then started questioning me about the things I say here on Metabunk.
A few years back I was sitting in the local and gradually shrinking forested area, slurping on tea, reading a book, having a fire. This is one of my favorite activities and has been since I was a kid, hiking/biking out, starting up a little fire and lounging around it for the day. I was rather surprised when a couple of cops came marching through the brush, one an older fellow with a fair bit of scruff, one a younger blond fellow with a pair of those petroleum-pool tinted sunglasses. Apparently I'd let too much smoke show, someone had assumed the worst, and called them in. I tried to be amiable at first, but the young blond fellow, who had all the familiar swagger and smirk of a schoolyard bully, would have none of it.. insisting I was endangering the woods (which I absolutely wasn't) and that I was obviously going to leave the fire burning unattended (which I absolutely wasn't), while also accusing me of being drunk, and of smelling Vodka in my hot thermos of tea (BS to the ninth degree). I put out the fire during all this nonsense, and rose to leave when the blond cop grabbed me at the bicep hard. I made the mistake of flinching and saying 'Don't touch me..!' which put a grin on his face and had him cuffing me behind the back. He then, and I do not exaggerate, went about collecting all the nearby bits of stray trash and stuffing it down the back of my shirt, some of it wet and still containing remnants of old decaying coffee and rainwater. They stuffed me in a cop car, held me for ten minutes, then asked me what I wanted to do now. I stated rather clearly and calmly that I wanted to ask his superior why I was being held against my will and used as a trash can for violating a minor bi-law, and that he should either ticket me, officially arrest and charge me, or let me go. They took my ID, left the car for another 20 minutes, then came back. "Are you still on Antidepressants?" When I was in my early teens I went on the lam for a day-and-a-half, and my parents, being understandably concerned, called the cops... informing them I was on antidepressants at the time. Apparently the incident was still in their computers. "No." I answered. They drove me to the Hospital. There I was held another two hours, the two police-men sitting in the waiting room munching sandwiches while I sat in a small and locked examination room with no access to a phone. A doctor walked in, talked to me for 4 minutes, asked me about 5 questions, sighed tremendously in distinct exhaustion, before letting me go. The scruffier cop who'd been largely silent throughout went so far as to apologize to me, in the only way he could manage given the circumstances.
I filed a complaint against the blond cop, and though it was found he acted inappropriately no action was taken. A few years later he was discharged from the service for, among a long list of other infractions, soliciting sex while on duty.
There's nothing uncommon about law enforcement using mental health policies as a way to avoid the usual processes/paperwork. The FBI was clearly attempting to do just that to this man. That the FBI would engage in such a dubious and even devious effort to lock a veteran away in a mental institution with such rapidity as to have not even properly filled in the blanks as to why It's being done is pretty damn alarming in my opinion.
and travel records, social media—and map them to collect "all the attributes that any individual has" in every type of activity and build a profile based on that data.
