21 Aug, 2012
Va. veteran detained after strident Facebook posts
Raub’s mother, Cathleen Thomas, said by telephone that the government had overstepped its bounds. “The bottom line is his freedom of speech has been violated,” she said.
Thomas said her son, who served tours as a combat engineer in Iraq and Afghanistan, is “concerned about all the wars we’ve experienced” and believes the U.S. government was complicit in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. One of his Facebook posts, she said, pictured the gaping hole in the Pentagon and asked “where’s the plane?”
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