{"id":31689,"date":"2012-08-21T11:38:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T15:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31689"},"modified":"2012-08-21T11:43:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T15:43:07","slug":"f-the-troops-kokesh-interviews-raub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31689","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;F*** the troops&#8221; Kokesh interviews Raub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember that we discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31653\">Brandon Raub<\/a> and the fact that he was tossed into a hospital, supposedly for his Facebook posts. Personally, I think there&#8217;s more to this than what&#8217;s been in the press. According to Raub, in an interview in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/former-marine-brandon-raub-is-being-held-in-a-psychiatric-ward-over-facebook-posts-about-911-2012-8\">Business Insider<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They were concerned about me calling for the arrest of government officials.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I really don&#8217;t believe that because all of Veterans For Peace, Code Pink and most of IVAW would be locked up if that were the case. According to an FBI Richmond spokeswoman;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We went out to interview him because of complaints that our office had received about people coming across his posts and perceiving them as threatening so our office along with Chesterfield County Police Department on Thursday&#8230;&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think someone was disturbed by more than his Facebook posts, and the FBI wasn&#8217;t trolling his FB page &#8211; it was part of their investigation. What I saw on his FB page was a bit twisted, but nothing worth getting thrown in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if I was trying to convince everyone that I&#8217;m not crazy, Adam Kokesh is probably the last person I&#8217;d talk to. You know the Adam Kokesh who was leading a &#8220;F*** the Troops&#8221; campaign a scant few weeks ago. But Old Trooper sent us this video of Adam interviewing Raub by phone. It&#8217;s interesting, to me, that &#8220;F*** the Troops&#8221; Kokesh is wearing his IVAW T-shirt again.  Anyway, here&#8217;s the interview. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sX1EvM6XksM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Again, all we&#8217;re hearing is Raub&#8217;s side of the story. It&#8217;s also interesting that the Rutherford Institute, the same folks who led charge against the Stolen Valor Act in the 9th Circuit appeal of Xavier Alvarez are taking up the mantle for Raub.<\/p>\n<p>This will shake out one of two ways; 1) Raub did some nutty shit that frightened someone somewhere, or 2) The SPLC and DHS has convinced the local PDs that veterans are really a bunch of nuts who should all be locked up. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m betting on #1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember that we discussed Brandon Raub and the fact that he was tossed into &hellip; <a title=\"&#8220;F*** the troops&#8221; Kokesh interviews Raub\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31689\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;F*** the troops&#8221; Kokesh interviews Raub<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ivaw","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}