Part VI: Arrested Marine Vet: Patriot or Nutcase Revolutionary?

Just two days before his rest, Mr. Raub states that men will be at his house to pick him up to “lead” the Revolution. He gives his address:

The day before his arrest Mr. Raub cryptically states that “they will say he said it to the NSA first.”

His final post appears to be the trailer from The Last Samurai.

Scattered throughout Mr. Raub’s Facebook postings are a number of conspiracy theory postings involving Truther theories, the Bohemian Grove, contrail poisoning, the Illuminati, etc. He also criticizes Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, suggesting that he knew his postings were being monitored.

There was a single overt reference to violence in the stand-alone “sharpening the axe to ‘sever heads'” comment.  No Facebook threats were made toward the President or the Vice President.

My review of Mr. Raub’s Facebook page suggests a narcissistic self-delusion that he was going to be the leader of some sort of nationwide civil war. Either that, or the whole thing was a bad joke gone too far.

Nevertheless, as a former United States Magistrate Judge who has heard dozens of Glass warrant applications, my assessment is that the federal government likely had secured wiretaps on Mr. Raub’s telephone communications.  It probably could have justified a warrant on the basis of what was posted on Facebook.  Given the character of Mr. Raub’s Facebook postings, his telephone communications may have been even wilder.

The unveiling of the federal government’s likely indictment next week should be interesting. We’ll be sure to report it here.