Chained: Former Navy SEAL Tells Of Forced Incarceration Under Obama Regime In 2009
Friday, July 19, 2013 5:10
Exclusive: Former Navy SEAL Tells of Forced
Incarceration under Obama Regime in 2009
“WHEN I WOKE UP, MY ARMS AND LEGS WERE IN CHAINS”
By Sharon Rondeau | The Post & Email
In an initial
interview
with The Post & Email, Mr. Harry Galvin Butler, III said that in
late 2008 and early 2009, all he wanted to do was point out was that
Obama was “a phony” and see Congress act on it in the interest of
national security. Instead, he ended up spending virtually the entire
year in federal prisons awaiting a “psychiatric evaluation.”
Butler is a proponent of the U.S. Constitution and the Second
Amendment and perceived that Obama, by virtue of being “a phony,” was “
playing with
my Constitution.” He told us that Navy SEALS and other military
members “hate phonies.” He has no previous psychiatric history or
criminal record.
Last August, former Marine Brandon Raub was arrested by the Secret
Service and FBI, taken into custody and placed in a psychiatric
institution where he was told he would be forced to take medication
which he did not want. He was freed approximately
one week
later after a federal judge reviewed his detention and found no
probable cause by which to hold him. Raub’s plight was taken up by The
Rutherford Institute, which is suing the government for an unspecified
amount of money. In a May 22, 2013 press release, Rutherford stated:
The complaint, filed in federal court in Richmond, alleges that Raub’s
seizure and detention were the result of a federal government program
code-named “Operation Vigilant Eagle” that involves the systematic
surveillance of military veterans who express views critical of the
government. Institute attorneys allege that the attempt to label Raub as
“mentally ill” and his involuntary commitment was a pretext designed to
silence Raub’s speech critical of the government and that the
defendants violated Raub’s rights under the First and Fourth Amendments.
Following Raub’s highly-publicized case, Rutherford revealed that
hundreds of other military veterans had contacted them to relate similar
stories of government intimidation and people “disappearing.”
Rutherford Institute President John Whitehead
stated
that “Brandon Raub’s case exposed the seedy underbelly of a
governmental system that is targeting military veterans for expressing
their discontent over America’s rapid transition to a police state.”
Two days before announcing the civil rights lawsuit, Whitehead expounded on
Operation Vigilant Eagle,
which was launched by the Department of Homeland Security, Department
of Justice and the FBI to observe “veterans” for alleged signs of
“extremism” and “oppositional defiance disorder (ODD).” Whitehead also
wrote:
That the government is using the charge of mental illness as the means
by which to immobilize (and disarm) these veterans is diabolically
brilliant. With one stroke of a magistrate’s pen, these service men are
being declared mentally ill, locked away against their will, and
stripped of their constitutional rights. Make no mistake, these
returning veterans are being positioned as enemy number one.
Navy veteran Darren Wesley Huff is presently incarcerated in a federal prison in Texarkana, TX resulting from a false
FBI affidavit
and prosecution witnesses who perjured themselves on the witness stand
after Obama operatives reported “threats” to the Monroe County, TN
courthouse which were never uttered.
The Post & Email has reported in depth on the targeting of veterans under the Obama regime, including the “
Sovereign Citizen”
program described by the FBI as including those who make “References to
the Bible, The Constitution of the United States, U.S. Supreme Court
decisions, or treaties with foreign governments.” Both Huff and another
Navy veteran,
Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III, have been characterized as “Sovereign
Citizens” in a law enforcement training program produced in Tennessee
but used in
various forms across the country.
Butler
served as a Navy SEAL from 1969 to 1973 and was in the Reserves from 1973 to 1975. Following his release from the Navy, he attended
Embry Riddle
Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL, where he went through the
“Professional Pilot” program and obtained the necessary FAA Flight
Ratings. From there, he went to work for
Gulfstream
Aerospace flying the world’s elite to their places of business and
play. He became a captain and worked for the airline for 20 years until
his retirement for medical reasons in 2002.
Of his flying training, Butler told us, “Before I made Aircraft
Commander I personally made sure I had 5,000 hours flying time. Then
when it came time for my Pilot in Command check ride I told the Check
Airman that I wanted ‘No Slack’. He put me through the ringer and the
ride took two days. I did this for one reason I knew that one day I’d be
fighting an Emergency and peoples lives would be in my hands. I wanted
to prove to myself that there was no emergency I could not handle in the
cockpit. I took all those long years of hard work, study + spending
every penny I + the VA could come up with.”
Butler loved his career. He told The Post & Email, “I retired
from Gulfstream in 2002 which I hated. I was 52, at the height of my
career + a Senior Demonstration Pilot in Flight Operations at General
Dynamics/Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation.” However, because of medical
complications and increasingly-long flights, Butler said he chose
retirement because “I would not have been able to make it other wise.”
He added, “So reluctantly, kicking + screaming I retired from a job I
loved. I tell everyone I never worked a day in my life at Gulfstream,
however I did have one long love affair.”
Following several life-changing operations, Butler said he “has a
handicap” but “is not handicapped,” although he has trouble walking.
Before Barack Hussein Obama was elected in 2008, Butler became
alarmed because he believed, and still believes, that Obama is not a
U.S. citizen. Article II, Section 1, clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution
requires that the president be a “natural born Citizen,” although Butler
is certain that Obama meets neither the definition of “U.S. citizen”
nor “natural born Citizen.”
Butler said he called his representatives in Congress to no avail to
“warn” them that a foreign national was about to be sworn in to the
office of President and Commander-in-Chief.
In a recent email to this writer, Butler wrote that Obama is guilty
of being “a Phony, Ineligible to be Eligible, Unfit for Command” and has
committed “Abuse of Office as POTUS.”
Butler said that after he began sending emails and making phone calls
to members of Congress, agents from the Secret Service began visiting
members of his family, as his address was unconventional and not easily
found. He has been told by his family members that they were “inundated
by lies” from Secret Service agents stating that he was not in his
right mind. “They use the power that they wield by being a government
employee, which is ludicrous; it’s wrong; it’s illegal…if there’s any
way we can stop that, it will be a huge plus for this country,” Butler
said. “They all do the same thing.”
Butler is not sure when the Secret Service began contacting his
family members. However, he said that they were surveilling a friend of
his in their black SUVs, describing it as “dirty, dirty pool.”
In our previous
interview,
Butler told The Post & Email that his family members brought him to
a psychiatrist at the urging of the Secret Service, then a hospital,
both on the same day. He reported being told that he would be given
medication, which he refused. Butler was then surrounded by a dozen men
whom he attempted to fight off despite his physical challenges but was
finally subdued by an injection of medication which was forced on him.
“When I woke up, my arms and legs were in chains,” Butler told us.
Butler was taken to the psychiatric wing of the hospital, where he
remained for two weeks. He was then moved to what he called “a private
prison” in
Ocilla, GA,
in Irwin County, where he spent about a month. Butler was told that he
was there for a “psychological evaluation” before a judge could “make a
ruling” on his case. He had neither seen nor been told of any criminal
charges having been filed against him.
The criminal complaint, which Butler said he paid for and received
only a month ago, states that he made threats against Obama, a claim
that Butler refutes. Butler told The Post & Email that he “never
threatened bodily harm” to Obama. “SEALS don’t do that,” he said.
Butler explained that before Obama’s first inauguration, he was “trying to get (Sens.)
Saxby Chambliss and
Johnny Isakson
to wake up.” “This guy’s a phony, this guy’s a phony…I was writing
them and calling them…So when they say they weren’t aware, that’s BS.
You can see all these lies and distortions in the complaint. The thing
is, if you do this to the President of the United States, it only takes
one Secret Service agent to have you incarcerated. Nothing happened
until Obama was inaugurated. When he got inaugurated, the very first
thing he did was seal everything in the world related to him, even
before he came after me…The order for me to be arrested came directly
from the White House; you can bet your bottom dollar on it,” Butler
said.
“All of this is illegal. These guys get away with it for one reason:
they have tons of money. All of this corruption is done by threats
and money and pressures from the government. That’s where it all comes
from; that’s the thing that fuels all of this corruption,” Butler told
us. “The amount of money to facilitate this cover-up is a figure beyond
anyone’s imagination, and it’s not a problem. The rich and famous
don’t think about money because they have so much, they don’t worry
about it.”
Butler described the facilities where he was kept as “out in the
middle of nowhere, like FEMA camps. They’re on caretaker status, with
barbed wire, huge; there would be a handful of people there, and they
all look brand-new. It’s a prison. What happens is the federal
marshals are responsible for moving the inmates around. They put you on
a bus that’s got blacked-out windows so you don’t know exactly where
you are. They’ll pull in to a facility out in the middle of nowhere and
you go into a great big huge gate and then they’ll pull out some
paperwork. There are two or three of those facilities between Miami and
North Carolina.”
Butler said that if an inmate asked where he was being taken, the
marshals would say the name of the town or city, but that was all.
The Post & Email asked if the marshals escorted him to the door
of the facility, to which he responded, “They take you to the front
gate, and that’s as far as they go. You’re in chains. Any time you
leave a facility, you’re in chains. There are two sets of cuffs; the
ankle cuffs are wider than the wrist cuffs, and then you have a chain
that goes around the wrist cuffs around your waist in an overhand knot
and it goes down to your legs.”
The Post & Email asked Butler how he felt after having served his
country as a Navy SEAL and being placed in chains, to which he said,
“You feel terrible.”
He reported that he sometimes spent 14-16 hours a day on a bus, which
caused him great discomfort as a result of his medical condition.
“They give you a bag with a sandwich and an apple in it, but try to eat a
sandwich with your hands chained to your waist,” he said. When we
asked, “How do you do it?” he said, “You can’t. Some of the guys will
nudge it a little, but you can’t get anything out of it.”
We asked if the marshals helped at all in that situation, to which Butler said, “****, no.”
Following Ocilla, Butler was taken to a facility in Miami, FL.
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