Mom says patriot act stripped Son of due process (16 y.o.)

[Bo]

Source: WRAL Raleigh

Oxford, N.C. — Sixteen-year-old Ashton Lundeby's bedroom in his mother's Granville County home is nothing, if not patriotic. Images of American flags are everywhere – on the bed, on the floor, on the wall.

But according to the United States government, the tenth-grade home-schooler is being held on a criminal complaint that he made a bomb threat from his home on the night of Feb. 15.

"Undoubtedly, they were given false information, or they would not have had 12 agents in my house with a widow and two children and three cats," Lundeby said.

Around 10 p.m. on March 5, Lundeby said, armed FBI agents along with three local law enforcement officers stormed her home looking for her son. They handcuffed him and presented her with a search warrant.


Read more: http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/5049867

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I have been living overseas for a while now and I cannot beleive what I read on DU passes as normal procedure and the sheeple just sit there.

[Th1onein]

1. We are not just sitting here.

We are raising hell about this. As you should be.

This has been posted before, but I'll K & R it to keep it at the top.

[Bo]

4. Thank You Fellow DUer I am just amazed at what has happened to my country.

[billyoc]

2. We've been snatching teenagers out of their beds without due process since '01.

Yeah, sounds like you've been away awhile.

[kpominville]

3. Obama needs to start using the Patriot Act against his opponents

Then maybe the right wingers will start to understand why it was a bad idea in the first place.

[CC]

8. You might want to check out

the comments. The Reich-wingers are already blaming Clinton for the law and Obama for using it. The last 8 years obviously did not really happen in their twisted minds.

[pattmarty]

5. I know what you're saying, but you still have to remember that....................

............pretty much the whole country gets their news from mostly cable and if not, the 3 networks. How many listen to FSTV or LINK or can even get CNNI or BBC? My opinion regarding your post, is getting it out there. Getting correct information out to the citizens.



Edit: To correct context and grammar.

Note to self: Restrict alcohol intake this early ESPECIALLY when used in conjunction with
"special" medication.

[Naipes]

6. Prime example

Often I hear people say shit like, "I don't care if the gov't spies on me, I got nothing to hide."

What they forget is that bullshit presupposes only the guilty will be charged. The dumb asses.

[peace13]

13. I hear that ! n/t

[Mist]

7. K 'n Rec'd. nt

[peace13]

9. Mrs. Lundeby got the wake up call.

For any American to not think that the Patriot Act was designed to be used against Americans is insane. If she had been paying attention she would have known that all of America was in peril when that document was signed. What can I say, years of standing up, speaking out and banging my own head. I hope this woman survives her own ignorance. Unfortunately when I hear that she was at church when the threat was made adds more fuel to my fire. Did she vote for * twice? I hope to hell she works to get the PA removed after she saves her son. She might want to take a peek at 'Homeland Security' while she's is at it!

[ramapo]

10. Law enforcement is out of control

Especially in the case of minors, law enforcement has done all kinds of outrageous things. All in the name of either terrorism or under-age sex.

[Piewhacket]

11. Judge's out of control. 5th rec. welcome to greatest.

[UpInArms]

12. more from your link:

Because a federal judge issued a gag order in the case, the U.S. attorney in Indiana cannot comment on the case, nor can the FBI. The North Carolina Highway Patrol did confirm that officers assisted with the FBI operation at the Lundeby home on March 5.

"Never in my worst nightmare did I ever think that it would be my own government that I would have to protect my children from," Lundeby said. "This is the United States, and I feel like I live in a third world country now."

Lundeby said she does not think this type of case is what the Patriot Act was intended for. Boyce agrees.

"It was to protect the public, but what we need to do is to make sure there are checks and balances to make sure those new laws are not abused," he said.