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Title: Teen homeschooler jailed under Patriot Act FBI holds 10th-grader for months with little contact from family
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URL Source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97099
Published: May 4, 2009
Author: WorldNetDaily
Post Date: 2009-05-05 15:55:56 by Itistoolate
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Teen homeschooler jailed under Patriot Act FBI holds 10th-grader for months with little contact from family Posted: May 04, 2009 8:31 pm Eastern © 2009 WorldNetDaily A 16-year-old homeschooled boy from North Carolina was taken away from his home in handcuffs two months ago and has been held by the FBI in Indiana ever since, a victim, his mother claims, of the Patriot Act spun out of control. According to Annette Lundeby of Oxford, N.C., armed FBI agents and local police stormed her home around 10 p.m. on March 5, looking for her son, Ashton. The officers presented a federal search warrant and seized the tenth-grader's computer, cell phone and bank statements. Ashton was then taken to a juvenile facility in South Bend, Ind., charged with making a bomb threat in Indiana from his home computer. His mother, however, told Raleigh's WRAL-TV that she argued with the authorities, claiming someone must have hacked into her son's IP address and used it to make crank calls. The agents' search, she claims, also failed to uncover any trace of bomb-making materials. "Undoubtedly, they were given false information," Lundeby told the station, "or they would not have had 12 agents in my house with a widow and two children and three cats." Allowed little access to see her son over the last two months, facing a court date that keeps being pushed back and given no information by FBI agents sitting behind a gag order on the case, Lundeby now says the USA Patriot Act has unjustly imprisoned an innocent boy and stripped her son of due process. "We have no rights under the Patriot Act to even defend them, because the Patriot Act basically supersedes the Constitution," she told WRAL-TV. "It wasn't intended to drag your barely 16-year-old, 120-pound son out in the middle of the night on a charge that we can't even defend." Passed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the USA Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism – or P.A.T.R.I.O.T. – Act armed law enforcement with new tools to detect and prevent terrorism. Among other measures, it better enables interagency cooperation and allows law enforcement a wider array of technological and surveillance tools to more quickly and stealthily investigate terrorist threats. Dan Boyse, a former U.S attorney not connected to the case, explained to WRAL-TV how Ashton Lundeby could have been swept up by the Patriot Act. "They're saying that 'we feel this individual is a terrorist or an enemy combatant against the United States, and we're going to suspend all of those due process rights because this person is an enemy of the United States,'" Boyce told the station. Boyce theorized that if an FBI agent came to the conclusion that Lundeby was a serious terrorist threat, the usual rules of law enforcement don't apply. "There's nothing a matter of public record," Boyce said. "All those normal rights are just suspended in the air." Ashton's mother told the television station, "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. This is the United States, and I feel like I live in a third world country now." The WRAL-TV news report, including Annette Lundeby's comments, can be seen below: According to the WRAL-TV report, because a federal judge has issued a gag order in the case, the U.S. attorney in Indiana cannot comment on Lundeby, nor can the FBI.
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#1. To: Itistoolate, *libertarians*, *Jack-Booted Thugs*, *LEAP* (#0)
sort of an update to the thread i posted lastweek with a must watch embed video at the end of the article
Leftist fascism in overdrive. Resist.
The Patriot Act was written under a NAZI President.
i slightly disagree with you in this case its leftist fascism but only cause a D is in power it was created under a right wing fascist and used against americans(padilla) for the first time under an R this kind of thing isnt really right or left its just government fascism under the purist sence of the word the men behind the men leading this country will use this against anyone until they die of old age since they are not elected by anyone to begin with and that will be long after many presidents from the left and right are writing thier memiors
The moment Obama raised his right hand, the hounds of hell were set loose. I hated Bush but domestically he was an angel compared to these LEFTIST swine.
Padilla pleaded guilty for whatever reason. See my post above. Bush was a piker compared to this Marxist and his appointees.
and people are up in arms over gitmo. how about our very own political prisoners?
The smooth criminal transition from Bush/Cheney to Obama
do you mean the kid in the article?
The State, in all it's forms, wherever found, is the enemy of free men.
So very true, and Obama is the *wicked* end result of voting for the lessor of two evils. Every new president in my lifetime, thanks to this scheme, has been just a little worse than his successor. Our latest entrant is by far and away the WORST POS EVER TO SIT IN THE OVAL OFFICE. This assessment is easy to make, despite his only 100(+) days in office.
At least when he gets out, and all this is over, he'll be a very rich young man.
If I remember correctly, WND was pro Patriot Act and made a point of calling those of us who were against it traitors and anti-American.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Director, CIA 1973–1976 The purpose of the legal system is to protect the elites from the wrath of those they plunder.- Elliott Jackalope
I don't remember that.
Burn this one into your mental hard-drives, folks.
Joe Average American doesn't have the time. He's too busy watching American Idol or Dancing with the Stars. I hear folks talking about it at work. I *never* hear these same people talk about the sorry state of our Republic. It's incredible.
yes, i mean the kid in the article and thousands of other mistreated and abused prisoners in the injustice system.
The smooth criminal transition from Bush/Cheney to Obama
"Change you can believe in." "In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist; And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist; And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew; And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up." -- Rev. Martin Niemoller
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
If that was my kid, right this very second you would be reading about me in the newspaper and seeing my ugly mug plastered on every TV screen. And that ain't just blowing smoke. And if this is what starts "it", then it's been nice knowing you all. See ya on hte other side. .
It's a forum post, not a doctoral thesis. Click for Privacy and Preparedness files
but the sheiks would shriek and the barons would bellow if hemp was made legal...and people became mellow
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#3. To: Jethro Tull (#2)
#4. To: Jethro Tull (#2)
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Leftist fascism in overdrive. Resist.
but the sheiks would shriek and the barons would bellow if hemp was made legal...and people became mellow
#5. To: Itistoolate (#3)
#6. To: freepatriot32 (#4)
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#7. To: Itistoolate (#0)
#8. To: christine (#7)
#9. To: Itistoolate (#0)
#10. To: Lysander_Spooner, all (#9)
The State, in all it's forms, wherever found, is the enemy of free men.
#11. To: Itistoolate (#0)
Dancing Turtles and Bouncing Boobs
...that's Turtle Island.
#12. To: Itistoolate (#0)
WorldNetDaily
#13. To: Hayek Fan (#12)
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#14. To: Lysander_Spooner. all (#9)
The State, in all it's forms, wherever found, is the enemy of free men.
#15. To: Jethro Tull (#2)
Resist.
#16. To: Itistoolate (#8)
#17. To: Itistoolate (#0)
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"We have no rights under the Patriot Act to even defend them, because the Patriot Act basically supersedes the Constitution," she told WRAL- TV. "It wasn't intended to drag your barely 16-year-old, 120-pound son out in the middle of the night on a charge that we can't even defend."
#18. To: IndieTX, all (#17)
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It's a fine line between being too specific and long winded and therefore too irritating to bother to read, and being too cryptic and therefore too irritating to try to interpret.
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