This just came to my attention, and in my opinion, is of the utmost importance that requires our immediate attention.
At about 10:00 PM, on March 5, a 16-year old boy was snatched from his home by 12 FBI Agents and 3 local police officers in Oxford, NC. The government is holding Ashton Lundeby on a criminal complaint accusing the boy of making a bomb threat from his home on Feb 15, 2009.
Here is the kicker: He is being held without the normal due process of law that every American, under the constitution, has a right to. He is being held under the Patriot Act.
Ashton has no history of problems with the law or his community. In fact, he has American flags all over his room, but he is being treated like he is a threat to the national security of the United States.
His mother, Annette Lundeby, had this to say:
"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."
She believes that someone hacked her son’s IP address and was using it to make crank phone calls connected through the internet, making it appear the calls came directly from their home in North Carolina.
Regardless of this boy’s innocence or guilt, as an American, he deserves the right of due process, and I believe it is up to us to ensure this happens.
Here is the link to the news story
And another link to the video on youtube, that came from WRAL, in Raleigh, NC