Patriot Act Horror Envelops North Carolina Family of Teen Ashton Lundeby
WRAL televisionreported yesterday that Ashton Lundeby, an Oxford, North Carolinateenager, was removed from his home by a dozen Federal agents andhauled to a detention facility in Indianatwo months ago. He has been held without being afforded a trial orregular access to his family under the authority of the Patriot Act,a law enacted under the George W. Bush administration in the wake of9/11 that has been widely criticized for denying dueprocess to anyone deemed an enemy combatant by Federalauthorities.

16 year old Ashton Lundeby is thehomeschooled son of widow Annette Lundeby. His bedroom is decoratedwith American flags, and his mother says the family was at church thenight that Federal agents contend a bomb threat was made fromAshton's computer. She believes his computermust have been hacked by crank callers who made it look as though thethreat was made from Ashton's computer.

Mother protests taking of teen -- Her son, 16, is being held as a terror suspect

Annette Lundeby wept as she talked about her 16-year-old son, Ashton, being held by the federal government for being a suspected terrorist.

"This is really hard," she told the Dispatch in a Thursday afternoon interview at her Granville County home. "It's just been a nightmare."

Annette Lundeby, a Kittrell native, went public with a story to Raleigh television station WRAL that was aired on Wednesday evening.

She is protesting what she claims were at least 10 FBI agents and three local law officers descending on her residence approximately 10 p.m. March 5 to arrest her son.

Free Ashton Lundeby!
It'sbeen said that a lie is a poor way to say "hello." It is also thestandard greeting one receives from government employees, particularlythose who carry guns.

Around 10:00 p.m. on March 5, a wolf-pack of armed men gathered at the front door of the Lundeby family's home in Oxford, North Carolina.

Whenshe answered the doorbell, Annette was greeted with the sight of aState Highway Patrolman who introduced himself with a lie. Things wentdramatically downhill from there...

...TheState Trooper's lie was a pretext to rouse the home-schooled teenagerfrom bed and bring him to the doorstep. Once the falsehood shatteredagainst Mrs. Lundeby's polite resolve, however, the pretense wasdropped and roughly a dozen armed men in body armor stormed into herhome. One of them demanded that Annette go get her son; the othersfanned out to search the house.

"Theywouldn't tell me who they were, or where they were from," Annetterecalled. "All I knew was that if I said the wrong thing I'd be dead onthe floor, and there would be nobody here to protect my children." Soshe went upstairs and woke up her son, as instructed. When she returnedwith Ashton she demanded to see a search warrant. She was shown thepaperwork, but the intruders were still reluctant to explain why theyhad invaded her home...

...Ashton had an alibi so tight it could be usedas a space capsule: On the evening in question he was at a meeting heldin the Union Chapel Methodist Church in Kittrell, North Carolina untilafter 9:00 p.m. local time, a fact that could be confirmed byinterviewing any of several dozen witnesses....