Last March, armed FBI agents stormed the home of Annette Lundeby looking for her son. They handcuffed him and presented her with a search warrant. "I was terrified," Lundeby's mother said. "There were guns, and I don't allow guns around my children. I don't believe in guns."
Lundeby told the officers that they had discovered recently that someone had hacked into her son's IP address and had beenusing it to make crank calls connected through the Internet, making it look like the calls had originated from her home when they did not.
That information was apparently ignored. Agents seized a computer, a cell phone, gaming console, routers, bank statements and school records. After all the hustle and bustle and non-stop investigations, the FBI turned up no bomb-making materials, not even a blasting cap, not even a wire.
Yet Lundeby's son still sits in a juvenile facility in South Bend, Indiana. His mother has had little access to him since his arrest. She has gone to her state representatives as well as attorneys, seeking assistance, but, she said, there is nothing she can do.
Yet another example of the USA Patriot Act being used to strip U.S. citizens of their due process rights. Read all about it here.
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