Ashton Lundeby 'Patriot' Detention: Hoax or setup?

May 7, 8:59 PMCharlotte Gun Rights ExaminerPaul Valone

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Mother Annette Lundeby perpetuates hoax: Son not
detained under Patriot Act.

Reports appearing on LewRockwell.com and elsewhere indicate public press has induced US attorney David Capp to issue a release saying the alleged Patriot Act detention of 16-year-old Ashton Lundeby is, in fact, unrelated to the Patriot Act. In interviews by WRAL-TV in Raleigh, Alex Jones, NC, William Grigg and myself Ashton’s mother Annette Lundeby, insisted he was being detained under the Patriot Act.

Things began to unravel this morning when a reader forwarded Youtube links purporting to be Ashton Lundeb y making prank calls, even bomb threats, under the alias “Tyrone.”

At 2:09 PM today, William Grigg wrote on LewRockwell.com that a "Not for distribution outside law enforcement" memo and press release by US Attorney David Capp insist that Ashton’s detention "is unrelated to the PATRIOT act."

And most damning, a piece on wired.com quotes “Australian student Jason Bennett” as saying Lundeby phoned bomb threats into schools in exchange for money, and that his mother might even have been aware of his activities.

Is the Lundeby Patriot Act detention a hoax? Is he guilty as sin? Is his mother lying?

Maybe not.

An interview late today with mother Annette Lundeby revealed that while Ashton did indeed participate in crank calls. (Were you ever a teenager? If so, remember “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?) The vast majority of what I have heard of what were, allegedly, Ashton Lundeby’s crank calls were of that nature.

But one or more of those YouTube videos feature the audio of a bomb threat. Is the voice Ashton Lundeby? I don’t know, but his mother paints a very interesting scenario:

The source for the wired.com interview is Aussie “Jason Bennett.”Interestingly enough, one of the pranks participated in by “Tyrone” and others involves one of their friends, “JT” getting “vanned.” [Caution: Graphic language within.]

In this lovely scenario, one of their compatriots is apparently subject to – and I want you to remember this – a police search of his car for drugs – based on spurious calls made by HIS OWN FRIENDS.

They all get together and laugh about it afterward, but there is a precedent of setting cops on each other as a joke.

Moreover, Ashton’s mother immediately identified the probable source of the wired.com interview as somebody identified by the screen name “Britfag.” Is it “Jason Bennett?” Listen to the “vanned” prank and you will here not only a British or Australian accent on one of the perpetrators, but also the name “britfag.” Please note that Mrs. Lundeby maintains she has not seen any of the YouTube videos.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Lundeby points out that if Ashton is not being held under the Patriot Act (they have stonewalled), and refused to release information to the original WRAL-TV interview with Amanda Lamb, ostensibly because the defendant is a juvenile, why do they issue one now?

Is Ashton guilty? There is at least a chance that his “buddies” co-opted his Internet identity – as maintained by his mother. It is plausible that the whole scheme went bad when they “vanned” him in his home by phoning in false bomb threats from his IP address?

Is it a Patriot Act detention? The government says no. Are they lying? Only public scrutiny will answer the question. One thing is for sure: The Ashton Lundeby case just got a lot more interesting.