Patriot Act nabs teen for crime he didn't commit

Patriot Act idiocy is out of control. It will remain so until we repeal the hated Idiot Act decisively.

A homeschooled high school sophomore from North Carolina is the latest victim of Patriot Act fascism.

A federal criminal complaint says he made a bomb threat from his home computer on the night of February 15. Except he didn't. He was at a church gathering that evening.

It turns out someone spoofed his IP address so he was blamed for the threat. But the FBI and local police didn't buy this, and they raided his house and confiscated his computer, school records, video game console, and other items.

The boy was then hauled to a juvenile detention facility hundreds of miles away in Indiana.

That was 2 months ago. The teen remains in detention - with no trial. That's because the Patriot Act robbed him of due process.

I guarantee you he's not alone in being illegally stripped of due process. Unfortunately, due process has not ranked high in the government's lexicon in recent years. So innocent people sit and wait - with no trial.

Observers say the right-wing Patriot Act works like this: The government claims a person is a threat, so it suspends due process. But the catch is, how do we know a person is a threat unless due process is used?

Someone ought to storm that detention facility in Indiana to release captives who are being unconstitutionally denied due process.

(Source: http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/5049867)