“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. When she answered the doorbell, Annette was greeted with the sight of a State Highway Patrolman who introduced himself with a lie. Things went dramatically downhill from there. ‘He told me that my son Ashton had committed a hit-and-run with somebody’s car,’ Annette told Pro Libertate in a phone interview. ‘I said, ‘No, that’s not true — it was exactly the reverse; he was on the receiving end of a hit-and-run, and that was last January.” The State Trooper’s lie was a pretext to rouse the home-schooled teenager from bed and bring him to the doorstep. Once the falsehood shattered against Mrs. Lundeby’s polite resolve, however, the pretense was dropped and roughly a dozen armed men in body armor stormed into her home. One of them demanded that Annette go get her son; the others fanned out to search the house.” (05/06/09)