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USA using Patriot Act against its own Citizens (2009)

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Posted by Films For Action on Jul. 28, 2011

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From Local News Station W-RAL in North Carolina.

Sixteen-year-old Ashton Lundeby's bedroom in his mother's Granville County, North Carolina home is nothing, if not patriotic. Images of American flags are everywhere on the bed, on the floor, on the wall.

But according to the United States government, the tenth-grade home-schooler is being held with new powers granted by The Patrot Act.

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