My son is innocent...and he's a victim of the Patriot Act!

With leaked DHS domestic terrorism reports targeting just about everyone in the country coming out every week or so now, it was probably inevitable that a false alarm story like Ashton Lundeby's would come along. 

While the FED's work out whether or not young Lundenby is guilty or not of taking in PayPal donations in exchange for calling in bomb threats to schools, the rest of us should be redoubling our fact-checking procedures. We'd all like to think we've been at this long enough not to be so easily duped by one distressed mother and one local TV station looking to put the greatest possible hype on their story, but in the current environment the temptation to be swayed by emotion is high. The counter to such temptation should be to remember that damage control is such a waste of valuable reasources and credibility.

Check and verify.  We all need to keep our guard up.

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