While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrest Ashton Lundeby, a 16-year-old Oxford, north carolina homeschool student, for making bomb threats on his cell phone and computer.

       Postscript: After 22 months in pre-trial confinement Lundeby was freed after signing a confession.

       [added 10/10/2021] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.