WalMart . . . Always watching you -- Always

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Jeebus . . .

Wal-Mart Turns in Student’s Anti-Bush Photo, Secret Service Investigates Him


Selina Jarvis is the chair of the social studies department at Currituck County High School in North Carolina, and she is not used to having the Secret Service question her or one of her students.

But that’s what happened on September 20.

Jarvis had assigned her senior civics and economics class “to take photographs to illustrate their rights in the Bill of Rights,” she says. One student “had taken a photo of George Bush out of a magazine and tacked the picture to a wall with a red thumb tack through his head. Then he made a thumb’s down sign with his own hand next to the President’s picture, and he had a photo taken of that, and he pasted it on a poster.”

According to Jarvis, the student, who remains anonymous, was just doing his assignment, illustrating the right to dissent.

But over at the Kitty Hawk Wal-Mart, where the student took his film to be developed, this right is evidently suspect.


The rest of the story is here: http://progressive.org/mag_mc100405

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1. Just one more reason

why I'll never set foot inside a Sprawl Mart.

[acmejack]

2. Our tax dollars at work

This is disgusting, but totally in keeping with the corporate morality (or lack thereof) of Walmart.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. Yes, and don't take picture of your newborn naked

Seriously. They will turn you in for that, too. It happened to parents of one of my students.

[Oreo]

4. Are you serious?

That's insane

[TallahasseeGrannie]

9. Deadly serious

Child porn, you know? It was investigated. The entire family was traumatized. The children hit the skids. Because someone at WalMart turned them in for kiddie porn. The baby was naked, full frontal. OOOOOHHH! And about two weeks old.

[mcscajun]

5. I echo Selina Jarvis: Ricidulous!

The Wal-Mart employee, Wal-Mart Management, the local police, and the Secret Service -- all behaved in a ridiculous manner.

The first ding-dong obviously thought the red thumb tack was symbolic of a wound, a bullet hole, and things got weird from there.

[Vinnie From Indy]

6. The GREAT WAL-MART of CHINA

I quit shopping at the Great Wal-Mart of China years ago.

[swimboy]

7. I have never set foot in a WalMart and I never will.

More of your money stays in your local economy if you spend it at locally-owned independent merchants.

[RethugAssKicker]

8. I've been boycotting Walmart now for 2 years!!

and have convinced at least 10 others not to shop there either.

[Vinnie From Indy]

10. I do the same

I think I have dissuaded a few folks from shopping at Wal-Mart. In Indiana, it is tragically amusing to watch so many blue-collar manufacturing folks line up every week end at Wal-Mart and participate in their own demise.