Wal-Mart Turns in Student’s Anti-Bush Photo,

[BlueJac]

Wal-Mart Turns in Student’s Anti-Bush Photo, Secret Service Investigates Him
Matthew Rothschild
October 4, 2005

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.

An employee in that Wal-Mart photo department called the Kitty Hawk police on the student. And the Kitty Hawk police turned the matter over to the Secret Service.



http://progressive.org/mag_mc100405

[Democrats_win]

1. Wal-Mart is so money crazy, surprised they didn't fire the photo tech for

wasting company time and money on it. Oh, but they probably made it up by fixing his time card.

[indepat]

2. May the public figuratively piss on Wal-Mart in numbers too astounding

to comprehend.

[shoelace414]

3. the secret service needs to investigate death threats against the presiden

but I think they need to use some sense.

[Missy M]

4. This is insanity. The poster was in no way threatening bush....

is this what the Secret Service is paid good money to do. Harass high school students for exercising the right to dissent in this country.

[texpatriot2004]

9. I agree. Doesn't the secret service have anything else to do?

Leave dissenting high school students alone.

[mmonk]

5. Hence the student has experienced

the experiment and the the Bill of Rights is thusly disproven.

[Davros]

6. Since recruitment is low in the military branches...

...by letting this one "slip" that is one less soldier to fight for a worthless cause.

[BlueJac]

7. Recruiters lost about a school full of students here...

Who experienced this new neo-con America.

[ikojo]

8. I doubt it...many of the students will defer to authority

especially the police. They and their parents will see it as the Secret Service doing their jobs.