Wal-Mart Photo Dept. employee turns student in to Secret Service over pic.

[A HERETIC I AM]

From Common Dreams:
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1006-25.htm
snip: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.

On Tuesday, September 20, the Secret Service came to Currituck High.“At 1:35, the student came to me and told me that the Secret Service had taken his poster,” Jarvis says. “I didn’t believe him at first. But they had come into my room when I wasn’t there and had taken his poster, which was in a stack with all the others.”

Unbefuckinlievable.

Some nimrod at a photo department turns the kid in FOR A GODDAMNED POSTER!!!!!

The more i read about these types of people the more appealing moving to Australia becomes.

[dave123williams]

1. You'd probably feel more comfortable politically in New Zealand.

[madaboutharry]

2. Austrialia is very right wing

at the moment.

[A HERETIC I AM]

4. Probably right, but with a continent the size of the lower 48

and the population of the LA, San Diego Metroplex, it's easy to go be by yourself. The only way i'd ever be able to move there was if i were to win the lottery. I just think the article is disturbing because a little dissent or an opinion contrary to a damned Wal-Mart employee's point of view gets you a visit from the Secret Service.

[Deja Q]

3. Well, I see both sides of the issue here...

Given the subject is * with a big red dot on his head complete with thumbs down sign, you bet that's going to get somebody concerned.

Dissent is one thing.

Anything that even loosely suggests inflicting harm to the President is another.

And some presidents are more inclined to be paranoid than others.

Common sense is a factor as well. But that's in the clearance bin too, it seems.


Oh, and why are they using FILM when all the liberals in the world are hyping up digital because they don't waste resources (which is little more than spin, I regret to say. 500 rolls of film use less plastic than 500 digital cameras, which in turn you replace every year or two because the new digital camera has higher resolution, more functions, just as easy if not moreso to break apart in your hands and force you to get a new one, et al...)