Monday, October 17, 2005

Wal-Mart Calls Cops for Anti-Bush Poster

High school teacher Selina Jarvis gave her students and assignment "to take photographs to illustrate their rights in the Bill of Rights".

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."

When that student took the poster to a Wal-Mart in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina to have it finished, a Wal-Mart employee in that store's photo department called the police on the student. The police in turn called the U.S. Secret Service, who visited the high school and reportedly confiscated the poster. The two Secret Service agents later interviewed the teacher.

"They asked me, didn't I think that it was suspicious," she recalls. "I said no, it was a Bill of Rights project!"

At the end of the meeting, they told her the incident "would be interpreted by the U.S. attorney, who would decide whether the student could be indicted," she says.

So much for that Bill of Rights, huh kid?

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