Wal-Mart Gives Teen's Anti-Bush Poster To Police

[pisshead]

this teen got a taste of the new freedom...


Wal-Mart Gives Teen's Anti-Bush Poster To Police
Secret Service Comes Calling On Student
Civics Student - Or An Enemy Of America?

Matthew Rothschild / The Progressive | October 8 2005

After a Wal-Mart employee turned in a high school student's anti-Bush poster to the police, the Secret Service came calling.

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."

She says the student was upset. "He was nervous, he was scared, and his parents were out of town on business," says Jarvis. She, too, had to talk to the Secret Service.

"Halfway through my afternoon class, the assistant principal got me out of class and took me to the office conference room," she says. "Two men from the Secret Service were there. They asked me what I knew about the student. I told them he was a great kid, that he was in the homecoming court, and that he'd never been in any trouble."

Then they got down to his poster.

"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.

The student was not indicted, and the Secret Service did not pursue the case further.

"I blame Wal-Mart more than anybody," she says. "I was really disgusted with them. But everyone was using poor judgment, from Wal-Mart up to the Secret Service."

When contacted, an employee in the photo department at the Wal-Mart in Kitty Hawk said, "You have to call either the home office or the authorities to get any information about that."

Jacquie Young, a spokesperson for Wal-Mart at company headquarters, did not provide comment within a 24-hour period.

Sharon Davenport of the Kitty Hawk Police Department said, "We just handed it over" to the Secret Service. "No investigative report was filed." Jonathan Scherry, spokesman for the Secret Service in Washington, D.C., said, "We certainly respect artistic freedom, but we also have the responsibility to look into incidents when necessary. In this case, it was brought to our attention from a private citizen, a photo lab employee."

Jarvis uses one word to describe the whole incident: "ridiculous."

Matthew Rothschild is the editor of The Progressive.

pisshead Reviewed by pisshead on 10-08-2005. Wal-Mart Gives Teen's Anti-Bush Poster To Police this teen got a taste of the new freedom... Wal-Mart Gives Teen's Anti-Bush Poster To Police Secret Service Comes Calling On Student Civics Student - Or An Enemy Of America? Matthew Rothschild / The Progressive | October 8 2005 After a Wal-Mart employee turned in a high school student's anti-Bush poster to the police, the Secret Service came calling. Rating: 5

[hempity]

one of hitlers main objectives was to get the public to police the population, this is what is happening.
people using cell phones to inform on their friends and relatives, stores informing on their customers.
wal-mart should be boycotted, and not patronized, and the employee should be fired.

[eg420ne]

Freedoms on Da march..

[Torog]

Howdy pisshead,

This incident would not have happened,if the most likely liberal and anti-Bush teacher,had made it clear to the students,what was acceptable and not acceptable..that teachers see nothing wrong with making posters that appear to call for the murder of President Bush..is the problem here. What the student did,is dis-honorable dissent. The teacher should have made clear..the difference between the 2,before giving the children the assignment.

Now don't git me wrong- I don't like the idea of folks snitching on each other,for the goverment's benefit..and I don't condone such a poster for Hitlery or Bill ..no matter how tempting it may be !

Have a good one ...

[Tholiak]

How about this, you post a credible link to this story, other than some Backwoods Webpage no1 ever reads but Lefty's and tinfoil hat wearers. until then I wont believe this, at all. Ive done my own searching and I cant find one single credible source, just this same story copied word for word on other lefty sites.

[F L E S H]

Howdy pisshead,

This incident would not have happened,if the most likely liberal and anti-Bush teacher,had made it clear to the students,what was acceptable and not acceptable..that teachers see nothing wrong with making posters that appear to call for the murder of President Bush..is the problem here. What the student did,is dis-honorable dissent. The teacher should have made clear..the difference between the 2,before giving the children the assignment.

Now don't git me wrong- I don't like the idea of folks snitching on each other,for the goverment's benefit..and I don't condone such a poster for Hitlery or Bill ..no matter how tempting it may be !

Have a good one ...

Free speach only if you like the speach, huh?

How does a poster of Bush with thumbs down indicate that anybody wants to murder that bastard? If this is true, it's outrageous. What' even more outrageous is that stupid Wal-Mart calls the government on a kid with a poster! I always knew Wal-Mart was evil, but this is crazy!

[eg420ne]

Free Speech 4 Torog, That prez of ur is a lying sack of shit, shit I say, worthless shit on the bottom of my shoes. He's a big fat shit stain on the backside of The U.S.A. Bush & China-mart have a shit spewing contest 2 see who can spew more shit at the american people. He has a shit stain the size of Iraq. How loyal will u be will they start passing out micro-chips 4 ur safety, You be like, please!! give me one Lord BushShitter. Keep on licking the shitter hands...

[hempity]

Howdy pisshead,

This incident would not have happened,if the most likely liberal and anti-Bush teacher,had made it clear to the students,what was acceptable and not acceptable..that teachers see nothing wrong with making posters that appear to call for the murder of President Bush..is the problem here. What the student did,is dis-honorable dissent. The teacher should have made clear..the difference between the 2,before giving the children the assignment.

Now don't git me wrong- I don't like the idea of folks snitching on each other,for the goverment's benefit..and I don't condone such a poster for Hitlery or Bill ..no matter how tempting it may be !

Have a good one ...

hey turog,
guess you thought you could just slip this ignorant post in, too many in in the choir for that.
every intelligent person, let alone a teacher should be against the morons policies, he brings down the office he stole.


ONLY YOU CAN PROTECT YOUR FREEDOM, IT IS A GIFT FROM GOD.

either you are with the moron or the terrorist, is one of the most ignorant statements ever made by man.

once again your myopic vision obscures any reason.

[stoner spirit]

Well, I guess you can kiss that rite good bye.

[Torog]

hey turog,
guess you thought you could just slip this ignorant post in, too many in in the choir for that.
every intelligent person, let alone a teacher should be against the morons policies, he brings down the office he stole.


ONLY YOU CAN PROTECT YOUR FREEDOM, IT IS A GIFT FROM GOD.

either you are with the moron or the terrorist, is one of the most ignorant statements ever made by man.

once again your myopic vision obscures any reason.

Howdy hempity,

What I stand for,is freedom for all..not just for those who already have it.

If that's being 'myopic'..then so be it..why should the Free World,tolerate brutal and oppressive regimes,any longer ?

The policy of eliminating terrorism and oppression,should be the goal of every free country..America and it's allies,have the power to eliminate such..and now is as good a time as any,especially after being attacked on 9/11/01. The policies of appeasement,which you seem to aspire to,have failed..it's time to take the fight to the enemy..and not cower behind our borders.

Have a good one ....