Walmart turns in anti-Bush film to Secret Service.....

[Joanne98]

Just when you thought you couldn't hate Walmart anymore than you already do...This happens...

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.

http://www.alternet.org/walmart/26503/

[Wickerman]

1. Them's good Americuns over there at that there Walmart

:eyes:

[Joanne98]

2. Really! How ridiculous!

[zbdent]

3. If I were a teacher, I would turn this into a good civics lesson

(plus, it might weed out those whom I could expect trouble from later . . .)

"Class, little Johnny exercised his First Amendment rights. Now he's being investigated by the Secret Service. Keep that in mind for the future . . ."

[Joanne98]

5. That's actually a pretty good idea! It would take balls though...

Because whoever did it would end up with O'Reilly trying to get them fired!

[GirlinContempt]

4. jeeeeeeeeeeeesus

:wtf:

[demigoddess]

6. walmart has deals with schools to get their supplies etc. Is this a way

to keep an eye on what is going on in schools, and report any 'unamerican activities' to the secret service.

[Joanne98]

7. That disgusting...But I believe it. Nothing is to low for Walmart!

[Orrex]

8. Do we have any indication

That this was an act of official Wal*Mart policy, or was it one overzealous techie in the photolab?

[all.of.me]

9. geez, that photo is NOTHING compared to...

...what we see in other places, like ... here.... don't tell!

[Bill McBlueState]

10. nominated.