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gekkogecko 10-16-2005 10:52 PM

OK, who else?
 
Is bothered by this news story:

http://www.wvec.com/news/local/stor...024ca 154.html

Secret Service investigated civics project

Reported by: Craig Civale
(CURRITUCK CO., NC) - A high school civics class project caught the attention of the U.S. Secret Service.

it called for Currituck County High School students to create a photograph to best illustrate the Bill of Rights.

One senior used a photograph of President George Bush with a super-imposed ‘thumbs down’ next to him. It was hung up using a thumb tack in his head.

The Secret Service got involved when that student developed a roll of film at Wal-mart in Kitty Hawk. An employee apparently was alarmed by the photograph and contacted police, who then contacted the Secret Service.

Agents visited the school and the boy's home. They took his school project and interviewed his teacher.

"Knowing the student and the teacher knows the student, it did not lead us to believe there was anything malicious involved in this project,” said schools spokeswoman Sandy Kinzell.

In a statement to 13News, an agency spokesperson would only say, "We certainly respect artistic freedom, but we also have the responsibility to look into incidents when necessary."

The attention has a lot of students talking.

Classmate Ryen Fey said, “He laughed. Everybody did. It was hilarious."

The teen has been cleared of any wrongdoing and the students say they’ve gotten a real lesson on our rights.

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And what I haven't been able to ascertain is if the school project was returned after it was found to not be "malicious".

Yeah, real fuckin' hilarious. Wal-Mart sees the need to call the Secret Service on a high school student, who then decide to conduct an "investigation" of "threatening behavior".

Yeah, I'm laughing, all right.

Lilith 10-16-2005 10:57 PM

LOL I hope he got an A

wyndhy 10-16-2005 11:01 PM

i heard another story involving wallmart and pictures. a dad had taken some pictures of his two daughters swimming (or something) and they mooned him or were skinny dipping...anyway, wallmart saw the pics and the guy was arrested on charges of sexual misconduct w/ minors. he was later proven innocent but he'd already had the stigma placed on him and he lost his job. no idea what's up with him no though. shit, maybe it was all some internet rumor. if it isn't, i'm beginning to see a common thread.

Oldfart 10-17-2005 01:13 AM

The term is sedition.

Where these uppity people think they've the right to think, say or imply bad things about the legitimate and just

leadership of the country, well then they should be taken out of the schools and put back in the factories

where they belong.

You're supposed to be nice to these young men in Washinton, Canberra and London.

Where are their manners?

jseal 10-17-2005 05:23 AM

gekkogecko,

Well, at least the Secret Service received the ridicule it earned.

moose 10-17-2005 08:27 AM

be carefull what you say. somebody at wal-mart may take a photo of this thread and send it in,
whoops i may have already said to much :eek:

LixyChick 10-17-2005 05:41 PM

Only a thumbtack?





















Sorry...but it seems everyone missed the obvious in this story! ROFLMMFAO!!!!!!!!


















Who am I? *Ohhhhhh...let me waste some more tax money on ludicrous, gas consuming, ill-begotten interest in something about me...even though I am not in touch with the people and how real life works outside my eye of the world!"











^^^rhetorical question!

Cheyanne 10-17-2005 06:21 PM

While I feel sorry for that dad who had to go thru all of that, Wal-Mart and other places that develop photos are mandatory reporters when they see any photo of a child/suspected minor without clothing, or partially clothed - no matter how innocent in appearance.

Oldfart 10-17-2005 07:26 PM

We haven't seen the worst of it yet.

Under new laws going through in OZ at the moment, you will be able to be held without charge by the

security services for two weeks.

No-one may be told of your imprisonment, on pain of joining you for five years, so your job goes out the

window, your family think you're dead or run off with someone, all without a sniff of compensation.

Forget Wal-mart, when the bastard down the road gives your name anonymously to the police because

you got up him for bringing his dog all the way down to your lawn for a crap, you have no defence.

They also will have the right to turn your home into a tip looking for books, materials for bomb making,

information on other members of your organisation/cell, including taking and dissecting your computer.

Britain already has these laws and Dubya is working hard to get them in the USA.

Geez, that suddenly turned morbid, didn't it.

wyndhy 10-17-2005 07:52 PM

we've got that already^^^

Oldfart 10-17-2005 07:56 PM

Even more depressing.

wyndhy 10-17-2005 08:01 PM

here's the funny part...it's called 'the patriot act' :rofl:

BIGbad 10-17-2005 08:09 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by Oldfart
The term is sedition.

Where these uppity people think they've the right to think, say or imply bad things about the legitimate and just leadership of the country...


Does this count as sedition?

wyndhy 10-17-2005 08:11 PM

roflpmp

oh shit...better head for the safe room and take the tunnels to the river
fuck, we don't have a safe room.



anyone know where to get a good fake passport?

Oldfart 10-17-2005 08:28 PM

Hey, if we all got together and bought an island, proclaimed sovereignty, got dual nationality, and finally diplomatic status as ambassadors, they can't touch us.

Anyone got a spare hundred million or so?


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