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27-04-04, 03:32 PM | #1 |
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Politically Incorrect Bush Caricature Gets Student Discipline, Visit From Cops
Secret Service agents questioned a high school student about anti-war drawings he did for an art class, one of which depicted President Bush's head on a stick.
Another pencil-and-ink drawing portrayed Bush as a devil launching a missile, with a caption reading "End the war -- on terrorism." The 15-year-old boy's art teacher at Prosser High School turned the drawings over to school administrators, who notified police, who called the Secret Service. "We involve the police anytime we have a concern," Prosser Superintendent Ray Tolcacher told the Tri-City Herald newspaper. Secret Service agents interviewed the boy last Friday. The student, who was not arrested, has not been identified. The school district disciplined him, but district officials refused to say what the punishment was. Tolcacher said the boy was not suspended. The artwork was apparently part of an assignment to keep a notebook of drawings, according to Kevin Cravens, a friend of the boy's family. The drawing that drew the most notice showed a man in what appeared to be Middle Eastern-style clothing, holding a rifle. He was also holding a stick with an oversize head of the president on it. The student said the head was enlarged because it was intended to be an effigy, Cravens said. The caption called for an end to the war in Iraq. A message left by The Associated Press with an after-hours duty officer with the Secret Service in Washington, D.C., was not immediately returned on Monday. "If this 15-year-old kid in Prosser is perceived as a threat to the president, then we are living in '1984'," Cravens said. http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.as...2&nav=5D7lMdOQ |
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The Secret Service has for as long as I can remember taken every threat seriously regardless of age and or severity.
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/r...i?ArtNum=44253 http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/aug02/64727.asp http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/...in225700.shtml Especially with the rash of school violence things like this may seem harmless but then again who knows
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Oh dear.
I'm with Jack - well said, my friend.
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Are the schools responsible for this babble of bullshit? Maybe but I think society has taught us a hard lesson. Sometimes even the most innocent looking of things can be your worst fear. Schools and staff are frankly scared shitless after events like Columbine. Does a drawing which depicts possible acts of violence fall under freedom of expression? I'm not sure perhaps look at it like this if the student made a similar drawing but with the schools principle in it would it still be considered freedom of expression? I'm not defending the schools cuz frankly they irritate me with the over zealous control they put on students. In my area the schools banned students from wearing shirts with the taco bell dog on it when it became politically incorrect. Sometimes the .01% of people really screw it up for the rest of us, all it takes is one Columbine or one Unibomber and our supposed rights or expressions can be taken in a whole different way
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It is absolutely amazing how far they will take things now days
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