And another reason to go Digital: No Secret Service knocking at your door

[LynneSin]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/5/9728/46702

Wal-Mart: "Always low prices...und vee are vatching you and your troublemaking vays veeeery carefully!"

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.

And of course if you are still using regular cameras might I suggest avoiding the Wal-Mart photo department!

[nickgutierrez]

1. ...

:cry:

Another attack on the right to free expression.

[chaska]

2. What part of the 1st amendment do these A'holes not get...?

THEY hate us for our freedoms.

[chaska]

3. Will someone please teach the right the true meaning of patriotism.

[GOPisEvil]

4. How the hell can that be percieved as a threat?!

I'm very happy I use digital photography.

[jane_pippin]

5. Apparently they won't be happy until all art looks like this:

Go digital or build a darkroom--you know, if you aren't poor.
Or get film developed at places that know the fucking Constitution.

[Meatwad]

6. Fuck Wal-Mart.

I hate that place with a passion.

Now I have another goddamn reason to hate them. :grr: :grr: :grr: