Secret Service Investigates Teen's Art Project Depicting Bush As Devil

[conjur]

http://www.wftv.com/news/3223988/detail.html

PROSSER, Wash. -- One drawing showed President Bush's head on a stick. Another depicted Bush as a devil launching a missile.

The drawings by a 15-year-old boy in Prosser, Washington, were enough to prompt some questions from the Secret Service.

Agents questioned the teen after being called by police. The boy's art teacher told school officials about the drawings, and they called police.

The boy was not arrested but the school district has taken disciplinary action.

 

[imported_Aelius]

"Land of the free and the home of the brave!"

At least the school officials got the brave part right.

Hypocritical pricks every last one of them.

 

[chess9]

Good grief.

Political orthodoxy is like an infectious disease. I think we need the political equivalent of the CDC to stamp out political orthodoxy. Let's call it The Center for the Control of Political Diseases.



-Robert

 

[lowpost]

maybe it's good that I'm pursuing engineering rather than art...

censorship, it's coming to an america near you.

 

[Moonbeam]

It wouldn't be good if word got out that Bush is the Anti-Christ. The kids parents and family out to third cousins should be jailed just to be on the safe side.

 

[imported_Aelius]

You forgot family pets. Afterall who knows. Maybe someone can teach their pet cat Fluffy to describe the Constitution to some poor uneducated folk, using the above as an example, and then they would have a full blown rebellion on their hands.

Poor Fluffy. =p

 

[Moonbeam]

Nobody can convince me that in a family like that the cat isn't sharing 3rd cousin genes so yeah, but your point, though worthy, is redundant.

 

[BugsBunny1078]

I see no censorship. The secret service is non-partisan and they do not take orders from any party. Bush can't sick them on someone.
They are there to investigate threats and protect the President and VIce-President and visiting heads of state, and to help stop counterfeiting of U.S. currency and fraud against the government. They have offices all over the country in all 50 states, most major cities. They do nothing but investigate these kinds of potential threats. If the President or another one of their protectees had been in town I am sure they would have been busy guarding them.
You have the right to freedom of speech. You could even threaten that you will harm the president but of course if the S.S. hears about it you will be investigated until they determine you are not a threat, if ever. That is their job.

 

[imported_Aelius]

Actually threatening harm on the President is a crime as far as I know.

Either it was there all along or it was introduced with the Patriot Act. I forget which.

Either way the main issue here is not with the S.S., whom you correctly pointed out are just doing their job.

Its with the idiots who reported this kid.

This mirrors a similar occurance last year when a college girl was questioned for an hour by S.S. and local plain clothes police officers at her dorm as they tried to get her into allowing them into her room.

Smart girl knew her rights and told em they had no right to enter her room. She did however allowed them to view the reason why they were there.

A poster on her wall depicting Bush doing something quite un patriotic.

Apperantly some students saw the poster, in plain view through a window, from the street and called police.

More idiots.

 

[conjur]

Was it this poster?

 

[chess9]

Conjur:

Uh, oh, dude you are in serious trouble. The SS Corps in jackboots will be at your door confiscating your computer. Not only is that un-patriotic it is obscene. Sheezh, God forbid Asscroft's minions should see it.

You do have an attorney on retainer, right?

-Robert

 

[LeadMagnet]

"The boy was not arrested but the school district has taken disciplinary action. "

And why did theydisciplin him?

 

[tnitsuj]

Investigating is fine and is the duty of the Secret Service....but what was he disciplined for?

 

[myusername]

LOL. I want that poster. Seriously, someone need to kick the school administrators in the nuts. And revoke the teaching license of the art teacher, as they obviously don't understand the fundamental underpinnings of art.

 

[BugsBunny1078]

The teachers did the right thing reporting the kid. He obviously has some mental problems. Better to step in now and deal with this than in two years when he is arrested for blowing up a government building or something. ALthough far fetched as that outcome is we have seen enough cases where the schools did not act when inapproprate behavior is detected from kids int heir care turn out the wrong way. The kid needs some counseling and hopefully he will get it now.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: BugsBunny1078
The teachers did the right thing reporting the kid. He obviously has some mental problems. Better to step in now and deal with this than in two years when he is arrested for blowing up a government building or something. ALthough far fetched as that outcome is we have seen enough cases where the schools did not act when inapproprate behavior is detected from kids int heir care turn out the wrong way. The kid needs some counseling and hopefully he will get it now.

Thank you, Dr. Phil.

 

[chess9]

Bugs:

Yeah, I know what you mean. I know some six year olds that talk about death, fighting, killing, hating girls. Sheezh, they are a mess. I'm sure early intervention is the key. You have a mind like a steel trap. No need to go on to college, bugs, 'cause you've unlocked the secret code of life and will only need to bottle it to become the man you think you are entitled to be.

Today it's speech, tomorrow it's pictures, and on Wednesday the world gets blown up. Makes sense to me.

-Robert

 

[EXman]

You have too much free time.

 

[chess9]

Exman:

Yeah, but if Conjur ever gets a real job we'll have to rely on CAD rising from his assssshes.

-Robert

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: EXman
You have too much free time.

Hey, is that a Secret Service badge on your forehead, or are you just angry to hear us? Too much free time, the next John Asscough crusade.

I see no censorship. The secret service is non-partisan and they do not take orders from any party. Bush can't sick them on someone.
They are there to investigate threats and protect the President and VIce-President and visiting heads of state, and to help stop counterfeiting of U.S. currency and fraud against the government. They have offices all over the country in all 50 states, most major cities. They do nothing but investigate these kinds of potential threats. If the President or another one of their protectees had been in town I am sure they would have been busy guarding them.
You have the right to freedom of speech. You could even threaten that you will harm the president but of course if the S.S. hears about it you will be investigated until they determine you are not a threat, if ever. That is their job.

You see what you want to see, apparently.

They sometimes abuse their job. When Reagan spoke in Media, Pa. in 1983/84 I was right up front (wanted to see him). Reagan had just made the memorably assinine comment that trees were the major cause of pollution. A young kid protester was costumed as a tree with a sign that said, "Stop me before I kill again." The Secret Service arrested him. That's what happens when you combine sweeping power with no sense of humor. You get John "For God's sake put some pasties on that statue" Asscough.

I have a feeling Asscough secretly dresses up in drag and prances and preens like a young coquette gone mad with narcissistic self love. The bigger the front, the bigger the back, just like the minister in The Scarlet Letter. Of course, it's just a feeling, or, as CkG calls it, unsubstaniated innuendo.

 

[Moonbeam]

Nothing worse than having something unsubstantiated in your endo.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Nothing worse than having something unsubstantiated in your endo.

Well, double hung windows can be panes in the ass. You open one up to shoot the breeze and innuendo.

 

[laFiera]

Originally posted by: BugsBunny1078
The teachers did the right thing reporting the kid. He obviously has some mental problems. Better to step in now and deal with this than in two years when he is arrested for blowing up a government building or something. ALthough far fetched as that outcome is we have seen enough cases where the schools did not act when inapproprate behavior is detected from kids int heir care turn out the wrong way. The kid needs some counseling and hopefully he will get it now.

inappropriate behavior?????

So is the school's fault all these kids are blowing up stuff???
The kids needs some counseling???
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What about ritalin or some anti depressants too!!!!

 

[Moonbeam]

Originally posted by: BugsBunny1078
The teachers did the right thing reporting the kid. He obviously has some mental problems. Better to step in now and deal with this than in two years when he is arrested for blowing up a government building or something. ALthough far fetched as that outcome is we have seen enough cases where the schools did not act when inapproprate behavior is detected from kids int heir care turn out the wrong way. The kid needs some counseling and hopefully he will get it now.

It just makes me sick I have to share the planet with left wing loons like bugs. The notion that this pervert can be cured by therapy is the biggest joke I ever heard. He will go on to kill some hapless politician, mark my words.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: BugsBunny1078
The teachers did the right thing reporting the kid. He obviously has some mental problems. Better to step in now and deal with this than in two years when he is arrested for blowing up a government building or something. ALthough far fetched as that outcome is we have seen enough cases where the schools did not act when inapproprate behavior is detected from kids int heir care turn out the wrong way. The kid needs some counseling and hopefully he will get it now.

Joltin' Joe Stalin would agree with you. Anyone who uses art as a political statement need to be sent off to the gulags. Thanks for rescuing us with you expert commentary on mental illness.