Wednesday, April 28, 2004
High School student questioned by Secret Service after Anti-Bush sketches.
One of them depicted President Bush's head on a stick. Another pencil-and-ink drawing depicted Bush as a devil launching a missile, with a caption reading "End the war — on terrorism."
[Prosser Superintendent Ray] Tolcacher said the boy was not suspended. Tolcacher insisted it was not a freedom-of-speech issue but a concern over the depiction of violence. "From what I saw, (school officials) were right to be concerned," Prosser Police Chief Win Taylor said.
Of course we're all aware how cartoons are considered more psychologically damaging than news of hundreds and thousands of deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. Still, as long as America's finest makes sure that more Iraqi civilians than US troops die then the homeland will be safe for the persecution of those with 'wrongthoughts'. I suppose the student should now be thankful he hasn't been shipped to Cuba.
One of them depicted President Bush's head on a stick. Another pencil-and-ink drawing depicted Bush as a devil launching a missile, with a caption reading "End the war — on terrorism."
[Prosser Superintendent Ray] Tolcacher said the boy was not suspended. Tolcacher insisted it was not a freedom-of-speech issue but a concern over the depiction of violence. "From what I saw, (school officials) were right to be concerned," Prosser Police Chief Win Taylor said.
Of course we're all aware how cartoons are considered more psychologically damaging than news of hundreds and thousands of deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. Still, as long as America's finest makes sure that more Iraqi civilians than US troops die then the homeland will be safe for the persecution of those with 'wrongthoughts'. I suppose the student should now be thankful he hasn't been shipped to Cuba.
