Student learns about post 9/11 Bill of Rights
A high school senior last month learned a valuable life lesson that is not documented in any textbook while he was working on his civics project. The lesson that he learned was that the Bill of Rights have been limited post 9/11. According to the online political magazine, The Progressive:
[A teacher] had assigned her senior civics and economics class “to take photographs to illustrate their rights in the Bill of Rights. 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.”
Now, it has been a while since I’ve taken a Civics class but this seems like a reasonable display of the Freedom of Speech covered by the First Ammendment to me. The student’s mistake is that he took the photo to Wal-Mart for developing and they freaked out. The photo lab called the police who freaked out and turned matters over to the Secret Service. The Secret Service then confiscated the poster from the teacher, pulled her out of class and grilled her about her “terrorist student.” This “terrorist” was a member of the homecoming court that had never been in trouble and was simply doing a school project. The Secret Service told her that it would be up to the U.S. Attorney to decide if the student should be indicted. INDICTED?!
The irony in this story is great. While doing a project on the Bill of Rights, the student learns that there ARE NO BILL OF RIGHTS! The government is free to intimidate you at will and destroy any form of speech that they feel “threatens national security.” If you don’t hear from me for a while, it’s probably because I’ve been hauled to Git-Mo in the middle of the night for this post.
Source: The Progressive
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