Yet another great reason to never shop at Walmart.

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.

*Irony meter overloads and burns out in a cloud of indignation*

We all suspected Walmart employees were mostly drop-outs, but now we've got the proof...they aren't even familiar with Freshman Civics lessons. Of course, I've got to wonder what the hell has happened to our country if there are any people, of any educational background, who believe it is a crime to criticize political figures. Our entire freaking country was founded on criticizing the men in charge, yet somehow we've got people thinking that political disent is CRIMINAL.

Did the wingnuts repeal the First Amendment when I wasn't looking?