Attention Outer Banks dwellers and vacationers: Boycott Squal-Mart

I frequently vacation in the Corolla area of the OBX and know where Currituck HS and the slimeball Squal-Mart is. For anyone who lives in the area and the many, many more who vacation there, PLEASE don't buy a drop of suntan lotion in that damn Wal-Mart store!!!


Wal-Mart Turns in Student’s Anti-Bush Photo, Secret Service Investigates Him


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.


The rest of the story is here: http://progressive.org/mag_mc100405

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4976834

While not a Wal-Mart-hater, I do think that they acted as pricks in this case.

Still, it would be interesting to know what obligation the organization places upon its employees to scan for such things, and how much of that obligation is of a legal nature (in other words, does the Government mandate that they act, when they see something "suspicious" in a photograph?).

This is the kind of thing that I would love, were I a pleasantly unemployed billionaire. I'd be more than happy, in that case, to file a federal lawsuit to recover the taken poster, just to harass the Government/SS.