Wal-Mart calls secret service on student

[DeadCityScars]

WalMart calls in the Secret Service on a student who put a thumbtack through GWB's head on a poster.

http://www.alternet.org/walmart/26503/#thumbtack

scary article.

[heyRomanticA__x]

Do they have anything better to do..really now..it's just a poster. But I guess if people were putting thumb tacks in my head I'd be a bit pissed too.

[FScott]

wow

[commatosa]

Jesus Christ...I've torn pictures of George W. Bush and people just laughed. Talk about paranoia. I couldn't think of a better way to describe it "ridiculous."

[futurebreed]

That's absolutely stupid. Kids do worse on NewGrounds blowing off his head or watching him get raped in the ass. If I stick a pin through a dead guy's head, maybe they can call the cops on me to make sure I don't go grave digging to beat the body up.

[DeadCityScars]

Secret Service = The Secret Police

[richter915]

glad to know where my parents' tax dollars go.

[youcomebeforeyo]

Wal-Marts reaction was timely and a brilliant of demonstration of the patrioism the companies employees carry to freedom.*













*Wasn't.


I've said it before and I will say it again, something is WRONG with American society when you have such fear brooding that incidents like this occur.

[VinnyVegas]

The only time that free speech should be stifled is if it poses a physical threat to another person. This situation falls under that category, and as a result it was investigated. The secret service was just doing their job, and nobody was hurt or punished in the process. I doubt that the secret service actually gives a shit about this kid, but they have to take every threat seriously.

However, I would like to see a copy of the poster before I make a final judgment.

[xYouFailMex]

Walmart should stick to selling clothes and shitty products to poor people and hicks and stay out of others business.

[futurebreed]

The only time that free speech should be stifled is if it poses a physical threat to another person. This situation falls under that category, and as a result it was investigated. .
What kidn of country are we in if a thumbtack through a poster head is a physical threat to another? A lot worse has been done to posters that the secret service has not followed up on. They are just playing bullies in a "shock" phase to scare the American public into the mentality that we can't even put thumbtacks in posters without being careful of where that thumbtack may lie.

[dai the flu]

dont blame the secret service, blame walmart. the secret service was called in, they had to check it out.

[futurebreed]

Ah yes, sorry, my apologies. I got sidetracked from the real culprit, Wal-Mart. Why doesn't Wal-Mart call in the countless kids who fuck around with their supply? Just because it's a president poster, it's somehow a security threat. May I ask why they have president posters anyways? He's supposed to lead, not be on the walls of little girls who want to make out with him

[b e L I E v e]

just imagine if it was K-Mart or Target

they would have called James Bond in there

[futurebreed]

Haha oh man, I don't know why but I just cracked up.

[Web250]

Stupid. He should've taken a gun of the Wal-Mart gun rack and shot a picture of the bastard.

[believethehyph]

walmart are crazy

[when 4ever ends]

hahah thats so pathetic

[Cal Smith]

The only time that free speech should be stifled is if it poses a physical threat to another person. This situation falls under that category, and as a result it was investigated. The secret service was just doing their job, and nobody was hurt or punished in the process. I doubt that the secret service actually gives a shit about this kid, but they have to take every threat seriously.

However, I would like to see a copy of the poster before I make a final judgment.

Agreed, that's like blaming to police when some idiot calls 911 because there husband is putting cheese in their face (actually saw that on cops). They still have to check it out.

[splitsecond]

Haha, only in the south.

[A picasso blue]

Haha, only in the south.
doin't be so quick to insult the South. that's largely where your party's vote comes from..

[Cal Smith]

doin't be so quick to insult the South. that's largely where your party's vote comes from..

actually it's largley where the democratic party came from history buff..........

[youcomebeforeyo]

It may have came from there, but the party vote in the South is still towards the Republicans.

[Cal Smith]

It may have came from there, but the party vote in the South is still towards the Republicans.

In the last 15 to 20 yrs. it has, but the "ignorant"/"redneck"/"racist" South has been Democratic for most of the US history.

[A picasso blue]

actually it's largley where the democratic party came from history buff..........i mean now. not 1800's
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and the Democratic beliefs then are completely different from now

[Cal Smith]

i mean now. not 1800's
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and the Democratic beliefs then are completely different from now

it was democratic all the way up to the 80's for the most part. matter of fact i think bush was the first rep. governor in tx in decades.

[CorporateFish]

At least they didn't burn a poster of fall out boy or something :shake:

[Louballs]

The only time that free speech should be stifled is if it poses a physical threat to another person. This situation falls under that category, and as a result it was investigated. The secret service was just doing their job, and nobody was hurt or punished in the process. I doubt that the secret service actually gives a shit about this kid, but they have to take every threat seriously.
There are a lot of reasons why putting up a poster in Wal-Mart probably isn't going to be constitutionally protected. (For one, Wal-Mart is technically private property. If they take his poster down, there's no state action.) However, the "physical threat" ain't one of them. If you pay attention to the Supreme Court at all, it takes a whole hell of a lot more than a poster with a thumbtack in it to constitute a "true threat."

That said, yeah, the sec. serv. was just doing what they're supposed to do. And the fact that they investigated him doesn't mean that he can't put up his poster.

[splitsecond]

doin't be so quick to insult the South. that's largely where your party's vote comes from..
I have family from there too... and a good chunk of them are Dems.

See also:

http://www.childofreagan.com/bush%20map_edited.jpg


(Disabling pics in a thread is stupid, by the way)