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April 29, 2004

Freedom of what?

One of the most striking drawings I've seen was by a boy at a home for orphans in Saint Louis where I was volunteering as part of a church group one spring break. This little kid had drawn a picture of a mushroom cloud over the Saint Louis skyline and a cracked Gateway Arch. The sky and buildings were all red and white like waving stripes on a flag, and there were pairs of black dollar signs flying everywhere like radioactive particles. All this right under Ashcroft's nose in Missouri! If the kid had drawn that today, he would probably be in Guantanamo Bay by now. And he was only eight!


Secret Service questions student on drawings

Secret Service agents questioned a high school student about anti-war drawings he did for an art class, one of which depicted President Bush's head on a stick.

Another pencil-and-ink drawing portrayed Bush as a devil launching a missile, with a caption reading "End the war -- on terrorism."

The 15-year-old boy's art teacher at Prosser High School turned the drawings over to school administrators, who notified police, who called the Secret Service.

The title of that article should be: Your tax dollars at work.

Interesting detail:


The drawing that drew the most notice showed a man in what appeared to be Middle Eastern-style clothing, holding a rifle. He was also holding a stick with an oversize head of the president on it.

The student said the head was enlarged because it was intended to be an effigy, Cravens said. The caption called for an end to the war in Iraq.

Which is worse? Fascist geniuses or fascist idiots? I'm not sure.

Posted by Mike at April 29, 2004 03:26 AM

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