Speaking of George Orwell...

...as I was a few posts back, does the word "thoughtcrime" ring any bells?

Prosser, WA (AP, April 26) - 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 school district disciplined him, but district officials refused to say what the punishment was. ...

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. ...

[Prosser Superintendent Ray] Tolcacher insisted it was not a freedom of speech issue, but a concern over the depiction of violence.

Liars and hypocrites. They "disciplined" him? What the flaming hell for? This didn't have a damn thing to do with violence or threats or "legitimate concern" or any of the rest of that lying crap. This is about thought control, about America uber alles.

You don't agree? Well, just ask yourself this: If the one drawing portrayed an Arab-looking man as the devil firing a rocket with a caption "Fight Terrorism," if the other showed George Bush with an effigy of Saddam Hussein's head on a stick with a caption something like "Got Him!" do you think any of this would have happened?

There's an old Chinese proverb that says "some questions need only be asked."