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This moron of an art teacher turned in her student to the Secret Service because she didn't like what she saw in the kid's sketchbook:

U.S. Secret Service agents were in Prosser on Friday afternoon to interview a 15-year-old art student about political drawings he had shown his Prosser High School teacher.

The student turned in several sketches keyed to the war in Iraq as part of an art class assignment to keep a notebook of drawings, said Kevin Cravens, a Richland friend of the student's family.

The most controversial one showed a man in what appeared to be Middle-Eastern-style clothing with an AK-47 rifle.

He was holding a stick with the oversized head of President Bush 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.

Another sketch showed Bush dressed as a devil and launching a missile. The caption read "End the war -- on terrorism."

Another drawing urged votes for Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nadar.

The teacher turned the drawings over to school administrators.

"We involve the police anytime we have a concern," said Prosser Superintendent Ray Tolcacher. "From our perspective it was an incident that needed to be reported to the police on campus."

It was not a freedom of speech issue, but a concern over the depiction of violence, he said.

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