When ambiguous visual arts go wrong! A teenager in Durham had a poster on her wall protesting Dubya's habit of executing Texan criminals, one that depicted the Shrub as a hangman holding a noose. When a local cop spotted the poster while responding to a noise complaint (the teenager was playing her stereo too loud), he saw the poster and decided it was anti-American propaganda and ratted her out to the Secret Service, who came a-knockin' at her door a few days later, looking for a Taliban cell.
The standoff continued, and eventually the agents explained why they had come by: "We already know what it is; it's a target of Bush," one of them said, according to Brown–apparently a reference to the poster. She informed them it was no such thing. They then said, "Well, it's Bush hanging himself." Nope, she told them.
Finally, Brown relented a bit, agreeing to open the door and show them her poster wall. "They looked in, and the lady was like, 'Ohhhh, that's not that bad.'" The male agent added, "We've seen worse."
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