This article left me near-speechless. As a result of a child's poem being deemed "un-American" by the school president, teachers were fired or were denied renewals on their contracts, credentials have been withheld, denying one teacher the ability to accept new work, a child has been ostracized, and artwork was destroyed.

But what really got me was the following paragraph, along with a mention of a "school military liason":

Writers and editors who have spent years translating essays, films, poems, scientific articles and books by Iranian, North Korean and Sudanese authors have been warned not to do so by the U.S. Treasury Department under penalty of fine and imprisonment. Publishers and film producers are not allowed to edit works authored by writers in those nations. The Bush administration contends doing so has the effect of trading with the enemy, despite a 1988 law that exempts published materials from sanction under trade rules.