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On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 06:09:51 GMT, (Greg Pavlov) wrote:

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:22:38 GMT, "rb608"
wrote:

.....I think it's a bit much to ask, however, that
that tolerance extend to financial support of positions in active opposition
to our own. If a man/business actively advocates a position whose end
result is to diminish my freedoms, I would be an idiot if I gave them my
money to help accomplish that goal.

I agree, pretty much, but it's a different issue: I was talking
about livelihood. I think that we all lose if people decide
to keep quiet in fear of economic ostracization.

There is a law here in Wisconsin that allows employers to fire an employee for
any reason or no reason. A guy wrote a letter to the local newspaper. It was a
vile string of racial epithets and insinuations about the local Hmongs and
Laotians. It raised a stink and a couple days later he was canned from his job
running a machine at a local factory. While I was angered by his letter I was
even more angry that someone exercising free speech could be deprived of his
livelihood. Theoretically a person could be fired for expressing any opinion
with which their emplyer disagrees. Disturbing.

g.c.

Of course the racists fate doesn't apply to me. Member Local 370C GCIU. "You
can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union..."

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"George Cleveland" wrote in message
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On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 06:09:51 GMT, (Greg Pavlov)
wrote:
There is a law here in Wisconsin that allows employers to fire an employee
for
any reason or no reason. A guy wrote a letter to the local newspaper. It
was a
vile string of racial epithets and insinuations about the local Hmongs and
Laotians. It raised a stink and a couple days later he was canned from his
job
running a machine at a local factory. While I was angered by his letter I
was
even more angry that someone exercising free speech could be deprived of
his
livelihood. Theoretically a person could be fired for expressing any
opinion
with which their emplyer disagrees. Disturbing.



Nice post. There's a letter in the mail for you from your boss.....

--riverman

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actually, even in most employee-at-will, so-called right to work
states, an employee can seek recourse if fired for the exercise of a
constitutional privilege or if the termination violates some state
public policy...

jeff

George Cleveland wrote:


There is a law here in Wisconsin that allows employers to fire an employee for
any reason or no reason. A guy wrote a letter to the local newspaper. It was a
vile string of racial epithets and insinuations about the local Hmongs and
Laotians. It raised a stink and a couple days later he was canned from his job
running a machine at a local factory. While I was angered by his letter I was
even more angry that someone exercising free speech could be deprived of his
livelihood. Theoretically a person could be fired for expressing any opinion
with which their emplyer disagrees. Disturbing.

g.c.

Of course the racists fate doesn't apply to me. Member Local 370C GCIU. "You
can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union..."

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Jeff Miller wrote:
actually, even in most employee-at-will, so-called right to work states,
an employee can seek recourse if fired for the exercise of a
constitutional privilege or if the termination violates some state
public policy...

Or, failing that recourse, he can take an Uzi and a sawed-off shotgun
into his former place of employment.

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Greg Pavlov wrote:
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:44:16 -0800, rw
wrote:


Or, failing that recourse, he can take an Uzi and a sawed-off shotgun
into his former place of employment.


Idaho sounds like such a wonderful place :-)

Idaho??? Hardly. I'm talking about New Jersey and San Francisco.

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