Koran burner Derek Fenton booted from his job at NJ Transit

apdst said:

You're totally missing the point, dude. If the government can fire a civil service employee, for excercising his right to free speech, today; then the government can throw someone in jail for the same offense, tomorrow.

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Moot said:

I don't know. But people have probably been held in contempt of court for not swearing on the bible or taking an oath that said, "so help me God". But these days courts don't use swearing on the bible oaths much anymore. But then that isn't what I responded to when you were playing devils advocate.

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ric27 said:

Zilch about conduct outside the workplace.
New Jersey Transit

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Moot said:

That's the slippery slope free speech rides upon. If free speech is restricted too much, it results in censorship and tyranny. But if it isn't restricted at all it can result in anarchy, a return to the state of nature, and a life that Hobbes described in Leviathan as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Finding a happy medium on the slippery slope is always going to be tricky.

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hazlnut said:

That's for venders.

Was he a vender or employee?

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ric27 said:

Well, dammit....I can't seem to find jack. If you can find something, please post it.

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apdst said:

There's no slippery slope. It's still the 1st Amendment. We all know damn-good-n-well, that is a government employee, be it local, state, or Federal, displayed, on public property, the Ten Commandments, that people would have a ****-fit about it; the same people that say this cat isn't protected by the 1st Amendment. Ironic, eh?

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ric27 said:

Well, dammit....I can't seem to find jack. If you can find something, please post it.

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4. No State officer or employee or special State officer or employee should knowingly act in any way that might reasonably be expected to create an impression or suspicion among the public having knowledge of his/her acts that he/she may be engaged in conduct violative of his trust as a State officer or employee or special State officer or employee.

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hazlnut said:

Like said, if he didn't get his picture taken, his name and occupation in the paper... But, there it is.

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