Why?
Because one company didn't like what their employees did?
Or did NSA agents turn up and take him away, torture him, arrest his entire family and eventually have him executed (Like what would happen in a country that really had no freedom of expression).
Far right wingers like yourself can never seem to get enough of feeling victimized by something or other.
I'm trying to figure out what this has to do with the Obama administration of freedom of speech. A private corporations didn't like it. All of a sudden a lot of people who normally espouse corporate freedom have flip-flopped and want to restrict the rights of private business.
so who is supposed to protect us when private companys try to infringe on our civil rights?
The same folks that protect us when any other perso, or group infringes on our civil rights.
Apdst, I didn't know you supported the government. You big government liberal, you.
Yes it is. Private companies have no more right to infringe on our civil rights than the government.
Yes it is. Private companies have no more right to infringe on our civil rights than the government.
Of course I support government. I've actually served our country, which is more than you can say. I just don't support too much government.
Ah, so you support the government infringing on the rights of businesses to discriminate?
Except they do. If it turns into company policy to not wear certain clothing during work hours or during work functions, guess what skippy, you don't get the right to anything else other than approved clothing.
Why is it whenever a Democrat is remotely involved, you folks shrink away from private market thinking in the private market, and shirk from personal responsibility and good work habits?
In this case, it was a costume party.
What's next? Your boss is going to tell you how to vote?
So are you saying that, say, someone can go on Twitter and talk **** about their employer and be legally protected from any repercussions from said employer? You'd be wrong.
If an employee's speech or expression is something the company doesn't feel represents its values, the company can choose to disassociate from that person, or provide further conditions to their continued association.
You also seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of what freedom of speech actually means.
No no, don't be silly. We have secret ballots now. Can't do that anymore.
Of course you boss can intimidate you into voting for a certain candidate. It's a private company and they can violate your civil rights however they choose. You just said so.
http://www.debatepolitics.com/2012-us-presidential-election/139019-company-exec-you-fired-if-obama-wins.html#post1061006921His employees should be afraid for their jobs, because an Obama victory might cost them just that.
No, it's not.
so who is supposed to protect us when private companys try to infringe on our civil rights?
I'm not sure if this is related but does anybody remember President Bush making a comment about a straight jacket? He said that borrowing lots of money was like wearing a fiscal straight jacket. Anybody else remember that?
If he's off limits why did you post this comment?
This shows you clearly don't understand what Freedom of Speech means.
Freedom of speech is not freedom from criticism. If someone was being jailed for speaking out against Obama, then you could say their freedom of speech was violated.
Company orders 'diversity training' for hundreds of employees
It’s hard to decide which is scarier: a grinning “Barack Obama” wearing a straightjacket or the reaction to his appearance at one company’s annual Halloween costume party.
An employee of Jennie Stuart Medical Center in Hopkinsville, Ky., must have thought he had the costume contest all sewn up when he sauntered into the party wearing an Obama mask and a straightjacket.
Photo: WZTV-TV
And he probably couldn’t believe his luck when he and his two pals actually won the third-place trophy for their Halloween skit “VIP Security,” according to local TV station WZTV.
However, soon after their shining moment, a snafu erupted over their Obama schtick.
“I think it is very, very offensive,” C.E. Timberlake, a local pastor, told the TV station. “And really, that shouldn’t have happened.”
Company officials weren’t impressed either after a photograph of the costumed trio began circulating around the office.
Read more at ‘Obama’ wears straightjacket, crowd goes insane
Is this the first President in our history that is off limits when it comes to jokes and ridicule?
I wonder how many people that think that a private company admonishing an employee for wearing this costume is OK but that the Muhhamed with a Ticking Time Bomb in his turban in a free press was in horrible taste.
I missed that second one
A few years ago... some Danish cartoonist did it and the Arab/Muslim fanatics were, again, threatening death and rioted successfully killing dozens of other rioting Muslims.
I wonder how many people that think that a private company admonishing an employee for wearing this costume is OK but that the Muhhamed with a Ticking Time Bomb in his turban in a free press was in horrible taste.
PC is a liberal term invented to restrict people's Freedom of Speech.
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