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To: jonrick46

“This is the same tyranny that occurred in the old Soviet Union. Instead of being put up against the wall and shot, you lose your ability to support your family. This totalitarian mussel of free speech is why we have the Constitution. It is time we stood up against this bullying.”

There is no tyranny here, it is not like the Soviet Union and has this nothing whatsoever to do with free speech or the Constitution.

A man made a decision to go on a TV show, the company he works for did not wish to be associated with what he had to say while on the show and they fired him.

It was his right to go on the show and it was the company’s right to fire him.

No one’s rights have been violated.


14 posted on 04/15/2017 10:17:28 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Timpanagos1; jonrick46

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Why do you always post pro-freak opinions?

You must be one of them.


15 posted on 04/15/2017 10:20:05 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Timpanagos1

When companies fire people for unpopular speech, it has everything to do with free speech (notice I said free speech and not first amendment) We have created a culture where a company would fire a valued employee because of social pressure. The social pressure should be the view “I don’t like what you have to say, but I’ll defend with my life your right to say it.” In a culture that values free speech, he doesn’t get fired. We are becoming/have become a culture which is beholden to the dogma of petty tyrants. Free speech is dying.


20 posted on 04/15/2017 10:45:54 PM PDT by Homer1
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To: Timpanagos1

> There is no tyranny here, it is not like the Soviet Union and has this nothing whatsoever to do with free speech or the Constitution.

you got one out of three correct

please study harder next time


35 posted on 04/16/2017 4:33:17 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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