Posted on 11/09/2012 8:12:23 AM PST by modernline2009
Edited on 11/09/2012 8:21:15 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
TURLOCK-- A Turlock woman has been fired and reported to the Secret Service for her President Barack Obama racial slur and assassination comment on Facebook.
The Modesto Bee (http://bit.ly/TPtRc5) says 22-year-old Denise Helms of Turlock posted the inflammatory comments on the social media site shortly after the president's re-election on Tuesday.
She used the n-word in referring to Obama and wrote that maybe he will be assassinated this term.
Excerpt, read more at MercuryNews
And WON, too!
I am sure that will be required soon like in North Korea. I am sure those who talk smack about Obama may not necessarily be arrested but I am sure will be watch at places like their job if they don’t lose their job. Scary times we live in now.
> Now that we are a Third World wannabe..we all need to have a picture of the El-Presisdent and the First Lady in our business and living room. And no darts allowed.
It’s tragic that so many in America actually think that they still have “freedom of speech.”
And here on freepers too, apparently.
I guess she never heard of Echelon?
No it IS NOT! Absent the proper context it is just a word!
It is STUPID to post anything that can be construed as a death threat against anyone who is under Secret Service protection. It is like making hijacking jokes while you are getting searched by TSA at an airport. I do wish, however, that the response to such posts did not seem to be driven primarily by whether the person making the post is a liberal ("he's just blowing off steam") or a conservative ("he must be a right-wing terrorist").
Assassinate your Facebook account
Probably 99% of people don't know that every email & cell phone call they make is filtered through that multinational program.
the n-word = Nero
F the President. I hear there is parade in Dallas he ought to attend. I’m sorry that is incorrect. However, I do have two tickets to a play in DC.
And she is free to say it. It's the Secret Service's job to protect the President--whoever the President is--from threats. Part of that job is to investigate pretty much anything that could be construed as a threat against the President. The vast, vast majority of those investigations are closed without any action, or, at most, with a visit from a couple of Secret Service agents saying (in more polite, official terms), "Don't be an idiot." The fact that the Secret Service is investigating this does not mean that she is not "free to say" what she said.
Nor is the fact that Cold Stone fired her a restriction of her freedom. She is free to say what she said. Cold Stone is free to decide that they don't want to be associated with such things, and to fire her for saying it. Frankly, if I were in that position, I'd fire her too. At the very least, even if she did not intend what she wrote as a threat against the President, making such a statement publicly shows extremely poor judgment. Having an employee who is apt to demonstrate such poor judgment--especially an employee who deals with the public on a day-to-day basis--is a significant liability.
Grounds for firing in most states are whatever the employer decides are grounds for firing. As it should be.
Turlock is pretty conservative and extremely poor and struggling. I pull dogs from their animal shelter and it’s a mess down there. Third World country.
Grounds for firing in most states are whatever the employer decides are grounds for firing. As it should be.
Soon.
I think there's validity to what you say *if* she identified herself as being an employee of the company she worked for.If she's known on facebook by her first name and doesn't reveal where she works I think that dismissal might be unwarranted.
And you are, of course, free to think that the dismissal is unwarranted. But, it's not your call - the business owner is free to fire her if they think differently.
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