THe employer you presented is a slug that collected slugs. It's that simple, and he isn't going to change that fact , because he attempted, or was successful at forcing a coverup.
"As for property rights, they are very American."
Sure they are, but your concept of them went out with kings, script and the company store.
Nope, you're simply trying to say that you either qualify what you consider is Free Speech or you're implying that an employer has the right to make prospective employees reveal their entire personal and political affiliations so he can discriminate against them on that basis.
"Sure they are, but your concept of them went out with kings, script and the company store."
My concept that the legal owner of the property has the right to determine whether political ads are displaying on his personal property or not is un-American?
I don't know where you live but in the America where I live the property owner has rights to his propery, the property owner has the right to express his own first amendment rights by deciding whether political ads are displayed on his property, and fat whiny liberals are not entitled to infringe on this rights.
Where do you live?