So I popped off an email to a pal of mine, who is a closet FReeper, since retired from the utility, and of high godliness in the Nukes. How about forming a FReeRepublic Conservative forum?
Answer: We would probably get fired.
Popped off this e-mail to your retire friend from your work computer, using your work e-mail? Yeah, you may get fired. You do not have the right to use your employers tools for stuff he doesn't want you to.
If you wish to pursue a Conservative Club at your work, go through the proper channels and ask permission from your employer or his appropriate representative. If he says no, either suck it up or quit.
Why is it so many freepers understand the right of free association except when people don't want to associate with them?