Posted on 06/07/2009 7:24:24 PM PDT by bmweezer
At a family picnic tonight, I heard a story so unsettling and unreal, that I thought it was a joke until confirmed otherwise.
A number of weeks ago, my uncle through marriage took it upon himself in a public place (a local convenience store) to criticize the policies of Barack Obama which was heard by a few patrons.
A little background on my relation: he is a burly man with a creative tongue who, when speaking makes clear his opinions to everyone around him, but does so more to steam and vent than to do 'anything' about it. On this particular day in this particular store, Uncle Ted explained to his friend who was with him, as they stood in line to buy a weekday lunch, that he disliked the new president and the socialist policies that he was pushing in Washington. Further, my uncle indicated that he didn't care if our president was black, yellow or purple, but Obama's policies convinced him that the president was nothing more than a stupid you-know-what (starting in "n".)
Weeks later, my uncle arrived at his job early in the morning like he always does, and was called into his boss's office and berated because of his off-comment. Apparently someone in the store had heard Uncle Ted's rant, took his license number and thanks to a ID badge that was on my uncle's person, wrote a note to my uncle's company detailing what supposedly happened that day.
More background: my Uncle works for a private company, is a member of a Union, in an industry that is heavily regulated but not one that is receiving funding or loans from the federal government.
When my Uncle was approached about this letter, he was not told whom wrote the letter nor was he given a chance to explain what he said, nor was his given the opportunity to refute one or more of the charges presented. Rather, management indicated that it was "on good authority" that the words mentioned were real and were a bad reflection for one of their employees. Further, my uncle was put on two weeks unpaid leave and immediately placed on two-year's probation for something he said off the clock in a public place. In the end, if it weren't for his Union ties, my uncle believed that he would have likely been fired altogether. Upon exiting the meeting, Ted was given a copy of the letter for his files, which he received with the name of the accuser blacked out.
The letter stated specifically what my Uncle had said, but was then peppered with inaccuracies, including the author's opinion that my uncle had threatened the president's life and the policies that the president was supporting.
Unfortunately, this story took one final turn when the secret service arrived at Uncle Ted's home, where the plain-clothed officers preceded to check each room for 'anti-Obama material' and possible 'contraband.' In addition, the service agents asked my uncle to give an inventory of the type of weapons on the property (a few licensed guns for hunting purposes) and asked if he had friends near or in Washington, D.C.
I was stunned.
This is Middle America folks, with the closest city at least three hours a way, in an area that while it continues to trend-Republican, is one that has never been known for the inclusion or support of bigoted organizations that very often votes for Democrats in local and state elections, while remaining Red in national elections. Simply said, our town is like many in the United States that like our politics real and slighly right-of-center in a 'don't cause any waves' type of way.
My uncle is no different, and if this is happening here in an area far from a large political hub, it begs the question as to what are Obama's supporters doing elsewhere?
Scary stuff and a story worth repeating.
That’s it - just to instill fear using an uncle story.
What is the nature and name of your business? I need to know so i don’t do business with you.
After all, it's right next to my “Stag Arms” sticker. Some Libtard might try to make a connection there and report me to the proper authorities.
Is Green the new Brown?
That's Goldman, silk-robed amanuenses and rent-boys to the Prince of Darkness. Their way of doing things is a standard?
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I am also on 56K dialup on an RCA WebTV Plus
Optivision fiberoptic cable modem my Motorola
Loads like a flash
Not true at all.
Socialism is the system of government under which the State owns all means of production. Period.
There is nothing implied about government ownership of industry, in the simple act of organization for collective bargaining. Labor syndicalism and socialism are neither identical nor analogous, and neither concept has anything to do with the other.
Your datarates are probably six, eight, twelve times normal "full dialup".
... fastest way to get your a$$ kicked?
... make fun of a Texan!
Step across the Red River - we dare ya. :)
What part of the country do you live in?
If New England, then perhaps you'd be interested in my idea for a constitutional convention -- to expel New England from the Union (which would also rebalance the country so that the majority actually like and support it). That way, they could join Canada and become the perfection of sick little Marxists without making the rest of us miserable.
Nothing here either. http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/obama.asp
> stupid you-know-what (starting in “n”.)
That wasn’t very smart.
I'm all over that. Count me in and sign me up.
I would be inclined to agree (and with your other post that the SS visit was the unwarranted part.) I am careful about what I say or do when my work badge is visible.
Crazy Aunt Esther says: “If you be white, you ain’t right!”
Also, we separate their top-down brainiac Euro-Marxists from control of U.S. institutions and cut off their ability to propagate their B.S., because they would no longer be able to achieve majorities. And of course their New York media would instantly lose their propagation and networking arrangements in the States.
The partition line would run down the New York state line through Lake Champlain (maybe keeping the islands on the U.S. side) to the Croton Reservoir, and then following the river to its outfall into the Hudson, then down the center channel of the Hudson Canyon to the foot of the continental shelf, with Long Island and all of the New York City boroughs except Staten Island being alienated to Connecticut. Connecticut and the rest of New England would simply be out of the Union, adios, don't write, thanks for not phoning, texting, or tweeting.
We keep Ellis and Bedloe's Islands, of course, and West Point and its silver reserves (of course). They get Riker's.
Of course, certain adjustments in equity would need to occur ... such as branding and expelling the entire faculty and student body of Cornell, Princeton, and Georgetown Universities to New England, to be reunited with their Ivy League "peers" (whatever).
And throw in Berkeley, Occidental College, and Duke University (the last to terminate the Yankee interference in North Carolina and grant our Tarheel cousins some relief from the "halfback" invasion).
["Halfback" is Tarheel-speak for Yankees who move down to Florida, decide they don't like Spanish, heat, and jai-alai, and then move "half back", ending up in the Carolinas and Tidewater country.]
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BS genius
My circa 2000 RCA WebTV is limited to a max of only 56K
The WebTV receiver is connected to a Call Waiting (web interruptor setting enabled) enabled fiberoptic telephone line which is plugged into the telephone only jack of my Motorola modem
Not the PC port - which my sister can use with a laptop or a PC - if she visits - at the same time I use WebTV
A newer and inferior MSN-TV2 receiver can be rigged to connect to the PC connection port on my Motorola Voice modem - (it can connect at 5 times the 56K speed of my WebTV Plus on dialup only - or 10 times for more bucks to Optimum)
The modem is required by Optimum to use Optimum Voice - which only gives a clearer audio than landline hardwired systems
My US Army Signal Corps postions and then later Western Electric (NASA microwave equipment in Fort Lauderdale for the Sheppard launch and orbit) background as a child trumps your mindless babbling.....
You are 6 - 8 - 12 times a no-nothing
Call 1-800-Go-WebTV and ask MSN (Microsoft) if they can rewire your internet - they told me a WebTV Plus is not compatible with digital fiberoptic telephone dialup connections
They now admit they were wrong - and I am right
I use two (2) TVs (or more) as internet monitors using just one RCA WebTV internet 56K (page connection speeds max at about only 52K in my tests at wtv-zone) dialup receiver - and both are boosted by my huge vintage Marantz audio receiver/amplifier to power 18 stereo speakers in my cave
All which MSN/Microsoft says is impossible to do
Picture-in-Picture while on Free Republic or elsewhere on the internet on 2-3 or more TVs as monitors on many channels - all at once
MSFT & Optimum asked how I did this
My answer:
Make me a very serious offer and wire my bank
Then you are part of the problem and deserve to burn in the hottest chambers of hell.
As a business owner, you are within your rights to require employees to be apolitical while displaying company logos and while on the clock. Just make it a well-known policy of the company.
Many consider someone wearing 'official' company stuff to be acting as a spokesperson, (official or otherwise) for the company, and in many businesses, politics do not apply.
Then it is up to employees to decide whether they want to work under those constraints.
Some businesses, it is better to leave politics out of the workplace.
“Halfback” is Tarheel-speak for Yankees who move down to Florida, decide they don’t like Spanish, heat, and jai-alai, and then move “half back”, ending up in the Carolinas and Tidewater country.”
In Georgia, we called them “D*mn Yankees”.
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