The "obnoxious crud" this guy spouted was political criticism. He used a vulgar word to describe the poser in the W.H., but the real offense was, he was white and he was giving Obama a hard time. So somebody tried to get his job.
And you're going to enable that?
He was off the job site and off the clock. So if he weren't wearing a security badge (which his employer requires him to carry and wear as a condition of employment), and the guttersnipe who tried to get his job ran his plate instead through the ACORN office and political connections to find out where he worked, are you going to go with the play, if ACORN comes to you and says, "we don't like this guy and we want you to teach him a lesson about dissing our boy", are you going to go with that?
Remember, these guys play for keeps. They're going to the workplace to try to get people's jobs, to shut them up.
How far are you going to roll with that?
The mayor of Houston, 10 years ago, did that with a Houston bond salesman who was politically active. Ed Blum had run for congress as a Republican in a sacrificial district and lost, and then he helped the organizers of a political initiative get a referendum before the public that the mayor didn't like. The mayor, a notorious bully and longtime businessman of the two-fisted school, went to Blum's employers and told them they'd lose their business underwriting City of Houston debt unless they fired Blum on-the-spot for championing a cause the mayor disliked. They said no, Blum kept his job, and they lost the City's underwriting business.
What would you have done in that situation? Come clean -- Obama's doing it, too, with car dealers who give money to the GOP. What's your call on political liberty and freedom of speech and association, when the political heat comes down?
Dude, he stood in line and said NIGGER, while wearing a badge of his employer!
While I support his right to do so, I also support the employer’s right to discipline or fire him.
Do you own a company, or have you ever?
If you read my posts you would see that all of the other issues, Secret Service, etc. are, in my opinion, unacceptable in a free country. However, the employer’s rights must be upheld.