[Dubya]

According to the complaint, Haecker says other maintenance workers excluded him from department meetings and intentionally spoke Spanish around him in retaliation for complaints he had made about them playing poker and looking at pornography when they should have been working.

The suit states that Haecker complained about the illegal conduct and “reported his coworkers’ failure to work, playing poker and other card games, gambling on the job, looking at pornography, sexually harassing women, and not completing their assigned tasks.”

After he complained, the suit alleges, his co-workers would not speak to him: “He was chagrined and shunned.”

[SandRat]

The suit states that after Haecker complained, Holston reduced his work hours from 39 to 24. He also alleges that he overheard either Holston or a senior parks maintenance worker saying, "We're not going to hire any more old guys."

Age Discrimination and retalitory action - both prohibited by law.

[Frank_2001]

According to the article, they replaced the old geezer(/s) with a much younger outside worker who had no experience. BUT, is he able to speak Spanish? Hmmmmm........

[FlingWingFlyer]

That wacky “Caucasian” tribe thinks a court will listen to their complaints about discrimination. It isn’t going to happen with that racist Eric Holder running the “Justice” Department.

[raybbr]

Of course, if the opposite happened....

Jailed for speaking her mind

By Vin Suprynowicz

It "was a little past 11 a.m. on an August day in 1998 when Janice Barton, 45, was leaving the Peppermill Restaurant in the Lake Michigan shoreline community of Manistee, with her mother and daughter," reported Michael G. Walsh of the Muskegon Chronicle, back in August 2000. "As Barton and her family tried to make their way through the crowd, a man -- in Spanish -- asked his wife to make room for them."

According to witnesses, Barton, who does not understand Spanish, told her mother: "I wish these damned sp!#@ would learn to speak English".

Carol Benitez, one of the Spanish speakers and an off-duty Manistee County sheriff's deputy, followed Barton outside and copied down her license plate number.

Almost two weeks later, Barton was charged with disturbing the peace. But when she appeared in court Oct. 13, 1998, the charge against Barton was changed to "insulting conduct in a public place" under a city ordinance -- similar to ordinances now widespread in the area -- which simply declares, "No person shall engage in any indecent, insulting, immoral or obscene conduct in any public place."

In court that December, Barton testified that she believes immigrants should speak English when in the United States. But the jury agreed with the judge that Barton's words were "fighting words" -- not the kind of speech protected by the First Amendment -- and convicted her of the misdemeanor.

Judge Brent Danielson initially sent her to jail for 45 days, but eventually released her after only four. Judge Danielson said: "This isn't just some generalized stupid speech where someone is just engaging in fascist xenophobic logorrhea. This is directed at someone. It's -- you don't say words like this when someone is present, like this, unless you are either intending to hurt them, to injure them, or you are intending to engage in some kind of a physical altercation. This is a restriction on a free speech that's especially to be guarded in Michigan."

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Discrimination laws were not created to protect white males. They were created to put white males in jail for anything they might say or do and protect those who attack white males.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Discrimination laws were not created to protect white males. They were created to put white males in jail for anything they might say or do and protect those who attack white males.

[COBOL2Java]

"No, wait! You're gonna love this one...some white guy in North Carolina is claiming race discrimination! And the best part - hold on, Mr. President - the best part is, he thinks we're gonna look into it!"