Posted on 09/14/2010 5:44:20 PM PDT by GreaterSwiss
Edited on 09/14/2010 5:48:40 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Freedom of expression? Only if you are defiling Christ or satirizing white males, I guess.
Get a lawyer and sue their guts out.
Incredible. So now his “trust as a state employee” means protecting the Koran?
If he’d burned the US flag or the Christian bible then liberals would be outraged that he could be fired over it.
If this guy was in fact a state employee, then it seems to me that he has a very strong case that his 1st Amendment right is being infringed upon since his firing is admittedly retaliatory.
Dude gonna be rich
Sue the state of NJ for all they have got.
I am sure there are lawyers just itching to do just that.
Sue the state of NJ for all they have got.
I am sure there are lawyers just itching to do just that.
sue them.
This was his own time, not at work either and he ahs a right to have done that.
I take it the media will now state where he lives, what he does and where his family are.
This should surprise absolutely NO ONE.
Step out of line in The Age of Obama and you will be DESTROYED.
They’re saying he was an at-will employee. So they might not need cause? Strange.
Time for Americans to fire NJ Transit and never ride on their crap again.
Just so you know, them is me. The @$$holes who actually made this decision will never be asked to pony up a penny.
ML/NJ
Very important information in that Fenton was not wearing his work uniform and attempting to suggest his ideas were the ideas of NJTransit.
Government employees do not lose their off-duty right to free speech by virtue of accepting employment.
Fenton was making a free speech statement on his own time and on his own dime.
And of course the ACLU will be quick to defend him on the grounds of wrongful termination. /s
Sue their ass
Moreover he did not violate the Hatch Act ( more for Fed employees)because he did not do this on work time, nor as a State employee.
If he had worn a Hijab( Muzzie headscarf)...no problem!
maybe Obama will say the NJ Transit Authority acted ‘stupidly”...uh, probably not.
If this was a private company, no problem. But can a state government agency enforce a “code of ethics” that narrows a citizen’s free speech rights? It’s not like dude did anything illegal. As an at will employee, the state could have fired him for no reason, but since they chose to give a reason dude might have a right to a determination of whether the reason was constitutional under state and federal law. I’d sue if I were him. Of course I would never have burned the Koran at all in the first place if I were him, so who knows what he’ll do?
Maybe he should burn the American Flag and get his job back?
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