Orwellian America: Principal Fired for McKinney-comment Thought Crime

The New American ^ | June 12,2015 | Selwyn Duke

[detective]

He did nothing wrong. He was afraid for his life. I commend him for his actions." The essence of this opinion, about ex-McKinney, Texas, police officer Eric Casebolt, has been expressed by many, including talk-radio giant Mark Levin. But the verbatim quotation above was in reality authored by high-school principal Alberto Iber (shown).

Actually, make that former high-school principal — Iber was just fired for rendering his opinion.

[detective]

George Orwell predicted that a small group of totalitarians would take over formerly free, democratic societies. He predicted that ordinary citizens would be punished by the government for expressing any view deemed incorrect by the state.

Orwell predicted that ordinary citizens would be terrorized and deceived into compliance.

It is happening today in the United States.

Freedom of speech is rapidly being eliminated. Ordinary citizens are losing their jobs for simply telling the truth.

[SoFloFreeper]

The leftist media in Florida will tell you "He wasn't fired, he was re-assigned." Same with the liberal superintendent of schools in Miami-Dade, Alberto Carvalho.

Carvalho cheered this principal's removal, asserting ANY speech, even if it UNINTENTIONALLY OFFENDS the protected class, is cause for punishment.

Every time Alberto speaks, the media in Florida fawn over him...this is the status of the 1st Amendment in America today....the left is given freedom to speak all the time. The conservatives are told to shut up.

source: http://news.dadeschools.net/releases/rls15/298_NMiami.html

[Gen.Blather]

A teacher friend told me that all teachers had been instructed to forgo any use of social media. (In other words, if you don’t want to be fired for thought crimes, don’t commit thought crimes.)

[skeeter]

Freedom of speech is rapidly being eliminated.

History will note that its the "progressive" statists - again - doing the oppressing, while 'good men do nothing'.

And they will end up killing people en mass unless stopped. As they always do.

Santayana said it.

[detective]

“A teacher friend told me that all teachers had been instructed to forgo any use of social media. (In other words, if you don’t want to be fired for thought crimes, don’t commit thought crimes.)”

That little thing called the 1st Amendment to the Constitution no longer applies to ordinary American citizens.

We are living under a dictatorship.

[kaehurowing]

He wasn’t fired. He was liberated from his job to find other opportunities.

[Grimmy]

It is no one’s fault but or own.

[itsLUCKY2B]

Don't you see the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the language of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible because there will be no words in which to express it” ― George Orwell, 1984

[libstripper]

That was also a very much wise warning for any Soviet appartchik in the days of Stalin and later. The problem each faced was that what he or she said today that was entirely PC might suddenly be declared, ex post facto, to have been a thought crime that could get him or her sent to the Gulag and murdered. Hence, the wise advice from a smart, humane boss to each new appartchik was to say nothing, if at all possible. Now, thanks to the "progressives," the same advice applies to all too many places here in the US.

[Gen.Blather]

In my final working days before I was Obama’s out of a job, I said almost nothing that was not work related. I was careful never to be alone with people known to use their special black status to screw up the careers of higher level people they could get into trouble with a mere accusation.

[Despot of the Delta]

This is what we are dealing with. TPP is their end game. Read it at least twice to grasp it all, lots to digest. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/805656/posts?page=1

[headstamp 2]

“He wasn’t fired. He was liberated from his job to find other opportunities.”

Yes, he was determined to be suffering from “job-lock”.

[I want the USA back]

Yep. Some people are just realizing that you can lose your job because of what you think.

[Intolerant in NJ]

A civil suit for improper dismissal should be on the way....