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See #111. The employer attempted to coerce her to remove a bumper sticker amounting to protected political speech from her car. It's clear from the employers own acitons, that R activities were condoned and she was threatened with job loss for simply exercising her right to apply the sticker to her car.

Just while she's on HIS property. Once she drives out of the parking lot, she can put the sticker right back on. And it in no way stops her from voting for whomever she pleases.

I guess, as someone asked before, you wouldn't mind if I came along and plunked a Bush/Cheney sign on your lawn. Try and stop me, and you'll be violating my 1st Amendment right to free speech...according to your interpretation of the law.

The bumper sticker was on her property, not the employer's. It is her perogative under the 1st Amendment to decorate her car with political messages as she sees fit. Placing a simple bumper sticker is certainly a common and ordinary practice of politcal speech. Being that the employer discrimated against hers in particular, was engaged in electioneering himself, the business was not a politcal org, his intimidation by threatening job loss for refusal to abandon her 1st Amend right, amounts to a violation of 18USC245.

"Once she drives out of the parking lot, she can put the sticker right back on."

The 1st Amend does not provide for a priviledged class that can dictate that. Such a concept is unAmerican and does not honor Freedom.

" you wouldn't mind if I came along and plunked a Bush/Cheney sign on your lawn."

No one will see it. You can hang as many as you want in the trees along the road as long as it's presentable, so it doesn't look like idiots support him. You may not hang at rat posters. My viking kitties will see that and notify Mr. Skunk that lives with them under the house.

If I hire you you may park your car just like everyone else and I don't care what you have on it. I may make a comment, but otherwise it's none of my business.