[aomagrat]

[aomagrat]

Dixie Ping!

[Constitution Day]

SCANA employees are prohibited from displaying the Confederate flag on their vehicles while on company property....
All this is within SCANA’s rights. If SCANA does not want its associates sending a neo-Confederate message on its time, then it can limit the displays allowed on company property.

Bull.
Their right to limit employees' freedom of expression does not extend to vehicles that, presumably, the company did not purchase.

[billbears]

So let's get this straight. If you're a company that doesn't have the 'right' PC attitude, it is the required responsibility of the government to FORCE said company to change their policy. However if you're a company that enforces PC to the point that you are enfringing upon the rights of workers, the government doesn't have the right to enforce workers' free speech rights?

[4CJ]

The real threat to free speech comes from McConnell. He doesn’t like SCANA’s point of view, and he wants to use the power of the state to punish the company. It’s inexcusable.

So much for biased opinions. The Spartanburg HJ praises SCANA's actions while denouncing those of McConnell. The hypocrisy of it all.

SCANA employees have freedom of speech but not necessarily on company time and property.

HUH?

[stainlessbanner]

McConnell’s proposal is dangerous to the state’s utility system.

SCANA's policy is dangerous to my first ammendment!

[vetvetdoug]

I saw last night where the miscreants that were advocating reparations are denying that the Civil War was about slavery. OK, they cannot have their arguement both ways. Making the Confederate Battle flag an issue makes these bozos hypocrits.

[shuckmaster]

Dear Editor,

Let me see if I've got this right.

A manipulative public works monopoly makes it their business to suppress the free speech of their employees and furthermore, makes a vicious racially motivated public attack against a South Carolina businessman.

A politician has the guts to stand up and question the corporations privilege to use their monopoly as a political hammer against the people they choose to discriminate against.

You write an editorial twisting the obvious truth around to say that the politician standing up to the racially divisive monopoly is an attack on free speech?

Not only have you made it clear who's dirty pocket you're in but, you've totally destroyed your credibility as an unbiased news source.

[Twodees]

It’s unfortunate that his Republican colleagues won’t publicly rebuke McConnell for attacking the free speech rights of SCANA even as he pretends to protect that same value.

I see the pinkos at the Sputenball Herald have done a 180 on the typical liberal's free spech position in order to pretend that a corporation has the same rights as a human being, now that a corporation is bending to their PC jihad against the South. To follow their logic, it would be a matter of 1st amendment protected free speech for this corporation to order its employees to cease union activities on company property. I'll hold my breath waiting for them to say the same thing the next time they accuse a corporation of union busting. Y'all pick me up when I turn blue and fall out, ok?

McConnell is very likely to get a bill passed over this. The class warriors among South Carolina's carpetbagger owned press may as well get used to it.

[sweetliberty]

"The real threat to free speech comes from McConnell. He doesn’t like SCANA’s point of view, and he wants to use the power of the state to punish the company. It’s inexcusable.:

This is an incredibly convoluted attitude regarding free speech. I guess they are saying that since individuals are so ignorant as to be unable to recognize that messages on bumper stickers and other similar displays on private vehilcles represent a sentiment of the owner of the vehicle and NOT that of the company on whose lot it parked, then obviosly the company must protect itself from opinions of employees.