I agree. Unless it violates some ordinance (fire) or some other law/regulation, a person can burn any book they personally own.

Now where they can burn it may be restricted depending on the circumstances.

Wish I was finished with Law School already, I would love to have this case! Just the type of case I want to handle someday.Reality is some uber Liberal PC type over him had a freak out and pushed for him to be fired.Hope he sues and wins lots of $ then burns more Quarans.

Exactly. I'd like to see the code of ethics he supposedly violated, and exactly what action he performed that violated it.

Why do you hate him so much?:hmmm:

That may be our ordinary folks opinion, but to some politicians trying to mend broken and sour relationship with the Muslim world it would send a wrong message if the guy was not fired. . . .at least that's the point of view I used when I wrote I can understand it to deter other people from burning more Korans.:)

But for the sake of liberty I'd support the stance that the guy should not lose his job over his method of protest. Private or public career.

Worse thing happened to Dixie chick during Bush administration because of the comments they made over the war in Iraq that resulted from the radios banning their music. I certainly respect the audacity of these women in saying what they believed in public and took the chance with their career as a consequence. I raise my hat to them! The kind of girl or women I'd love to love, one that can stand up when she believes she's right. What is there to fear even the most successful and powerful person on the planet is going the same way as the rest of the population...the grave. What to fear?! We'll all successfully die. So why not living and fighting for what we believe is right in the meantime?

Political correctness is just stupid imo . . . .and who is to be the judge of that correctness? And who is going to be the judge of that judge? And why does it keep changing with time and policy and administration? Surely there's no universal correctness!

I'd like to be a fly on the wall if he called up the ACLU and asked for representation.

"Well...um....er...about that..."

There was no "banning." It was the CHOICE of radio stations to play what they wished, and what their customers wanted. "Banning" would require that it was made ILLEGAL to play their music.

They did something stupid, and paid a price in business for it, tough crap. It should be obvious. It's not like NYC is full of country music fans. I could start a Christian band (easy, as I'm no musician, and such music sucks). Then I stand up in front of some audience and say that I think jesus is fake. How would that do for my air time on Christian stations?

Same thing. It was the market speaking, not a "ban."

Honestly, if I owned a business and one of my employees started burning Korans I'd probably fire him because if I know about it he's probably vocal about his Anti-Muslim And/Or Racism and I don't need other employees/customers getting offended because of his "Beliefs" Besides I wouldn't want radicals working for me anyways. I mean Radicals of any variety.

I'd have no problem with that as you'd be a private employer, and I think hiring and firing for ANY reason should be your right. Heck, you should be able to fire a woman for not being pretty enough, or a guy for having a bad haircut.

The transit dept. is part of the government, however. They need to be held to a higher standard, and interfering with political speech by the government is unconstitutional.

I hope he cleans their clock, and never has to work again. (coming from someone against rampant lawsuits, that's saying something (I think loser should have to pay all costs in any suit, for example))

He was a public servant. Don't know how this works in the US but in other countries has an additional obligation (under oath) to uphold the constitution, the law(s) and of course a defined "code of ethics". This would essentially come down to something as in: "you can express your point of view but in an appropriate manner so as not to "compromise" your work as a public servant or the agency you service". In this case, after tearing the Koran or whatever, IN PUBLIC, how would muslim citizens interact with him as a public servant? How would possible muslim coworkers cooperate with him within the state agency? :hmmm:

And it can easily go ... deeper (right to express opinion, state vs religion etc).

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So anyone in Congress should not be allowed to express political thoughts?

They might come into contact later with someone who disagrees with them, after all.

Well it was a boycott though may not be official but it's nonetheless real and who are you to judge that their opinion was deserving of punishment? It was certainly different from yours then but punishing people for having different opinion and or belief would make such judgmental people deserve to have NONE but what is subscribed to them.

And how about now telling the contrary to Dixie chicks opinion to public I dare you? wouldn't you be called stupid now and how about boycotting the fruit of your effort based on that stupidity?

Truth is America has fallen short of being called the champion of liberty. I wouldn't want to live in USA now seeing what it has become than what it was before 2001 and during the cold war. My impression is that of corruption. And it always preceded the fall of every world powers since ancient time. The external pressure was just a trigger as what's rotten inside provided the gunpowder.

It was perfectly fine.

A large % of their audience had different political opinions than they did, and they elected to insult those customers. If you insult your customers, you lose business. It was no more complicated than that.

A Christian band that insults a large enough % of their customers will lose customers. A "hip" band that starts playing, I dunno, Lawrence Welk music just like the original, will lose its hip audience. Guess what, it will not get air play on the same stations. Same thing.

It was the market speaking, plain and simple. If playing their tunes would have helped the bottom line, the radio stations would have played it.

Scientifically testing which book smokes better: Bible or Quran.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQJ8w...ipcontrinter=1

:yeah: :haha:

The best reply possible in this hilarious "mass-hysteric-mandatory-collective-uproar"-project.

"I still feel sick" :haha: "Don't burn your own copy - burn somebody else's." :har:

is that the one that goes.....
Muslims muslims muslims islamic conspiracy EU secret legislation muslims muslims demographic arabs criminals sharia muslims muslims muslims sunni persians shia sunnis muslims muslims al-qaida?
oh and them muslims and negroes ruined the world cup:doh:

Or is it perhaps some other hysteria which Sky has not yet succumbed to?

http://www.ohioconstitution.org/2010...too-political/

That's a helluva resolution considering that only unambiguously free speech is "political" speech (vs yelling "fire").