SUBSIM Radio Room Forums

SUBSIM Radio Room Forums (https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/index.php)
-   General Topics (https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/forumdisplay.php?f=175)
-   -   Koran burner lost his job because of that protest (https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=174924)

Castout 09-15-10 12:39 AM

Koran burner lost his job because of that protest
 
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/...j_transit.html


Ummm though I disagree with the man's action of ripping Koran pages and burning them I think he's entitled to his own opinion and method of protest and that it had nothing to do with his job.

If somebody tore the bible or a copy of the constitution or whatever and set them afire in a Muslim Majority country or otherwise and got booted from his job because of it I'd help whatever I could to help the man get his job back.

tater 09-15-10 01:09 AM

If he didn't burn it on the clock, what do they think is the problem?

I guess they can fire people for thinking the wrong thoughts now?

I'd have no problem with him getting fired from a private business, actually, for any reason the owner wanted. The government, OTOH doesn't have that luxury.

ETR3(SS) 09-15-10 01:10 AM

I hope he goes to the courts with this. What a man does off the clock is his business and his alone, so long as it doesn't effect his ability to do his job. From the article it sounds like he was exercising his First Amendment right and when pulled aside by police cooperated with them. I may not have done what he did, as in burning the Koran, but that is his right as an American citizen and I say good on him for exercising that right.

Reece 09-15-10 01:35 AM

The only thing he did wrong was to only burn one!:yep:

Zachstar 09-15-10 01:58 AM

Good!

Skybird 09-15-10 02:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tater (Post 1493491)
If he didn't burn it on the clock, what do they think is the problem?

I guess they can fire people for thinking the wrong thoughts now?

Yes, we have currently a public execution running in Germany, I refer to the debate around Thilo Sarrazin (former member of the board of directors of the German Bundesbank). He is not the first one being hunted to death by the PC insanes, but his fire is burning bigger than those in the recent past. That does not chnage the fact that he has 80+% of the population behind him. PC is a tyranny established and maintained by a minority that just claims to speak for all, and lives by the phlegmatism and resignation of the real majority disliking it.

Political correctness and Islamophilia have established a censorship of thought and speech in our societies. They decide on what is correct to think, to say and to do, and if you stray from that collective duty to say and to think the wanted, the right, the only acceptable things, then they will witch-hunt you and character-assassinate you without ever needing to check your arguments, with no mercy and with their hearts pumping oh so strong in their chests with self-righteousness. But the simple truth is - they are intimidated and are in fear, so they kickjump into obedience to the bully in advance, and their cognitive dissonance makes them believing their motives were noble. Cowardly bunch of weaklings.

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/5...tebibleart.jpg
Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Castout 09-15-10 03:33 AM

On the topic of political correctness who is to be the judge?!

Hate that word to me it's crap.

Do you know what the word means under tyrant like Hitler?

Flaxpants 09-15-10 04:05 AM

Political Correctness is like trying to pick up a **** from the clean end, and as Castout says, who is the judge?

I'm all for Political Incorrectness, its far more amusing and only offends those who deem themselves to be politically correct.

Castout 09-15-10 04:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flaxpants (Post 1493546)
and only offends those who deem themselves to be politically correct.


:haha:

Jimbuna 09-15-10 10:23 AM

PC....a sure sign of madness in the community.

Takeda Shingen 09-15-10 10:28 AM

I echo the sentiment in saying that I hope he takes his former employer to court.

FIREWALL 09-15-10 10:41 AM

Isn't New Jersey a Third World country ? :hmmm: :haha:

SteamWake 09-15-10 10:43 AM

He worked for the state in New Jersey what do you expect. :doh:

Tarrasque 09-15-10 11:00 AM

First Amendment doesn't come in to it.

From the sounds of it he had a code of conduct that he agreed to as an employer of the transit system - he violated that and was fired as a result.

I wonder if he had been fired due to whipping his c*** out in public, whether there would have been this thread?

Seems to be a growing anti-Islam paranoia that blames everything on it regardless of the facts or not.

Takeda Shingen 09-15-10 11:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tarrasque (Post 1493813)
First Amendment doesn't come in to it.

From the sounds of it he had a code of conduct that he agreed to as an employer of the transit system - he violated that and was fired as a result.

I wonder if he had been fired due to whipping his c*** out in public, whether there would have been this thread?

Seems to be a growing anti-Islam paranoia that blames everything on it regardless of the facts or not.

It is very simple: Indecent exposure is illegal. Ripping pages from a book is not. So yes, the First Amendment has everything to do with it.


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 05:52 PM.

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright © 1995- 2025 Subsim®
"Subsim" is a registered trademark, all rights reserved.