Re: Freedom Forum report on the State of the First Amendment

[Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com>]

Paul Bradley writes:

>> >Suppose RealBig Corporation fired Umbehr for his views. Would a First
>> >Amendment issue have arisen? Of course not. In a free society, RealBig is
>> >free to hire whom it wishes, and to refuse to hire niggers, homos,
>> >perverts, Jews, whatever. And to fire anyone who wrote opinions the
>> >managers at RealBig disliked.
>> 
>> Substitute "fascist society" for "free society" in the paragraph
>> above and the discussion begins to make some sense. Hell, it's even
>> historically accurate.

> Wrong, do you dispute the fact that RealBig corp. is free to refuse to 
> hire people for any reason whatsoever? Do you think I should not be 
> allowed to refuse to hire people because of their race or sexual orientation?

> Should the government be able to take action against me because I fire 
> someone for being jewish/black/homosexual???

Welcome to the 20th Century, moron.

-- 
Colin