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High Court Trims Whistleblower Rights
iminplaya writes "In yet another blow against free speech rights, the Supreme Court decided that government employees who report wrongdoing do not enjoy 1st Amendment rights while on the job. From the article 'The Supreme Court scaled back protections for government workers who blow the whistle on official misconduct Tuesday, a 5-4 decision in which new Justice Samuel Alito cast the deciding vote [...] The ruling was perhaps the clearest sign yet of the Supreme Court's shift with the departure of moderate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and the arrival of Alito. [...] Stephen Kohn, chairman of the National Whistleblower Center, said: "The ruling is a victory for every crooked politician in the United States."'"
Well, then I applaud you for paying such careful attention to the response from your anonymous post. That's quite a bit of scrolling to do. I didn't mean to call you personally stupid, but was noting that asking for proof of something like that is an excercise in futility. It's quite an abstract concept full of opinion and virtually devoid of fact. Proof is really a concept that doesn't apply to taxonomy, it's pretty subjective.
Speak for yourself.
Bloody hell man, you should have been modded funny. Listen to yourself.
Communist governments spend vast sums of nonexistant money, they tend to create an elite "politburo" class of elite rich while everyone else remains poor, they begin wars and conquor countries to control resources they otherwise wouldn't have and couldn't afford
The only difference between what you said and America today is the fact they can afford it (though some might disagree with that), and China cant, though some will disagree with that in the not too distant future. America has sure launched wars over resources they dont have enough of.
and they promote lies in schools that run contrary to science and evidence.
Intelligent Design in the science classroom anyone?
The parent poster said pseudo-communist, and there aint much difference between these examples.