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JPL Background Check Case Reaches Supreme Court

Posted by timothy on from the faster-boys-if-you-want-your-pay dept.

Dthief writes "A long-running legal battle between the United States government and a group of 29 scientists and engineers of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, has now reached the US Supreme Court." At issue: mandatory background checks for scientists and engineers working at JPL, which they allege includes snooping into their sexual orientation, as well as their mental and physical health.

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  1. FROSTY PISS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What's the difference between nigger pussy and a bowling ball? If you HAD TO, you could eat the fucking bowling ball.

  2. JPL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  3. It is important by WindBourne · · Score: -1, Troll

    They ask questions like Sex orientation but that is under Lie detector. What is REALLY going on, is they are going to find out if somebody is a liar. The issue is not that a scientist is gay. It is, is a scientist gay and trying to hide it. If so, then it is point of entry by CHinese. All they have to do is send somebody to screw that person, take pix, and then blackmail into getting information. That is like America using illegal's to build high security buildings now. As such, it is easy for a Chinese spy to approach the illegal and tell them that they will report them elsewhere, UNLESS that person plants bugs in the building. If they do, then the spy will pay them large sums of money. SO, what does somebody that has ZERO loyality to our nation (think along the lines of a CEO style loyality), is offered a choice of going to jail or being large sums of money do? You KNOW what they will. And yet, we prohibit checks for illegals because we are afraid of hurting their feelings, or losing votes. TOTAL BS.

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  4. Re:I'm not clear on what their case is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    To the government, a guy secretly cheating on his wife can be just as risky as a closeted homosexual.

    If you're going to be gay and apply for this sort of job, you'd better be flagrant, parading on sunday, going-down-in-flames gay, not some sort of half-assed bicurious-with-that-one-guy-in-college type nonsense.

    That way, when the chi-coms threaten to out you, everyone knows that you will laugh at them and go right back to your daily business.