(October 23, 2010 at 12:05 pm)Minimalist Wrote: They can fire him for any reason they like.
There is no constitutional right to employment. The Bill of Rights prevents the government from throwing someone's ass in jail for speaking. It does not prevent any private citizen or business from firing that person.
Intriguingly... i can kill many for any reason I like, or even do so without reason (ie: accident).
The (American) government is a sufficiently powerful entity that it could do whatever it wants to a number of people for any reason, perhaps 'neglecting' to make it public knowledge that they are doing so. What they are legally 'bound' to do is not necessarily what they will do. This doesn't mean that they can always (or perhaps but rarely) act however they want, but it does attempt to demonstrate the capacity to act if they should so choose.
We are really quite free to do anything we wish (so long as it is possible for us to do so). However, this is also true of the people around us... and if they don't like something we do: there may be consequences for us.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
