ME ON STORMFRONT | 2006-08-25
That is amazing!
I used to instruct a course in Constitutional Law, and some of the pivotal cases in that field said that no employer could fire an employee for being a Communsit, but they COULD fire someone for being a member of whatever the employer decided to call "a hate group."
I tried to get some people interested in that, but they were busy with The Latest News. Back then that meant the crisis in Laos or the meat shortage or whatever.
Now it's Iraq. Or maybe Iran. Or Bush is a meanie.
But don't expect anyone else on Stormfront to understand the importance of this decision.
Down here in South Carolina this gets pretty personal. One guy got fired because he wouldn't remove a Confederate flag from INSIDE his lunch box.
I didn't discuss this on Stormfront because the SF crowd is busy with the latest revelation about how Bush is a meanie.
Or maybe Iran.
People were fired down here for having Confederate flags on their bumper stickers.
But Stormfront was busy with the latest scandal from Iraq.
Anyway, salvete, one person here understands how important this decision is.
On SF, you should be glad ONE person does.
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Originally Posted by salvete amici
http://www.ketv.com/newsarchive/9737294/detail.html
Bruning Appeals Decision On Trooper Associated With KKK
Arbitrator Rules Trooper Should Get Job Back
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning said he filed an appeal on Friday related to a Nebraska State Patrol trooper who has admitted affiliations with the Ku Klux Klan, after an arbitrator ruled that the Patrol failed to show why the trooper was a threat.
Bruning said Trooper Robert Henderson, 50, of Omaha admitted in February that he had some communication with a white supremacist group called the White Knights. He was terminated in March.
Henderson, an 18-year veteran of the patrol, appealed the termination, and an arbitrator decided last week that he should be reinstated. The arbitrator said Henderson's First Amendment rights allow him to be a member of any group he chooses, Bruning said.
The arbitrator's ruling said that the Nebraska State Patrol failed to demonstrate why Henderson posed a threat to the public or the patrol. Paul Caffera's 48-page report is highly critical of how the State Patrol has handled this disciplinary case. Caffera said he shares "the disgust" the patrol has in Henderson's decision to align himself with the Ku Klux Klan, but Caffera said his ruling is based only on law, and in this case the Patrol did not prove Henderson's firing was justified under terms of the collective bargaining agreement.
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