Protest And Get Fired
Via Jack K., the story of a group of meat cutters for Wolverine Meat Packing who have been fired for attending the immigration protests.
I would suggest that there are many choices for meat products and Americans should patronize those that show a due regard for American values, like “…the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
If you see Wolverine or Royal Gold in the meat aisle, do you really want to support a company that fires people for exercising their First Amendment rights?
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I promise I won’t eat any meat from Wolverine or Royal Gold. (Or any other packing plants, for that matter.)
Seriously, there seems to be a lot of this going around lately. Remember the woman who was fired because her car bore a John Kerry bumper sticker? As best I can tell, the various immigration demonstrations were virtually models of good behavior, the kind of protest all of us might well emulate in our various peaceable assemblies. So the firing had to have been for content alone, not behavior. The employer deserves to experience some loss of business for this.
(Gotta get Stella a red dress of grievances. What? Oh. <emily_litella> Never mind! </emily_litella>)
I don’t like boycotts, but that’s what left when government refuses to act. When you have to give up your civil rights to get a job, the nation is in serious trouble.