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Giving up our rights….!?!?!!! We’re always talking about how one political party or another is causing Americans to give up their rights—or are taking Americans’ rights away from them.
I don’t see why Americans are so defensive about their rights when it’s Americans who voluntarily give them up every day.
Think about it…when we go to work and arrive at the workplace, we shed some of our most fundamental and constitutionally-granted rights that we as Americans ordinarily cherish in our rhetoric.
At work, in most instances, employees are not allowed to tell the boss to go suck it. Not only that, but at most jobs even if the bosses are doing something that will ruin the company, employees would be risking their jobs to speak up about it (e.g., which is why at Worldcom the whistleblowers had to go outside of the company because they feared reprisals from their bosses if anyone questioned anything).
Employer bans on freedom of speech extends to the home today, especially when you factor in the internet, where employees are not allowed to post politically-related speech on social networking websites. I can understand employers not wanting their workers on-line on twitter while at work, but extending this to cover off hours also is an egregious example of corporate America taking away Americans' rights to freedom of speech.
Furthermore, there’s different religious hegemony in different regions of this vast country. In the Deep South, if you’re not Christian and you admit it, then it’s likely that one will have a tough time finding and keeping gainful work. So that’s another part of Amendment One out the window. Others would claim that their bosses are antagonistic toward Christianity and there’s no praying in the workplace.
I’ve had jobs where co-workers assembling together to talk about work was forbidden by management. Other employers throughout American history have spied on their workers to make sure they weren’t holding meetings outside of work (or drinking). Some of these employers even beat up their employees because they were meeting behind closed doors without permission of their employers, and they used government agents to help do the beatings.
At most employers' workhouses today, employees cannot bring firearms to work with them. There goes Amendment No. 2.
Just about every major employer today has signs posted all over the place stipulating that employees can and will be searched of their possessions—and cars can be searched if parked on company property—without warning and without due process (a day in court). So there goes Amendment No. 4.
These are cherished American rights, or so we claim. We voluntarily shed these rights when we gain employment. So when the GOP controlled-government or Democrat-controlled-government all of the sudden takes further rights away from you, you should not complain. It’s probably the case that you’ve already given up some of your most fundamental rights.
Why would you even want to say something insulting to your boss unless you want to leave the company anyway? Not only can you not say it to your boss, you can't say it to your colleagues, either, without getting into trouble. Nobody likes to be insulted.
And guns at work? The company premises belong to someone else, they set the rules. You can't take your guns to your friend's house, either, if they don't allow it.
And given you already want to insult your boss, maybe it is a good thing you are not armed
Giving up our rights….!?!?!!! We’re always talking about how one political party or another is causing Americans to give up their rights—or are taking Americans’ rights away from them.
Perhaps if you understood your rights, as well as the rights of others you wouldn't be in such a state of agitation.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Not so loud.
Patriotic Americans like to think they are the epitome of freedom.
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