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X_Digger

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1. If your employer is not the government, then you're pretty much SOL, with this decision or not.

Reply to houston16revival (Original post)

Sat Apr 23, 2016, 09:51 AM

Apr 2016

The bill of rights protects you from the government, not each of us from the other.

If you come over to my house, I don't have to let you preach a sermon. Me kicking your backside to the curb is not an impingement of your right to free speech or your right to practice religion.

Absent special legislation (like title VII of the civil rights act of 1964, OSHA, or EEOC guidelines), employers are under no obligation to protect your privacy, speech, etc.

If you're fired for no reason, you can't claim a violation of 'due process'.

That's not how rights work.

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Supreme Court to Decide Whether States Can Make You Leave Your Fourth Amendment Rights at the DMV [View all] houston16revival Apr 2016 OP

If your employer is not the government, then you're pretty much SOL, with this decision or not. X_Digger Apr 2016 #1

So my employer houston16revival Apr 2016 #2

It's not a violation of the 4th amendment, no. X_Digger Apr 2016 #5

K&R n/t discntnt_irny_srcsm Apr 2016 #3

Rights aren't optional discntnt_irny_srcsm Apr 2016 #4