Posted on 11/29/2004 4:30:45 AM PST by johnny7
Since Kerry is making gurgling sounds about running again, I suspect that the rest of the SBVTs would immediately reactivate if a suspicious accident killed one of their own, especially one as prominent as Steve Gardner.
I just tried to logon to the SBVT discussion boards to check for a thread about helping Gardner and they're shut down...says try later...unusual.
I'm all for helping out a real Hero.
Let's find out more about his former company too.
Alas, a lawyer would be of little help. 99% of the time (albeit dependant on the state), an employer can fire its employee for any reason, EXCEPT: race, sex, religion, disability, national origin, refusing to commit an illegal act, and in retribution for filing a workers' comp claim.
I do not hire Democrats, for example. I fing them lazy, stupid, and much more likely to blame others for their shortcomings. They also do not get along with others in my conservative workplace.
I would be loath to give up my First Amendemnt right of association (which includes, by necessity, the right of dis-association).
What he needs is a Republican to hire him.
BTTT
I would bet on "suicide", not on "accident."
Ok, Freepers - it's time for all of us to pull together for this guy and help him. Someone's gotta be able to help him find a job, and maybe we should even work on getting up some $$$ for him.....anyone got some ideas?
Indredibly sad story.
Okay, there are too many Steven Gardners in SC. I can't find him without more data - like middle name, etc. Therefore we'll have to write to Swiftees to find out how and if he can be reached for donations. I'm willing to do the legwork - will see where it goes from there.
I'm on my way out of town for the day--but if anyone sets something up, would someone please give me a ping?
Ah yes, the tried and true Clintonian method.
My dream is to see the day that the FederalCommunicationsPropaganda Commission is sued for allowing and promoting the fraudulent use by its licensees of The New York Times as a standard of objectivity.They have no choice but to do it, of course - otherwise they would have to admit that the entire reason d' etre of broadcast journalism is a fraud.
Newspapers (such as the NYT) are necessessarily protected by the First Amendment, meaning that they cannot be sued for being wrong, or for omitting an important truth. Broadcasters, being licensed as the Constitution does not permit newspapers to be licensed, have no real First Amendment protection and consequently must put up a false front of objectivity. Since that is already the commercial posture of the NYT, it is natural that the two would find it important to go along and get along with each other.
Only the false front of objectivity motivates the unanimity of the broadcasters, subverted only at the margins by talk radio and the Fox News Channel. Only the unanimity of the broadcasters made the Kerry campaign appear respectable in the face of truth telling by most of Kerry's comrades and superiors. Without that, the absurdity of the nomination of a hero of the enemy to be Commander-in-Chief would have been patent.
Obviously the company wasn't worth working for anyhow if politics is the only basis used for job performance.
Steven Gardner will find a better job. In the mean time, he needs our support.
How about have Gardner tell his story through speaking engagements? or writing a book?
Somebody - somewhere - one should be able to help him.
And, perhaps you already have the means and connections with Swiftees to obtain a safe address (not his home) to which donations for Mr. Gardner can be sent? I don't want to reinvent the wheel.
See #38
If he was a direct employee of Millennium Information Services he would qualify for unemployment benefits while looking for other work.
Sounds like he might have been an independent contractor. And, if so, no unemployment benefits. The e-mail "firing" would be more understandable in that case - yet still slimy.
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