[JebBush2008]

The woman was using the COMPANY'S COMPUTER while the Tampa man had a Conederate flag on his PERSONAL truck.

Yes, but the Personal Truck was parked on his employers property.

[RightFighter]

The truck may have been parked on his employer's property, but his employer was the City of Tampa, a government agency.

If my employer, a private business, wants to tell me what I can display on my car or what I can wear on my shirt or what music I can listen to in my office, they have every right to do that. However, the City of Tampa has no more right to tell an employee he can't have a certain symbol on his truck than they do to tell the Ku Klux Klan they can't have a parade. I may not personally like it, but that's the way the law has been interpreted. I think Tampa loses on this one.

[reelfoot]

Will the same local government prohibit blacks from wearing clothing with a (racist Malcolm) X on it? Will NAACP bumper stickers be prohibited? How about Latino pride insignia? Admit it, one group and one group alone is the only acceptable whipping boy in this PC age: Southerners proud of their Confederate heritage.

[Old Professer]

Yes, but the Personal Truck was parked on his employers property.

The property is held in common with the people.

[GOPcapitalist]

Yes, but the Personal Truck was parked on his employers property.

His employer is not a private company though. Rather it is a government entity whose lands are public property. Political speech is afforded further protection on public property than in a privately owned business.