Fired for posting pictures of Homeland Security Vehicles.

[Tom Joad]

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/vet...cles-ferguson/

Pretty damned Orwellian if you ask me.

When Paffrath went into work on Thursday, he noticed that the parking garage was filled with government vehicles, and he found this to be a bit strange, especially considering the recent tensions in the nearby town of Ferguson.

Paffrath then took two photographs and one short video of what he was seeing, and posted the evidence to his Facebook page with a caption that said “why are all the cop cars here…I wonder if it has anything to do with Ferguson.”

The next day,Paffrath was called into his manger’s office and was told that he had to remove the posts from his Facebook page. Paffrath complied with his manager’s demands and thought that the issue was over. However, the very next day he was called into the office again, but this time, his manager was joined by Jim Bohnert, Director of Security for the Drury Hotels Company.

Paffrath was told by Bohnert that the Hotel company has a $150,000 contract with the Department of Homeland Security, which was put into jeopardy by Paffrath’s Facebook posts.

Mark said that he was then fired, and was told by Mr. Bohnert that he was a terrorist, and that he “dishonorably served his country” by posting the photos and video. Bohnert then allegedly threatened Paffrath with arrest if he decided to go back and repost the videos.

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[Pio1980]

Probably a violation of hotel guest privacy policy.

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[donquixote99]

I wonder. But calling him a terrorist? The ghost of McCarthy is abroad in the land.

Of course it's legal. A bad opinion, however ill-founded, is enough to get you fired in most places.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

Probably a violation of hotel guest privacy policy.

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I don't think so.

That hotel guest privacy does not apply to government employees that are on the clock. It sure never applied to me when I was working for the Florida DOT. Quite the opposite. You don't have any privacy when you work for the government. If we had a conference or training course at a Hotel convention center they would put "Welcome Florida Department of Transportation" in two foot high letters on the Marquee out front.

[Rajoo]

Since he is an employee of the hotel, he is probably in violation of some blanket privacy policy of the hotel. But this is still lame considering the situation in Ferguson and no one is trusts the authorities in this case.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by BeamOn

Since he is an employee of the hotel, he is probably in violation of some blanket privacy policy of the hotel. But this is still lame considering the situation in Ferguson and no one is trusts the authorities in this case.

Probably so, and the hotel CYA with the Federales.
Ferguson doesn't want to become the next Watts, I can't fault them for being prepared for anything.

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[Ike Bana]

I never know when the right-wingers hereabouts are going to use something like this, or the IRS, or Ebola as fodder for their next volley at Obama. And then they go oddly silent. What gives?

[Rajoo]

Answer: Who created DHS?

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

I never know when the right-wingers hereabouts are going to use something like this, or the IRS, or Ebola as fodder for their next volley at Obama. And then they go oddly silent. What gives?

It depends on who the government is going after.

If it's Mexicans, Blacks, Muslims or Occupy Wall Streeters, they are fine with it.

If it's some bagger like Cliven Bundy, well that's different.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by BeamOn

Answer: Who created DHS?

I suppose we want to say George Bush?

But it's not quite that cut and dried. The US Commision on National Security, also known as the Hart/Rudman Commission was actually chartered by William Cohen in 1998 when he was Clinton's Secretary of Defense.

At the time it was likely to develop into what is now the DHS, although it's probably impossible to say what differences there are in DHS as opposed to what might have been if not for the September 11th incident. And who knows when there might have actually been a DHS had it not been for 9/11.