Saturday, March 12, 2011

Bus Driver Fired for Flying Confederate Flag on his own personal vehicle

We read:
"It has the words “redneck” emblazoned across it. And its owner, school bus driver Ken Webber, displays it proudly on his personal pick-up truck. It‘s a symbol of states’ rights, he says. What is “it,” you ask? The confederate flag, of course:

But that’s not how his employers, the Phoenix-Talent school district, saw it: “The Phoenix-Talent school district said the flag violates their harassment policy, even though it’s displayed on his personal vehicle,” according to a news report.

Webber says he was fired for not removing the flag from his vehicle.

Webber plans to take the school district to court for violating his first amendment rights.

The Rutherford Institute of Charlottesville, Va., sent a letter Wednesday to First Student Bus Transportation Services demanding that Ken Webber of Medford, Ore., be reinstated. The institute says flying the flag is covered by his First Amendment right to free speech.

Source

As a public school body, they do have to obey the 1st amendment and lots of things that are not strictly speech have been held as protected under the 1st amendment -- so he's got a pretty good case. Calling it "harassment" is absurd. Maybe someone should show them what real harassment is.

9 comments:

sig said...

If everyone who displayed such flags/bumper stickers/whatever were fired, the unemployment rate would skyrocket.

Anonymous said...

"the unemployment rate would skyrocket."

Nope. People out of work would step into those jobs, gladly.

Spurwing Plover said...

Frankly he should be allowed to sue the bus company for this Its clearly them forcing him to abide by unconstitutional regulations on his own personal vichle

Anonymous said...

I hope he does sues, the progressives are getting out of control.

Anonymous said...

I think that these now unemployed right wing wackaloons should not collect unemployment. Why get handouts from the government?

Anonymous said...

There should be a bounty on all leftists, say $10. per scalp. That would dramatically lower the unemployment rolls, provide an income for the poor, help clean the gene pool, and be great fun for "the children".

Spurwing Plover said...

Annoon 2 speaking like a true liberal socialists psycopath

Anonymous said...

"Annoon 2 speaking like a true liberal socialists psycopath'

You make me laugh.

Spurwing Plover said...

Im a very serious shorebird and OBAMA is a blabbering dweeb