[Novalug] Pen is mightier than sword -- Speech restricted - A graph

Paul D. Bain paulbain@pobox.com
Sat Jul 18 12:00:03 EDT 2009


Miguel Gonzalez wrote:
> What I was trying to say was nothing about his constitutional rights.
> It's about the fact of talking about showing up at Capitol Hill with
> guns.
> 
> In this world, you sometimes have to deal with people from other
> origins, citizenship, countries or however you want to call it. These
> kind of statements show a very narrow mind that as a potential
> employer that would make me think how easy this person would fit in
> any kind of team (I wouldn't imagine him dealing with foreigners).
> 
> You can track his statements about H1b visas (he doesn't know what
> he's talking about, really - and I know, because I've been dealing
> with the process of getting one of those visas).
> 
> Sorry, but in these times of crisis this immigration talk is the easy
> one: blame the foreigners. In Europe we are starting to hear similar
> stuff. Nobody was thinking the same way when immigration was
> contributing to the economical growth in the last years in countries
> like mine. It's a complex issue and cannot be dealt with easy
> statements. Abuses, laws that are not working have to be faced, no
> doubt about it, but it's easy to jump from the nationalist talk to
> more xenophobic waters.
> 
> Miguel


http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/comparing-this-recession-to-previous-ones/


>> If i was looking to hire him i would give him equal 
>> consideration..i don't believe in punishing folks for exercising
>> their Constitutional rights.  Now then the mods of this list as a
>> private entity can moderate this list as they see fit to which i
>> would not begrudge them for that either in terms of claling it
>> censorship since as a private entity they have the right to allow
>> and not allow what they wish.



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