Hey, no reason to stick up for the 1st amendment. Only the 2nd one counts, right?
You missed this part of the story?
All athletes at the Pan American Games and the Olympics agree to rules forbidding political protest.
Geno
Yup. Gotta muzzle 'em, lest they scare someone with free speech. Fidel would have appreciated such rules.
Well, that's a way to look at it.
I wasn't allowed to hang political posters at my work station, or do anything political in an official capacity during my employment. I was free to express myself on my own time. I'd guess they have the same sort of arrangement.
If they don't like it, just as it was for me, they could find another "job".
Maybe my jobs with the agencies I worked for were muzzling me. Probably just good "business" practice.
Would it be OK if those "protestors" proselytized for a religious cause? (You choose a brand) Stump for a commercial outfit?
Geno
