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To: tejek who wrote (187918)	5/17/2004 6:02:22 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1572775

Trying to get someone fired for what they say may be against the spirit of freedom of speech and expression but it isn't technically speaking censorship or an infringement on their first amendment rights. Even if he actually was fired it wouldn't have been an infringement of his free speech rights. He has a right to say what he wants but his employer doesn't have an obligation (unless he is tenured and even then the obligation has exceptions) to continue to employee him. Generally I would be against firing people for their statements while off the job, but firing someone isn't censoring them. Personally if I was a member of congress I probably would not have called for the professor to be fired (even if what he is calling for would amount to millions of American being killed) but I would have harshly criticized his statement. Tim