The following comes from a Dec. 6 email sent by the Pacific Justice Institute.
San Jose, CA—Attorneys for a longtime Santa Clara County employee are demanding answers after she was told that a brief comment about the problems plaguing the ObamaCare rollout were not welcome in the workplace.
Norina Mooney has worked for Santa Clara County for more than twenty years. Her role in the child support enforcement division does not involve promotion of ObamaCare. So when she made small talk with a co-worker about all the insurance policies being canceled due to ObamaCare, she was surprised to get called into a supervisor’s office. Mooney was told that her comment had offended someone who overheard it (not the person to whom it was directed), and that she should go outside if she had anything controversial or political to say. This came as a shock to Norina, especially since the office environment is replete with pro-Obama paraphernalia, and co-workers have even worn Obama campaign attire to work. Apparently, only messages deemed to be critical of the President or his policies are not welcome in this county office.
PJI Staff Attorney Matthew McReynolds fired off a letter Nov. 8 to the County, warning them to discontinue their censorship of this employee’s speech. An attorney for the County indicated the week before Thanksgiving that a response would be forthcoming, but none has been received by PJI. “We warned the County that this type of censorship would spark public outrage if it were not immediately addressed,” McReynolds noted. “Unfortunately, they do not yet seem to be taking seriously this obviously impermissible restriction on free speech.”
Brad Dacus, president of Pacific Justice Institute, commented, “Just when we thought the disastrous ObamaCare rollout couldn’t get much worse, the County of Santa Clara is compounding those problems by claiming that criticism is off-limits. Liberals and conservatives alike should be able to agree that this type of censorship is chilling and unconstitutional….”
Overhearing something that calls the veracity of the state into question and reporting it sounds like Russia in 1917 and Germany in 1934. We can’t have that – perhaps a reeducation camp might help? Sorry it also sounds like communist China today, too.
Might this be one example of what Our Lady of Fatima meant when she said that unless we convert and do penance Russia will spread her errors throughout the world?
Tracy,
You are right on!
The only Churchmen who get punished are the ones who advocate the Messages of Fatima and the Consecration!
The heretics get a pass on almost everything!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher, Founding Director
Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc.
You get suspended when you refuse to obey your bishop. It happens.
It’s what liberals do. No surprise.
God bless America !!!
Let God’s will be done….God have mercy on America for the sake of the few faithful….
The Soviet Union, part two, isn’t it ? In a case where a man was convicted of a crime for giving another driver a one-finger salute, the United States Supreme Court affirmed the right of a citizen to offend another citizen. The First Amendment cannot be allowed to be trumped by some thin-skinned person who doesn’t like what another said. It’s getting quite strange out there, and we need to assert some of our rights just because we can. Political Correctness is and always will be tyranny.
The Democratic party has reinvented the Nazi tactics of harassment and ideological purity under the guise of Political Correctness. Not surprised at this kind of story in the municipal office workplace; after all, the party line is bureaucrats should support Obamacare and they brook no dissent. Shameful behavior.
good cause, your post gives me the impression that you may actually believe that the Nazis “invented” the “tactics of harassment” for the purpose of advancing ideological purity!
I assure you that “political correctness” in one form or another has been practiced long before the birth of Christ! Today’s Liberalism is yesterday’s Paganism.
“You can pray freely… But just so God alone can hear.”
–Russian poet Tanya Khodkevich who was sentenced to ten years by the Soviets for writing this
“Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you. What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.” Flannery O’connor
There is a simple explanation for Norina Mooney’s problem: Her supervisor is an Obama supporter probably aware of the unpopularity of the Affordable Care Act. Her censure of Norina’s remarks are an example of the kind of petty fascism inherent in left-wing politics. This is a clear violation of Norina’s civil rights. If these people are not defeated in the next election, expect more of the same.