I Don’t Like Lew Rockwell
Posted by
David Kramer on February 8,
2011 12:09 AM
Lew Rockwell is nasty. Lew Rockwell is rude. Lew Rockwell is a
Communist.
Do you think Lew Rockwell should be able to prevent me from writing the
above on his site, or from writing this on my Facebook page?
Better yet, do you think Lew Rockwell should be able to not allow me to
even blog on his site any longer because of what I wrote above, or
because I wrote this on my Facebook pagenor be an LRC Blog editor for
him any longer because of what I wrote above, or because I wrote this on
my Facebook page? Of course you think that (at least if you’re a
libertarian). The LRC Blog is Lew Rockwell’s property and he can
determine all the parameters of what he expects from the people who work
for his site. As a worker for his site, if I don’t like some or all of
his parameters, nothing is preventing me from not working for Lew
Rockwell any longer.
Think again, because the Bankster puppets who sit on the National Labor
Relations Board in the United States of Socialist America have just
decided that
a company cannot fire an employee for writing negative things about the
employer he or she works for on Facebook or other social media. By some
demented reasoning (Hey, it’s labor “rights” advocacy. Would you expect
anything better?), the “free speech” of an employee is protected. (Under
what? The First Amendment? The Bill of Rights has to do with your a
priori freedoms in relation to the government, NOT your freedoms in
dealing with private individuals.)
EXAMPLE: I can call Obama a Communist and not be thrown in jail (Yet!).
But if I call Lew Rockwell a Communist, from the libertarian point of
view he has every property right to stop me from working for him on his
blog (i.e., property).
In the case that decided the above nonsense ruling, the company had an
established policy concerning what employees can and cannot communicate
about the company. From the libertarian point of view, if a prospective
employee was not happy with this policy, he or she should have either
never taken a job with the company in the first place or resigned if he
or she was not comfortable with this policy. No employee has any right or
claim to an employer’s private property (i.e., company) unless there is
an agreement with that employee establishing some right or claim (i.e., a
contract or an established company policy). This latest atrocious ruling
is just one more step on the road to Fascism which this country has been
heading towards since the creation of the Federal Reserve almost a
century ago.
(By the way, Lew Rockwell really isn’t nasty or rude or a Communist. But
as far as my not liking Lew Rockwell…)
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