Reply #22: In 2003, I worked for ABC [View All]

[Downtown Hound]

I was a lowly Account Executive fresh out of college, and I attended just about every anti-war protest I could, including a breakaway march in San Francisco 5 days before the war started in which the cops chased us all through the city and fired tear gas at us, and Day X five days later when we shut the city down after fighting broke out. I was arrested and spent time in jail.

I wasn't the only one. My station manager happened to be a liberal and he also marched. Do you think we deserved to be fired from our jobs for it? Both of us did it on our own time and it never interfered with our jobs.

I don't buy the argument that you give up your right to political expression when you take a job, even if that expression happens to be the embodiment of stupidity.