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But only if it doesn’t offend your employers view or that of the majority when you are questioning the President of the United States at a campaign rally. It would seem that Glenn Hiller found out the hard way that heckling the POTUS can have damaging consequences.

Glenn returned to his job as a graphic designer after the rally in which he questioned Bush’s “half-truths” about the economy, outsourcing of jobs and whatever else came to his mind and found out that he was fired for having embarrassed his employer.

Is that possible, you might ask? Ah, but it is. The private sector are less governed by the laws that allow free speech and things of the sort. It is as the employers discretion, and in some cases those of the employee, that they get and remain employed. Employers have the prerogative to fire any employee for any reason, sane or insane.

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