King my friends are diverse also. The dynamics of free enterprise are such that when one offends one's customer base there are going to be financial repercussions. Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks for all practical purposes ended the groups career by speaking politically in a way that offended her customer base. Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13 year old girl cousin and offended his customer base and his earnings went way down.
You can vote for who you want in the privacy of a polling booth but for what you do publicly you can be held accountable for in the private markets.
There are endowments and trusts that don't invest in non-green companies. There were universities that pulled all their money out of South Africa during Apartheid.
And as long as we have strayed into Canadian free speech I believe at least one person has been prosecuted in Canada for arguing that the Holocaust didn't take place. Of course it did take place but I find it puzzling that yall can't trust yourselves to figure out for yourselves the truth, thus making it necessary to criminalize his arguing his belief.
Free speech should be protected from the government. And Mr. Cooper wasn't jailed or tarred and feathered or lynched or pilloried by the private market forces, he was just fired. He is free to get another job.
Best,
Mike
Edit - Didn't your Holocaust Denyer get convicted? Of a felony?
Last edited by AmarilloMike; 11/03/08 12:16 AM.
