Comments on: Firefighter suspended for refusing to remove American flag sticker from his locker

By: Patrick Sperry

Patrick Sperry — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:56:43 +0000

Sure looks like the easy way out to me. I’m glad that we never had to address this though. Removing would not have been an option,and I hate painting!

By: vincent

vincent — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:07:15 +0000

And therein lies one of the great many problems with political correctness and socialism in general, the absence of personal accountability. Whatever happened to discipline, self disipline and accountability?
This practice of controlling the actions of all under the guise of protecting us all is just one more way of eroding our sense of the individual. With out personal accountability the is less individuality and therefore less desire for individual liberty.

By: Ron Russell

Ron Russell — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:50:48 +0000

This is always the case with political correctness–the whole must be punished for the actions of the few. This goes way back- I recall as a young boy we often all would be punished for what one person did. And often the punishment would stand until the guilty person stepped forward. Today things have gone to the extreme and this fire-fighter incident really points this out.

By: Mr Pink Eyes

Mr Pink Eyes — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:15:35 +0000

While I agree that a company should be able to put in place whatever rules they want to I just think that this rule was taking the easy way out instead of punishing those that should have been.

By: Mr Pink Eyes

Mr Pink Eyes — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:13:40 +0000

I fully agree!

By: LOUDelf

LOUDelf — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:01:07 +0000

I think it DOES fall under the category of: ALL. While I think the suspension was laughable, I do also believe that if there’s a rule in place, allowing exception causes all kinds of problems.

By: LD Jackson

LD Jackson — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:45:15 +0000

It does sound like the fire department has taken the easy road, instead of actually addressing the real problem at hand. Like you, I think it would have been better to stop the racist stickers than to stop all of them.