| Harris defends Heller's actions. "He was concerned that he was doing the right thing. If you are a good citizen, what are you supposed to do? Nothing?" said Harris. "If citizens don't stand up when there is something clearly wrong, then we are in deep trouble. We have to depend on our citizens to be responsible and that is what he did. They should be giving him a medal. This is an effort by big, powerful players who want to change the subject from what they did and they also want to discourage anyone else from telling what they know."
The state whistleblower law doesn't protect the employee from criminal prosecution. "There is nothing that can protect him from a prosecutor who decides to prosecute other than a jury and a judge," said Clark. "The district attorney can do something to Mr. Heller that perhaps Diebold couldn't do." |
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