"Then
what objection could you possibly have to a security assessment for you and
your family?"
"For a
part time minimum wage job? Doesn't that strike you as being excessive, as well
as absurd and a waste of everyone's time and energy? I also consider it an
invasion of our privacy."
"I
see. So you're one of those."
"One
of what?"
"The
type that's always yapping about their individual rights at a time when the
country is under siege from terrorist threats from home as well as abroad and
must be exceedingly cautious about who works where."
"I
resent your characterization of me as yapping, which is in effect calling me a
dog. I'm expressing myself in what is supposed to be a society in which freedom
of speech is deemed an inherent right of the people."
"Are
you a communist, Mr. Foreman?"
"What?
No, I am not a communist."
"Then
why would you have so much trouble answering the first question?"
"Unbelievable.
I bring up freedom of speech, the First Amendment of our constitution, and your
response is to call me a communist? First I'm a yapping dog and now I'm a
commie. Were Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, John Adams, and the other
founding fathers communist dogs?"
"I did
not call you a communist. I merely asked if you are one. Why are you getting so
defensive, Mr. Foreman? Did I hit a nerve, perhaps?"
"More
than you know, Withers."
"What's
a communist, dad?"
"Later,
Jason. Listen, Withers, in this country you need probable cause to go digging
into someone's private life. This is one reason we have a constitution in the
first place, to protect ourselves from the intrusion of government into our
personal affairs."
"Yes,
yes, I've heard all that before. Go stand on a soapbox somewhere if you like,
Foreman, but if you don't fill out the questionnaire and submit to a security
check, your son doesn't get hired."
"Keep
the job, Withers. Jason, we are out of here."
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