Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Border Patrol meet the Thought Police
In every job there exists, in addition to the normal transgressions than will result in termination, a special set of no-no's the will get you the gate. Most are related to the functions you perform. If you are a member of the Border Patrol, what you think can also be grounds for termination.
A former border guard who says he was fired for suggesting to a co-worker that marijuana should be legalized has filed a lawsuit against the US Border Patrol.He is fortunate in one respect, that he no longer works with the shit who ratted him out. That is the kind of guy you don't want covering your back. On the down side he learned a sad fact of modern life, No one ever expects the thought police.
In documents (PDF) filed in a federal court in west Texas last week, Bryan Gonzalez alleged that he lost his job in 2009 after telling a colleague on the Mexican border that he believed legalizing marijuana could reduce drug war violence.
Gonzalez was issued a termination letter stating that he was fired because he "held personal views that were contrary to the core characteristics of Border Patrol Agents, which are patriotism, dedication and esprit de corps," according to the lawsuit...
In an exclusive interview, Gonzalez told Raw Story he was questioned by Customs and Border Patrol's Office of Internal Affairs -- a confrontation that felt more to him like an "interrogation."
"I was asked if I wanted to overthrow the American government," he said. "I was asked if I was a socialist."
But his only transgression was to say that legalizing marijuana would "eliminate a lot of unnecessary deaths."
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