Jeff “live ammunition” Cox now has a whole lot more time to spend updating his twitter feed.
BTW, if you grant the AG’s office the benefit of the doubt and assume that they heard about it the first time a reporter phoned for comment, it is pretty impressive how fast they showed Cox the door. Someone at the AG level or higher cut him loose without any deliberation at all.
freelancer
I bet if he hadn’t doubled down, he’d still have his job.
arguingwithsignposts
Tim F. – wrong. He’s just earned himself a spot as an analyist on the wingnut welfare circuit. Expect the FOX “Breaking News” flashes any moment now.
JenJen
Wonder if he’ll apply for unemployment?
JGabriel
That was quick. There must have been people in the AG’s office already looking for a reason to fire him.
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Violet
@JenJen:
Most likely. And then he’ll go on the wingnut welfare circuit and make a lot more than he was making.
JGabriel
@JenJen:
It would have taken a lot longer to fire him, if only he’d had union representation.
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harokin
I thought all GOP officeholders were taught the phrase “It was a joke. I regret that some people did not understand it that way.”
Jack Bauer
I know enough right wingers to know that some of them really do feel this way.
It’s the little fascists like this guy that worry me, get enough of them in power and one day…
Anyway, it’s not like it would have been anything new.
Punchy
Ruh roh. Cockroaches eating their own. Ann Althouse (!) is getting the skeevies…
Captain Haddock
And the Surveyor Marks of Doom claim another victim.
Legalize
He’ll make a mint on the wingnut welfare circuit lecturing college republicans about how liberals are trying to shut shut down his free speech.
Pooh
@JGabriel: Nah, this is an instantly fireable offense given his position. If Indiana is anything like my state, you get reams of shit saying basically “do not do this” when you get hired for a job in the department of law.
FormerSwingVoter
I kinda of wish the AG office’s statement were more direct. Not the kind of “we strive for civility public servants are held to a higher standard blah blah blah” crap that they issued. It should have gone something like this:
“The Illinois Attorney General does not condone the murder of unarmed Americans exercising their rights, and will not keep in his employ those that do.”
geg6
@freelancer:
This. Dimwit was given the opportunity to say he didn’t mean it or was just joking, but doubled down instead. I’ll bet he’s gobsmacked. Literally too stupid to see the train coming down the track headed right for him.
kindness
I see CNN has it’s next new voice in it’s sights now.
He’s available too.
JPL
When I googled his name, I discovered that his dad is a reporter for the TV news station. link
JWL
The real victim here is the 2nd Amendment.
Lolis
Well he said peaceful American protestors should be shot. This was kind of a no-brainer.
trollhattan
O/T but file this under, “Elections Matter.” I’m loving Gov. Jerry, ver. 2.0.
http://blogs.sacbee.com/the_state_worker/2011/02/brown-pulls-calstrs-appointees.html
Crashman
I wouldn’t exult too much. This guy’s tweets are going to land him a first-class ticket on the wingnut welfare gravy train. Newsmax, make way for Cox!
RSA
I predict that Jeff Cox will become the Shirley Sherrod of the right. I mean, there are so many similarities, right?
Frank
Oh, dear, his 1st Ammendment rights have been violated, the poor little dear! It is so gratifying to think of this man having to tell his family that he got sacked. HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! I don’t usually take glee in such events, but this guy had it coming!
Beverley
No union huh?
geg6
@trollhattan:
Hee hee. Though I had no problems with Gov. Jerry v.1.0. It’s only that the newer version is a bit more politically vicious and cranky.
arguingwithsignposts
good gawd, am I just invisible up there at #2 with the original wingnut welfare comment? It’s done folks. new jokes, please.
scav
Other OT interesting slow-burning developments involve the Feds and the Germans going after bankers, specifically those that service tax evasion. Four arrests and
Quicksand
BOSS: Hey, JC, could you come see me in my office please? Shut the door.
JC: Sure, what’s up?
[BOSS hands JC a printout]
BOSS: Are these your tweets?
JC: Um, yeah, I guess so.
BOSS: Clean out your desk. Security will escort you out.
See, that doesn’t take long at all!
JGabriel
Tim F. @ Top:
I’m sure they called him in. I imagine it like this:
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geg6
@scav:
I like this, but until someone from the Giant vampire Squid gets perp walked, I’m not completely impressed.
dr. bloor
@arguingwithsignposts:
If you were as smart as Caribou Barbie, you’d have copyrighted it.
HyperIon
@arguingwithsignposts:
or new commenters…who read the previous comments.
but then, who can keep up with all the posts and comments?
JGabriel
@Pooh:
Okay. As I’m not a lawyer and never had a high-level governmental position, I’ll have to take your word for it.
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JGabriel
@Quicksand: DAMMIT, Quicksand! You stole my idea and posted it before I was finished</a typing it, you bastard!
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Poopyman
@geg6: Well, there’s a tiny trial balloon. ‘Taint much, but it might be a start.
jharp
When does the Indiana Bar Association get involved?
It seems to me he ought to at least get a slap on the wrist.
People in my business would probably throw me out of their office for suggesting the slaughter of innocents.
scav
@geg6: Indeed that would be the Gold Standard but there’s also working your way up to it through some ratting out others to save their own skins. I’m not giving up yet. Besides, there’s all sorts of precious metals that are still interesting.
ETA: For some reason this is my day of OT joy: Sarko getting yelled at by his own diplomats.
Napoleon
@Pooh:
I am an attorney, but never in the public sector, but the type of things he was saying just made it impossible to do anything but fire him ASAP. If I am an attorney on the other side of a case from one of their Asst. AGs, particularly if it is him, and there is even a hint that someone on his end is doing something wrong (faking evidence, lying under oath, withholding evidence) I am going to beat them to death with “this is a department that has people that advocate the state murder its citizens if they exercise their first amendment rights. Do you really think they would thing twice about doing ____”?
His presence totally compromises that department.
Maude
@geg6:
The laws weren’t there. Most of what they did was legal.
That was the problem.
Culture of Truth
Those thugs demonized poor Cox. See how thuggish they are??
khead
I am not quite sure I am as thrilled at this as the rest of you folks….
Bobby Thomson
For that matter, what was he thinking wearing Chargers gear? (Check the TPM photo.)
PurpleGirl
@Quicksand: They don’t give you time to clean your desk. The guard comes in, you are allowed to take your coat, a handbag and the guard walks you out. Your stuff will be shipped to you a few days later. They take no chances you do something to the computer network, take work product with you, anything. Especially a law office, government or private firm.
PurpleGirl
@JGabriel: Oh, even a lowly paralegal gets the memos of what is expected and allowed and what is not. Working in the AG’s office, he’s an officer of the court and saying shit like he did cannot be condoned.
Shygetz
I’m with khead…part of me thinks that he’s getting what he deserved. But another part of me thinks “This is what we need unions for…to keep people from losing their job for non-work-related activities.” Unless his dumb-assery spread to his professional work, I’m not sure that I’m thrilled with the idea of firing him aside from the obvious schadenfreude.
Ella in New Mexico
What took so God-Damned long?
eemom
@Shygetz:
that doesn’t really apply to lawyers, because the ethical obligations of an attorney transcend the professional/nonprofessional distinction. And certainly someone who works for a state AG can and should be held to a standard that prohibits advocacy of murder, even on a Twitter feed. This is really a no-brainer that does not lend itself to a slippery-slope argument.
Calouste
The former Deputy AG’s twitter handle is JCCentCom, which we can presume stands for Jeff Cox Central Command and goves that nice military feeling.
I don’t think we have to take any bets on whether this guy has ever been closer to the military than walking on the other side of the street from the recruitment office, because we all know what the outcome is.
Another Commenter at Balloon Juice (fka Bella Q)
@Napoleon: That’s exactly it. He had to go. So did Shirvell (Michigan AAG), but since his creepiness didn’t advocate outright violence, they did an investigation, and had a hearing, and relieved him of duty that way.
Especially after Tucson, JCCentCom had no chance of staying at the Indiana AG office. Not even after he took the blog down. Whether anyone goes after his law license is an open question – I can’t predict, though I will keep an eye on it as I lecture on the intersection of social media and legal ethics rules for CLE. So I’m always looking for new examples.
Allan
We need to coin a word for the liberal version of “Breitbarting.”
Punking Gov. Walker with an unedited recording of a complete phone conversation, and outing a dipshit Deputy AG over his monstrous tweets are two examples.
The reason Breitbarting cannot be applied to these scenarios is that in both situations, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth were used as weapons.
Another Commenter at Balloon Juice (fka Bella Q)
@khead: Really? Why exactly is that?
khead
@Another Commenter at Balloon Juice (fka Bella Q):
I’m a government employee. Career. Digby can call this guy an “operative” all she wants but he’s not a political appointee.
This guy is a complete douchebag. But he was being a douchebag on his own time. If y’all want to check out the guy’s countertops and abuse him on the Internet? Be my guest.
But I’d sure hate to lose my job for some crack I made here in response to the BJ crowd.
Another Commenter at Balloon Juice (fka Bella Q)
@khead: I see your point, but, I’m gonna quibble that a crack on Balloon Juice is a bit different from “use live ammunition” on twitter. Personal account or no. I’ve been a public employee, and I would never feel free to advocate violence or make some of the other inflammatory kind of comments he made, on my personal twitter or blog or FB.
But again, there are some different standards that are required for attorneys, by virtue of professional rules and also public perception as being quite “official” representatives of the state so I may be looking through a slightly different lens. Interesting that he is the son of a news station employee, which I noticed as a disclaimer on the site JenJen linked,
FormerSwingVoter
Y’know, I still don’t quite understand the whole mindset. Why has “people who disagree with me literally deserve to die” become a totally normal position for conservatives to have?
khead
@Another Commenter at Balloon Juice (fka Bella Q):
Well, no, it’s not all that different. Cox was not acting on behalf of the state in any manner when he sent those Tweets. And I am not acting on behalf of Uncle Sam in posting this. So what we say “off the clock” should be off limits. Should be.
He probably should’ve been a LOT more clear about the part where he was not speaking on behalf of ALL of Indiana, but I doubt the official Indiana State position is to shoot protestors. So, basically, this guy was fired for being a douchebag. Given that I can be quite a douchebag when provoked, I’d rather not make this the basis for firing government folks.
The first thing I did last week after I decided to get re-involved politically iwas to call my boss and ask her:
“What can I do….and what can’t I do?”. This dumbass probably should’ve done the same.
Feel free to note the irony of my defending his sorry ass though.
Herbal Infusion Bagger
It’s all those liburlll’s fault for being such inviting targets.
If they weren’t so damned liberal and sohcialhist, RealAmericans(TM) wouldn’t have this underlying Patriotic American(TM) urge to unload their Glocks at them. Especially the liberal chicks and their gay buddies in the tight pants.
They’re begging for it, I tellya!
jrg
@khead:
I don’t think that being a douchebag is the issue here. He works for the AG’s office, and is calling for state-sponsored murder of innocent people.
Am I comfortable with punishing people who are “off the clock”? Not really, but if I have to piss in a cup as a condition of my employment (’cause, you know, I might have smoked some weed at a concert), I don’t think it’s unreasonable to hold the expectation that an assistant AG won’t call for murder.
I don’t like the fact that people can be held professionally responsible for off-the-clock activities, but I’m a lot less comfortable with this kind of rhetoric from the people who are paid to represent me (or would be if I lived in Indiana).
Jrod the Cookie Thief
@khead: Tell ya what, if I ever see you advocate gunning down innocent people in cold blood for exercising their right to assemble, I’ll try to get you fired too.
Somehow, I don’t think that’ll be a problem.
Beside that, why shouldn’t the state have a right to judge the man’s fitness for his position based on what he might say or do outside of the strict confines of his career? We’re not talking about the man advocating for a position or a candidate. We’re talking about a call to brutally murder innocent people. Doesn’t the fact that he’d say such a thing indicate that he’s a poor choice to represent the state?
Quicksand
@JGabriel:
Damn me! I bastard!
khead
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
You’re a fucking douchebag who should be shot.
Does this mean I’m not qualified for a govt position?
I work with a lot of lawyers. BFD.
gwangung
Well, as pointed out upthread, it’ll still be used in court against his every argument. It’s a liability. Moreover, if this violated specific workplace rules for his office, that, of course, is a firing offense.
khead
@gwangung:
Already adressed the work rules. See post @ 54.
The Other Chuck
@Allan:
How about “Reporting the Truth”?
Jrod the Cookie Thief
@khead: That’s cute.
Now, go on your blog, or Twitter, and say the same thing about the protesters. Then, when called out, confirm that you were being serious about wanting them killed.
Then you might have a point.
piratedan
well all he has to do is relocate to Arizona and run for the state legislature and he’d be welcomed with open arms.
khead
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
I’m saying it here. That should be enough.
Keep trying though.
aimai
@khead:
But khead, you are writing pseudonymously on an anonymous forum, not twittering from your public account, to other people who read you precisely because they know who you are. I just don’t think that “being an asshole anonymously” and “being an asshole in propria persona” are the same things–especially not when it comes to employer liability. People lose their jobs all the time for things that happen when they are off site–teachers get fired for being photographed with beer, women have always been fired for appearing too sexy in public, people get fired for getting drunk and disorderlies or having their names in the paper. Absent union protections–and you know this guy believes in “right to work” he’s just shit out of luck. And I don’t feel sorry for him one bit. The state of indiana just excercised its right not to have some asshole walter mitty crossed with quadaffi fantasist as its public face.
aimai
rapier
Normally I’d say he would have a wingnut welfare job by next week but it may be a month. A decent interval to let the head die down or whenever the shoot to kill orders become routine.
khead
@aimai:
So, you want me to call you names too? ;)
I can do that. Just not what I am looking to do….
Jrod the Cookie Thief
@khead: So you think there’s no difference between saying something you obviously don’t mean under an assumed name in the comment section of a blog that’s known for people taking on personas and abusing hyperbole, and someone making an apparently serious statement on their own Twitter feed?
Here’s the bottom line: do you think advocates of mass murder as a political tool should be representing the state in court? Do the people, as represented by their government, have a legitimate interest in not giving prosecutorial discretion to people who openly call for gunning down citizens who exercise their rights?
Or will you dodge this question once again by pulling some cutesy non-sequitur out of your ass?
khead
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
I’m sure there are plenty of assholes who advocate mass murder as a polical tool. What I would like is for you to point out how Jeff Douchebag Cox acted like a homicidal maniac in his actions on behalf of the statt of Indiana,
khead
C’mon Jrod. Show me the difference.
If you can’t do it, I’ll accept any other BJer.
khead
Still waiting Jrod, you fucking asswipe.
P.S. Is this enough to get me fired from my govt job?
Get the point?
Jrod the Cookie Thief
@khead: Deputy attorney general isn’t a job in the same sense as working swing shift at Wendy’s. He was a representative of the state, 24/7, just like any other political position. Again, he’s not merely working for the state, he was their representative. That means his public statements, no matter where or when they might be made, are coming from a representative of the people of the state of Indiana.
Therefore, his Twitter casually calling for the murder of his political foes was in fact a representative of the state calling for the murder of his political foes. Is this really so hard to grasp?
If the dude wanted a career that would allow him to say whatever he pleased, he shouldn’t have taken a career in the AG’s office. Once he did, he became a representative of the state, and is expected to act accordingly.
It’s not like you can get away with this shit in the private sector either. If a person works at Wendy’s, and tweets that he literally, no joking, wants his boss and co-workers murdered, and the boss finds out, that person is fired. That the tweet was written when that person was at home won’t make any damn difference. Shit, people have been canned for saying much less horrifyingly evil things on their Twitter or Facebook. Are we supposed to hold those vested with the power to represent the state to a lower standard than a fucking fast-food worker?
Edit to add: Golly, I’m so fucking sorry that I had other shit to take care of besides responding to your stupid horseshit. How terrible of me to make you wait. I guess my failure to drop everything and respond to you immediately means you win the internets forever and ever.
Jackass.
Jrod the Cookie Thief
Duuuur, still waiting for a response, khead, you fucking asswipe. That you haven’t responded yet obviously means I win! Yaaaaaayyyy!
But seriously, no, calling someone an asswipe using a pseudonym isn’t firing offense. Calling for the police to massacre a crowd of protesters, using an account linked to your real name, is just a teensy tiny bit different.
Do you get the fucking point yet?
khead
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
No, it wasn’t representative of the state unless you can show me that Jeff Douchebag Cox actually was acting on behalf of the state. I wish you the best of luck with that.
Like I said previously, I kinda hate being in the position of defending a douchebag, but I don’t see where the douchebag has committed a fireable offense.
Jrod the Cookie Thief
I see. So, if an attorney general were to say something like, oh, I dunno, “We should lock up all the darkies and let them rot,” that would be OK with you, just as long as he took off his suit jacket and then added, “Oh, but I don’t say that as a representative of the people. You can rest assured that my overwhelming hatred of black people has nothing to do with my job of prosecuting people.”
Part of a person’s job working in the office of the attorney general is to actually be the sort of person the people want representing them. If the people, as represented by the state, decide that a bloodthirsty fascist is not the sort of person they want representing them, then he no longer gets to do so. The fact that he revealed his bloodthirsty fascism off the clock doesn’t change the fact that he’s a bloodthirsty fascist, and has no place representing the good people of Indiana.
Steve L.
How’s that “Don’t Retreat, Reload” thing workin’ out for ya?
khead
Let me help you out a bit.
I don’t work at Wendy’s. I work here.
And there’s nothing in my job description about not being able to talk shit about other government employees.
Yet, here you are telling me I should have to watch what I say because I could get fired fot it.
Fuck you. You don’t have anything to do with my job.
Now tell me how I should be fired for that.
M. Bouffant
@Calouste: You sure it doesn’t stand for JESUS CHRIST CentCom?
Matt
I’m sure he’ll fit in great on Fox – just another one of the Cox. ;)
Jrod the Cookie Thief
@khead: So, you think “talking shit” is at all equitable with “calling for political foes to be shot dead in the street”? And you also think working as an attorney for the patent office is at all equitable to being an attorney general?
What the fuck are you even babbling about? If your fucking job description doesn’t include a duty to act as a representative of the people, then no, your job is not to act as a representative of the people. That is the job of an attorney general.
Christ, I never would have guessed that this whole argument of yours was nothing more than butthurt over the remote possibility that someone might confuse your job as a patent attorney with the elected position of attorney general, or the politically appointed deputies of that office.
Let me sooth your poor, harried soul: nobody gives a fuck that you called someone names in BJ comments, ok?
I also like that you threw in “And there’s nothing in my job description about not being able to talk shit about other government employees.” You don’t suppose that Jeff Cox’s job description might be different from yours? You managed to pass the bar but you’re too stupid to understand that different jobs are different? WTF.
khead
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
You think I’m acting in my duty as a Fed employee right now?
LOL. Thanks for making my point. I’m no more acting as a state/federal rep while telling you to go fuck yourself than Jeff Cox is in making his statements about shooting folks.
Neither one of us should be fired though.
Jrod the Cookie Thief
@khead: Here, since you seem to keep missing this point, I’ll make it nice and big for you:
ATTORNEYS GENERAL ARE NOT MERELY GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. THEY ARE ELECTED OR APPOINTED REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE.
I suppose you think that congresspeople and representatives shouldn’t be held accountable for the things they say either, just as long as they say it after 6pm. Off the clock, peons!
Fuck sake. You’re just trolling now, aren’t you? Nobody who could pass the bar exam could be this ignorant. Right?
Right?
…
khead
Actually no, JRod. You are missing the point.
This dude is a career employee. Like me. The fact that you continue to want a piece of his ass only further confirms my point that some asswipes will try and do anything to get a piece of his ass if he says something you don’t like.
That’s not trolling. That;’s asking you for a justfication that goes beyond “This guy is an asshole”.
I’ve asked you – or anyone – to show how his actual job was affected by his comments but you can’t seem to provide that.
Keep trying to find a reason for firing him though. I applaud you for that.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@khead:
I sure as fuck would. He was a deputy assistant AG for a state and advocated the use of live ammo on fellow citizens of his country for exercising their rights under the law.
If you want to work for the public and represent the face of the law, then it would be smart if you kept opinions like that to yourself.
This ass is not only a douchebag, he’s a stupid fucking douchebag who thought he could use his association with the Indiana AG’s office and his twatting to flex his wingnut muscles and gain some street cred among the teahadists. Indiana is better off without him near any levers of power.
Hell, we all are.
khead
Really? Perhaps you could show me where he claimed his association with Indiana in any of those tweets.
Cause I missed that.
khead
Really? Perhaps you could show me where he claimed his association with Indiana in any of those tweets.
Cause I missed that.
Jrod the Cookie Thief
@khead: No moron, he is a representative. Not an employee. A representative. That’s a different thing entirely.
An attorney general represents the state, 24/7/365. He doesn’t stop being a representative when he go home at night. When he orders a fucking pizza, he does so as a representative of the state.
If that’s too fucking onerous for a person, then they shouldn’t be a fucking attorney general.
None of this has anything to do with your job as an attorney, because you are not a political representative of anything. You work for the patent office, and (possibly, I dunno) represent them in the narrow sense of arguing for them in court. Why you insist on pretending that your job is equivalent to an elected office, I don’t understand.
If the shoe doesn’t fit, quit trying to cram it onto your foot, dumbass!
Johannes
@khead: Well, here’s the thing. The question under the governing Supreme Court precedent is (1) whether the speech is in the employee’s capacity as a citizen; (2) whether the speech involves a matter of public concern; (3) if so, is the First Amendment value of the speech outweighed by the reasonable potential for disruption presented by the speech in the circumstances in which it was made? (See Pickering v. Bd. of Educ., 391 US 563. Under the Pickering test, a government employer may fire an employee for speaking on a matter of public concern if “(1) the employer’s prediction of disruption is reasonable; (2) the potential disruptiveness is enough to outweigh the value of the speech; and (3) the employer took action against the employee based on this disruption and not in retaliation for the speech.” Locurto v. Giuliani, 447 F.3d 159, 172-173 (2d Cir. 2006).
In this case, the argument for the termination would be that an AAG is involved in speaking on behalf of the state, that his recommendation that law enforcement use violence against protesters could reasonably be disruptive in terms of the AG’s ability to do its job, which involves working with law enforcement and safeguarding civil rights. Is it a clean case? No; any balancing test is a bit of a crapshoot in court. But here, with high tensions in Indiana as well as Wisconsin, and the nature of the AAG’s job, I think most courts would find the AG acted within his prerogative.
khead
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
This guy wasn’t elected, dumb fuck.
khead
@Johannes:
I agree with this to a point – I am not an attorney general – but y’all are really missing my point.
If y’all can get this dude booted for running his mouth off the clock, then there is NOTHING that is off-limits when it comes to folks like me. This shouldn’t be too hard to understand even if some dumbass BJers are willing to throw me under the bus with Mr. Cox.
khead
Adding:
What is to prevent some other jackass from claiming that I am representing the state/government 24 hours a day and I should be fired for commenting here?
Is there any dumbass here who thinks I am acting on behalf of Uncle Sam right now?
Johannes
Oh, no, khead; I get it, and am not thrilled with the state of the law. I was just trying to provide some context for the discussion. I think balancing tests are problematic from a free speech view, because they allow courts to praise a value while ruling against it, “just this one time.” I will admit that the AG didn’t need the kind of difficulties retaining Cox would have created for him, and that I have some sympathy with the canning as a result, but I don’t mean to say that I think the standard provides sufficient protection for off-duty conduct.
BTW I can’t get my own link to the Locurto case–a good example where off-duty conduct did produce a fairly real prospect of substantial disruption–to work. FYWP. From the heart.
Jrod the Cookie Thief
@khead: Oh, well then there’s nothing at all political about his position. How silly of me.
The state clearly has no reason to worry that one of its prosecutors is in favor of gunning down the innocent. That doesn’t speak of his competence as an officer of the court, representing the people of Indiana, sworn to uphold the law at all.
Tell you what, though. If you’re really worried that you might get in trouble for spouting off, just take my advice and lay off calling for the brutal slaughter of your enemies by the police for a little while. Or, you know, don’t do so under an account that’s linked to your name.
It’s just wrong to expect any level of decency and decorum from a deputy attorney general’s public statements. That’s unfair! Allowing that attorney to use prosecutorial discretion regarding people he’s outright stated that he wants murdered like dogs, on the other hand, is an issue with which nobody need concern themselves. I’m sure he’s be totally fair and unprejudiced, because after all, he’s on the clock!
khead
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
Are you going to find me something that says it’s against the law or are you just gonna bitch all night?
Jrod the Cookie Thief
@khead: Yeah, you git that strawman! Show that scarecrow who’s boss!
Clearly anyone who thinks that attorneys general shouldn’t be advocating for the cold-blooded slaughter of their enemies also must think that patent attorneys must be fired if they call someone names on a blog! It’s pretty much the same thing.
khead
Edit:
Had trouble editing.
If you can provide me something that shows this guy is talkng about gunning down the innocent while performing his job I would love to see it.
Otherwise, shut the fuck up.
Jrod the Cookie Thief
@khead: You know, I’d assume that the fact that the man was fired indicates that firing him was perfectly legal. Or are you suggesting that the office of the attorney general is in the habit acting before taking a peek at the law?
Maybe I’m wrong for assuming that someone in that office might know something about the law.
khead
Weird. I didn’t say anything about illegal.
Tell me more about straw.
Jrod the Cookie Thief
@khead: I suppose in your world, child molesters should be allowed to work for daycare centers, just as long as they do their molesting while off the clock.
After all, firing someone for something they do on their day off is just wrong, wrong, wrong.
Jrod the Cookie Thief
@khead: What? You haven’t been crying all day about the injustice of Cox being illegally fired?
Then just what the fuck are you crying about?
khead
@Jrod the Cookie Thief:
LOL. And you accused me of using a strawman?
Keep trying. Child molesting is illegal.
Jrod the Cookie Thief
@khead: How about if your hypothetical daycare employee spends his days off speaking on behalf of NAMBLA, and of his desire to fuck little boys. Is it ok to fire him then?
Jrod the Cookie Thief
I’m leaving this thread now, to do something more useful than listen to you defend a worthless pile of pig shit like Cox. I just wanted to let you know, since I’ve seen how antsy you get when you don’t get an immediate response to your fuckwittery.
Good luck dealing with the horrible oppression that’s been unleashed upon government attorneys this day, which will live in infamy.
khead
Child molseters? NAMBLA?
If those strawmen are the best you can come up with I’d leave too.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@dickhead:
He was easily identified as a DPAG, which ties his hateful statements to him and in my book that is all that was needed to justify his firing from a job like his.
His employer thought so too. Funny that you don’t. Good thing for Indiana (and everyone else) that you aren’t the one making the decision.
khead
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
Well, just like with JRod, I’m glad “your book” isn’t what is usually used in the hiring and firing practices of Uncle Sam.
I’ve already said that I’m not thrilled to be defending this asswipe. What I hadn’t quite realized how many other asswipes there are out there that don’t really realize what they are doing here because “Cox is an asshole”.
My bad there.
Odie Hugh Manatee
If you were in his position and this happened to you, I would cheer loudly. Very loudly.
Get over it.
khead
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
I’m not that stupid.
Or that big of a hypocrite.
Again, my bad there.