California may end ban on communists in government jobs
Apparently there are already GDC's elected to CA government - who would have guessed!
California may end ban on communists in government jobs
Being a communist would no longer be a fireable offense for California government employees under a bill passed Monday by the state Assembly.
Lawmakers narrowly approved the bill to repeal part of a law enacted during the Red Scare of the 1940s and '50s when fear that communists were trying to infiltrate and overthrow the U.S. government was rampant. The bill now goes to the Senate.
It would eliminate part of the law that allows public employees to be fired for being a member of the Communist Party.
Employees could still be fired for being members of organizations they know advocate for overthrowing the government by force or violence.
The bill updates an outdated provision in state law, said Assemblyman Rob Bonta, the San Francisco Bay Area Democrat who authored the measure.
Some Assembly Republicans said the Cold War-era law should not be changed.
Assemblyman Randy Voepel, a Southern California Republican who fought in the Vietnam War, said communists in North Korea and China are "still a threat."
"This bill is blatantly offensive to all Californians," said Assemblyman Travis Allen, a Republican who represents a coastal district in Southern California. "Communism stands for everything that the United States stands against."
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May 09, 2017, 12:47 AM
divil
I think that ship sailed decades ago!
May 09, 2017, 03:05 AM
FenderBender
New state anthem
___________________________ The point is, who will stop me?
May 09, 2017, 03:10 AM
12131
Well, it's a commie state, after all.
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May 09, 2017, 03:51 AM
nhtagmember
what ban?
[B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC
May 09, 2017, 04:21 AM
XinTX
They had a ban?
Obviously never enforced.
_______________________ “The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.” Ayn Rand
“If we relinquish our rights because of fear, what is it exactly, then, we are fighting for?” Sen. Rand Paul
May 09, 2017, 06:05 AM
SIP2000GLO
Now they officially declared themselves communists. I don't think that surprised many people.
May 09, 2017, 06:06 AM
dwright1951
Yep the border wall needs to start on the east side of that state, should have been erected years ago.
May 09, 2017, 06:34 AM
45 Cal
Shocking ,they even had a law like that,this explains the gun control thing,officials must all be commies.
May 09, 2017, 07:28 AM
MRMATT
Where's Tail-Gunner Joe when we need him?
_____________________________ "A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." George Washington.
May 09, 2017, 07:42 AM
navyshooter
I'm pretty sure they just ban NON-communist now
"Blessed is he who when facing his own demise, thinks only of his front sight.”
Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem
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May 09, 2017, 08:10 AM
rscalzo
So many in the state just blindly go about their business while their economy is slowly crashing around them. they blindly believe the politicians that continue to tell them all is just great.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
"If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers
The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own...
May 09, 2017, 09:04 AM
chellim1
quote:
Originally posted by navyshooter: I'm pretty sure they just ban NON-communist now
At least around SF and LA that seems to be the case.
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor
May 09, 2017, 09:11 AM
oddball
quote:
Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
quote:
Originally posted by joel9507: New state motto:
"Coasting on our reputation since the '90s'80s'70s "
FIFY (and I'm a resident)
Ditto.
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
May 09, 2017, 09:23 AM
darthfuster
CA State gov't coming out of the closet. How brave and Progressive. The reward of communism is a mirage. Communism, the shiny object of socioeconomic politics is only attractive to the ignorant and complicit. As destructive as it is it should be illegal.