He shouldn't have been fired. Temporarily suspended because he as a govt. job AT MOST (I'm thinking reprimand), but completely fired? Haha, no.
The whole "people can't say 'kill the president'" is a myth.
Watch:
[removed, because, with my luck, someone would actually report this only to have the jackoff authorities take it seriously.. so i'll consider myself wrong on this one]
Freedom of speech isn't denied when it comes to the president. It's the equivalent of saying to someone, "I'm going to kill you". We've all said it before at some point, so does that mean we should lose our jobs? Nope! People just have a tendency to turn on their "stupidity" mode where they can't discern actual threat from figure of speech. If the cop had a gun in his hand and was around the GOP convention, then yes, arrest him as he'd probably be quite serious...
This is just ridiculous politics and is nothing more than his peers/boss being Republican.. that and the Gov. is Bush, so Florida essentially = Bush. A police officer saying this in, say, Detroit wouldn't be arrested, but a cop saying this in Texas would. Get the pattern?
This reminds me of Meet the Parents: "you can't say bomb on an airplane!" "bomb bomb bomb. bombbombbombbomb". Same thing
