(07-02-2019 05:04 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(07-02-2019 04:24 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(07-02-2019 04:10 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(07-02-2019 02:58 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(07-02-2019 01:36 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  Hopefully the Facebook group and the posts will be made public so that light is shed on this situation. I had no illusions that all members of the group were border agents. I wouldn't be surprised if less than half of the members are.

So, for all your concerns that these posts indicated how the the 20K members of the BP treated illegals, we don't know at this point if ANY of the offensive posts were from BP agents.

Heck, lets assume all of the members are BP, and all of the members made bad comments. Aside from showing them being crass, venal, and disgusting --- does this indicate that they are truly for and actually commit acts, legal or illegal, against their charges? Or are we making a new standard that one not only has to perform their legal duty, but one is prohibited from making crass remarks in the slightest?

If this is the case, we need to fire about 90 per cent of the entire nation's police force, about 95 per cent of all ambulance personnel, and about 300 per cent of public defenders with those new moral directives. Just saying.

I just realized I have a nurse neighbor that makes jokes at parties about her role in death. I guess if we extend the tautology in this segment of the thread of 'bad statements on FB == illegally mistreating illegal immigrants', I should never go to the operating room my neighbor plays a role in.

I posted the original link with a comment to the effect of “This is awful.”

I don’t remember calling for any border agents to be fired.

I still think it’s awful.

No doubt some of the posts there are awful.

And to be honest, I bootstrapped your question on 'whether firing could be legal as a result of the post' as an indication that that might be an option you consider as viable.

My apologies for extending that. Hopefully you can understand why I might.