Unions call homeland security directive unconstitutional

[The Straight Story]

Unions call homeland security directive unconstitutional

By Chris Strohm
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Two of the largest federal unions are threatening to sue the Homeland Security Department over a directive that prohibits employees and contractors from disclosing sensitive but unclassified information.

The American Federation of Government Employees and the National Treasury Employees Union say the directive, and an accompanying nondisclosure agreement, are "clearly illegal" and violate the First and Fourth Amendments.

DHS issued the directive last May to restrict the dissemination of a broad range of material designated as sensitive but unclassified. The department also has required employees and contractors hired since May to sign a nondisclosure agreement stating they will not disclose certain information without proper authorization, including material labeled as sensitive but unclassified.

The unions sent letters on Nov. 23 to DHS Secretary Tom Ridge and General Counsel Joe Whitley demanding that the department immediately withdraw the directive and stop making workers sign the nondisclosure agreement. The unions said they "will have no choice but to pursue appropriate legal action" if the department does not take the requested steps.


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[tom_paine]

1. So? In Imperial Amerika soon even unions will be "unconstitutional"

As IF Amerika even HAD a functioning Consttitution, rather than what boils down to Imperial Fiat with window dressing.

Oh, except the unions of Rich Guys, such as the Baseball Union or Basketball Union of Players.

Hee Hee. Everyone from Eugene V. Debs to Tom Jefferson must be spinning so hard in their graves the Earth's axis should tilt.

Except Hitler. He HATED Unions.

[The Straight Story]

2. Some do hate when others have power they cannot control

Because they trust no one other than themselves. Kind of like me and flying, I hate to fly, won't fly. But if I was the pilot I probably would love to fly.

The beauty of diversity in this country is with different people in different levels of power we keep things going various directions, always in motion from the big bang of revolution - we sprial away from tyrany into the vastness of freedoms, sometimes finding it a dark lonely place so we pull together for peace-safety-prosperity and the universe of freedoms shrinks. As it shrinks we need good stewards to keep it from total collapse - as people come together on singular issues and ideas and we seperate more then the focus becomes more narrow. When that group gets full control and does not use it well than some within that group will take the power and become a tyrant. And we will start over.

Personally I think unions are a sign of a more free country. No wonder Hitler hated them...