Raising Kaine: Michael Vick and the Myth of Made-up Rights (by TheGreenMiles)

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Our favorite neighbor in our three years here in the palatial Ballston Park apartments was a young lawyer named Sam. We used to sit out on our shared back porch on summer evenings doing what most twentysomethings after work - drinking beer and complaining about our jobs.
Sam worked in labor law and often expressed amazement at how many rights potential clients thought protected their jobs. They often wanted to sue because they were forced out due to mean, inflexible bosses. But they got no satisfaction from Sam, who told them that short of discrimination or sexual harassment, most workers are employees at will who can be fired for virtually any reason. (A coworker at The McLaughlin Group was once fired for no reason - "Personal prerogative" barked Dr. McLaughlin, as he insisted on being called.)

I've thought of Sam often in the past few weeks as I've heard a steady stream of talking heads espouse Michael Vick's alleged rights - the right to right to work, the right to earn a living, and even the right to the benefit of the doubt.

Why all of the above either do not exist or were forfeited by Vick himself - and why they won't matter soon enough, anyway - after the jump.

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