In LAND ‘O LAKES, Fla., a teacher is being threatened with termination for a “Magic Trick,” resulting in a charge of, what else, wizardy! What a leap of faith to make — or should I say a lack of it — to immediately charge this man for wizardry. And one can only assume that those who charged him have no idea of what wizardry is, or what it suggests, as if they had, I’m sure they would have stopped short of getting themselves involved with what I’m certaim will cost them $ millions. And it should.
So what if this man is a “wizard.” That is, what if he does dabble in witchcraft? Or more explicitly, let’s say he’s regularly performing the ceremony of the great-rite, with all its nudity, and sex, and, well, sex? Or even more scandelous, what if he attends a group ritual in a building with dozens or even hundreds of others (Catholics) where they injest human blood and body tissue?
So nothing! This man has been wronged, and he has been wronged in front of the entire world, and for what — a childish, slight-of-hand trick. Well, Jim Piculas, your ship has come in. And with god, allah, the great-pumpkin, and the ACLU behind you, may you reap your rewards in this world, and then (some day) laugh at all of them from the geat beyond.
The stuff of which plaintiff lawyers’ dreams are made. If these dips had simply terminated Mr. Pickulas with no comment, that would have probably protected them (AFAIK, Florida’s an “at will” state).
But nooooo… they had to drag religion into it, in the most ignorant and bass-ackward way conceivable. I’d bet dollars to doughnuts the decision-makers involved felt self-righteous about what they were doing – like the guys in the city government of Washington, DC who sacked one of their staff attorneys for using the word “niggardly” in a public speech (the term has no racial connotations at all – it is just another way of saying “stingy”).
I hope this guy winds up OWNING the school involved. I also hope that the people in charge of making that particular decision become justly infamous as the biggest morons on Earth (lots of competitiion, I know, but I think they’re a shoo-in). May the surviving members of the Dream Team converge on Florida to pick the pockets of the school district idiotic enough to confuse a simple case of sleight of hand with trafficking in Satanism.
Comment by Jean Lafoot — May 9, 2008 @ 2:05 pm |
Redeposit says : I absolutely agree with this !
Comment by redeposit — June 3, 2008 @ 10:28 pm |