Lew Rockwell is nasty. Lew Rockwell is rude. Lew Rockwell is a Communist.

Do you think Lew Rockwell should be able to prevent me from writing the above on his site, or from writing this on my Facebook page (while I’m working for him)? Better yet, do you think Lew Rockwell should be able to not allow me to even blog on his site any longer because of what I wrote above, or because I wrote this on my Facebook page—nor be an LRC Blog editor for him any longer because of what I wrote above, or because I wrote this on my Facebook page? Of course you think that (at least if you’re a libertarian). The LRC Blog is Lew Rockwell’s property and he can determine all the parameters of what he expects from the people who work for his site. As a worker for his site, if I don’t like some or all of his parameters, nothing is preventing me from not working for Lew Rockwell any longer.

Think again, because the Bankster puppets who sit on the National Labor Relations Board in the United States of Socialist America have just decided that a company cannot fire an employee for writing negative things about the employer he or she works for on Facebook or other social media. By some demented reasoning (Hey, it’s labor “rights” advocacy. Would you expect anything better?), the “free speech” of an employee is protected. (Under what? The First Amendment? The Bill of Rights has to do with your a priori freedoms in relation to the government, NOT your freedoms in dealing with private individuals.)

EXAMPLE: I can call Obama a Communist and not be thrown in jail (Yet!). But if I call Lew Rockwell a Communist, from the libertarian point of view he has every property right to stop me from working for him on his blog (i.e., property).

In the case that decided the above nonsense ruling, the company had an established policy concerning what employees can and cannot communicate about the company. From the libertarian point of view, if a prospective employee was not happy with this policy, he or she should have either never taken a job with the company in the first place or resigned if he or she was not comfortable with this policy. No employee has any right or claim to an employer’s private property (i.e., company) unless there is an agreement with that employee establishing some right or claim (i.e., a contract or an established company policy). This latest atrocious ruling is just one more step on the road to Fascism which this country has been heading towards since the creation of the Federal Reserve almost a century ago.

(By the way, Lew Rockwell really isn’t nasty or rude or a Communist. But as far as my not liking Lew Rockwell…)