Caution and insurgency are the only wise course of action when the status quo so overpowers you. You have no duty or obligation to play by their rules or to announce yourself. This might convince the base or rather the millions of Democrats that don’t have a clue, but they are not the ones in control, now are they.

Seems like an opportunity for someone. I’d be willing – as a nobody – to receive emails and post them on a blog under an assumed name. I don’t think they’d be traceable back to anyone except as emails, but those could be sent from a private computer to my private computer. Of course, I don’t know a thing about blogging, but it really does bother me when freedom of speech gets shut down.
Done with mirrors is not a blog I’m aware of or have ever read, but that’s not the point. The point is that no one should fear for his/her job because of disagreement on political issues as long as they’re effectively performing the work they’re paid to do.

Thanks for the kind words! They do mean. I think I am within the vague wording of the company policy on this. But it’s not going to be up to me to interpret those words or even make a case when the whip comes down. And it’s coming. This newsroom, like most, is in a lifeboat ethics mode. They’re looking for reasons to thin the herd. Finally, I remember the last time my online writing drew unwanted attention from my bosses, and a direct promise to terminate me if it continued, was in the run up to the last presidential election, when what I was writing was not the sort of things they liked to see written.

I will get laid off, by the way. Sooner or later. This just might shift it into “later.”

This reminds me of all the bad laws that are out there that remain unenforced because they’re simply bad. Then every so often one of them is used to specifically target someone for punishment for an offense against some status quo. It usually involves one person, or one group, that is seeking to harass someone, and they use one of the usually-unenforced laws to make an example of the person. That is what Callimachus is fearing and it appears he is right.

But there must have been commentary or gossip circulating in his newsroom that indicated that someone was about to assume control that was harshly punitive against those with differing political beliefs… ?

If so, that is an outrage and I’d love to hear more about it! I guess if I found out who that was, and which newsroom we’re talking about, that would put Callimachus at risk of exposure. Sigh.