Firing said to be politically motivated

This is yet another case in which a firing of a public employee seems to have been motivated solely by the employee's opposition to right-wing officials.

A longtime employee of the University of Alabama at Birmingham has been fired, apparently because of his blog that discusses corruption among right-wing U.S. Attorneys and politicians in that state.

He worked on the blog completely independently from work. He didn't use workplace resources to write his blog. So it's clear they had no grounds to fire him over the blog - but fired him anyway.

The idea that the firing was politically motivated is bolstered by the fact that the blogger received a strange comment from an anonymous reader threatening to report him. The post accused him of blogging at work, even though he did no such thing. A later post threatened him, declaring, "Yours is coming sooner rather than later."

When it comes to political retaliation, the Bushist machine is the reigning champ.

In the meantime, right-wing e-mails full of lies about conservatives' political opponents continue to circulate through public agencies on the taxpayers' dime.

(Source: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Alabama_bloggers_firing_raises_troubling_questions_0709.html)