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On The EEOC

James Brovard proclaims, in his book Freedom in Chains “EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) officials have proclaimed private companies guilty of violating or impeding 'equal opportunity' because of their failure to 'race-norm' test scores. The EEOC claims some companies covertly increased the test scores of “protected groups” to make them appear more qualified than other test takers.

One upscale woman's clothing store chain was cited by the EEOC for not hiring men for sales jobs that included “helping women to try on clothes.”

The EEOC went after Sears in an investigation into sex discrimination. The investigation lasted 15 years and cost the taxpayers millions of dollars and cost Sears 10 million defending itself. The case was tossed by the Supreme Court.

Having never been to a Hooters Bar and Grill establishment I can't be sure but I think the name implies that the bartenders and waitresses are all women and all endowed with a size 38 D or better. Well folks, the EEOC decided it was not right that Hooters didn't hire men. The Commission levied a 22 million dollar fine that was to be paid to men who had never worked at a Hooters establishment and cited Hooters' “reckless indifference to federally protected rights” for not including males in their hiring process. The EEOC said the 22 mil was “back pay” for men who had never worked at Hooters. The EEOC also demanded.... demanded, mind you, that Hooters change to a “gender neutral” environment.

As late as 1997 Joe's Stone Crab restaurant in Miami was found guilty of “unintentional discrimination” because the number of female servers on it's staff was under the 31.9 percent which federal judge Daniel Hurley said was below other restaurants in the vicinity.

The Washington Post noted, “ In the wake of his ruling, the judge took control of the restaurant's annual hiring process.” The judge also had control of help-wanted ad placement and wording. After all that stuff, female applications to the restaurant declined but the judge, in his infinite EEOC wisdom fined the restaurant $150,000 and awarded the money to four former applicants who had not been hired . They hit the EEOC lottery!

In an EEOC report of September 1997 their “Strategic Plan” went like this: “last year the agency resolved more cases than in any other year in its thirty-two year history. The rate of reasonable cause [i.e., of finding the accused guilty] during Fiscal Year of 1997 is well ahead of what it was in FY 1996. We have collected over 435 million dollars for victims of discrimination in the past two and one-half years....in FY 1996 we filed half the number of claims filed in Fiscal Year 1995, but collected twice the monetary benefits.” It's all about the money friends. EEOC job security. The commission doesn't care a whit about human rights. They like to see those Franklins roll in no matter the cost to the owner or the establishment's patrons.

Your government at work and it's only going to get worse after November 8, 2016. That's it for now folks. Thanks for listening.

 

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