There was something puzzling about the Sept. 22 letter “Jimmy Kimmel suspension should perturb us.”

The last sentence is a head-scratcher: “…where we can lose our jobs for criticizing the government?” That’s not correct in this context of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel loaded up on the MAGA people, claiming MAGA wants “to score political points” concerning the deranged killer of Charlie Kirk.

It’s disingenuous to label the MAGA movement as “the government,” as if to prove the killer was a leftist political activist, exacting revenge against the federal government. 

The deranged killer of Charlie Kirk simply hated Kirk, without any political reason. The killer couldn’t care any less about MAGA or the federal government. 

This assassination is more polarizing than any other assassination in the past 100 years in America. Witness how, nationwide, over 100 people have been fired because of social media posts celebrating the assassination of Kirk. Somehow, these non-government companies have decided that these employees have damaged the company’s reputation, will be boycotted and will lose money. The employees can sue to get their jobs back. 

Generally, the federal government cannot put people in jail for free speech, but a non-government company can fire employees if their free-speech rights damage the company’s reputation. 

Daniel Pryor
Gorham