The freedom of speech comes at a very high price for those few who dare to engage in their constitutional right to use it. For Justin Carter it cost him 5 months of his life- and could still cost him at least 10 more years. Now, a teenage coffee shop employee has lost her job after sharing a personal opinion on her own Twitter account.

Social media was buzzing this past week with talk of the verdict in the Zimmerman case. Everyone and their brother took to the airwaves and the internet to express their opinions, outrage, support, and every other legal/social comment and interpretation imaginable. So did a 17-year-old girl from Livonia, Michigan.

The only difference between her and the hateful garbage that routinely spews out of the likes of Rush Limbaugh’s mouth is that a single Tweet cost her a job, and it shouldn’t have.

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