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I generally agree with you but let’s play devils advocate, at what DOES political affiliation matter. If you know a candidate has ties to Al-Queda do you hire them, given that their work so far and resume indicate they would provide a 100X increase to your teams output? This would be an extreme example

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I follow the laws of US.

No ties with terrorist organisations or embargoed countries.

That should clear the real bad ones.

How do you screen for this? How do you identify an Al-Queda member?

And what is the standard? If a potential employee is affiliated with the Socialist Worker's Party or the Right to Life Party, are they disqualified? How about Democratic party?

Unless the job is a germance policy making position or includes tasks that anathema and where good conscience would impair their ability to perform work, it's none of your business.

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