That is a bad faith, gross oversimplification of what happened. Their employers used them as part of a political optics campaign and threatened to dock their pa

That is a bad faith, gross oversimplification of what happened. Their employers used them as part of a political optics campaign and threatened to dock their pay if they didn't play along. Saying "I'm going to shoot you if you don't leave your desk" and "Tomorrow we have a scheduled weapons test that will be concentrated around your desk area" are technically describing the same event. The illusion of free will doesn't mean there's a choice. These people didn't have "attend political campaign rallies" as part of their job description.