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Originally Posted by martyh
It's very easy to forget how much power we (general public)have if we can be bothered.For example in the case quoted in this thread if enough people said they wanted the rule in question removed and the officer re-instated then the police would have no alternative but to abide by the publics choice
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There is absolutely no chance, nor should there be, that this guy could be re-instated even if there were to be a wave of public sympathy for him, that way lies the rule of the mob if the police or the government were to kowtow to public pressure.
Your right in one aspect though, we the public do have a lot of influence and that influence is exercised at the ballot box, that's the way to change laws we don't agree with.
If the policeman in question had used a bit of common sense he would never have joined the BNP, he could have just voted for them in the privacy of the polling booth, luckily for us he didn't have the savvy to do that.
As regards whether or not its right to forbid serving police officers from being a member of a hate party I'd have thought the answer would be blindingly obvious, he knew the rules and he either broke or ignored them, either way the outcome was always going to be a foregone conclusion.