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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
From everything that we know this was a professional police officer that if a member of the bnp never allowed that to interfere with his duties so for that reason this was unfair. Not being a fan of the bnp i am not sure but didn't they do a family ticket sort of membership thing that may have got this guy on the list without him actually knowing and if that is the case it also makes this more stupid then it already is.
For those saying that belonging to the bnp is more then enough to get a police officer fired would they also support any police officer that is a member of any other political party getting fired because right now much as some of us despise it the bnp are a legal political party. Remember that while the core belief of the bnp is unpalatable in the most polite terms they also have made great efforts to sound and present themself more moderately in recent times tagging onto fears many have and putting themself forward as the solution same as all the other partys.
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It seems to me that the ban on police joining the BNP implies that the police force would "prefer it" if they didn't vote for them either otherwise why have the ban in the first place it seems pointless to me to ban someone from joining but allow them to vote.The officers record has to be taken into account also, which as far as i can find out is exemplary,Also according to the original bbc report he didn't join the BNP his brother did it for him without his knowledge.
I agree with most of the postees in this thread that the BNP is not a very pleasant organisation BUT and it's a big but there is a large proportion of the membership who don't subscribe to the hard line beliefs of the past ,i know a lot personaly ,they have meetings in my local once a month when i have been present ,there has never been any "flag waving"or racist chanting ,although i do not doubt that happens at some venues.
The original question for this thread was do we have the right to impose restrictions on peoples personal and political beliefs not whether joining the bnp is right or wrong .. i still believe that the police force has overstepped it's authority