.... or is it better to have them visible so we all know how stupid and neive they are?
2007-09-02 05:34:17 · 20 answers · asked by dude 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Any opinion of anyone has to be heard. You cannot stop people putting their opinion forward.
The BNP should not be banned because its undemocratic to ban a point of view, no matter how distasteful it may be to you, me, or 99% of the population.
Those who break the law by using violence, inciting racial hatred or anything else vulgar should be held to account as individuals. Those who do not do such things may be cleverly working around the law, but they havent broken it.
We just have to trust that democracy works and that the people see through this group.
2007-09-02 06:54:13 · answer #1 · answered by futuretopgun101 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I would be bored with out the spamming by BNP supporters on this site. They are always good for a laugh, when they ask the same questions over and over again, and they get ridiculed over and over again.
On a more serious note, if they were banned, we would be playing into their hands. They cry out "free speech" all the time when the media portray them in a negative light (or should that read "honestly"?), if by some stroke of Dubya style vote rigging and the BNP were to get into power, then we would be banned, anyone who doesn't fit into their white, abled bodied, heterosexual, "Christian", bigoted, racist, ethos
2007-09-02 21:19:36 · answer #2 · answered by Spawnee 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Many of the BNP's ideas are pretty horrible to the majority of us but there was a time when we boasted that we lived in a free country.
That means, or should mean, free to call a person black, to criticise his religion or politics provided we do him no actual harm, free to celebrate Christmas without any fear that the "Thought Police" from the "Politically Correct" brigade at the local council might find that we have "breached somebody's human rights, and freedom to belong to the BNP provided they do no more than voice their opinions. We are free, after all to tell the BNP what we think of them.
Whatever you think of a persons beliefs, they should be free to hold them and not have them banned purely because their ideas are unfashionable.
2007-09-02 05:56:57 · answer #3 · answered by tomsp10 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Yes Joan K, their lack of seats in parliament is telling them something, but there is none so blind as those that cannot see! Hence why YA has been spammed non-stop with BNP questions all weekend by one individual trying his best to pretend to be a whole cohort of BNP supporters.
We shouldn't ban them, they do such a bad job of PR for themselves and their views are so abhorrent, they'll never be in power.
2007-09-02 21:06:49 · answer #4 · answered by politicsguy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No political party should be banned even if we don't agree with their politics and half baked ideas. I am getting really sick of the individual on this site who appears to have hundreds of identities, but everyone has the freedom of speech, or so we are led to believe, debatable point in this country at the moment. I would ask why they have failed to obtain one seat in Parliament, isn't this telling them something?.
2007-09-02 09:18:14 · answer #5 · answered by flint 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can always spot the Fascist British National Party, its the moth eaten skinhead hair cuts that give them away (see adolf wanted all blue eyed blond lover boys in his perfect world,)
The skins crop the hair (so nobody can tell they are not virginal blond troglodytes) but it is fooling nobody, the knuckles dragging on the ground and the protruding lower jaw and sloping forehead is a give away among the female members as well.
2007-09-02 09:16:38 · answer #6 · answered by conranger1 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Over the weekend, they have been shown up as to how daft some of their policies are. At least by keeping them legal they can't bleat the 'free speech is being taken away from us' card. Also they would become more dangerous and more radicalised if driven underground.
2007-09-02 08:55:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Serious face now.
No. The BNP should not be banned, but they must work within the law on incitement to commit crime.
Banning political organisations we don't like is very much a BNP-type policy.
We don't need to ban them, they make themselves look ridiculous all on their own.
2007-09-02 05:42:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
People should go and read the BNP manifesto before they decide what to think.
I used to think of them as racist, but I've changed my mind.I also think a lot of what they stand for reflects what many people say or think in private. I deal with Joe Public day in day out, and I hear things which the BNP stand for said by many people.
The government in this country would never allow the BNP to become a legitimate force because they fear them.
Go see for yourself,then decide, before you let everyone see how naive and stupid YOU are ?
2007-09-02 05:51:52 · answer #9 · answered by Cyclops 5 · 4⤊ 4⤋
If you really were someone with a legitimate intelligence on politics then why would you target the BNP while you leave Labour and Conservative alone?
Its like eating a pea when you have prime steak on your plate!
I would try to explain but i think your too dumb to understand!
2007-09-02 05:49:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋