[Skybird]

Police meanwhile has tried to explain the issue as concerns of the officer in question regarding his family - if he would be filmed on tV, his family may be hurt. If that is so, he is susceptible to blackmail. the question then is if such a person, no matter his faith and ideological background, can be accepted to vital public services and security duties. My answer is: No.

Or he has been withdrawn from service at the embassy for his superiors did not trust him when wokring there. That would mean he is not trustworthy in his job. Again the question then is if such a person, no matter his faith and ideological background, can be accepted to vital public services and security duties. My answer is: No.

Or he sees fulfilling his duties -and part of that duty is to guard an ebassy if he is ordered to - as a violation of his ideological background or faith. then his faith/ideology collides witzh the non-negotioable demands of his job to which he must fully comply. If he can'T or won't do that, it is to be asked if he could be accepted in vital public services and security duties. My answer is: no. If you are in the policy or military, you are not entering a democracy, but a hierarchy that bases on the principle of orders, and obeying orders. If in a battle during war, or a critical security event, or processes of decision making, the obeying of orders is left to the individual, you have two results: a.) you have no trustworthy police and military institutions anymore, you are unable to react with speed if every order will be discussed or will get decided by majoirty decision of offciers on the street/in the field; you will never know if your orders will be carried out, or ignored, or if subordinates even turn against you; and b.) you violate the principle of separating law making (politics), law-interpreting (courts) and law-enforcing (police). what Scandium accepts in his posting above is that the police officers in the future will no longer depend on the law and the obeying of orders, but instead make their own laws that replaces their legal obligations and dsuties. And that is totally unacceptable. Police is not free to decide if it wants to enforce this or that aspect of a given law - it has to stick to the law, without discussion. The luxury of choosing situation when to do it and when not - a polcie officer never has. Police-officers do not interpret the law - they enforce it. If they have a problem with that, they have to leave service.

so, no matter what the scenario is and how you look at it: I always come to the conclusion that leaving this man in police service is unacceptable. He either do his job fully and uncompromisingly, or he doesn't. In military and police, there is no in-between. You are either a a cop, or you are not.