Ok so they “claim the Met’s policy amounts to “religious discrimination” against Freemasons who are also police officers”… but freemasonry isn’t a _religion_ .. my dad was one and as kids my sister & I had a tour of a lodge, apparently they can be used for services like marriages but not for any specific religion and they had members from several religions
The Met apparently stated in December that officers have to declare any membership to any “hierarchical organisation that requires members to support and protect each other” which absolutely is how my dad described the masons over about 20+ years, so I’m stunned this is a new rule!
RedofPaw on
It’s so unfair when you have to declare you’re a member of a club so that when you give another member preferential treatment you get found out!
_Monsterguy_ on
The Freemasons and the police station were in the same building in the town I grew up in.
I’d not let the police be in any kind of secretive society, it seems obviously dodgy.
Duckstiff on
So what happens when they have to declare they are members? It gets recorded on their HR file and then?
Jammoth1993 on
You don’t need a formal conspiracy when interests converge…
Secret societies have no place in politics or the judicial system. We’re acutely aware that politicians often have hidden agendas, so it seems sensible to have a mechanism that allows us to connect the dots/identify biases.
Example: Yvette Cooper proscribing Palestine Action while being a part of Labour Friend’s of Israel… We know there’s a conflict of interest, which offers *some* recourse. But imagine if she were allowed to keep it a secret? We’d be fooled into thinking that this was a level headed, unbiased decision and it may have gone unchallenged.
jodrellbank_pants on
Should be the same with everything at every position that used public money
i-readit2 on
The brothers looking after the brothers. The police is riddled with it. This needs seriously looked into . The effect of freemasonry in the legal system.
elmosesyeah on
What a joke. Trying to infringe on people’s personal lives again. Masons are not exactly going to notice another Mason has committed a crime or such and suddenly let them off the hook.
mrbalsawood on
Is it true that they control the British crown and keep the metric system down?
Madness_Quotient on
the met rule is basically “you have to tell us if you are a member of a secret group that would require you to be corrupt”
by filing an injunction the Freemasons are tacitly admitting that they fit that description.
Cute_Ad_9730 on
Is this nonsense still going on. Stupid old men desperate for purpose and perceived superiority.
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Ok so they “claim the Met’s policy amounts to “religious discrimination” against Freemasons who are also police officers”… but freemasonry isn’t a _religion_ .. my dad was one and as kids my sister & I had a tour of a lodge, apparently they can be used for services like marriages but not for any specific religion and they had members from several religions
The Met apparently stated in December that officers have to declare any membership to any “hierarchical organisation that requires members to support and protect each other” which absolutely is how my dad described the masons over about 20+ years, so I’m stunned this is a new rule!
It’s so unfair when you have to declare you’re a member of a club so that when you give another member preferential treatment you get found out!
The Freemasons and the police station were in the same building in the town I grew up in.
I’d not let the police be in any kind of secretive society, it seems obviously dodgy.
So what happens when they have to declare they are members? It gets recorded on their HR file and then?
You don’t need a formal conspiracy when interests converge…
Secret societies have no place in politics or the judicial system. We’re acutely aware that politicians often have hidden agendas, so it seems sensible to have a mechanism that allows us to connect the dots/identify biases.
Example: Yvette Cooper proscribing Palestine Action while being a part of Labour Friend’s of Israel… We know there’s a conflict of interest, which offers *some* recourse. But imagine if she were allowed to keep it a secret? We’d be fooled into thinking that this was a level headed, unbiased decision and it may have gone unchallenged.
Should be the same with everything at every position that used public money
The brothers looking after the brothers. The police is riddled with it. This needs seriously looked into . The effect of freemasonry in the legal system.
What a joke. Trying to infringe on people’s personal lives again. Masons are not exactly going to notice another Mason has committed a crime or such and suddenly let them off the hook.
Is it true that they control the British crown and keep the metric system down?
the met rule is basically “you have to tell us if you are a member of a secret group that would require you to be corrupt”
by filing an injunction the Freemasons are tacitly admitting that they fit that description.
Is this nonsense still going on. Stupid old men desperate for purpose and perceived superiority.