This is the bit where we note how you've not actually watched the program in question, The Viceroy. Not that I could blame you since the whole show was just a rehash reminding us what we all know already.
The BBC did not assert that the members of the BNP should not be able to say whatever they like. Instead they showed the BNP members saying whatever they chose to say, and then they asked legal experts if what was discussed was legal or not. Inciting an audience to become violent against others, even if you're saying, "Pakis will rape your children" rather than, "Go beat up Pakis", is illegal in Britain, and personally I believe that our right to not have people getting others to beat us up outweights that aspect of freedom of speech.
As for Nick Griffith "having the balls to say it", the entire point of the show was to illustrate what he and his colleagues DON'T have the balls to say in public, and are tricking some decent members of the public into voting for.
The BBC did not assert that the members of the BNP should not be able to say whatever they like. Instead they showed the BNP members saying whatever they chose to say, and then they asked legal experts if what was discussed was legal or not. Inciting an audience to become violent against others, even if you're saying, "Pakis will rape your children" rather than, "Go beat up Pakis", is illegal in Britain, and personally I believe that our right to not have people getting others to beat us up outweights that aspect of freedom of speech.
As for Nick Griffith "having the balls to say it", the entire point of the show was to illustrate what he and his colleagues DON'T have the balls to say in public, and are tricking some decent members of the public into voting for.
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