Re: Live Updates of Azadi March
Again you are wrong. Army is answerable to police, law and court. If government makes a policy, than army follows that, nothing else, but again, that policy has to be within law of the country. Government cannot ask army (or police) to fire on people, or kill people, do anything illegal, or immoral, or even something against theirs' religious beliefs (note: theirs' not states'). As for government, even Prime Minister cannot sack a soldier leave army chief. Well, cannot even sack a policeman (lowest cadre in police rank) but a policemen can put handcuff on prime minister if he suspect that Prime Minister had broken law.
As for power of the people in state employment (government or administration) ... Let me tell you few true incidences I myself witnesses.
Once I was visiting a relative in Kent (Gillingham). M2 passes just behind their house and we can see M2 from their garden. In those days, there were no cameras and speeding tickets were served manually by police (if caught). One day, we were all excited when we saw Duke of Kent’s car was stopped by police and then we saw police giving him speeding ticket.
Today on TV, Luqman was thinking to name someone’s immoral acts, and Kashif plus other anchors stopped him, saying that we should not expose them this way. But in UK I remember that a judge was caught picking girl from road, and it was all over the papers, forcing the judge to resign.
I know many cases, but let me give two examples.
1: An famous and very powerful Tory MP and conservative minister, close to Margret Thatcher (when conservative was in power) claimed something in court, but it was found that he was lying. Instantly, the MP got arrested on charge of Perjury, sent to jail for several years, and in process lost his MP post too.
2: Recently another powerful labour MP (when Labour was in power) gave fake document to get higher amount of mortgage (a crime that many do in UK). But since he was MP, he not only lost his parliamentarian post (as minister), but case stared against him. I did not followed what happened, but I would not be surprised if he was given some sentence (maybe community service or days in prison).
Protecting government buildings is not an illegal order.