Damian Green, now MP's are waking up.

Well it is taking the fuckers in the House of Commons, long enough to realise that abuses of power by the police can actually effect them as MP's and not just the little folk.

See for the last 11 years we have had God alone knows how many new laws pushed through, piss poor bill after piss poor bill to outlaw this, outlaw that. 

Hat tip to house of dumb for this one Use of police to harass folks with the wrong opinions? Yes," that certainly rings a few bells.

Labour's Dennis McShane said, "To send a squad of counter terrorist officers to arrest an MP shows the growing police contempt for parliament and democratic politics," he said.

No shit. Well Dennis your party started fucking rolling this ball a rolling down the hill mate. 

Now which party was it decided that everyone who falls fowl of the plod has their dna taken to go on a database? No matter if the charges are dropped later, after all nothing to hide an all that?...Labour.

Which party has set up databases at huge cost, with no real overall aim and which in many cases duplicate each other?...Labour.

Which party decided to bring in Ripa? You know the snooper powers act for local authorities to spot Al Quada members putting the bins out on the wrong day?...Labour.

Who has brought in the fancy Euro arrest warrents that allow our people to be hauled up before some justice abroad with sod all legal process here in the UK?...Labour 

Plus a similar bill that allows our citizens to be popped on a plane off to US of A, oh and ensured that that deal only works one way. US citizens can not be hauled out of America by our courts without US approval?...Labour.

Oh an I shall give one Dr David Kelly a mention here, the weapons expert hounded to his death my New Labour as his views did not tie in with the sexed up weapons dossier that Blair wanted for his war.

Which party has given us a second level of - and second rate - policing here in the UK, where we have marshalls, PCSO's, wardens and suchlike given powers that previously belonged only to the police?...Labour. 

Which party has stood back and put countless bills forward that strike out whole areas of English law, as well as "common law" in favour of unelected European Acts/Directives and the like?... Labour.

They have handed sweeping powers to local authorities, who can fine people for minor offenses and even employ staff for that reason alone. Anyone who believes that wardens, marshalls and PCSO's are not there to gather in taxes is deluded. An example of this is with the case of the so called metric martyrs, even the Eu stated they have no problem with people selling a pound of apples and yet cases still come up before the courts now.

Only the other month we had a copy of 1984 given to each and every MP. Oh they laughed, this was dismissed it as a gimmick, a joke, nothing more than the rabid ravings of Daily Mail readers, the smoking lobby etc etc etc.

Well the duplicitous fuckers in The Commons even sat back whilst their own party workers were fed to the wolves the other year in the "cash for honours" story that took up so much of the papers for so long. 

Labour aide, Ruth Turner's home was raided by Police at 6.30 am.She had no advanced notice but the press did. Her home  and office was searched and she was arrested and questioned for several hours.

She was questioned over honours allegations and suspicion of perverting the course of justice. She has issued a statement denying any wrongdoing.

Tony Blair gave Ms Turner, one of his closest aides, his full backing. Ruth is a person of the highest integrity for whom I have great regard and I continue to have complete confidence in her," said the prime minister.

In a statement released by 10 Downing Street, Ms Turner said: "I absolutely refute any allegations of wrongdoing of any nature whatsoever. No charge was ever made.

Well now its an MP, they are all starting to open their eyes. Suddenly its a bit much. Why was he arrested when all the information could have been gathered by anyone. Even Paul Flynn comments:

There was no threat to security in these published 'secrets.' They should have all been available through FOI requests. It's mystery to me why a list of the anti 42 day Labour MPs should be secret. Any knowledgeable political commentator could have written the list.

Well give the police powers they will use and on times abuse them. Over to Littlejohn
An Opposition spokesman is arrested without warning on trumped-up conspiracy charges and thrown into jail. His home, constituency and parliamentary offices are simultaneously raided by 20 anti-terrorist officers.

It sounds like Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, or East Berlin before the Wall came down. But this happened in Britain, in the past 48 hours  -  the most terrifying manifestation to date of Labour's Stasi State.

The shadow immigration minister, Damian Green, was taken from his home in Kent to a Central London police station, where he was interrogated for nine hours by officers investigating the leak of sensitive information from the Home Office.

Or, as a Met spokesman put it, in classic Plodspeak: 'A 52-year- old man has been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office and aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring misconduct in a public office.'

This risible, catch-all indictment could be levelled at just about any member of the Government, from the Prime Minister downwards, any day of the week. Labour spent all last weekend leaking details of the emergency Budget. Gordon Brown's early career was built on leaked documents.

Green's 'crime' was to expose the deceit and incompetence of this government's shambolic immigration policy and make public a confidential Home Office memo, which revealed that an illegal alien had been working as a cleaner in the House of Commons.

Plus Matthew Parris has his say

On the whole, and in the main, and everything considered, you do not in a democracy go around arresting the Opposition. For some time now, web humorists have been spelling new Labour “Nu-Labour”. As reports of Damian Green's arrest swirled yesterday, the prefix ZA attached itself to the bloggers' joke: ZANU-Labour. If by lunch I had heard the comparison with Zimbabwe once, I had heard it a dozen times.

Nine - nine - counter-terrorism officers? Raids (for that is what we would call them in Russia) on the home and offices of a senior member of the Opposition? What a blunder. What an outrage. What a stupid, stupid, thing to do. The best argument for doubting that ministers had anything to do with the arrest of a mild-mannered and distinctly herbivorous Shadow Immigration Minister is that this is a gift to the Tories, and incredibly damaging to a governing party whose Prime Minister enjoys a reputation for bullying.

Maybe ministers really were kept in total ignorance, but few ordinary voters are going to believe it. A Prime Minister otherwise known as the Big, Clunking Fist will struggle to dissociate himself in the public mind from an astonishingly heavy-handed police operation against a critic.

For me, Thomas à Becket and Canterbury Cathedral spring to mind. I picture an infuriated Prime Minister bellowing at a flat-screen television: “Will nobody rid me of these troublesome leaks?” Who the four knights were who took it upon themselves to act upon the presumed wishes of a maddened monarch, we may never know, but when Mr Brown insists that he didn't actually know, it is possible to believe him.

But this farce now has entered the realm of the sureal, our big titted bovine faced kebab munching Home Sec. has decided to make a statement to the little folk of this land:

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has defended the right of police to arrest a Tory MP over alleged Home Office leaks - suggesting the case was more serious than reported.

Officers had to be allowed to "follow the evidence where they need to" and it would be "Stalinist" for politicians to intervene, she told the BBC.

How strange that elder statesmen on all sides of the House disagree with this action, still let us see what other pearls of wisdom she has to offer.

But Ms Smith said the investigation was examining a "systematic series of leaks" of potentially sensitive material beyond the cases being claimed by critics.

"It is not an investigation into whether or not Opposition politicians used information they received to embarrass or hold to account the Government," she told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show. "That is a completely legitimate activity it has gone on; it should go on; it will go on. This started as an investigation of a systematic series of leaks from a department that deals with some of the most sensitive and confidential information in Government.

"There are four leaks that are in the public arena. The point is that this started as an investigation into a systematic series of leaks about which, of course, it was not clear what had been leaked and what may not have been leaked."

Right so there is or may be further information, or there may not. What could be termed a fishing expedition?...

Replying to critics of the police action, she went on: "In my book Stalinism and a police state happens when ministers direct and interfere with specific investigations that the police are carrying out."

Although she neglects the bit about Stalinism being used by the security services to enforce the will of the state, even though ministers may not actually be getting their hands dirty.

Oh and I shall use the opportunity to remind folk that it was the same bovine faced kebab eating Jacqui Spliff who who prevented the SFO from looking into New Labour sleaze...

More than two months after the US justice department formally requested assistance in its investigation of Britain's biggest arms company, the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, has failed to pass on the request to the Serious Fraud Office.

 

The head of an influential parliamentary arms committee today said he was "very concerned" at the government's refusal to cooperate with the US criminal investigation into allegations of corruption against BAE Systems.

An this fucking tedious woman has the bare faced cheek to put her bovine features on the telly and bleat on about non fucking interference with the authorities. Fucking can put her complaints right up her fedid cunt, the cunt.

New Labour - "I want them all dead. I want their family's dead. I want their houses burnt to the ground. I want to go there in the middle of the night and piss on the ashes."

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