“For five years I have avoided using the phrase ‘police state’. But the sort of things going on here is what you expect in a police state, a banana state. This is the most extraordinary event of my parliamentary career.” (David Davis)
I find the items on this list extremely disturbing, particularly those which relate to his offices, phone and computer.
“The arrest of Damian Green for doing his job of opposing the executive is a step too far in rolling back centuries of democratic achievement. The pretext is the excessive desire of this government to keep all public information secret, and prevent the taxpayer from finding out what has been done in their name and at their expense. This is the most secretive, as well as the most authoritarian, government of the modern era.”
In case you’re wondering, the author is not exactly a natural political ally of the Conservatives:
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2008/11/the_jackboots_a.html
(Link seen on Glyn Moody’s blog)
Updates:
Cross-party fury over MP’s arrest
Damien Green arrest ‘like Mugabe’s Zimbabwe’
Damian Green arrest: PM accused of contempt for parliament
The six facts causing Tories alarm about Damian Green