And so, it begins.......

And so, it begins... (Ambassador Kosh of The Vorlon Empire)

From the BBC

Senior Tory angered by his arrest

Mr Green said politicians have a duty to hold the government to account

A senior Conservative MP has reacted angrily to his arrest by police investigating the alleged leaking of Home Office information.
Damian Green denied any wrongdoing and said: "I was astonished to have spent more than nine hours today under arrest for doing my job."


BBC NEWS | Politics | Senior Tory angered by his arrest

Police say Mr Green was held on Thursday on suspicion of "conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office".
He was questioned, but has not been charged and was bailed until February.

This is rich when you consider the actions of this government from almost day one of their Stewardship.

What? Clarify? Ok.

Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone
The rebellion of 47 backbenchers who were against the plans to cut benefits to single parents.
In the October of 1998 the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, the only country in Latin America not to support Argentina in the Falkland Islands Conflict, was arrested at the request of Spanish judges, seeking to extradite him to face charges related to more than 4000 political killings alleged to have taken place in Chile. He was in the UK to undergo surgery.
Home Secretary Jack Straw ordered he was too ill to extradite and allowed him to return to Chile.

In 2008 however, if you are Ghanaian, you are more likely to be removed from your sickbed and deported back to Africa to die.

At the end of October 1998, in an out of season, moment of madness, Welsh Secretary Ron Davies became the first member of Tony Blair's Cabinet to resign citing a "serious lapse of judgement" after he forgot all about the dangers of talking to strangers on Clapham Common and was later robbed at knifepoint.
He had been the bookies favourite to become the First Secretary of the Welsh Assembly after winning a ballot earlier in the year by a head.
In the middle of December 1998, under the cover of British Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Mandelson resigning for failing to disclose a pre-election winning, £373000 home loan from Paymaster General Geoffrey Robinson, Saddam Hussain decided, with all that distraction, that he might get away with failing to comply with weapons inspections.
However, the ever-vigilant US President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair responded to this with air strikes on Iraq.

6th March 2000
Ken Livingstone announces his intention to stand as an independent candidate for London Mayor.
One month later the MP for Brent East received a letter telling him he had been expelled from the Labour Party for at least five years for failing to back the official Labour candidate Frank Dobson. Mr Livingstone shrugged off the move as a "trial separation" and went on to win the mayoral election in May 2000.

7th June 2000
Blair is heckled and slow hand-clapped as he delivers a speech to the Women’s Institute.
After what Mr Blair had hoped would be a speech to win back the initiative from the Tories he received poor applause and drew criticism from some audience members who said his speech was too political. Some women began to heckle and slow clap the PM before the WI chairman appealed to them to stop.

29th June 2000
Blair announces that police will be able to charge on-the-spot fines for public drunkenness.

5th July 2000
PMs eldest son Euan reprimanded by police for being drunk and incapable in a post-exams celebration.
Euan was found drunk and vomiting in Leicester Square and was taken to a police station. The incident came just a few days after Tony Blair suggested on-the-spot fines for drunkenness. Mr Blair reacted the next day saying being a father was sometimes more difficult than being prime minister.

5th September 2000
Fuel protests over rise in petrol prices begin. Crisis Cabinet meetings in what was seen as the greatest test of Blair’s premiership.

24th January 2001
Peter Mandelson resigns over Hinduja passports affair. He is later cleared of wrongdoing.

16th July 2001
More than 100 backbencher’s rebel over a bid to remove two independently minded MPs as chairmen of two committees

28th May 2002
Transport Secretary Stephen Byers resigns after a long running row over good day to bury bad news email sent by his adviser.
The scandal revolved around Mr Byers' special adviser or spin doctor Jo Moore who sent an email on 911 suggesting that news from the department was unlikely to receive the usual press scrutiny on that day. Mr Byers was not involved in that email but became embroiled in a wider row about the influence of non-accountable special advisers.

10th December 2002
Cherie Blair apologises for embarrassment caused by buying flats with the help of convicted fraudster Peter Foster.

15th February 2003
An estimated million people’s march through London to protest against war with Iraq.

17th March 2003
Robin Cook quits as leader of the Commons because of his opposition to attacking Iraq.

18th March 2003
139 Labour MPs vote against the government’s decision to go to war with Iraq.

20th March 2003
War on Iraq begins as US forces launch first air strikes on Baghdad.
US President George W Bush delivered a live television address shortly after explosions rocked the capital at 05:34 local time 02:34 GMT signalling the start of the US led campaign to topple Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. The following day the US and British launched a massive aerial assault on Baghdad in what the US called its "shock and awe" strategy. Mr Bush declared an end to major combat operations on 1 May 2003.

12th May 2003
Clare Short quits over Iraq saying Tony Blair had broken promises over the country’s future.

29th May 2003
On the Today programme Andrew Gilligan reports allegations that the government enhanced its dossier on Iraq’s WMD.

Want me to go on? OK.

28th January 2004
Lord Hutton’s report absolves government of almost any blame in Kelly affair and points finger at BBC reporting.
Key allegations about the government's Iraq dossier reported by the BBC's Andrew Gilligan were "unfounded" and the BBC's editorial procedures were "defective" Lord Hutton said. He concluded that there was no underhand government strategy to name Dr Kelly. The report caused massive upheaval at the BBC with the resignations of Chairman Gavyn Davies and Director General Greg Dyke.

26th February 2004
Speaking on Today Clare Short alleges UN Secretary General Kofi Annans office was bugged by MI6.

20th April 2004
Blair confirms there will be a referendum on the EU constitution a U turn on his previous position.
For months the prime minister had denied the need for a vote but with clamour over Europe issues growing louder he said that he would "let the people have a final say". Conservative leader Michael Howard asked him "Who will ever trust you again"

And we all know what happened there don't we?

14th July 2004
Butler report finds that some intelligence on Iraq’s WMDs had turned out to be unreliable but Blair had acted in good faith.

16th March 2006
Labours treasurer Jack Dromey reveals he and other officials did not know the party had secretly borrowed millions of £s.
Mr Dromey told BBC News that neither he nor Labour's elected chairman knew about the loans from businessmen despite being regularly consulted about bank loans. He said the Electoral Commission should investigate the issue of loans to political parties from non-commercial sources. Home Secretary Charles Clarke said it was reasonable for an internal inquiry to take place but denied "cash for honours" claims.

25th April 2006
The Home Office admits 1023 foreign criminals were released without being considered for deportation.
Home Secretary Charles Clarke refused to step down but conceded he did not know where most of the released prisoners were. Among them were three murderers and nine rapists. Opposition leaders accused him of failing to protect the public.

10th July 2006
John Prescott comes under pressure to quit after it emerges a US tycoon gave him a cowboy outfit during a visit to his ranch.

(LOL 'I wanna be Sherriff')

12th July 2006
Lord Levy is arrested and bailed by police over the cash for honours probe.
Tony Blair's chief fundraiser denied any wrongdoing and accused the police of using their arrest powers "totally unnecessarily". The peer was one of several key figures in securing multimillion pound loans to the Labour Party in 2005. Police are examining whether honours were ever given as reward for financial help to the three main parties.

14th December 2006
Police interview Blair about cash for honours affair.
Mr Blair became the first prime minister to be questioned by police in the course of an investigation. He was interviewed twice in December and January 2007 but not under caution so he was being treated as a witness rather than a suspect. Mr Blair's chief fundraiser Lord Levy and Downing Street political adviser Ruth Turner were arrested on separate occasions in January 2007 and released after questioning. the Crown Prosecution Service announced on the 20th of July 2007, that Lord Levy was not to be prosecuted.

History it would seem, like a rather fat-laden meal, repeats......

Back to the BBC....

Speaking outside the House of Commons, Mr Green said: "I emphatically deny I have done anything wrong.

"I have many times made public information that the government wanted to keep secret - information that the public has a right to know.

"In a democracy, opposition politicians have a duty to hold the government to account.

This is Shamocracy mate, didn't anyone tell you?

"I was elected to the House of Commons precisely to do that and I certainly intend to continue doing so."

Mr Green's arrest is believed to be connected to the arrest of a man suspected of being a Home Office whistle-blower.

It follows a series of leaks, including:

* The November 2007 revelation that the home secretary knew the Security Industry Authority had granted licences to 5,000 illegal workers, but decided not to publicise it.
* The February 2008 news that an illegal immigrant had been employed as a cleaner in the House of Commons.
* A whips' list of potential Labour rebels in the vote on plans to increase the pre-charge terror detention limit to 42 days.
* A letter from the home secretary warning that a recession could lead to a rise in crime.

The BBC understands Tory leader David Cameron is angry about what has happened and stands by Mr Green.

Speaking on BBC One's Question Time on Thursday, shadow chancellor George Osborne said: "I think it's absolutely extraordinary that the police have taken that decision.

"It has long been the case in our democracy that MPs have received information from civil servants - I think to hide information from the public is wrong.

"It is early days, it's an extraordinary case. I think there are going to be some very, very big questions asked of the police."

A spokesman for the Conservative Party said Mr Green had "on a number of occasions, legitimately revealed information which the Home Office chose not to make public.

"Disclosure of this information was manifestly in the public interest."

Conservative sources said a police investigation into a high-ranking politician would have to have been cleared at "the very top" and have described the actions as "Stalinesque".

But a Downing Street spokesman said: "This is a matter for the police. The prime minister had no prior knowledge of the arrest of Mr Green and was only informed after the event."

Strange how David Cameron knew, and Boris. Bit odd, don't you think?

Why should GB have to know? After all, that is the point of pogrom isn't it, to permit the use of plausible deniability?

And now we go live over to Stalin's Tomb, where a séance is being conducted to gain the late Soviet Leaders opinion....

...Keep building upon my evil works Mr Prime Minister, and those of your predecessors. Serve your masters well and you will descend to my left hand....Now I must go, I have a meeting with comrade Pol Pot...

Well it would seem that the current UK government tactics are being warmly received by the former Soviet Leader, wherever he is... now back to the studio...

Mayor of London Boris Johnson has said he was informed in advance of the Met's plan to arrest Mr Green, and expressed "trenchant" concerns about the move.

Mr Green, the MP for Ashford in Kent, who has been the Conservatives' immigration spokesman since December 2005, was arrested shortly before 1400 GMT at his constituency home.

The Tories say they understand counter-terrorism officers were involved in searches of his home and offices.

So, instead of utilising the skills and expertise of our highly trained and motivated counter-terrorism officers (LOL), to protect the citizens of the UK, we find that they have been poking around the properties of one of the Queen's loyal opposition. Does this seem a useful and cost effective use of their time? And what nasty little false flag have they not seen, fluttering?

Is it just a case of constructing a sentence out of the following, news, day, bury, good, to, bad.

In a statement, the Met said the arrest was made without any ministerial influence.

Right, so this was not a political act then?

They said: "The investigation into the alleged leak of confidential government material followed the receipt by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) of a complaint from the Cabinet Office.

So, the office which is responsible for supporting the Prime Minister and Cabinet of the United Kingdom, (would that be the drugs cabinet?), complained to the police, then informed David Cameron and Boris Johnson but failed to inform their boss?
If we take what the PM said to be accurate, who took the decision not to inform him, why they took that decision and did they have the authority to take such a decision? Are these not reasonable questions to ask?

If you did something similar, in your job would you expect to keep it?

"The decision to make today's arrest was taken solely by the MPS without any ministerial knowledge or approval."

It said search warrants had been carried out at a home in Kent, a home in west London, business premises in Kent and in central London

"The search at the residential address in west London has concluded, the other searches continue," it added.

So much for the pledge about protecting whistle-blowers, more like payback and a warning to anyone leaking information that BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!.

This story will no doubt develop further throughout the next few days and is one which could be an indicator of things to come.

Unfortunately, the people of this land are quite use to 'doffing the forelock to their betters', plus a few decades to jerk around with the education system to create an uncritical, low brow populous, without the faculties to see beyond the immediate, which has no comprehension of the events of history and understands little how it has shaped their lives. Nor do they care.
As long John Sargeant gets through, we'll be alright.
Ah! yes! the spirit of the Blitz!

See also here, here, and this little story here.

But one should go here for checking the pulse, heart and respiration.
and here.

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