Gordon Brown has insisted ministers were not aware of the arrest of Tory immigration spokesman Damian Green.
The MP was arrested, held for nine hours, and his homes and House of Commons office searched by police probing alleged Home Office leaks
Thomas Paine wrote once (paraphrasing) that the state often moves from being a necessary evil to an intolerable one. When a counter-terrorism squad raids a man's house, detains him for hours, and confiscates his papers from home and office, and that man is a member of Parliament, what kind of protections can an average citizen hope to have from a force like the UK government? This nation, the one we call the United Kingdom, long moved from being a necessary state to an intolerable state.
The shame, however, lies with her enfeebled citizenry. As a nation, they have given their liberties to a coterie of blindered do-gooders in exchange for unfulfilled promises of health and security. They're getting what they deserve. The complaints, perhaps well-meaning, are wasteful: if you don't like it, get out while you can. Everything else is mere quibbles over the type of makeup to put on the corpse.
I don't need England to stand with us in liberty. Give me Australia, give me Singapore, give me India. Huh, look at that -- Queen Victoria's children left her years ago. All that's left at her side is a few wrinkled butlers and groundskeepers who only have memories.
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