Though it’s easy to get caught up in slinging criticism over legal abominations in faraway countries ruled by caricature despots, it is truly all the more shocking when you can observe primary examples of these kinds of abuses in your own backyard – which currently for me looks upon the deceptively civilized landscape of British politics.

Two days ago, a senior Conservative MP from Kent, Damian Green, was placed under arrest by anti-terrorism police for alleging leaking information from the Home Office, unleashing an intense political controversy and accusations that the ruling Labour Party has taken a step toward turning Britain into a “police state.”

The apparently bogus arrest of Green illustrates just how slippery the slope have become for the Labour Party’s regular abuses of law under both Blair and Brown to beat back the Tories.  There are at least three recent cases targeting the opposition which represent nothing less than a systemic attack on the rule of law by an established political party, highlighting a trend that Labour MPs should be focused on changing.