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Thread #163234   Message #3892152
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
04-Dec-17 - 06:05 AM
Thread Name: BS: Damian Green
Subject: RE: BS: Damian Green
Guardian article linked to above by Ians,

" In the course of the raid, which involved 20 officers and extended to Green?s home and car, Green?s computers were seized and opened.
No further action was taken and the incident caused outrage on both sides at Westminster. This led some of the police officers to resent the criticism.
One of them, though he had been ordered to destroy the seized computer archive, copied it and has since revealed its pornographic contents to the media.
When challenged as to why no action was taken on the pornography, former Metropolitan police commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson correctly pointed out that it had nothing to do with the case. It involved ?no criminality, no victims, no vulnerability?. There was nothing extreme, illegal or involving children or abuse, and therefore no public interest, no matter how improper one may consider viewing pornography at work. Nonetheless Green, who denies all the accusations, is now at risk of losing his job and his career under a general hue and cry.

The idea that the police, on the orders of an opposing political party, can invade an MP?s office and seize and disclose to the public any material it hopes might blacken his name is worthy of a totalitarian regime. Even if there was cause to suspect document theft, the purloining of unrelated material against a rainy day is hardly ethical policing."

So Steve, your claims against Green were lies.
Staggering!