Tory MP, Damian Green arrested - is Britain now a police state?

The British media is currently focused on the Mumbai terror attacks but also on another big news story in the UK - the shocking news about the arrest of a member of Parliament. Damian Green, the Conservative shadow immigration minister was arrested on suspicion of "conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office" after a series of Home Office leaks. Mr. Green was actually doing his job by revealing information that was in the public interest! Tories express fury with police over Damian Green arrest Conservative MPs expressed their fury today over the decision by the police to arrest Damian Green in connection with a government leak inquiry. The shadow immigration minister's Tory colleagues believe that, in publishing documents allegedly provided by a whistleblower, Green was doing his job as an opposition MP, not breaking the law. And the Tories are particularly angry about the manner in which police have handled the matter – using counter-terrorism officers to arrest the MP, rather than just inviting him in for questioning. I find this news very disturbing indeed. It seems clear to me that if these details weren't leaked by a government employee to Mr. Green and he didn't pass the information to the press, that the truth would never be revealed or only a version of the "truth" would. What else is the Labour government hiding? Amd doesn't this show how anti-terrorism laws can be abused (and are)? I believe very little of what the government tells us and for them to deny any knowledge about the arrest is very hard to believe, especially after reading that David Cameron, Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London and the Speaker and Sergeant at Arms of the House of Commons confirmed they were all informed. Surely, if they were told, Gordon Brown and his cronies knew full well what was happening. It raises the disturbing and sinister idea that the Labour Government are using the police. Frankly, the current government scares me because the ministers appear to be corrupt. I believe the police are too. Put those two together and Britain has become a very, very scary place indeed. When the governement can use the police to punish whistleblowers for exposing serious misconduct in the government, it is the beginning of a police state. What are your thoughts about the arrest of Mr Damian Green?