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We rely every day on the MI5 and MI6 making sure we are safe. It might not be a problem whilst you are working from home in wet Norfolk. However London as been attacked before, and will be attacked again. We need to stop these people before they hurt anyone else and destroy peoples lives.
I suspect it is a problem in West Norfolk
I suspect they keep an eye on me right here
And I have had death threats for what I do
So I am aware of the issues
“State surveillance is only incidentally about catching terrorists. The apprehension of shady fundamentalist miscreants is the excuse used to extend the powers of our government to monitor ordinary people, whether or not they have done or plan to do anything wrong. Such tracking is an everyday invasion of privacy that changes behaviour and intimidates minority communities. In 2009-2010, more than 100,000 stop-and-searches were made under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000. Not one of them led to a terrorism-related arrest”
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/06/laurie-penny-oh-look-theres-new-bogeyman-scene-justify-online-spying