Kingruv

Bravo to you and MSD,

Shakran, what you wrote above is the norm it seems in London and Washington and a host of other places lots of people don't think of. What bothers me more than those who do the surveilling and those who use it are those that see it as normal.
By defending it as normal, this normalizes it, which legitimizes it. Those who feel they have little stake begin to get anesthestized to others rights being trampled. They may have passing thoughts that it's wrong, but too, begin try to justify it as something that society must put up with to be safe. By the time they realize it may be too much, it's too late.

I had mentioned in another place about the 3rd article of the Bill of Rights. No you don't hear much about it because it doesn't seem relevant anymore. We should not forget the reason it was written. (also part of the reason behind the 2nd Article)
The Quartering Act was passed and enforced in colonial America with the proposition of merely having a place for soldiers to billet.

The fact is while few soldiers were in single family dwellings, they were often quartered with families that ran taverns and public houses. The same ones that were places where Colonial opposition met and families that owned and ran them lived. These weren't alone, a lot of immigrants to this country from Europe had had the same problem before moving here.
The idea is clear, chill opposition. There is little difference in that and these intrusions today.
If you can't be secure in your own front yard from arbitrary intrusion and provocation then you're either a prisoner in your own home or you're going to be tagged as "belligerent" and a trouble maker if you speak out.
Strange,
Her Majesty's Goverment may do as it pleases. If Great grandpa George the III, had kept his wits about him and restrained his pride the provocation might never have lead to a revolution. But he did and it did. Now your being overrun and have no way to stop it.
In the mix of all that Britain not only capitulated to the French and Americans but lost a lot more than North America. It seems to me you don't realize what it is your predecessors gave in to in 'reasonable compromises", leaving you little of what was a great country.

As for Americans who don't think it's worth the effort, a little more reading and digging might give you fresh perspective before things get more out of hand.

There is a move on by those who would control this country to turn this into a plantation and the masses into serfs if not slaves.

To quote that icon of law enforcement, Barney Fife, "We've got to nip it in the bud".