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Originally Posted by Neil
Maybe now they are in power and get to know what is really going on with MI5 they are worried about what harm not having this power could do to the country.
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I don't recall the stats but I recall that the Police have used Anti-terrorism laws on many occasions and not turned up any evidence - the issue is, they use them when they don't need to. So they can stop people under the excuse of terrorism and they do - this is fact! They can stop and search anybody under the excuse of terrorism and many people using camera's have been stopped and searched under this pretence!
"Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, said the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats had resisted greater surveillance powers when in opposition. "This is more ambitious than anything that has been done before," she told Sky News's Dermot Murnaghan. "The Coalition bound itself together in the language of civil liberties. Do they still mean it?"
SECURITY THEN AND NOW
June 2009: "Today we are in danger of living in a control state. Every month over 1,000 surveillance operations are carried out. The tentacles of the state can even rifle through your bins for juicy information." David Cameron
April 2012: "It is vital that police and security services are able to obtain communications data in certain circumstances to investigate serious crime and terrorism and to protect the public." Home Office spokesman"
For all we know an e-mail just mentioning the word Terrorism (regardless of context) may lead to the senders activities being monitored!