here is something to consider, if only briefly...
If mail is personal property, legally, and that personal property can be seized and searched w/out warrant...then what about your car..or your house, or your garage or your business, or your anything.
This is where the 'slippery slope' argument ends up. This sets a very bad precedent, but then again, it's also one that has been going on for quite some time.
and honestly, i am for a common sense approach to the things (wiretaps, opening mail, etc) that are "illegal" from the bush admin, the only problem is that ANY government fails horribly when it comes to common sense.
and you're right, cyn, very little in your day to day life has changed, as has very little in most americans' day to day lives, but i have to feel for the few that have been unfairly damaged, injured, shuffled about, imprisoned, spied upon, tapped, kept under tabs, etc, mainly bc i don't buy the "You would only be afraid of it if you had something to hide" ideology.
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Chris
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