Homeland Security now opening private mail

[jerryster]

WASHINGTON - In the 50 years that Grant Goodman has known and corresponded with a colleague in the Philippines he never had any reason to suspect that their friendship was anything but spectacularly ordinary.

But now he believes that the relationship has somehow sparked the interest of the Department of Homeland Security and led the agency to place him under surveillance.

Last month Goodman, an 81-year-old retired University of Kansas history professor, received a letter from his friend in the Philippines that had been opened and resealed with a strip of dark green tape bearing the words “by Border Protection” and carrying the official Homeland Security seal.

I had no idea (Homeland Security) would open personal letters,” Goodman told MSNBC.com in a phone interview. “That’s why I alerted the media. I thought it should be known publicly that this is going on,” he said. Goodman originally showed the letter to his own local newspaper, the Kansas-based Lawrence Journal-World.

“I was shocked and there was a certain degree of disbelief in the beginning,” Goodman said when he noticed the letter had been tampered with, adding that he felt his privacy had been invaded. “I think I must be under some kind of surveillance.”


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10740935/

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

1. Partiot Act = License for treason

nm

[jerryster]

2. Agreed n/t

[NoLongerRepresented]

3. It IS treason

It also handed those who attacked us their victory. All they have to do is ring our bell every few years and watch US rupture.

[CatholicEdHead]

4. More Gestapo-type tactics

We keep sliding down this slippery slope.

[NoLongerRepresented]

5. Slippery, yes, but it is more like a cliff than a slope don't you think

Our Constitution is the rules that "We the people" gave to our government. When they don't follow the rules, then that government is illegitimate. It then rules by force, not by consent. I think we have arrived at that point. There may still be time to get control back, but that time is getting short.