This is something out of the gulags.
We are being watched for Crimes Might Commit. If it wasn't illegal yesterday, it could be illegal today or tomorrow just at the whim of some mean bureaucrat who is writing Byzantine regulations designed to keep his fat job funded and his eunuch's rice bowl full. m/r
U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement - NYTimes.com
By RON NIXON Published: July 3, 2013
WASHINGTON — Leslie James Pickering noticed something odd in his mail last September: A handwritten card, apparently delivered by mistake, with instructions for postal workers to pay special attention to the letters and packages sent to his home.
“Show all mail to supv” — supervisor — “for copying prior to going out on the street,” read the card. It included Mr. Pickering’s name, address and the type of mail that needed to be monitored. The word “confidential” was highlighted in green.
“It was a bit of a shock to see it,” said Mr. Pickering, who owns a small bookstore in Buffalo. More than a decade ago, he was a spokesman for the Earth Liberation Front, a radical environmental group labeled eco-terrorists by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Postal officials subsequently confirmed they were indeed tracking Mr. Pickering’s mail but told him nothing else.
As the world focuses on the high-tech spying of the National Security Agency, the misplaced card offers a rare glimpse inside the seemingly low-tech but prevalent snooping of the United States Postal Service.
-go to link, unfortunately this from the NY Times, so the only heroes on radicals on the left-
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