Re: "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail"

Perry E. Metzger writes:

I am a funny sort of person. I don't believe that governments should be able to do anything that individuals cannot. If it is bad for me to steal, it is also bad for a government official to steal. If it is bad for me to listen in on my neighbor's phone calls, it is bad for the government, too.

I do not see anything funny, but you are at odds with the Constitution, where the people have granted the government certain rights that they have not granted to themselves. But it seems we may be making progress at getting those rights ourselves.