This is strange: 1) Some of the most extreme neocons have openly expressed their fear that "the liberals and Communist underground movement" are quite successfully conspiring to turn the USA into a State with a semi-Communist regime. (That is what they think - I don't agree.) 2) The same people want to change the laws so that the State be able to increase its control of the citizens. On one hand, these people are very suspicious towards the State, and fear that there is a great risk that it might end up in the hands of some really nasty forces. On the other hand, these people seem to be naively certain that the State will remain in the hands of good and reliable people who will never misuse laws which gives them detailed control over the citizens. I'd like to ask everyone who defends the new proposal that the State shall have the right to open mail: Maybe you trust the present Authorities and think that they will never abuse this possibility. But do you now trust all Authorities in the future? Can you tell your children that "any Authority in the future will be good and worthy of your full confidence"? Because, as you know, a new law will be used not only by those who issue the law, but by all the following authorities.