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Postal Workers vs. Snoop Shrubby Shrub

I know. Jaded readers of Eat the State! are saying to themselves "yeah, yeah, Bush is a jerk, he signs bills and totally lies about what's in them, but what are you gonna do? That's life in America."

But speaking as a postal worker, a radical trade unionist, and an honest-to-goodness revolutionary, I am scared as hell about the future of our democracy and my place in it.

I don't want my co-workers opening people's mail. I don't care how many so-called "terrorists" are running around plotting to blow up football stadiums, taking flying lessons or dating the Bush twins, I refuse to open my fellow citizens' mail! This is wrong.

And let me just take this opportunity to tell my coworkers: If you know that someone has allowed any law enforcement agent to read someone's first class mail, you are violating the law if you don't report it to the highest authorities.

Just because Bush and his lawyers assert they have the right to do something doesn't mean it's true. Opening citizens' mail without a warrant is a crime. And it is punishable by several years in prison. It doesn't matter who authorizes it, it's illegal. It is a violation of the Constitution and the law, and even if you don't go to prison for doing it, you're basically human scum.

I hope that my fellow postal workers will join me in rising up and opposing this insanity. I've set up a website for just that purpose. It's called Postal Workers United Against Tyranny--you can find it at www.postalworkersunited.blogspot.com.

In solidarity,

--Jeff Richardson, via e-mail