81-year-old retired professor has his mail opened by Homeland Security

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Homeland Security opening private mail
Retired professor confused, angered when letter from abroad is opened

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

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.”

[FloridaPat]

1. There was a young man from the Philippines who worked as a

waiter here in Florida. They pulled his work permit because he was Muslim and sent him home. They have something against those people, but I don't know why.

[Canuckistanian]

2. Interesting picture

"This man doesn't have a penis"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. I wondered how long it would be before someone translated that...

:evilgrin:

:toast:

[nofoil]

3. 81 adds up to EVIL

81 years old? Hmmm... Well it all adds up. You see, a fellow of his age has lived through the times of Mao, the Holocaust, Stalin, Elvis (and his pelvis), the birth of women's movement (which St. Rush has told us is quite evil), and a handful of rather large wars, so of COURSE he would be a threat to national security. He might just be the guy responsible for all of the above. It's a good thing the NSA found him. Now all our nation's patriotic and blond children may sleep soundly as their parents bask in the greatness of our halloWed and sagely leaders, who care only for the very best for this great and mighty land.