Now Bush is going to look at your porn catalogs....

I'm so glad that George Bush is committed to preserving the freedoms we Americans have, as he often likes to remind us, usually to the point of producing nausea at best, or sometimes violent diarrhea. In keeping with that tradition of reckless freedom-producing, he's produced another one of those signing statements in the latest Postal bill that will give him sweeping new powers to open your mail without a warrant:

The President asserted his new authority when he signed a postal reform bill into law on Dec. 20. Bush then issued a "signing statement" that declared his right to open people's mail under emergency conditions.

That claim is contrary to existing law and contradicted the bill he had just signed, say experts who have reviewed it...

Most of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act deals with mundane reform measures. But it also explicitly reinforced protections of first-class mail from searches without a court's approval.

Yet in his statement Bush said he will "construe" an exception, "which provides for opening of an item of a class of mail otherwise sealed against inspection in a manner consistent ... with the need to conduct searches in exigent circumstances."

Bush cited as examples the need to "protect human life and safety against hazardous materials and the need for physical searches specifically authorized by law for foreign intelligence collection."

Now, I'm sure the conservative nutjobs will once again be okay with this, because, you know, if you've got nothing to hide, why would you care, right?. But then again, since many of these people tend to be some of the most sexually repressed members of our society, aren't they a little concerned about what the Prez might find in their mailbox?