Canceling Civil Liberties
February, 1989
The Postal Service's meddling in mail--instead of merely delivering it--is by no means a recent phenomenon. The entrapment schemes described in "The Child-Pornography Myth," by Lawrence A. Stanley, and "Operation Borderline," by Frank Kuznik (The Playboy Forum, September), are simply its latest Gestapo ploys. For from its earliest days, behind that cheery façade of indolence and insolence, postal officials have been doing one thing efficiently: canceling civil liberties. The...