Are you comfortable with the IRS reading your email without a warrant?
Personally, I hate to say this but this April 10, 2013 article from the ACLU is quite concerning. It lead a bit of creditably to the argument not only Occupy could have been targeted by the IRS BUT, also Tea Party groups.
In light of the NSA scandal, at this point it appears President Obama's Administration has too much power and we as the People need to take our privacy seriously, along with demanding our government follows language to-the-letter of Bill of Rights and 4th Amendment. 
"Then came Warshak, decided on December 14, 2010. The key question our FOIA request seeks to answer is whether the IRS’s policy changed after Warshak, which should have put the agency on notice that the Fourth Amendment does in fact protect the contents of emails. The first indication of the IRS’s position, from an email exchange in mid-January 2011, does not bode well. In an email titled “US v. Warshak,” an employee of the IRS Criminal Investigation unit asks two lawyers in the IRS Criminal Tax Division whether Warshak will have any effect on the IRS’s work. A Special Counsel in the Criminal Tax Division replies: “I have not heard anything related to this opinion. We have always taken the position that a warrant is necessary when retrieving e-mails that are less than 180 days old.” But that’s just the ECPA standard. The real question is whether the IRS is obtaining warrants for emails more than 180 days old. Shortly after Warshak, apparently it still was not.
The IRS had an opportunity to officially reconsider its position when it issued edits to the Internal Revenue Manual in March 2011. But its policy stayed the same: the Manual explained that under ECPA, “Investigators can obtain everything in an account except for unopened e-mail or voice mail stored with a provider for 180 days or less using a [relevant-and-material-standard] court order” instead of a warrant. Again, no suggestion that the Fourth Amendment might require more."
Read more here: http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security/new-documents-suggest-irs-reads-emails-without-warrant
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The internet is as public as standing on a street corner and shouting. What's the issue? If you don't want others to read it, then don't write it!
Sometimes I agree with the ACLU and other times I think the ACLU is simply overboard. It may be true that there needs to be control over the government invading privacy and getting a warrant for some things (like listening in on your phone calls), but honestly, in today's world people should assume that phone calls might be recorded or that cameras are rolling in public places. 
Maybe this op is flame bait?
