I think the best way to get rid of a horrible law like this is indeed to enforce against the people who wrote it. Enforce equitably, and enforce equally: the same misery everyone else already knows. If ministers worry about their private communications being read by strangers—if that makes them feel fearful, paranoid, violated—then let them feel fearful, paranoid, violated, just like the hundreds of millions of other people they would enforce those feelings on.<p><i>"Laws are to govern all alike — those opposed as well as those who favor them. I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution."</i> –Ulysses S. Grant (1869)—often misquoted and misattributed to Lincoln,<p><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant#First_Inaugural_Address_(1869)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant#First_Inaugur...</a><p><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#Misattributed" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#Misattributed</a>