Do Not Call list may get loophole

Waterbury Republican-American ^ | November 27, 2004 | AP Wire

[steve-b]

You will answer the point raised by discontu, or we will recognize you as a troll:

We tried solving this problem with the free market, but the telemarketers just wouldn't listen. We tried getting unlisted phone numbers - They started sequential dialing We tried getting caller ID - They found a way to spoof the ID boxes We tried getting call blocking - The found a way to spoof THAT

[sheltonmac]

Again, I am simply insisting that the government do its job

Again, no you're not. The federal government has no jurisdiction in this matter -- unless, of course, you buy into the socialist interpretation of the "interstate commerce" clause.

[sheltonmac]

You will answer the point raised by discontu, or we will recognize you as a troll

Actually, he did. And why would you consider a four-year member of FR, who has a distinguished record of defending traditional conservatism, a troll?

[steve-b]

No, he did not answer the point (which is that telemarketers wilfully and repeatedly broke down the various fences and NO TRESPASSING signs that people erected against them, until they were quite properly restrained by the government using its police power to enforce the private property rights of their victims).

This is trollery. I don't care if the troll has been on FR since the time of the Big Bang.

[steve-b]

Nonsense. If it makes you feel better, I'd allow the state government rather than the federal government to assume the responsibility of punishing in-state telemarketers who call my DNC-listed number (though, in fact, there aren't any -- the boiler-room operations are much cheaper to run in the Midwest/Plains, so they've all migrated there).