Posted on 11/07/2006 5:00:57 PM PST by SandRat
They wrote the law.
exactly
because they usually exempt themselves from the laws peons must observe.
BECAUSE THEY ALL KNOW WHAT IS BEST FOR US, AND IT IS THEM OF COURSE! OUR BENEVOLENT POTTERS OF MEN.
duh
(paging Captain Obvious)
disgusting isn't it?
The law was arguably anti-First Amendment.
Restricting political contact would unquestionably violate the First Amendment.
Though that didn't stop so-called CFR.
It's the irritant of freedom and a representative democracy. Just be glad they call at all.
It's political speech -- which is Constitutionally protected. The Do Not Call list generally applies to commercial speech -- calls for profit -- which may be regulated by Congress.
Register as an independent and you dont get the calls.
The parties have access to your registration information and can easily figure out your phone number.
Well, that, and political speech is protected under the 1st Amendment a whole lot more then commercial speech, which is the way it should be.
Of course, the Constitution itself makes no such distinction between "political" and "commercial speech. I believe that to be an invention of the courts. (I cannot remember: Is it a penumbra or an emanation?)
Heh.
I get this every time I do a phone bank. "How did you get my number?"
Uh, you gave it to me when you filled out your voter application.
"Take me off of your list"
Uh, lady, only YOU can do that. File a new app. and leave out the phone number this time...
What we need is a huge ad campaign telling people that if they are "Undecided", they are obviously too uneducated to exercise the franchise. The canard, "it doesn't matter who [sic] you vote for, just vote!" should become, "Hey, you're stupid. Stay home and don't screw up the country."
It was Sullivan vs NY Times (I made an A on that paper in MBA school business law class).
While the media likes to spin this as the politicians just exempting themselves, the truth is that many, many other types of calls are permitted under do not call:
Chairtable (i.e, Volunteers of America)
Educational (if you have a kid in high school, you know what I mean)
Social (the Jaycees or the Elks can open up the phone book and dial for members)
Religious (thankfully, this has not caught on in a widespread fashion)
Military (if your kid has just graduated high school... or worse. The Navy still calls for me at my mother's house, and I haven't lived there since the first Bush Administration)
To name just a few exceptions.
No way to disconnect. We have to make complaint to our public utilities boards to make sure this stops.
Get an answering machine and caller ID.
I got a call from Rev. Jesse Jackson himself, just 30 minutes before the polls closed here.
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