....then why don't they require telemarketers to give you THEIR home phone number, so you can exercise your right to call THEM?

Waht I found hilarious was when I read that someone posted the home and office telephone #'s of the judge who made that ruling.

... he he....

Want to bet that he wishes his phone would quit ringing?? Wonder if he is starting to feel like his privacy is a bit invaded?

That's funny! That's payback!

The courts are correct. If you look closely at the constitution, and jumble up all the words and letters, it clearly states that low-life a$$holes have the right to use the telephone to annoy the $hit out of us. THAT is why telemarketing is protected by the constitution. The writers of the constitution had enough foresight to predict the need solicit over the telephone that was invented over 100 years later.

Anyone have that phone number for the judge? I would love to call and harass the heck out of him.

I don't know why this is here unless you're making fun of judges...

They may have the right to speak but I have the right to ignore them. They also don't have the right to use my property (my phone) for their business.

I agree...
They have the right to do business. I have the right to safety, peace and privacy in my home. My right as an individual citizen supersedes their right as a business entity. I would be well within my rights to order a troupe of entertainers hired by a car dealership off my property were they to knock on my door at 1900 hours on a Sunday and launch into the ad spiel given them by the dealershp. Telemarketing is no different. I am just an over-educated trucker; why can I figure this out and some judge cannot?

[ 09-27-2003, 19:35: Message edited by: rootbeer ]

Those people are just trying to make a living and i always talk to em. One wanted to clean three rooms of carpet for only 99.00, but i couldn't help them and told them i don't have any carpet but i'm hoping to get some new linoleum the first of the month when my check somes in.

The credit card people was wanting to extend me a line of credit and i was kind of disappointed in them. They had my hopes up big time. They was going to let me have 5,000 and no interest for three months. I told them it was the answer to prayer because everything had been going from bad to worse for me. My food stamps had just run out and the rent was three months overdue and my husband is in jail and my dog had just died. I wasn't finished yet and i was just feeling good to be able to have someone listen and care about my problems when they hung up on ME.

Then that young fella called wanting to sell me some cemetery lots. That stuff kind of bores me and so i asked him what he was wearing. Then he asked me what i was wearing and i told him i had on an old sweat suit and some hunting boots and he hung up, too. I can't keep them on the line.

Plinker603

Plinker603,

When I answer the phone and find one of them telemarkers on the other end I engage the Fax portion of my phone and they generally don't call back! derf

Plinker603:
You are precious! Reminds me of an ol' boy back in Louisiana that was always telling folks, "Don't go stomping mud on my dirt floors!"
And he meant it too!

If anyone wants to check him out, the judge is named Edward Nottingham and he lives in Denver, CO. If you were to do a search on anywho.com you can find a phone number listed for a federal judge. I won't post it up but it is there.

Actually, things could get much worse than this "simple" decision indicates.

After all, entering your number on the "don't call" list is simply blocking their access to you.

Which you could do with a caller ID system, paid for in excess of your normal phone bill, and an answering machine, if the local telco doesn't offer similiar services, both at extra cost, of course.

Thus, it may be illegal to do caller ID, since you can then screen your calls, thus avoiding their pitch.

Don't you just love PC reasoning?

Can't you just see the phone police SWAT squad breaking their way in?

"You're under arrest for failing to answer at least a hundred telemarketing/poll/political/charity calls, and so must be in posession of an illegal phone screening device!"

Next question:

How long does it take them to make the law that legally forces you to listen?

INResponse

Unfortunately you used the correct word . . .
If we call the judge at home or his office suddenly it will NOT be free speech, but rather harassment of a JUDGE . . . a dumb-ass judge, but a judge nonetheless.

LouisB

Just an opinion of course!

The Charleston Gazzette is one bunch that calls me regularly, wanting me to subscribe. I had been telling them I don't need to subscribe, because somebody brings the paper to work, and everyone there reads it for free. Finally, one guy caught on and asked "but you don't work on Sundays do you?" I told him sincerely that was a nice try, but I still didn't want to subscribe.

Any more, I just say "hello" a couple of times and pretend I'm telling my wife "I don't know who's calling, I can't hear anything". People who know me don't ask for me by my last name, ask how I am doing today, or ask for the man of the house.

H. C.

In my local paper today, it was noted that Judge Nottigham's name was ON THE DO NOT CALL LIST. Bloody hypocrite!
Paul B.

Is this going to be appealed?

FTC definitely plans to appeal, and are asking for a stay of the order taking effect until the appeal is completed. Let us hope that reason prevails.