[ought-six]

The way to deal with this is to tell the telemarketers that you will boycott the company, organization, or product they are pushing unless and until they stop the harassing phone calls. This is unbelievable. The courts created out of whole cloth a constitutional right to kill one's children on the basis of a previously unknown and non-existent privacy right, but then turn around and say the American people have no privacy rights that can protect them against a harassing intrusion via telephone solicitation. Our courts have become unaccountable, unconstitutional, illegal, and imperial. It's time to bring out the ropes and the torches.

[cookcounty]

What's killing me is all these companies that are starting to call every 48 hours and tell you they're not selling you anything, they just want to give you some answers to some frequently asked questions about mortgages.

[cookcounty]

A new proposed company.

A phone service where the caller has to pay the reicipient for the call. I would pay a lot of money a month for that. Since this phone business is all gov't regulated anyway, how about a reg mandating that phone providers have to go along with this?

"The Party you are calling, at (405) 609-5000, is a subscriber to the "Caller-Pay" system. If you choose to stay on the line, you will be charged a 30 cent connection fee plus 10 cents per minute. If you prefer not to pay the fee, please ask the recipient to cancel the charge "

For the recipient: "If you would like to cancel the charge against the caller, please press "C" then "star" after the call."