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To: Paleo Conservative
Why is my telephone any different from any of my other property. Do telemarketers have a right to trespass on my property just because the address is published.

The spectrum above your house is being "trespassed" by my headlights when I drive by. The air is being "trespassed" by my sound waves when I call from the sidewalk. Those media can indeed be regulated to some extent (e.g. the FCC can prevent unwanted radio waves from reaching your house). But you have signed up for a service which allows ANY electrons to enter your house over a wire. If you don't like that service, then get a different one, for example, a cell phone.

66 posted on 09/27/2003 8:39:08 AM PDT by palmer
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To: palmer
The spectrum above your house is being "trespassed" by my headlights when I drive by. ....

I can neither sense nor am I harmed by stray electromagnetic radiation that enters my property. When a telemarketer calls my house the electromagnetic signals are converted in to sound waves which I can perceive and tell me that I have a telephone call. The telemarketer is stealing the most valuable thing anyone has which is time. I would also argue that if you parked your car facing my house and shined your bright lights into my house you would in fact be a nuisance. Considering running lights on cars are necessary at night and most streets are public property, most home owners design the front of their homes to minimize the effects of stray light from passing cars at night. If some decided to race down a residential street at 3 am with no muffer, I think that person would be violating the private property of the home owners on the street.

81 posted on 09/27/2003 9:01:59 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
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