Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 15:59:56 GMT From: Doug Fields Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Telephone Advertising Consumer Rights Act Message-ID: Organization: The Admiral's Unix System & The Grid BBS Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 469, Message 1 of 15 Lines: 33 In article Scott Horne writes: > I'm not a lawyer, either, but I think you've been misinformed. First, > the First Amendment doesn't give anyone else the right to speak about > anything on your property. Second, the First Amendment (_q.v._) > doesn't differentiate between political speech and other speech, > anyway; hence, either "NO SOLICITING" signs apply to all solicitations > or they apply to none. Third, "the First Amendment right of the > solicitor to engage in political speech" guarantees only that the > government can't prevent political speech; it says nothing about the > rights of others to keep you from annoying them on their property. I thought the first amendment gave you the right to say anything to anyone anywhere. While you may be welcome on someone's private property, the "No soliciting" sign might imply if you say something then you are automatically unwelcome, turning you from a welcome guest to an unwanted tresspasser. Thus, you can still say what you want, but you have another problem: you are tresspassing, and there are certain rights property owners have over tresspassers. Remember -- "the pursuit of happiness" was "the pursuit of property" ... indicating (to me, IMHO) that owning your own piece of property is a place where you can have your own private happiness -- and you can't have that if someone is annoying you. Doug Fields -- 100 Midwood Road, Greenwich, CT 06830 --- (FAX) +1 203 661 2996 uucp: uunet!areyes!admiral!doug ------- Thank you areyes/mail and wizkid/news! Internet: fields-doug@cs.yale.edu --------------- (Voice@Home) +1 203 661 2967 BBS: (HST/V32) +1 203 661 1279; (MNP6) -2967; (PEP/V32) -2873; (V32/V42) -0450