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I believe in free speech, I believe in the first amendment, I support free speech on the Internet. I believe in a persons right to try and persuade the rest of us that he has something important to say and I'm willing to provide a multitude of ways for him to say it. I also believe in a right to privacy. If I don't want someone to call me on the telephone. I should have that right. If I don't want someone to come to my door trying to sell me something my privacy should be respected. So why does corporate America think it is some god damn right of free speech to call me on the phone and try and sell me something, and that I'm somehow un-American if I don't want to listen to their fucking pitch. And why do the religion's of the world think they have some right to ring my door bell and try to sell me salvation, and why won't the assholes take no for an answer. I tell them to fuck off and they're back a year or two later thinking I may have changed my mind. Listen I'll call you don't call me. And those spineless congressman, and state legislators who don't think it would be a good idea to pass a law to control that behavior. What the hell are they thinking? They say we wouldn't want to restrict one neighbors right to visit another. Well let me make this perfectly clear they are not my fucking neighbors. I know my neighbors and they know me. I tell corporate America not to call me they call me anyway. I post a notice at my place of business and home saying no solicitation and they come anyway. They claim they are not soliciting (1) verb [present participle of solicit][to seek (as advertising, orders, or votes) especially on a large scale] Synonyms: canvassing, drumming, drumming up Near Synonyms: ask, request, beg, beseech, implore, claim, demand, exact 2) verb [present participle of solicit][to seek to obtain by making one's needs or desires known] Synonyms: asking, bespeaking, desiring, requesting Near Synonyms: claim, demand, exact, require, beg, beseech, entreat, implore, importune 3)verb [present participle of solicit][to ask for something as or as if one's right or due] Synonyms: demanding, calling, challenging, claiming, exacting, postulating, requiring, requisitioning Near Synonyms: ask, request, bid, charge, command, direct, enjoin, order, cite, summon, summons, coerce, compel, constrain, force, oblige, necessitate" What the fuck don't they understand. Free speech has its limits. You can't yell fire in a crowded theater and you can't call me on the phone and try to sell me a gas guzzling SUV and you can't come to my front door preaching your fucking religion.</rant>