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- From: bigham@cac.washington.edu (Chuck Bigham)
- Subject: Re: Caller ID is a ripoff!
- Message-ID: <bigham.725056062@booster>
- Keywords: Caller ID Telephone
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- Organization: University of Washington
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:27:42 GMT
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- >Writes kucloak@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bryan Kennedy Reed), in response
- >to a complaint about Caller ID posted by chelf@lunatix.uucp (Chad
- >Helfe
- >nberger):
-
- >> Just which amendment is being violated? I assume you are saying
- >> it is a violation of the right to privacy which is a penubra right
- >> derived from the first and fouth amendments. Just where does this
- >> violation occur? The constitution does not give someone the right
- >> to be stupid.
-
- Tirade mode on:
-
- You know, every time I hear someone say "where does the Constitution
- say you have that right" I wonder what's going to become of this
- country.
-
- I don't have to look to a piece of paper to find out what rights I
- have, you see, I have *inalienable* rights. I have rights because
- I'm human. The Constitution doesn't give me rights, it merely
- delineates certain extremely important rights. The Constitution is
- the government's license from the people to govern. It spells out
- exactly what the government is allowed to do. And as it says in
- the Tenth Ammendment "The powers not delegated to the United States
- by the Constitution...are reserved to the States, or to the people."
-
- In small words: I don't have to prove I've got a right, you have to
- prove I don't.
-
- In small words: If the Constitution doesn't say the government can do
- it, it can't.
-
- In small words: If we the people did not give a power to the government
- in the Constitution, the government can't do it.
-
- So, the proper question to ask yourself when it comes to rights people
- claim that are not specifically spelled out in the Constitution is not
- "Where does the Constitution say that" but instead "Where does the
- government get off telling me I don't have that right".
-
- Tirade mode off
-
- Thank you.
-
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