On (28 Dec 96) Bill Newman wrote to Bud Jamison...
 BN> On (28 Dec 96) Bud Jamison wrote to RICHARD MURPHEY...
RM>         Are you aware that if you have equipment that was legally bought
RM>         prior to any law regarding the listening to cellphone or
RM>         cordless, only applies to what you do with what you hear and not
RM>         your accidental hearing? Yeppers, that's the story. Lots of us
 BJ> Listen up!!
 BJ> You are WRONG. There is NO provision in the law that states ANY such
 BJ> thing. Do whatever YOU want for yourself, but DON'T lie to others and
 BJ> get them in trouble!!
 BN> The big question I have for you is WHO is going to inforce this
 BN> law. The local police know nothing about it and I was told by one
 BN> officer that even if he did he would not enforce it as how could
 BN> he prove that it was going on without getting a court order. Then
 BN> what judge would give him the court order without haveing strong
 BN> evidence that the illegal activity going on.
 BN> This is another fine example of a law that can't be enforced.
This may very well be a fine example of a law that can't be
enforced, but that isn't the point. The point is, it IS against the
law to monitor cordless and cell phones, and the law should be
obeyed.
What is sad, is that there even needs to be such a law.  If people
used common sense and had a shred of decency, there wouldn't be a
need for such a law.  I don't doubt that anyone in this echo
wouldn't get up and raise hell if they were at a restaurant, and I
walked up and started listening to their conversation.  It wouldn't
matter at all to them that I felt I had every right to listen to
them since they were putting out an audio signal (their voice) that
I could easily intercept.  Now let's go a step further and say you
are seated near a door and I am caught listening, to every word you
say, with my ear to the door.  You and everyone else would scream
even louder.  How is that different from a cordless phone.  The only
difference is the distance is greater and I can listen without being
seen, with little risk of being caught.
At one time, I used to listen to cordless and cell phones.  I don't
any more, because I realized the only calls I liked to listen to
were the boyfriend-girlfriend fights, the discussions of sexual
conquests, other luvy duvy affairs, gossip, and basically anything
that would be embarrassing to the parties involved.  Let's face it,
not much else would be of interest.  I don't care about Aunt Maudes
bean salad recipe, or how the neighbors two year old is close to
being potty trained, or that someone's dinner is going to be late.
The only interesting stuff is the juicy stuff, which is exactly the
stuff we have no business listening to.
I see several the people screaming about Constitutional rights.
The fact that we have Constitutional rights is WHY we are even
allowed to have and use a scanner. My understanding is that many
countries don't allow scanners to be used by the general public.
Martin
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