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Originally Posted by Pturner
Public roadways, yes, I get that. As for door-to-door, I wouldn't chase 'em off with a shotgun either. I'd just mention the "no soliciting" policy and ask them to leave.
Sure someday, a salesman (religious, political or otherwise) might challenge the policy. I don't live in fear of that day. Where I live now, my only defense against door-to-door solicitors is to ask them to leave. If that's my only defense in TV, c'est la vie. Much ado about not much.
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I agree with you and my vision was a little foggy when I mixed public roads and private houses.
My whole point, I think, is to remind Villages residents that they shouldn't be lulled into a false sense that they are somehow shielded from the outside world. Also that community watch has more power or authority than it really has.
I had a community watch supervisor tell me one night, "our main job is to help find Alzheimer patients when they wander off." I realize that it was an over simplification, but it telegraphs their thinking.
I have always been one to take up causes. When I ran for public office, I challenged the towns political sign ordinance, claiming it was unconstitutional. The town pleaded with me not to pursue it because they knew it was unconstitutional and said, "we don't have the money to fight it and we know that we'd lose."
I just hate rules that are visited on us when there is no way to enforce them, or justification for them in the first place.
JLK