Liability
Locked Account.
from the article.....
The automated calls are illegal because they do not state who they are from (there is no known group called The Women of the 99 Percent) or provide a callback number, as required under the US Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991.
I looked at a version of that law: http://transition.fcc.gov/cgb/policy/TCPA-Rules.pdf
It does NOT appear to make the conduct illegal.
It does appear to make it unlawful.
The distinction is one of criminal law versus civil law.
Violators can be sued. It does not appear to me (at least on first reading it) that the law contemplates criminal prosecution.
Yet for exercising his free speech, Rush is now (if dip shits Gloria Allred were to get her way) supposed to get arrested. Gloria Allred seeks Rush Limbaugh prosecution - MJ Lee - POLITICO.com
Yep. She's fucked up.
The left is pretty whacked out. (No. Not all on the left. But the reaction to this Rush incident is way out of whack and the reaction does come from some -- maybe even many -- on the left.)