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To: Salman
Douglas M. Montgomery, a plaintiff in the new case filed Thursday, says in the lawsuit he’s been in the Cook County Jail since July 2011 when he was arrested for urinating in public. He’s awaiting trial on a charge of failing to register as a sex offender

Certainly I have no desire to see somebody urinating in public. Yechhh. What I don't understand is why this crime is under the umbrella of sex offender status that will brand this man for the rest of his life. Yet the gays can hold perverted public parades and show and do the most grotesque displays of sexually oriented activities and it's under protection of free expressive rights.

4 posted on 12/09/2012 6:17:01 AM PST by 3catsanadog (No more blaming Bush, Obama-now you inherited the mess you made.)
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To: 3catsanadog

It doesn’t come out and say that crime is the reason he is registered as a sex offender.


5 posted on 12/09/2012 6:19:14 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
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To: 3catsanadog
Yet the gays can hold perverted public parades ...

Perhaps the public urinators have a case here. Seems to me that a point could be made regarding "equal protection".

Or they could simply decry the abuse and harassment of an public artist practicing his craft...

7 posted on 12/09/2012 6:27:40 AM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: 3catsanadog; AppyPappy

No it doesn’t, yet another poorly written article. But the assumption can be made, as a quick google shows that in many places, public urination in fact gets you sex offender status. The reason is public urination categorized as “indecent exposure” rather than what it should be (something along the lines of disorderly conduct).
It is of course ridiculous but it seems that so many laws are not written to actually serve the purpose for which they are ostensibly passed, but to perpetuate a sense that someone somewhere is “doing something” about something that someone somewhere doesn’t like.


8 posted on 12/09/2012 6:32:19 AM PST by visualops (artlife.us)
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