LAWFUL TO VIDEOTAPE WOMEN'S PANTIES

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[hoosierskypilot]

Maybe it's time to dismantle our judicial system. Ivory tower lawyers who have spent a total of 12 minutes in the real world do not know what's best for us, including the judges in San Francisco who outlawed the reference to God in the Pledge of Allegiance.

[ozzymandus]

A good solution to this problem would be to make it legal to beat the snot out of any pervert caught sticking a camera up a woman's skirt. I would think child molestation charges could be filed against anyone photographing a child's underwear.

[martin_fierro]

Creeps.

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[Huck]

reasonable expectation of privacy

There's that damned phrase again. It's a totally circular argument.

[Jack Black]

That's what I call skirting the intention of the law. :-)

[alnick]

They're right in that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in public, but they fail to understand the obvious: Up a skirt is not a public place.

[RAT Patrol]

I think the underside of a woman's skirt is in and of itself a private place where a "reasonable expectation of privacy" exists--or existed back when the courts were sane.

This is freedom minus reason, wisdom, morality and justice. We might as well replace judges with computers because the ability to reason is no longer necessary in deciding cases like this. So-called "freedom" is only free for the perverted. If women don't want to be abused like this then they must not wear dresses or skirts. That's freedom for the pervert and not for the woman. Stupid.

[DoughtyOne]

It is astounding the lengths to which our judicial system will bend over backwards to protect the pervert. Sure the woman was in public, but she was not flashing her crotch to the public. This individual had to use "special means" to reveal her private parts. This the judges totally ignored.

IMO these judges should be removed.

What constitutional right of the perp would have been violated by the recognition of what he did was wrong? In short, NONE.

The woman has a right to expect norms of privacy to be respected. The perp had no right to do what he did. Where's the beef?

There are not-all-that-infrequent examples that our judicial system seems to be waining.

[WindMinstrel]

what's the big deal? The lawmakers haven't passed a law to make that illegal. They should do so quickly, so more people don't do so.

You'd prefer activist judges to make up laws on the fly?

[hoosierskypilot]

LOL!

[RAT Patrol]

You beat me to it but EXACTLY! Duh! It's scary that they missed something so obvious.

[WindMinstrel]

but they fail to understand the obvious: Up a skirt is not a public place.

Sounds like they might have met my ex-wife

[Billthedrill]

Well, it's always been legal to videotape women's panties, but not, customarily, while the owner is occupying them...

"I think it's saying to all the college boys, high school kids and random perverts, 'Hey, it's OK,' " Jang said.

I object to being lumped together with college boys and high school kids!

[breakem]

While the judges did skirt the issue, they seemed to hem and haw incamera without looking up some basic rights to privacy which they kneeded to do instead of going out on a limb and revealing something about themselves to us which is best left to the imagination.

[RAT Patrol]

ROTFL!

[HardStarboard]

This ruling from our esteemed Supereme Court, second only to the FLSC in its leftness, was designed to attract more liberals to the State.

Now in addition to every other kind of pinko, snot-nosed, non-working, liberally tatooed, purple hair freeks, we will have most of the "camera on the end of a stick" freekos moving to the upper-left-corner of the country.

Some will applaud the trend - they all vote for our high-tax, accomplish-squat government.

Will someone suggest the most conservative State in the Union; I gotta get outa here!!

[Illbay]

When we go so far out on a limb to protect as "free speech" every reprehensible and nauseating subject rendered as a graphic or visual object, of course this is the inevitable result.

[capt. norm]

These pervs will be forever cured if they ever happen to try that with my mother-in-law.

There are a variety of ways you can take that including one that resembles the mythical "Medusa", and they are all correct.

[Cicero]

"Judge Bobbe Bridge wrote"

Refresh my mind, anyone. I saw her name here recently in some other connection. Could it have been one of Bush's judicial nominees? I sure hope not.