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To: mvpel
Who really formed those laws?

The voters through their elected representatives.

I don't remember voting on militarized police waging a full-scale war on American citizens

Full scale war? Hysterical hyperbole.

It's not illegal in New Hampshire for a woman to go topless

New Hampshire Title LXII, Chapter 645:1 prohibits “Indecent Exposure and Lewdness.”

How does having an open can of beer, rather than an open can of Coca-Cola, demonstrate contempt for one's neighbors?

It violates the law.

And how does smoking a cigarette in public demonstrate contempt for one's neighbors?

Do you mean a joint?

37 posted on 08/25/2010 7:41:33 AM PDT by Mojave (Ignorant and stoned - Obama's natural constituency.)
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To: Mojave
New Hampshire Title LXII, Chapter 645:1 prohibits “Indecent Exposure and Lewdness.”

Chapter titles have no legal force or effect.

What is actually prohibited by 645:1 is "fornication," "exposing genitals," or "any other act of gross lewdness," performed "under circumstances which he or she should know will likely cause affront or alarm."

A person who is simply not wearing a shirt does not rise to the level of "gross lewdness," the courts have determined.

How does having an open can of beer, rather than an open can of Coca-Cola, demonstrate contempt for one's neighbors?

It violates the law.

It's illegal to do it because it demonstrates contempt for one's neighbors, and doing it demonstrates contempt for one's neighbors because it's illegal. Am I correctly following you around the spinney, here?

38 posted on 08/25/2010 8:46:53 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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