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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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To: mvpel
"any other act of gross lewdness"

Like some filthy skank exposing herself to children.

From the police report:

I explained to her that the police department had received multiple complaints from citizens about her attire, or lack thereof. I asked her if she would be willing to put on a shirt. She answered, "absolutely not." I asked her why she was refusing. She explained that she felt the law was discriminating against her. She stated that men are allowed to walk downthe street without a shirt on. She felt that she should be allowed to do the same.

I asked her if she felt she had any responsibility for the multiple children she had exposed herself to during her walk down Main St. She told me it wasn't her responsibility to educate or to change their social inabilities.

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

No cite, naturally. I call your bluff.

It's illegal to do it because it demonstrates contempt for one's neighbors

Strawman. It's illegal because a law has been enacted against it, for whatever reasons drove its passage.

"The voluntary support of laws, formed by persons of their own choice, distinguishes peculiarly the minds capable of self-government. The contrary spirit is anarchy, which of necessity produces despotism." --Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson had that ilk pegged long ago.

39 posted on 08/25/2010 8:57:56 AM PDT by Mojave (Ignorant and stoned - Obama's natural constituency.)
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