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To: republicofdavis
I don't need to because I know [a "right to privacy"] exists. Actually, tangibly exists.

You apparently don't know the definition of "tangible." But in case you're right, can you tell me what a "right to privacy" feels like? I always imagined it would be smooth and supple, and slightly moist.

Meanwhile, I do contend a kind of "privacy right" exists: namely, that defined in the fourth amendment. I simply object to folks like you using the word "privacy" to refer to it, because you seem to imagine that it includes things like an inalienable right to bugger your milkman. If you read the fourth amendment quite carefully, you'll realize it doesn't.

164 posted on 10/19/2005 5:33:20 PM PDT by Shalom Israel (How's that answer? Can I be a nominee to SCOTUS? I can give better answers than Ms. Miers...)
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To: Shalom Israel

"You apparently don't know the definition of "tangible.""

Au contraire

tan·gi·ble ( P ) Pronunciation Key (tnj-bl)
adj.

Discernible by the touch; palpable: a tangible roughness of the skin.
Possible to touch.
Possible to be treated as fact; real or concrete: tangible evidence.
Possible to understand or realize: the tangible benefits of the plan.
Law. That can be valued monetarily: tangible property.


Apparently the concept of tangible is not tangible to you.
Anyway, you have me confused ("folks like you") with someone who thinks the right of privacy is defined by the fourth amendment. I don't. It's in the ninth amendment as I said at the beginning, and it mainly encompasses concepts that derive from the British Common Law. I don't know why you keep throwing the fourth at me, and talk about buggering someone. Rights don't prevent you from being subject to criminal laws of general applicability.


312 posted on 10/20/2005 8:40:48 AM PDT by republicofdavis
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