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To: AndyJackson
Can the state make it a felony for me to perform jumping jack's naked in my bedroom with the blinds sufficiently closed that other than your long nose prying them open no one would see?

It's like shooting fish in a barrel. The answer is yes: in some states at least you can be arrested for indecent exposure performed inside your house, if it is clearly visible from a public place.

Absent a constitutional right of privacy nothing stops the state from doing that.

The state already did that, friend. Are you claiming it didn't happen, or that the such laws should be deemed unconstitutional? Or that the SC would overturn them? And out of curiosity, where did you get the idea that sitting in your window naked was a part of your "right to privacy"?

170 posted on 10/19/2005 5:37:52 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 are not paying attention to the facts. I already said so that it is not visible to the outside.

But if you want to insist that true conservatives will recognise that the state has such powers, then I, and I suspect a lot of folks around here, would, were this to be true, take our idealistic dreasm of limited government elsewhere.

175 posted on 10/19/2005 5:43:27 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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