Usenet Newsgroups Re: Banish the Burqa From: smcelroy2@POPaustin.rr.com (MiNe 109) In article <c0fa578e-fc4d-4fa1-a023-d889dcd39b36@n7g2000vbo.googlegroups.com>,  Clyde Slick <Mr.clydeslick@yahoo.com> wrote: On Sep 9, 10:20 pm, MiNe 109   <smcelr...@POPaustin.rr.com> wrote: In article <414450c1-6962-46c8-b793-7a1291da7...@c16g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>,  Clyde Slick <Mr.clydesl...@yahoo.com> wrote: Now, tell me this folks, in the legal sense, why isn't public nudity a protected free speech? This may not answer the question, but a tax on nude dancing paid by the patrons in places that serve alcohol is now before the Texas Supreme Court. Here's the US Supreme Court: ... _dancing Scalia said the law did not implicate the First Amendment but punished unlawful conduct; i.e., public nudity. He determined that the general law targeting public nudity was a generally applicable law that ³is not subject to First Amendment scrutiny at all.² the other 8 talked about the First amendment issue, with some degree of applicability but, it was about dancing in a private business, not walking down the public street and there was a reference to the supposed "evil of public nudity", in some cases it might be ugly, but i can't see how it can be considered evil. One would not be doing anything more evil than if one had clothes on. Here's the case I was looking for originally: Katherine Chronis, a New York multimedia conceptual artist in town for a performance at the Vortex theatre, was arrested Aug. 1 on the Capitol grounds for "indecent exposure." Chronis was naked at the time, having walked up Congress without clothes from the Museum of Art, accompanied Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/link.php on line 13 by video and still photographers documenting her walk as part of an Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/link.php on line 13 ongoing performance piece Chronis has been doing across the country for about a year. She says she documents herself "doing mundane activities Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/link.php on line 13 in public" while naked, and later shows the film and pictures Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/link.php on line 13 demonstrating her interactions with other people. "That night I was Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/link.php on line 13 going to mail a letter," Chronis said. "Having a destination also just Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/link.php on line 13 helps to keep me focused while I walk." On her walks, Chronis Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/link.php on line 13 occasionally stops and performs a headstand -- as she did on the steps Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/link.php on line 13 at 11th Street just in front of the Capitol gates... 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"I have a very thick Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/link.php on line 13 bush," said Chronis, "and I was not displaying my genitals in 'a lewd Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/link.php on line 13 manner.'" As Kinard put it, "That might set her free, because a Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/hobbies/lib/link.php on line 13 36-year-old Eve comes with her own fig leaf." 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