On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:21:52 -0800, Bob Blakely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can anyone doing anything in public and on public property be considered > to have any expectation of any kind of privacy extending yards or even feet > from their person? Would this also extend to an oil artist painting the... > ah... scene? > > Why do people think they can do as they please in public and forbid others > from doing as others please in public? Doesn't anyone accept responsibility > for what they do down there? Don't folks understand that to preserve their > own liberties, they must be tolerant of others liberties lest they be > subject to restrictions of their own liberty in the future? >
I must admit, I've always thought it rather ironic for one to say: "I assert my right to be naked in a public place, BUT YOU BETTER NOT LOOK AT ME WHILE I'M DOING IT!!" Sigh... BTW, Rob, I think the problem down there was started by that guy who was on this list for a couple of months back at the beginning of this year - what was his name? I think you may have met up with him at a PDML thang down there. He seemed to like the, er, sereptitious photography of sunbathers, IIRC... <vbg> cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
