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Node
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posted November 03, 2009 10:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Node     Edit/Delete Message
I frankly didn't know which folder to start this in.

A news story that relates our state of being [society] and for me, relates astrologically.. [Pluto in Capricorn] The incident [and media involvement] covers allot of internal issues projected. imo


The Story:

The Right To Remain Naked?
..Just how funny was that story of the man in Fairfax County, Va., who got up early on Monday morning, Oct. 19, walked naked into his own kitchen to make himself a cup of coffee? The next significant thing that happed to 29-year-old Eric Williamson is the local cops arriving to charge him with indecent exposure. It turns out that while he was brewing the coffee, a mother was taking her 7-year-old son along a path beside Williamson's house, spied the naked Williamson and called the local precinct, or more likely her husband, who turns out to be a cop.

"Yes, I wasn't wearing any clothes," Williamson said later, "but I was alone, in my own home and just got out of bed. It was dark and I had no idea anyone was outside looking in at me."

The story ended up on TV, starting with Fox, and in the opening rounds, the newscasters and network blogs had merciless sport with the Fairfax police for their absurd behavior. Hasn't a man the right to walk around his own home (or in this case, rented accommodations) dressed according to his fancy? Answer, obvious to anyone familiar with relevant case law, absolutely not.

Peeved by public ridicule, the Fairfax cops turned up the heat. The cop's wife started to maintain that first she saw Williamson by a glass kitchen door, then through the kitchen window. Mary Ann Jennings, a Fairfax County Police spokesperson, stirred the pot of innuendo: "We've heard there may have been other people who had a similar incident." The cops are asking anyone who may have seen an unclothed Williamson through his windows to come forward, even if it was at a different time. They've also been papering the neighborhood with fliers, asking for reports on any other questionable activities by anyone resembling Williamson — a white guy who's a former diver, and who has a 5-year-old daughter, not living with him.

I'd say that if the cops keep it up, and some prosecutor scents opportunity, Williamson will be pretty lucky if they don't throw some cobbled-up indictment at him. Toss in a jailhouse snitch making his own plea deal, a faked police lineup, maybe an artist's impression of the Fairfax Flasher, and Williamson could end up losing his visitation rights and, worst comes to worst, getting 10 years plus posted for life on some sex offender site. You think we're living in the 21st century, in the clinical fantasy world of "CSI"? Wrong. So far as forensic evidence is concerned, we remain planted in the 17th century with trial by ordeal such as when they killed women as witches if they floated when thrown into a pond.
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read more at: http://www.creators.com/opinion/alexander-cockburn/the-right-to-remain-naked.html
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Yin
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posted November 03, 2009 10:30 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Yin     Edit/Delete Message
Boooooooooooooo!

You can't walk around naked in your own house??????

This article infuriated me!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

As far as I'm concerned people shouldn't have to wear clothes at all. Yes, that's right. Clothes are stupid.

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ghanima81
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posted November 03, 2009 10:50 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ghanima81     Edit/Delete Message

Yin,

Agreed. Clothes are stupid. Too bad I live in New England, brrr without clothes.

What happened to that guy is total bs if you ask me.

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katatonic
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posted November 03, 2009 11:35 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for katatonic     Edit/Delete Message
LOL! he should be suing the woman for invading his privacy and salacious interest, not the other way around!!

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blue moon
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posted November 03, 2009 02:47 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for blue moon     Edit/Delete Message
Maybe I haven't read this carefully enough but I don't get why it was so unavoidable that she saw this - either she was looking in and just happened to see him walk past (in which case the moral is don't look in other people's houses), or he was in front of a floor-length window.

Ultimately I don't see why this should be a big deal, unless someone is sticking their arse out of the window onto a busy street.


There is an interesting take on this on FirstPost. Could this be a cop face-saving exercise?

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/55336,news-comme nt,news-politics,virginia-witch-hunt-the-naked-truth-about-american-sexual-prudery


p.s my husband used to complain about me walking around naked in front of the windows of one house we lived in. We lived opposite a blind institute. This sounds like I'm taking the p!ss, I swear I'm not. It was in France, so not much chance anyone would complain anyway.

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Node
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posted November 03, 2009 03:15 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Node     Edit/Delete Message

yes, yes, yes, and yes.

Is he the exhibitionist, or is she the voyeur?

I think that because a child was involved it changed the whole dynamic.

Was she having sexy thoughts about the guy herself and suffered guilt?
So he has to pay for it.
And would it have been a big deal to her male 7 yr old had she not made it one? And why does the cop husband loose it and decide charges and law enforcement must bring pressure and censure?

In the article the writer brings up precedent for this.

I think it says so much-- this story.
And now the kid has a whole set of issues about nakedness, and women! to deal with...thanks mom and dad.


bm

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p.s my husband used to complain about me walking around naked in front of the windows of one house we lived in. We lived opposite a blind institute

you are hillarius...this sounds like the opening to a good pub joke.


*edit- and americans and our f-upped sexuality I read recently that the state that came out #1 in downloaded porn was....you guessed it= UTAH! And not by a micro margin either.

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T
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posted November 03, 2009 06:14 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message
Read about this one too. How idiotic. That nosey lady needs to mind her business.

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