Court Ruling Makes Taking Pictures Up Women's Skirts Legal in Texas (NO WAR ON WOMEN!)
Court Ruling Makes Taking Pictures Up Women's Skirts Legal in Texas
(I am thoroughly sickened, but, alas, not surprised at this disgusting ruling. women don't count--after all, there is no proof of "nefarious intent" in these "creepshots". )
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(presiding judge sharon keller)
The highest criminal court in Texas reversed a state law this week that prevented people from taking pictures up women's skirts in public.
The law, which banned "improper photography or visual recording," with the "intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person," was deemed an unconstitutional violation of First Amendment rights to free speech and individual thought.
The act of secretly capturing lurid photography, usually aimed up women's skirts, is commonly known as "upskirting," and the photos are sometimes called "creepshots." Whatever the term used to describe it, the practice is now legal in the Lone Star State after an 8-1 ruling by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
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In penning the decision, Presiding Judge Sharon Keller, opined: "The camera is essentially the photographer's pen and paintbrush. … A person's purposeful creation of photographs and visual recordings is entitled to the same First Amendment protection as the photographs and visual recordings themselves."
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The Court of Criminal Appeals said that while so-called "upskirting" is intolerable, nefarious intent cannot be proven, and even attempting to police it could lead to Orwellian overreach.
"Protecting someone who appears in public from being the object of sexual thoughts seems to be the sort of 'paternalistic interest in regulating the defendant's mind' that the First Amendment was designed to guard against," Keller wrote.
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https://news.vice.com/article/court-ruling-makes-taking-pictures-up-womens-skirts-legal-in-texas
the information on her in wiki is pretty disgusting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Keller
