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Should this be protected as Free Speech?
(CBS/AP) KEMAH, Texas - Riding a unicycle is one way to get noticed.
Riding a unicycle in Kemah, Texas probably increases your chances. But riding a unicycle naked in Kemah, Texas - that will get you noticed, and arrested, as Joseph Farley discovered. Police say the 45-year-old Farley was unicycling nude on a bridge about 20 miles southeast of Houston, distracting drivers and creating a hazard. Furthermore, the police chief says Farley was not intoxicated or impaired when police noticed him Wednesday, although he had been falling off the unicycle and into traffic. What was the point? Farley told officers that he liked the feeling of riding without his clothes, which were found at the base of the bridge. He's charged with misdemeanor indecent exposure, with bond set at $1,500. Let's see how slowly the wheels of justice turn....um, make that wheel.
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2012-05-12, 12:38 AM
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I tend to not think so.
In my opinion, it's important that people have the ability to say, dress and act exactly how they want, when they want to... As long as it does not become a hazard and places others in danger.
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2012-05-12, 03:56 AM
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Isn't this unicycle related? Doesn't it belong in a different forum? You're getting sloppy, Billy.
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2012-05-12, 10:23 AM
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You know, as Greg points out, this is unicycle related and in an important way.
Unlike riding a unicycle in clown attire whether one is acting in the capacity of a professional clown or not, either of which in my opinion does not reflect badly on unicyclists in general and the unicycling community as a whole, riding badly in public and disrupting traffic because one is falling into traffic does. Accidents, of course, happen, but if you can't ride a unicycle sufficiently well to be around automobile and pedestrian traffic so as not to be a hazard to oneself and others, then you are doing a disservice to unicyclists everywhere by making us all seem incompetent. One should at least have the decency to be intoxicated if going to behave in such a manner. As for free speech, if it's illegal to own a Howitzer I don't see why it shouldn't also be illegal to flash your junk around particularly if in either case the term, "3-inch" applies.
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2012-05-14, 02:18 AM
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2012-05-14, 05:44 AM
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What was the speech? I think everyone was looking at the 'naked guy' so nobody heard what he was saying.
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2012-05-16, 03:26 AM
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While you and I are having our cake-and-ice-cream party, the others are having a drink-the-blood-of-the-poor party in the back room. --[QUOTE=maestro8;1433130] Last edited by BillyTheMountain; 2012-05-16 at 03:27 AM. |
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2012-05-16, 01:08 PM
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2012-05-17, 04:42 AM
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2012-07-31, 02:57 PM
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The topic is Free Speech, but a different victim.
Free Pussy Riot!
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2012-07-31, 10:47 PM
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A small fine and having to perform at Putin's next birthday would suffice, I think.
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2012-08-01, 09:56 PM
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You say hooliganism ; they say political statement.
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2012-08-02, 11:01 AM
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I'm all for freeing Pussy Riot, Billy.
What about Chick-fil-A? Does their CEO get to exercise free speech too? Is what you and I would consider bigotry incompatible with a robust version of free speech?
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2012-08-02, 01:05 PM
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how to support Pussy riot effectively?
just posting somewhere in the name of values will get you the usual nationalistic alien-bashing reaction 
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2012-08-02, 03:42 PM
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Just kidding. But I did put this on my Facebook page too. 
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