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September 23, 2012
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Publisher’s Notebook: Undressing of the Constitution leaves us out cold

I knew I’d landed in the right state when I read about a guy up in Portland who took his clothes off to pass through the airport security checkpoint. He apparently had reached his boiling point when a scanner detected some nitrates on his clothing, so he decided to get naked to prove a point. “I was aware of the irony of taking off my clothes to protect my privacy,” he would tell reporters after a Portland judge acquitted him three months later. The judge said the nudity laws don’t apply, so long as you get naked to protest and …

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