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hour a day? That means that it is an one hour's invasion. <br />mean some activities you can say if they are at a lower volume, <br />3 you can say that they do not annoy anybody. So a difference in <br />4 degree can make a difference in kind. It is no longer an <br />5 annoying activity. <br />6 But if this is an invasion of privacy, it is an <br />7 invasion of privacy if it occurs one hour or 24 hours, is it <br />8 not? <br />MR. MCDOWELL: We do not believe that -- to a certain <br />J. extent, there will always be a degree of privacy invasion. But <br />11 the problem is that what has to be weighed in the balance is <br />12 this privacy invasion, whatever it may be, vis-a-vis the <br />13 important interests of the picketers in the First Amendment <br />14 expression. <br />15 QUESTION: Right. Now let us talk about that. <br />16 What is it that you can only do by picketing that you <br />17 cannot do by some other form of activity, handing out leaflets <br />18 and parading around, picketing in the sense in which this <br />19 ordinance uses the term, parading around the whole <br />20 neighborhood, handing out leaflets, picketing or doing whatever <br />21 you want in front of the doctor's offices, what is there <br />22 distinctive about this, is there anything distinctive about <br />23 this activity except the invasion of this man's privacy? <br />24 MR. MCDOWELL: What is distinctive about picketing <br />25 activity is that by use of signs and by use of perhaps a <br />44 <br />Heritage Reporting Corporation <br />(202) 628-4888 <br />