FLORIDA'S "CHOOSE LIFE" TAG HITS $1 MILLION

The Tallahassee Democrat ^ | Tuesday, May 28, 2002 | Bill Cotterell

[FreeTally]

I want to congratulate fellow Floridians for making this one of the fastest selling tags ever!

Also, note that Planned Parenthood has the nerve to claim they can't be denied proceeds from the sale of the tag. They will lose, as they have lost the other law suits as well(and for people who didn't have faith in Nikki Clark back during the election lawsuits, it seems as if she has proven she is fair).

Keep up the good work, Floridians!

[oldironsides]

Placing the special "life tag" on a vehicle will bring out the nutballs. I had a bumper sticker for a conservative GOP candidate on my vehicle and some of the reaction to it was vulgar and aggressive. Young females took it upon themselves to flip the bird and scream vulgar things while I was sitting at red lights. My candidate won. The office won was in no way affililated with abortion decision making on laws in Pennsylvania. The waving of coathanger out the window from a female in a Volvo was interesting. I ignored her wild ranting and coathanger waving. The plate will probably be defaced and cause problems for the driver. We shall see how it goes for the Floridians that place the life tags on their vehicles. I wish them well.

[madprof98]

On the other hand, a "Choose Life" message brings out the good in people too. I have a eurotag with that message on the front of my Jeep--as well as a couple pro-life stickers on the back bumper. I've had many people compliment me on them, and one woman (with Gore and other Dem stickers on her vehicle) actually asked me where she could acquire a similar tag for herself. I saw her car in traffic months later, and I noticed that she had indeed added the pro-life message to her many Demodeath promotions.

[jsraggmann]

We have had our "Choose Life" tag on for about a year and the response from other folks has been positive.

[Rhetorical pi2]

As a great philosopher says on his daily radio broadcast, "Words mean things". The writer of the newspaper article used "pro-choice" rather than "pro-abortion" in describing the the pro-abortion group. "Anti-abortion" was used rather than "pro-life" to describe the pro-life group.

What the writer, and pro-abortion groups, fail to grasp is that "Choose Life" is one of the two choices an expectant mother can make. Choosing life is inherently "pro-choice" - but not the way the pro-abortion groups would have it.

I've watched as journalists over the past 6-7 years increasingly drop "Pro-Life" - substituting "Anti-Abortion". It has a subliminal negative sound to it, where "Pro-Life" has a more positive connotation (which most journalists are reluctant to allow).

Am I splitting hairs? Too sensitive? Mebbe so. But I agree with the great philosopher who is on the cutting edge of societal evolution: "Words mean things".

[capt. norm]

I had a gruesome picture in my mind as to what a pro-abotion tag would look like, if liberals got their way.

[FreeTally]

I have heard of no reported incidences concerning the tags. I see dozens of people every day - mostly familes - with them on their vehicles. Most "nutballs" here in Tally don't venture too far from one of the campuses, and probably think of most of the town as "rednecks" and "hillbillies". The leftist man-hater crowd doesn't have the guts to mess with the yocals.

With enough signatures, you can get almost anything placed on a tag here in Florida(the key words being enough signatures). There is probably a specialty tag that almost everyone could find that they like. A proceed to goes to an individual cause, which really pleases residents. And as the article says, after so many years, if interest dies in the tag, they eliminate it. This is one thing(tags) that Florida has done well over the past 10-20 years.

[FreeTally]

Did you read about this??

[summer]

No, I didn't, but it's very interesting.

I have always felt these "Choose Life" plates I see, all over the roads, also send an anti-suicide message to teens as well.

[FreeTally]

I have always felt these "Choose Life" plates I see, all over the roads, also send an anti-suicide message to teens as well.

I never thought of that, but you are probably right.

[summer]

Teen suicide is a problem in this country, and those license plates make no mention of pregnancy nor abortion. It bothers me when the Dem leaders who oppose those plates refuse to take into account the fact that a depressed teen seeing that plate may interpret the message very differently.

[FreeTally]

Say what? I parsed through your typos, but I have no idea what you are trying to say.

[FreeTally]

Read it again. I have no clue where you get the idea that people who buy these tags will be giving money to abortion providers. The funds can not be given to abortion providers.

[Recovering_Democrat]

PING FOR LIFE!

[wontbackdown]

What would a pro-abortion tag say - "Choose Death"?

[tutstar]

bump

[thulldud]

Am I splitting hairs? Too sensitive?

Not that I can see. Consider this sentence from the article:

A federal court in Jacksonville threw out another suit that contended it was unfair to offer "Choose Life" without a companion pro-choice license tag.

Liberalism blinds its believers so that they are unaware of their own self-parody. If a plate saying "Choose Life" is to be balanced with a plate carrying the "other side", then what would be on that other plate? Naturally, something that means the opposite, such as "Choose Death", right? But that's too obvious, and besides, I think it's only half of the meaning. I think it likely that they really mean to negate both "life" and (other peoples')"choice." Ergo, "Forced Death" might be a more appropriate slogan.

Of course, they can't say this out loud; after all, the philosopher which you mention also has noted that liberals must hide their true colors when they show themselves in public. So we get a cover-up, feelgood slogan that hides its true meaning, even from those that use it.

The phrase "pro-choice" is a code for anything but.

[AD from SpringBay]

Too bad tax payers can't choose to send their Planned Parenthood dollars to a different organization . . .

I think the high dollars for this tag illustrates, on yet another issue, that a lot more people are pro-life than the evening news is willing to admit.