Posted on 03/29/2006 8:51:17 PM PST by peggybac
It was 9:30 on a recent Friday night when Denise Grier saw blue lights in her rearview mirror.
She pulled over on Chamblee-Tucker Road, unaware of her infraction.
"The officer asked if I knew I had a lewd decal on my car and I thought, 'Oh gosh, what did my kids put on my car?' "
As it turns out, the decal was an anti-Bush bumper sticker Grier slapped on her 2001 Chrysler Sebring last summer. The bumper sticker — "I'm Tired Of All The BUSH—" — contains an expletive.
The officer "said DeKalb had an ordinance about lewd decals and wrote me a ticket" for $100, said Grier, an oncology nurse at Emory University Hospital who lives in Athens.
Grier said she thanked the officer — and vowed to see him in court.
"This is all about free speech," Grier said in a telephone interview Monday. "The officer pulled me over because he didn't agree with my politics. That's what this is about, not whether I support Bush, not because of the war in Iraq, but about my right to free speech."
Officer Herschel Grangent Jr., a spokesman for the DeKalb County Police Department, confirmed the incident Monday but said he couldn't "speculate on or discuss another officer's decision to write a citation."
Grangent said he not know of any ordinance dealing strictly with bumper stickers but noted the county's sign ordinance prohibits public displays that "contain words, pictures, or statements which are obscene."
"Only that officer knows what his or her probable cause was, and only that officer can discuss it or testify to it," Grangent said.
The officer's name is not legible on a copy of the ticket Grier e-mailed to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Grangent said he didn't know who it was.
Grangent said he wasn't sure how many people have been ticketed for lewd bumper stickers but considered it a rare occurrence.
Grier, 47, the mother of four grown sons, is due in Recorder's Court on April 18. She has not removed the bumper sticker in question, or six other mostly politically oriented decals on her car. "I used to think that one person could not make a difference," said Grier. "Now I'm beginning to think one person can, and should. We shouldn't be afraid to stand up for what we believe in."
BS, if the cop didn't like her politics he would have also given her a speeding ticket and a Breathalyzer. :)
People need to watch what they say and watch what they do.
Free speach my butt.
The day that my child (who is learning to read) reads out loud from someone's shirt containing a profanity is the day that my "bail money" savings account will be put to use.
Yippee! Supressing Free Speech, yay!
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oops, can't spell spEEch.
Grier is a profane pig, and I find it disturbing that she is responsible for raising children.
....Free speech my &%#@*&!
Keep profanity off bumper stickers!
This woman is a pig.
("I used to think that one person could not make a difference," said Grier. "Now I'm beginning to think one person can, and should. )
It seems that most liberals have an inflated sense of self-importance.
You mean like when Jorge Bush leaned over to Shotgun Chaney pointing to Adam Clymer calling him "a major league asshole?"
Private Property rights...how quaint.
It is funny when liberals say that Bush hasn't done what he was elected to do. I just heard her say that on my local news cast. I am pretty sure whatever Bush would have done she wouldn't like it, even if BillyBoy had done the same thing. She already has a freaking Hillary '08 sticker on her car. What a loser!!!
You need one tha says, "DON'T MAKE AN [picture of a donkey with a red, commie blanket draped over its back, crouched over a pile of dung, with a look on its face like it is having a constipated donkey's worst nightmare] OF U.S.! VOTE RIGHT!
Sorry gang, ten-to-one says she "walks", two-to-one says it's dismissed outright.
I've seen "shit happens" bumperstickers in four or five different states over the last two or three years; if they were getting written up I think I wouldn't be seeing them any more.
Video link courtesy of Exposetheleft.com
http://www.exposetheleft.com/2006/03/29/bush-it-bumper/
I agree.
Talk about dense, she didn't even know what the "lewd" sticker was when she was pulled over.
Typical stupid lib.
What a dope. Not every expression is protected speech. Shouting "fire!" in a crowded theater isn't protected, and neither is obscenity. I think this bumper sticker probably qualifies as obscenity and obviously the cop felt the same.
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