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New York DMV Bans 'GETOSAMA' License Plates
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Posted on 11/19/2007 6:00:25 PM PST by boughtwithaprice
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Since when are we concerned about offending terrorists? I love my state but get fed up with the super-controlling, super-liberal government.
To: boughtwithaprice
How about one that says, “NYDMV SUCKS”... ;-)
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posted on
11/19/2007 6:02:40 PM PST
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: boughtwithaprice
Do you think the Plate Nazis would let
FU ELIOT
get by?
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posted on
11/19/2007 6:02:50 PM PST
by
Nervous Tick
(Retire Ron Paul! Support Chris Peden (www.chrispeden.org))
To: boughtwithaprice
Like banning a “GETADOLF” license plate because it might offend a German.
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posted on
11/19/2007 6:04:08 PM PST
by
popdonnelly
(Get Reid. Salazar, and Harkin out of the Senate.)
To: popdonnelly
how much longer will we allow political correctness to choke the “red white and blue” out of us? I mean, we aren’t even drilling for oil in 85% of our reserves out of political correctness....we are destroying ourselves.
To: boughtwithaprice
POS NYC DMV
There’s your license plate.
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posted on
11/19/2007 6:08:09 PM PST
by
wastedyears
(One Marine vs. 550 consultants. Sounds like good odds to me.)
To: boughtwithaprice
Just another sign that america is no longer a great nation.
Not that the NYDVMV would actually do this, but that they and the individuals responsible are able to get away with it.
What about Freedom of Speech - you know, the right to wear shirts that say “America %^#$^” or the right to desecrate an American Flag, or the right to produce obcenities against religion which are tolerated, while this is not?
Like I said, the REAL shame is that they are allowed to get away with this.
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posted on
11/19/2007 6:08:58 PM PST
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: boughtwithaprice
When dems smell potential votes from islamics, “we” are.
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posted on
11/19/2007 6:10:03 PM PST
by
Proud_USA_Republican
(We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
To: boughtwithaprice
My new plate, NUKENYC
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posted on
11/19/2007 6:12:07 PM PST
by
bmwcyle
(BOMB, BOMB, BOMB,.......BOMB, BOMB IRAN)
To: wastedyears
POS NYC DMV
Theres your license plate.
BWHAAAAH top DRAWYER w/y TOP drawer.....
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posted on
11/19/2007 6:13:06 PM PST
by
flat
To: boughtwithaprice
NY vanity plates only allow for 8 letters/numbers total.
Let me start
NYSUUCKS
To: boughtwithaprice
But New York's DMV red-lighted the anti-Usama bin Laden plates, banning them under an agency regulation that prohibits anything "obscene, lewd, lascivious, derogatory to a particular ethnic or other group or patently offensive." It should be obvious that there is nothing obscene, lewd, or lascivious about the proposed vanity plate, "GETOSAMA." As to the prohibition against anything "derogatory to a particular ethnic or other group," it would require some serious mental gymnastics to arrive at the conclusion that this plate slurs all Muslims--or all Sunnis, or all Arabs, or...well, whatever.
And as to the possibility of its being "patently offensive," that is so vague and subjective as to be meaningless.
The statute might as well read: "Any choice of words or letters is illegal if we say it is illegal. Period. From this, there is no appeal."
At least that would have the virtue of being honest.
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posted on
11/19/2007 6:19:44 PM PST
by
AmericanExceptionalist
(Democrats believe in discussing the full spectrum of ideas, all the way from far left to center-left)
To: Blue Turtle
how much longer will we allow political correctness to choke the red white and blue out of us? Until we are just blue.
To: boughtwithaprice
GETOBAMA would be ok, I’m sure.
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posted on
11/19/2007 6:23:02 PM PST
by
Disambiguator
(Political Correctness is criminal insanity writ large.)
To: boughtwithaprice
I guess I got lucky with my plate:
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posted on
11/19/2007 6:25:33 PM PST
by
GnL
To: ZULU
What about Freedom of Speech - you know, the right to wear shirts that say America %^#$^ or the right to desecrate an American Flag, or the right to produce obcenities against religion which are tolerated, while this is not? That is an excellent point.
Of course, this flagrant double standard derives from the fact that leftists are persuaded that "unpopular beliefs" need special "protection"; whereas mainstream beliefs can safely be flouted.
Conveniently for those who proclaim this dogma, in practice it translates roughly to this: Far-left views and attitudes must be tolerated--even encouraged--regardless of whose sensibilities are offended by them; whereas traditional beliefs are always fair game.
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posted on
11/19/2007 6:27:40 PM PST
by
AmericanExceptionalist
(Democrats believe in discussing the full spectrum of ideas, all the way from far left to center-left)
To: boughtwithaprice
"Since when are we concerned about offending terrorists?"You're kidding. Right? Perhaps you and I aren't but the pupating aphids who are in charge, seize any chance to demean themselves by denying the truth about those who would happily kill us.
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posted on
11/19/2007 6:28:12 PM PST
by
isrul
(Lamentations 5:2)
To: isrul
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posted on
11/19/2007 6:33:16 PM PST
by
386wt
(Be free and don't die!)
To: boughtwithaprice
But New York's DMV red-lighted the anti-Usama bin Laden plates, banning them under an agency regulation that prohibits anything "obscene, lewd, lascivious, derogatory to a particular ethnic or other group or patently offensive.These losers would say exactly the same thing about "God Bless America".
The only part of the prohibition that fits is 'patently offensive', and that is entirely an arbitrary and subjective call --- not legal to be made by a mindless bureaucrat-- only a judge is entitled.
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posted on
11/19/2007 6:34:37 PM PST
by
Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
To: boughtwithaprice
“Since when are we concerned about offending terrorists?”
Since the chief dhimmi in the White House started telling all of us that Islam is “The Religion of Peace”?
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posted on
11/19/2007 6:38:04 PM PST
by
Kolokotronis
(Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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