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Recently, oral arguments were heard regarding a case about license plates and the first amendment. The Texas division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans has challenged a rejection of their proposed plate that had images of the Confederate flag.
The Texas solicitor general argued that, "Messages on Texas license plates are government speech ... [because] Texas etches its name onto each license plate and Texas law gives the state sole control and final approval authority over everything that appears on a license plate.”
Please share your ideas/comments on this case or your views on vanity plates in general.
Story: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-supreme-court-confederate-license-plates-20150323-story.html
Case: http://www.oyez.org/cases/2010-2019/2014/2014_14_144
What a vanity plate is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_plate
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 05 2015, @11:53PM
But to turn on your own, to attack without warning those you are joined with in a civil union, that is something that is always wrong, in all cultures. Even those who defect from evil regimes are suspect, since they have turned on those who trusted them, and even if they say they are now on our side (the side of good and cookies!), we cannot trust them.
You have just explained exactly why so many people hate Edward Snowden.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 06 2015, @02:46AM
Because they're government bootlickers who don't care one bit for the principles and freedoms the US is supposed to stand for. Mindless tribalism is all it is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 06 2015, @06:23AM
Ironically your post is an example of mindless tribalism too. So meta!
Sure I'm being snarky, but given how the discussion had clearly identified those who defect from evil regimes, you still had to come along and do a bit of mindless cheerleading for your tribe rather than accept any possibility of nuance. And then someone modded you up as "informative" as if what you wrote actually added anything new to the discussion, like there have not been literally a million other posts saying exactly the same thing since Snowden defected.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 06 2015, @11:56AM
Ironically your post is an example of mindless tribalism too. So meta!
Actually, no it's not. It's an example of me forming an individual opinion and cheering on someone who challenged the intolerable status quo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 06 2015, @02:49PM
Woooosh!
Of course the tribalist thinks his cheerleading is valid and meaningful.