Ticketed for an Anti-Bush Bumper Sticker
Via Raw Story, I see the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting about a woman in DeKalb County, Georgia, who received a $100 ticket for having an anti-Bush bumper sticker on her car:
It was 9:30 on a recent Friday night when Denise Grier saw blue lights in her rearview mirror.
“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.”
I wonder what would have happened if the bumper sticker had read, “Fuck the Draft.”
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