After all, there are plenty of folks these days who would rather live under tyranny.

Personally, I find the idea of using license plates for anything other than identifying the owner of the vehicle a rather poor one to begin with. I suppose I don’t have any problem when it’s just a logo to promote the state, but when the government decides to designate that space for pushing an opinion on one side of a controversial subject, it looks even more dubious.

Jazz, you’ll have to pry my Virginia “Fight Terrorism” license plate from my cold, dead hands.

They could offer the other choice… “Choose Death” and have the Grim Reaper as the license plate logo.

Dasher on January 5, 2013 at 10:40 AM

Just make sure the Reaper is wearing a surgical mask and carrying a scalpel, rather than a scythe.

Rule of thumb, though: if the ACLU is for it, you’ll usually find me against it.

turfmann on January 5, 2013 at 10:24 AM

If the ACLU is againt it, ALL decent, intelligent human beings are against it. In fact, support for the ACLU is one way you can judge the decency & intelligence, or lack thereof, of a frien or acquaintance.

There’s an easy fix. The state can just offer plates that say: “I Support Killing Babies in the Womb.”

If libs really like it, why not say it?

AZCoyote on January 5, 2013 at 10:12 AM

FIFY. It’s a little more direct.

You want to advertise your status as a veteran? Fine, buy a bumper sticker (or a license plate holder). Plenty of folks around here do. As far as your license plate, it should visibly identify your vehicle to the state authorities and nothing more.

GWB on January 5, 2013 at 3:22 PM

Not sure what around here menas, must be Blue State speak for conform to our PC way of seeing things. My plate, issued by the state meets these requirements, what is the point of your comment, it ceritainly isn’t making a cogent arguement

She doesn’t give up her reproductive [consequence-free sexual hedonism] right just because you don’t like the way she lives her life.
A woman can’t “choose life” if she has no alternatives.

chumpThreads on January 5, 2013 at 12:48 PM

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She also can’t choose abortion murder, either.
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For instance, right now I’d like to murder you, chump’. But the (expletive) law denies me that right, dammit !

THAT’S DENYING ME MY FREEDOM OF CHOICE . . . . . . . . . . . . .

listens2glenn on January 5, 2013 at 1:28 PM

A plate that says “choose life” is not in the least an anti-choice plate. To the contary, it acknowledges that pro-choice is the law of the land. It merely urges a particular choice.

Being pro-life is not believing simply that people should choose life. It’s believing that abortion should be illegal. The plate doesn’t advocate that, and thus it’s not contrary to a pro-choice point of view at all.

What many pro-choice people seem to believe is that being pro-choice obliges them to be indifferent to what choice a person makes. That’s a non sequitur. It would be possible to always favor live birth and still be in favor of legal abortion. That wouldn’t make a person “pro-life” in a legal sense, but what’s remarkable is the number of people — on both sides of the issue — who don’t realize this distinction.

“But you shouldn’t interfere with a woman’s right to choose by trying to persuade her.” Why not? It’s not in the least contrary to “pro-choice” to attempt to persuade a woman to “choose life.” People constantly advise their friends. The government imposes sin taxes in part to discourage behaviors that raise health care costs — in short, to coerce choices. That doesn’t mean those choices are in threat of becoming illegal.

There’s a lot of muddled thinking in this world. The moment something becomes politically charged, folks seem to exempt a matter from normal canons of reason. It’s weird.

Maybe “Choose Skull Crushing”? “Choose Brain Stem Severing”?

I’m not a pro-lifer, but I find the nonsensical hypocrisy and disregarding of what is or will be, a baby, to be infuriating. They idiocy makes me lean toward pro-life. Most of them as well are against the death penalty. When a child is a commodity that tends to “inconvenience” would-be parents, or society (in their words), and therefore should be removed, humanity ceases to exist.

ego-centricism, leads to decline of culture and society. This is why I cannot be a full libertarian. Some so-con is advisable.

A woman can’t “choose life” if she has no alternatives.

chumpThreads on January 5, 2013 at 12:48 PM

She has choices under the law. The plate promotes choosing life, which you leftists generally say that you also support (the whole “rare” canard). So, why all of the squealing like a stuck pig?

However, if you decide not to join a union, you’re not entitled to the benefits that unions negotiate on behalf of union memembers.

chumpThreads on January 5, 2013 at 12:27 PM

I am if the union prevents me from negotiating on my own behalf, which would be preferable since I have actual marketable skills.

However, if you decide not to join a union, you’re not entitled to the benefits that unions negotiate on behalf of union memembers.

chumpThreads on January 5, 2013 at 12:27 PM

Why not?

She doesn’t give up her reproductive right just because you don’t like the way she lives her life.

chumpThreads on January 5, 2013 at 12:48 PM

She didn’t give up her reproductive right at all: she exercised that choice… and got pregnant. Now it’s no longer a reproductive choice – it’s the choice of whether to murder a defenseless human being.

What you really want, is the ability to have sex without any consequences, regardless of whether you have to kill someone to make that happen. Well, I choose to defend those you want to kill.

Err, how exactly is publicizing my status as a veteran a political message?

skanter on January 5, 2013 at 12:56 PM

You want to advertise your status as a veteran? Fine, buy a bumper sticker (or a license plate holder). Plenty of folks around here do. As far as your license plate, it should visibly identify your vehicle to the state authorities and nothing more.

Personally, I find the idea of using license plates for anything other than identifying the owner of the vehicle a rather poor one to begin with.

This. Let’s go back to the day when you had to put a bumper sticker on your car if you wanted to express affinity with … anything. It should be one license plate style per state (per type of vehicle), without any fancy graphics to muck up reading the numbers/letters. Period.

but when the government decides to designate that space for pushing an opinion on one side of a controversial subject, it looks even more dubious.

But, the state isn’t expressing an opinion. It’s merely selling license plate space to let someone else express their opinion.

Here’s the real weird bit: in VA (as elsewhere) you can get a plate for a college that is a state college – in another state. So, the state is actively promoting an out-of-state university, while sending a good portion of the proceeds to that out-of-state college. Huh???

Please, let’s get governments out of the frickin’ bumper sticker business, and restricting them to simply isuing a plate that shows your registration number, the issuing state and the expiration (and the type of tag it is). If you want to promote Home Schooling, or Duke University, or VA Tech, or Choosing Life, or Lighthouses, or any of over 200 different plates (in VA), join a group, donate your money, and buy a freakin’ bumper sticker.

These plates are always optional. Just like my son the firefighter has a firefighter plate on his car.
These plates absolutely identify the car with a specific person and they are not forced on anyone.
I have a Choose Life tag here in Florida.
if the ACLU doesn’t like it they can have a plate stating they Like Abortion
To Heck with the ACLU and Go NC Go

Delsa on January 5, 2013 at 2:24 PM

Liberal counter-point to the Firefighter’s plate: “Let It Burn”.

A woman can’t “choose life” if she has no alternatives.

chumpThreads on January 5, 2013 at 12:48 PM

What are you talking about? People choose to break God’s laws all the time. The fact that there are consequences does not eliminate the existence of the choice.

And how long have you been a member of the sex police morality committee? Even using the most prejudicial language you could think up, if a woman decides to do as you’ve described, it’s still none of your business. She doesn’t give up her reproductive [consequence-free sexual hedonism] right just because you don’t like the way she lives her life.

A woman can’t “choose life” if she has no alternatives.

chumpThreads on January 5, 2013 at 12:48 PM

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She also can’t choose abortion murder, either.
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For instance, right now I’d like to murder you, chump’. But the (expletive) law denies me that right, dammit !

THAT’S DENYING ME MY FREEDOM OF CHOICE . . . . . . . . . . . . .