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Apply the military solution. If one can't have it, nobody can have it.
not a bad idea, if people are gonna get up in arms about it, just eliminate the PP program all together. I can't see a 1st amendment suit seeing the light of day simply because the BMV didn't offer personalized plates
This. Just take the plate you're issued and be done with it.
This is what happens with the "run the government like a business" approach. Its not a business. Its not the purpose of a license plate to be some cutesy saying. That's what bumper stickers and those Disney family things are for.
Indiana has way too many types of plates, not even counting personalized plates. Plates should come in the basic flavors of "Personal car/truck, Commercial car/truck, Municipal/Police, Motorcycle (because they need to be smaller), Trailer, and handicapped versions as needed" and that would cover it. Actually, with the mirror hanger thing, you don't even need the handicapped car plates, although you'd probably still need it for motorcycles.
No more worries about who's organization counts as special enough/not special enough for an organization plate, etc. No worries about who's little cutesy saying is to sexy, racist, violent, etc.
Go back to license plates as a means to identify the vehicle and registered owner. The end.
They ought to allow anything that fits. There's no compelling reason to censor license plates. But we live in a state in which retailers feel compelled to cover the front of Cosmopolitan, of all things, presumably to preserve "innocent eyes" from learning that this month there's yet another Top Ten Ways to Drive Your Man Wild in Bed! so it only follows that we would impose ridiculous limitations on license plates. Meanwhile graphic sex scenes are available in your local library, but most likely only due to 1st Amendment protections.
It does seem odd that we don't use a typeface that clearly differentiates between O and 0. I'd mandate a 0 with a slash to differentiate it if I were to redesign Indiana's plates.
We also live in a state that is most likely going to vote for putting an amendment to the state constitution to ban gay marriage on the ballot. So much for liberty.
What, you're going to oppose a law legitimately enacted by the Legislature?
Why do so many ACLU lawyers look like that?
Apply the military solution. If one can't have it, nobody can have it.
That's a terrible solution. There is no reason whatsoever that anyone who wants one can't have it other than a bunch of busybodies clutching their pearls over imagined slights. If something offends you then either get over it or don't look at it. This sort of complaint-driven restrictive behavior is the same thing that has led to the FCC levying massive fines for network television airing people using the same language that is constitutionally protected for you or me. The solution is not to cater to a bunch of whiny children who want to impose their moralistic idiosyncracies on the rest of us but to tell them to shut up and deal with it.
Actually, it's just the one.