New York Says Choose Life License Plate Could Lead to "Road Rage"

[WanderAimlessly]

Maybe this is more about the instability of the pro-death crowd:

New York Says Choose Life License Plate Could Lead to "Road Rage"
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
December 30, 2005

**Albany, NY (LifeNews.com) – **The state of New York is attempting to stifle a lawsuit seeking to make “Choose Life” license plates available. Although the lawsuit cites the free speech protection of the first amendment, New York Assistant Solicitor General Jennifer Grace Miller told the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals that the statement “Choose Life” could lead to road rage.

Judge Dennis Jacobs agreed, suggesting that allowing the phrase could open the door to messages from extremist groups.

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PF

 

[Mom_of_one]

Thank you for posting this. I saw this a few weeks ago, but couldn’t get a link to it to post it.

As for the plates “leading” to road rage…so could me sticking up my middle finger at someone, but they aren’t outlawing that. So could me accidently cutting someone off in traffic, but they don’t throw people in jail for that.

If a person has road rage, they need to control it. It’s just a feeling, and to blame it on whatever the person got mad at is just childish and ridiculous. It won’t work in a court of law.

 

[contemplative]

Mom of one:

As for the plates “leading” to road rage…so could me sticking up my middle finger at someone, but they aren’t outlawing that.

Actually it is an offence in NYS to spring a middle finger or any obsene gesture from your car.

As for the Choose Life plate I have this true story to share.

A good friend of mine sported an anti-gun bumper sticker on the back of his car. As he was stopped at an intersection light another vehicle pulled up parallel to him. The guy in the vehicle next to him opened his window and pointed a pistol at him…the man then mouthed with his lips the word “Pow” smiled and drove off…if that isn’t scary I don’t know what is.

My friend was too shaken to get a description or a license plate number but he did promptly remove his bumper sticker.

This is the world we live in.

 

[Agricola]

Wow. I wouldn’t have thought that “Choose Life” could be an offensive term. Let’s see… it has choice, which is one of those wonderful modern values everyone is so crazy about… and it has life, which everyone needs to enjoy the freedom of choice.

If the government in NY rejects this license plate with such vigour, wouldn’t it be a greater sign of approval for abortion than letting the license plate be made would be against it? If this gets taken to the Supreme Court, it will go through. There is no reasonable justification for the rejection of the plates.

I wonder if Unicef and Planned Parenthood have plates.

God bless,

Agricola

 

[chicago]

It seems to me I’ve heard this song before. It is becoming one of their common excuses, um I mean “arguments”, on the license plates. Pretty cheap and weak one, at that, but aimed at saying “Let’s not be controversial”.

 

[catsrus]

I don’t know about plates but in my neighborhood there is a car with a “Keep your religion out of my decision” bumper sticker. I have to walk my dog past that car every day and each day I see it, I get angry. Shouldn’t those inflammatory stickers be disallowed too?
Yeah, that’ll happen!!

 

[WanderAimlessly]

catsrus:

I don’t know about plates but in my neighborhood there is a car with a “Keep your religion out of my decision” bumper sticker. I have to walk my dog past that car every day and each day I see it, I get angry. Shouldn’t those inflammatory stickers be disallowed too?
Yeah, that’ll happen!!

But their speech is protected. It seems outs is not. That is what Politically Correct “free speech” means. Censorship of our speech.

PF

 

[contemplative]

contemplative:

Actually it is an offence in NYS to spring a middle finger or any obsene gesture from your car.

As for the Choose Life plate I have this true story to share.

A good friend of mine sported an anti-gun bumper sticker on the back of his car. As he was stopped at an intersection light another vehicle pulled up parallel to him. The guy in the vehicle next to him opened his window and pointed a pistol at him…the man then mouthed with his lips the word “Pow” smiled and drove off…if that isn’t scary I don’t know what is.

My friend was too shaken to get a description or a license plate number but he did promptly remove his bumper sticker.

This is the world we live in.

The bottom line

If a vehicle is used to make a political, moral or religious statement it can be a target of violence whether there is an occupant in the car or not. And even if Pro-Life license plates were made illegal who is to stop someone from making the same statement with a bumper sticker or something similar?

 

[Orionthehunter]

catsrus:

I don’t know about plates but in my neighborhood there is a car with a “Keep your religion out of my decision” bumper sticker. I have to walk my dog past that car every day and each day I see it, I get angry. Shouldn’t those inflammatory stickers be disallowed too?
Yeah, that’ll happen!!

You need to train you dog to pee on the sticker and then poop next to the drivers door. OK maybe not the latter but the former?

 

[chicago]

Orionthehunter:

You need to train you dog to pee on the sticker and then poop next to the drivers door. OK maybe not the latter but the former?

That makes for a mighty messy dog, Ma!

 

[dafalax]

catsrus:

I don’t know about plates but in my neighborhood there is a car with a “Keep your religion out of my decision” bumper sticker. I have to walk my dog past that car every day and each day I see it, I get angry. Shouldn’t those inflammatory stickers be disallowed too?
Yeah, that’ll happen!!

That reminds me of those “Keep your laws off my body” t-shirts the pro-abortionists think are so keen. I wanted to make one with a picture of a pre-born baby saying, “Keep your laws off my body”. You know, like acknowledging that their laws are impinging on someone, too.
At any rate, abortion clinics have led people to be so enraged that they bombed them. Does that mean we should outlaw abortion clinics, too? Oh please oh please oh please?

 

[tamccrackine]

dafalax:

I wanted to make one with a picture of a pre-born baby saying, “Keep your laws off my body”.

I love this idea!!!

I have friends that have the Choose Life plates (yes, they’re from FL). And they’ve never had road rage perpetrated against them… Than again, this is a huge Dodge Ram 3500 extended cab truck, so anyone with any rage against them will lose. And as a matter of fact, they’ve gotten lots of compliments about their plates!

I don’t see why the state of NY just can’t allow the plates to be available? I mean, it’s a choice to have those plates right? What happened to the pro-choicer’s argument of “let it be legal so just in case we need it, it’s there”… we can’t use that same argument here? (just obvious different meanings)

 

[legeorge]

I have “Choose Life” plates!! I just got them in October. We live in OH. I also have 2 pro-life bumper stickers. I have only gotten about 2 negative comments on the stickers, but mostly all good! I did find a hole in my taillight last month after being inside a store, but that could have been an accident.

If the message I want to get accross is important to me, why shouldn’t it be my “choice” to have the license plates of my liking? If it incites someone to anger, that’s their problem and that’s a consequence I am willing to accept as a law abiding American citizen who is supposed to have just as much “free speech” as the liberals. Right?

 

[Traditional_Ang]

legeorge:

I have “Choose Life” plates!! I just got them in October. We live in OH. I also have 2 pro-life bumper stickers. I have only gotten about 2 negative comments on the stickers, but mostly all good! I did find a hole in my taillight last month after being inside a store, but that could have been an accident.

If the message I want to get accross is important to me, why shouldn’t it be my “choice” to have the license plates of my liking? If it incites someone to anger, that’s their problem and that’s a consequence I am willing to accept as a law abiding American citizen who is supposed to have just as much “free speech” as the liberals. Right?

legeorge:

I’m working on a non-controversial way to say this, and I don’t think there is one.

In NYC and environs, it’s quite possible to never hear a conservative or Pro-life idea. Because of that, the liberals in places such as Manhatten have never had any of their own liberal, Pro-death ideas questioned; therefore, they think they are self-evident and should be accepted by everyone and questioned by no one.

A Pro-life license plate would be a state sanctioned questioning of these liberals’ most cherished belief, that a baby isn’t a baby unless and until it’s mother says it is (the idea even polluted a ruling by the Supreme Court upholding Roe v. Wade back in 1992). The liberals we’re talking about would never stand for that, so I imagine it possibly could get ugly.

Please understand, the Modern liberal of the last 15 years bears little or no resemblence to the people who really believed in Free Speech who voted Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennady into the Presidency. Quite the opposite, they believe that those of us who disagree with them are evil and that they have the right to muzzle us and do all sorts of nasty things to us (anyone recall the West Coast Walk for life in Jan. and how even the San Francisco Chronicle was embarrased at the behavior of the “Pro-Coice Counter-Demonstrators”) in order to shut us up or make us look bad.

They behaved like that because they believed they had every right to mistreat the “Evil Anti-Choice Marchers”, who were questioning a woman’s right to do with her body as she wanted. What they forgot is that a civil society requires us to treat those who disagree with us in a decent in civil fashion, because what one believes just might not be self-evident. and, What they refused to consider is that the baby living in the woman’s uterus just might be a human being deserving the same protections of law as the mother.

As I said, I was sure that there was no nice way to say this. I hope that no one is unduly offended.

In Christ, Michael

 

[legeorge]

Michael, Don’t worry. I don’t mind controversial. Being a pro-life crusader I have run into everything on the spectrum. I kind of get a kick out of using their own “free speech mantra” to put forth the pro-life message. If any state needs *choose life * plates it’s places like NY, MA and CA. Where else are the poor girls they are lining up to exploit, going to hear a positive message for life? If that comes with some risk to the owner of the vehicle, I say it is a small price to pay to stand up for God’s littlest ones. And if we decide to take that risk on, it is up to our own judgement to do so. We, too, should have a “choice”. We just need to make sure that if we are displaying this message, that our actions back it up. I must agree that traveling with such license plates and bumper stickers has made me a very courteous and law-abiding driver. I am ever conscious of the fact that people will judge my message by any (even accidental) misstep on my part. That is why my husband doesn’t have any pro-life material on his vehicle!

 

[Lonevoice]

Agricola:

I wonder if Unicef and Planned Parenthood have plates.

I was wondering the exact same thing!!!