Just using my imagination....
Posted on 02/20/2007 12:26:19 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
PHOENIX - It's still going to be legal in Arizona for trucks to have splash guards with racist terms and silhouettes of naked women.
The House on Thursday rejected a Democratic amendment that would have banned splash guards with "images that are obscene or hateful."
The amendment's sponsor, Rep. Ed Ableser of Tempe, said he'd seen a splash guard that used the word "pickaninny" — a derogatory term for black children — and said his proposal was intended "to make sure those individuals that have hateful motives don't express or push those images upon others in our communities."
Rep. Theresa Ulmer, D-Yuma, supported the amendment and said it fit with lawmakers' other efforts to crack down on pornography and sexual predators.
"I personally am tired of explaining to my 11-year-old son why they (women) are depicted on mud flaps, but not all women are 36Ds. He's very confused by that," Ulmer said. "But seriously, this is about family values — what are we going to send out as a message to our children."
No law on 'hateful' Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Gilbert, opposed the amendment, saying it probably violated First Amendment protections for free speech and that "hateful" isn't defined by law.
Democratic Rep. Ben Miranda of Phoenix voted for the amendment but said he did so only because he felt compelled to do so because a vote against it could be misconstrued.
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I've seen more than just a few mud-flaps with the silhouettes of naked women, but I don't ever recall any p-words.
Must get out more.
How do you know the women are nekkid?
I like people to have rascist things on their trucks or clothing.
Makes them easier to spot.
The bigots that cause problems are the ones you can't spot and who say all the right things, like the Democrat leadership.
I think they should ban bupper stickers.
Why not go all out to violate our right of free expression, why stop? /s
No bias in that headline, no siree!
I also support my right to boycott whatever company the truck belongs to, if any. ;-)
I had to go look pickaninny up. I thought it meant a bunch of kids that roamed the streets. I didn't know it was racial.
If that confuses him, maybe you should cut back on his Ritalin dose.
Looks like 1st Ammendment squeeked by once again.
"Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Gilbert, opposed the amendment, saying it probably violated First Amendment protections for free speech...."
If a judge can somehow come to the conclusion that the first amendment allows you to walk around on public streets with no clothes, like I think one state judge in Maryland or Connecticut did, than surely this would fall under the first amendment.
Exactly. The KKK slowly morphed and blended into today's Democrat party. It's not easy to tell, but its there. And by KKK I don't just mean Sheets Byrd.
Every young man comes to this realization some sad day.
That's easy. John McCain and the Democrat party get to define what speech is protected under the first amendment.
Just using my imagination....
Idiot!
Their eleven year-old son is confused about women not all being 36-D's because of truck mudflaps? If that is the case, then the first time he sees a Playboy he is going to go stark raving mad.
I swear sometimes I think the human race as a whole is completely helpless, now, way past the point of no return. No one is safe, we're all at risk unless we pass more stupid laws. We deserve to be annihilated by aliens.
Har! I guess it's better that the scumbag Democrats are busying themselves with idiotic crap like "splash guards" rather than pushing tax hikes and gun bans, etc.
Another example of some fools trying to enforce the little known right to not be offended.
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