Woman fights $100 fine for 'Bushit' bumper sticker

[kpete]

Woman fights $100 fine for 'Bushit' bumper sticker

RAW STORY
Published: Tuesday March 28, 2006

"It was 9:30 on a recent Friday night when Denise Grier saw blue lights in her rearview mirror," the Atlanta Journal-Constitution begins in Thursday editions. Excerpts:

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She pulled over on Chamblee-Tucker Road, unaware of her infraction.

"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.

"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."

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[Cooley Hurd]

1. I would think she'd be able to fight it...

The word displayed is "bushit," not "shit."

[FloridaPat]

2. Bet they can't find that word in the dictionary. Or the "lewd" dictionary.

[zbdent]

3. Bet there weren't any people fined (or even pulled over)

for a "F*ck Hillary" bumper sticker . . .

[baldguy]

4. The Lipshits Bakery truck gets pulled over all the time.

[booksenkatz]

6. And so does the Fuchs Brothers Plumbing truck. nt

[Tesha]

5. Duplicate, and "slam dunk"

This is a duplicate of a thread from a few days ago.

This case is also a legal "slam dunk". Political
speech is protected speech, and she'll win in an
instant if she challenges this in court.

(Hint: The ACLU is your friend on issues like this!)

Tesha