{"id":1095,"date":"2006-03-31T07:39:25","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T12:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/03\/31\/100-ticket-for-bushit-bumper-sticker\/"},"modified":"2006-04-25T15:56:17","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T19:56:17","slug":"100-ticket-for-bushit-bumper-sticker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/03\/100-ticket-for-bushit-bumper-sticker\/","title":{"rendered":"$100 ticket for Bushit Bumper Sticker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An oncology nurse from Emory University Hospital here in DeKalb Country Georgia got a <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/30\/woman_gets_100_ticket_for_bumpersticker.html\">$100 Ticket<\/a> for a bumpersticker that was described as &#8220;lewd.&#8221; The officer gave her a talk about patriotism, too.<\/p>\n<p>All is said was<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;NO MORE BUSHIT&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just ridiculous. I have seen much worse than that! <\/p>\n<p>Clearly she was pulled over and issued a ticket because of her politics. Not allowed.<\/p>\n<p>She was even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views06\/0328-22.htm\">wearing her nurse&#8217;s uniform<\/a> when she was pulled over.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Elaborating to The Progressive, Grier says people are wrong to view this in a partisan way.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just a Democrat\/Republican issue,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she says. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all need to get beyond that. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my right to speak, and yours.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Gerry Weber, the legal director of the ACLU of Georgia, is representing Grier. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The indicators are that the officer didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like her views of President Bush and that was the motivating factor,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Weber says the ticketing was clearly illegal.<\/p>\n<p>He says the Georgia Supreme Court struck down the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lewd bumpersticker\u00e2\u20ac\u009d statute way back in 1991, in a case involving a defendant who had a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shit Happens\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bumpersticker.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An oncology nurse from Emory University Hospital here in DeKalb Country Georgia got a $100 Ticket for a bumpersticker that was described as &#8220;lewd.&#8221; The officer gave her a talk about patriotism, too. All is said was &#8220;NO MORE BUSHIT&#8221; That&#8217;s just ridiculous. I have seen much worse than that! Clearly she was pulled over and issued a ticket because of her politics. Not allowed. She was even wearing her nurse&#8217;s uniform when she was pulled over. Elaborating to The&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/03\/100-ticket-for-bushit-bumper-sticker\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,3],"tags":[1775,1776,96,294,1777,468,931],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-humor","category-politics","tag-amusing","tag-bumper-sticker","tag-bush","tag-censorship","tag-freedom-of-expression","tag-protest","tag-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}