Wednesday, April 04, 2007

There is no "plates" like Nebraska...

I make no apologies for that pun or the resulting poor subject-verb agreement.

I’ve lived in a few states and driven through most of them and I must say that Nebraska has the ugliest license pates around.













The state of Nebraska is noble in their efforts to capture the beautiful sunsets of the plains, however, the implementation in transcribing that beauty falls a little short. But there may be away around having to put those hideous things on your car.*
In Wooley v. Maynard the United States Supreme Court held a state can not force its citizens to advertise a state's message on their license plates against that citizen’s will. The Court rationalizes that the fundamental right of not speaking is just as important as the right to speak and a state motto on a license plate violates this right.
So theoretically Nebraska is forcing its citizens to advertise a sunset on their license plate; thus, violating its citizens rights to disassociate from speech. And don’t even get me started on the “good life”. Shame on you Nebraska for forcing your state mottos onto private property.

* This post is not legal advice. Please do not go to the DMV with a printout of this post in one hand and the Constitution in the other demanding your right not to associate with speech, no matter how ugly the plates are. There are a few differences with Wooley, that I have not stated in hopes of not boring you.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It goes with out saying that I agree. They are beyond ugly. What is wrong with just plain red and white.