DC government keeping us all safe from being offended

[Charles Kozierok]

This is so ridiculous, it's funny. (PDF)

BTW, that's over 27,000 items individually banned. Your tax dollars hard at work.

 

[OverVolt]

Not booby

 

[MixMasterTang]

I don't see why some of them are banned. Like DAUGHTR.

 

[fskimospy]

I wonder if the numbers matter. I see that "BANGEM2" is banned, but to me that clearly raises the question if "BANGEM1" is out there terrorizing the neighborhood.

 

[Moonbeam]

Wouldn't the intention be to give direction to folk who issue personalized licenses to keep them from applying personal and subjective judgments and just make things very easy like the seven words you can't say on TV? Just wondering.

 

[Moonbeam]

I don't see why some of them are banned. Like DAUGHTR.

Maybe it's Dog Hunter The Reconing, with the anti government implications.

 

[Bowfinger]

Seems like my .sig is particularly applicable here:

If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, you're not living in a free society.​

 

[DominionSeraph]

Your tax dollars hard at work.

Namely, $0?

 

[Nintendesert]

Namely, $0?

You think some make believe little pony made and maintains that list?

 

[LumbergTech]

Banned CTHULHU ??? he will be upset

 

[Londo_Jowo]

I don't see why some of them are banned. Like DAUGHTR.

Dog Hater

 

[rudder]

A55RGY is only funny on a florida plate.

 

[Doppel]

Many of those like GFORCE no reason to ban that.

 

[DominionSeraph]

You think some make believe little pony made and maintains that list?

You're not very bright, eh?

 

[Lanyap]

I would expect all states maintain a ban list for vanity license plates. They also probably check the automatically generated normal ones to make sure they don't offend anyone.

A lot of companies have banned word edits built into their systems to make sure offending words don't get used.

 

[ShawnD1]

So this means I can't get a plate that says N1GR?

Some of the banned plates are just stupid. "70DODGE" and "HERHEMI" are banned because it's against the law to be proud of an American company. The only Honda plates banned are "HONDA" and "FKHONDA". You can still have something like MYHONDA or 09HONDA. Blatant anti-Americanism right there.

edit:
I did a search, and N1GR is not a banned plate. The only banned one is N1GR8TER. I'm still allowed to be the N1GR in this town.

 

[DominionSeraph]

I'm still allowed to be the N1GR in this town.

No, the ban list is not comprehensive. It would be a list of previously denied requests, not the sole or even primary means by which a new plate is vetted. Your plate would still need to be approved:

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Do not question our overlords, who do things only for The Greater Good.

 

[Moonbeam]

Do not question our overlords, who do things only for The Greater Good.

Isn't this the price of freedom, to grant folk some personal creativity, so they don't have to feel like they are just the product of some random number generator? It seems to me that granting greater freedom of self expression to folk would be a good thing, except, of course, there are those whom, the minute they get more freedom see how they can abuse it. So I would say that this monstrosity of an expression of a dictatorial inclination was simply a byproduct of an advance in liberty. Me, I like the anonymity of a government issued car tattoo and the saving of 25 bucks for the right to feel special. I also practice what I call the greater good for me. But as an aside, if I could get a plate that says 'conservatives are brain defective' I might be tempted.

 

[SheHateMe]

SheH8Me

is still good.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Isn't this the price of freedom, to grant folk some personal creativity, so they don't have to feel like they are just the product of some random number generator? It seems to me that granting greater freedom of self expression to folk would be a good thing, except, of course, there are those whom, the minute they get more freedom see how they can abuse it. So I would say that this monstrosity of an expression of a dictatorial inclination was simply a byproduct of an advance in liberty. Me, I like the anonymity of a government issued car tattoo and the saving of 25 bucks for the right to feel special. I also practice what I call the greater good for me. But as an aside, if I could get a plate that says 'conservatives are brain defective' I might be tempted.

What is liberty? What is freedom? What are the limits thereof? These are legitimate questions that we as citizens ought to ask, and then we empower our representatives to enact reasonable regulation. The problem is with some who believe that the definition of democracy is the election of people who decide what freedoms we have and when we may have them. They are in no way obligated to go beyond claiming they won the election and are not compelled in any way to listen to us while in office. If we don't like the orders we're given we can defeat them to be replaced by others who do the same thing.

Doesn't seem quite right to me.

 

[hal2kilo]

Nothing new here. One of the guys i worked with when I was in Groton CT had the license plate EMWOLB. Quite understandable when viewed through your rearview mirror. It took the state about 2 years to figure it out and would not allow him to have it. That was back in the early eighties.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Doesn't seem quite right to me.

That's because you're an idiot. And it's exactly that general idiocy which is why we don't leave things up to the unthinking knee-jerk reactions of the mob.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy

Direct democracy was very much opposed by the framers of the United States Constitution and some signatories of the Declaration of Independence. They saw a danger in majorities forcing their will on minorities. As a result, they advocated a representative democracy in the form of a constitutional republic over a direct democracy. For example, James Madison, in Federalist No. 10 advocates a constitutional republic over direct democracy precisely to protect the individual from the will of the majority. He says, "A pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party. Hence it is, that democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."[10] John Witherspoon, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, said "Pure democracy cannot subsist long nor be carried far into the departments of state – it is very subject to caprice and the madness of popular rage." Alexander Hamilton said, "That a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure, deformity."[11]

 

[Moonbeam]

What is liberty? What is freedom? What are the limits thereof? These are legitimate questions that we as citizens ought to ask, and then we empower our representatives to enact reasonable regulation. The problem is with some who believe that the definition of democracy is the election of people who decide what freedoms we have and when we may have them. They are in no way obligated to go beyond claiming they won the election and are not compelled in any way to listen to us while in office. If we don't like the orders we're given we can defeat them to be replaced by others who do the same thing.

Doesn't seem quite right to me.

These are good questions. What I see here is just a simple issue. It used to be that you took whatever plate you got handed by the bureaucracy and some people decided that wasn't enough freedom so somebody got the ball rolling that you could create your own license plate. That's it. An expansion of freedom whatever freedom may be, but then came the abuse of that freedom. So even if there is government denial of whatever you might want to put on your plate, a lot more people can get a plate they want than the way it used to be. So no matter which way I turn this, I don't see 1984. I see the government responding to the people affirmatively.

 

[Moonbeam]

That's because you're an idiot. And it's exactly that general idiocy which is why we don't leave things up to the unthinking knee-jerk reactions of the mob.

Funny, I'm as worried about the knee-jerk reactions of the mob as I am this 'we' of which you speak, exactly as worried, in fact.