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Woman Sues Over Ticket for Anti-Bush Bumper Sticker

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laFiera

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Originally posted by: laFiera
TextDenise Grier, 47, of Athens, Ga., got a $100 ticket in March after a DeKalb County police officer spotted the bumper sticker, which read "I'm Tired Of All The BUSH*T." (The actual bumper sticker didn't delete any letters.)


Suing for an anti bush bumper sticker? What is this woman thinking! She should be worshipping lord bush since the cop was merciful enough not to send her to guantanamo bay for being accused of being an enemy combatant.....the nerve!!!
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Although a DeKalb judge threw out the ticket in April because the state's lewd decal law that formed the basis for the ticket was ruled unconstitutional in 1990, Grier is seeking damages for "emotional distress" against the county, according to the lawsuit.

Grier also seeks a declaration in federal court that her bumper sticker is considered protected speech under the First Amendment because she is "uncertain and insecure regarding her right to display her bumper sticker in DeKalb County," the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia.

Grier, a nurse who works at Emory University and other hospitals, also is seeking punitive damages against the DeKalb police officer who gave her the ticket because he "acted with reckless disregard" of her rights, the lawsuit said.

The state law prohibited lewd or profane stickers and decals on vehicles. A phone message to the office of DeKalb County CEO Vernon Jones was not immediately returned Monday.

Derrickson said Grier still has the anti-Bush bumper sticker on her car.
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Good I hope she wins.
 
Other than your retarded opinion...

The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia.
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That explains most of this.

Grier is seeking damages for "emotional distress" against the county
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also is seeking punitive damages against the DeKalb police officer who gave her the ticket because he "acted with reckless disregard" of her rights
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Sounds like your typical "I'm entitled to everything" liberal. Not much else to see here. This lawsuit will get thrown out faster than the condom her parents should have used.
 
Originally posted by: jrenz
Sounds like your typical "I'm entitled to everything" liberal.
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Sounds like your typical assertive liberal who has the time to make a point. The only thing wrong with your rant is, she happens to be right.

Good for her! :thumbsup: 😎 :thumbsup:
Not much else to see here. This lawsuit will get thrown out faster than the condom her parents should have used.
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Stop projecting your own shortcomings... or your parents'. :laugh:
 
Seeking damages for emotional distress is moronic, although I think the declaration by a federal court would be fitting. As far as damages against the officer.....he should pay the price of the ticket.
 
Originally posted by: Harvey
Originally posted by: jrenz
Sounds like your typical "I'm entitled to everything" liberal.
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Sounds like your typical assertive liberal who has the time to make a point. The only thing wrong with your rant is, she happens to be right.
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Just because I can see past her (and your) political insecurities to realize that she's just another shill that got talked into a lawsuit by the ACLU, doesn't make her right. Too bad you're too busy wanting to "stick it to Bush" to realize that this is just a waste of taxpayer money. Where do you think her settlement would come from? How much should the people of GA pay for her "emotional distress"?

Good for her! :thumbsup: 😎 :thumbsup:
Not much else to see here. This lawsuit will get thrown out faster than the condom her parents should have used.
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Stop projecting your own shortcomings... or your parents'. :laugh:
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I hear your wife is a real slut.
 
Originally posted by: jrenz
Originally posted by: Harvey
Originally posted by: jrenz
Sounds like your typical "I'm entitled to everything" liberal.
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Sounds like your typical assertive liberal who has the time to make a point. The only thing wrong with your rant is, she happens to be right.
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Just because I can see past her (and your) political insecurities to realize that she's just another shill that got talked into a lawsuit by the ACLU, doesn't make her right.
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Go ahead. Tell us you have all the authoritative links and info to justify your pissant rant. If you can, I'll concede the point. Iif you can't, please STFU.
Too bad you're too busy wanting to "stick it to Bush" to realize that this is just a waste of taxpayer money.
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"Sticking to Bush" may be its own noble cause for the sake of saving our nation, but WTF does Bush have to do with this woman's case? The cop abused his authority for whatever reason, and at least until the Bushwhackos take down the rest of the Constitution, she has the right to petition the courts to address her grievances.

Don't like it? Again, I respectfully ask you to STFU... or are you ready to concede YOUR Constitutional rights?
Where do you think her settlement would come from? How much should the people of GA pay for her "emotional distress"?
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The best place would be from the bully putz cop's pocket.
I hear your wife is a real slut.
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I hear you don't hear so well... little boy. :laugh:
 
Georgia, you say? Pffft, I hope the backwoods pig-fsckers get a nice big settlement against them. Ticketing someone based on a law that was ruled unconstitutional 16 years ago really demonstrates what grade-A morons they really are. If the only thing the go-tards at the Dekalb County Sheriff's office seem to understand is a lawsuit with financial consequences, so be it.
 
Originally posted by: jrenz

Just because I can see past her (and your) political insecurities to realize that she's just another shill that got talked into a lawsuit by the ACLU, doesn't make her right.
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You do realize that, in cases such as this, the woman would have had to have gone to the ACLU on her own. The only items that they truly go after w/o being approached are laws that are passed that are blatantly unconstitutional.

This right wing fallacial fear of the ACLU monitoring the entire country looking for reasons to sue is founded in about as much fact as a Bush claim of Iraq/al Qaida ties.

 
Originally posted by: jrenz
Too bad you're too busy wanting to "stick it to Bush" to realize that this is just a waste of taxpayer money.
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Whereas illegally enforcing a law that was struck down decades ago is not a waste of taxpayer money? You did read the article, right?

Originally posted by: jrenz
Where do you think her settlement would come from? How much should the people of GA pay for her "emotional distress"?
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It should come out of the pig's salary.





 
Originally posted by: screech
Seeking damages for emotional distress is moronic, although I think the declaration by a federal court would be fitting. As far as damages against the officer.....he should pay the price of the ticket.
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Originally posted by: jrenz
Originally posted by: Harvey
Originally posted by: jrenz
Sounds like your typical "I'm entitled to everything" liberal.
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Sounds like your typical assertive liberal who has the time to make a point. The only thing wrong with your rant is, she happens to be right.
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Just because I can see past her (and your) political insecurities to realize that she's just another shill that got talked into a lawsuit by the ACLU, doesn't make her right. Too bad you're too busy wanting to "stick it to Bush" to realize that this is just a waste of taxpayer money. Where do you think her settlement would come from? How much should the people of GA pay for her "emotional distress"?

Good for her! :thumbsup: 😎 :thumbsup:
Not much else to see here. This lawsuit will get thrown out faster than the condom her parents should have used.
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Stop projecting your own shortcomings... or your parents'. :laugh:
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I hear your wife is a real slut.
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If the people of Georgia don't want to pay, they should make sure they have police who aren't idiots and/or bullies. After all, aren't conservatives always pushing for "personal responsibility"? Well here it is, you act like a jackass on a power trip, you get to pay for it. If your job involves serving a community, chances are good THEY will pay for it too...maybe next time they'll pick someone competent to serve them.

I'm about the last person in this country to support all the idiot lawsuits out there, but in this case I think it's a good object lesson, whether or not the woman actually felt any "pain and suffering". I realize you guys have a real hard time putting down the Bush-bong, but when you have a job like "police officer" it is NOT a platform for you to go around sticking it to the libs. You have plenty of time to be a jackass on your own time, when you go to work...leave that sh!t at home.
 
Originally posted by: UberNeuman
hmmmm, I wonder how many pick-up trucks with Calvin pissing decals are toolin' around Georgia right now?
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Anyone who thinks this was about the obscenity law and NOT the cop trying to make a political point is not playing with a full deck...
 
Originally posted by: Rainsford
...when you have a job like "police officer" it is NOT a platform for you to go around sticking it to the libs. You have plenty of time to be a jackass on your own time, when you go to work...leave that sh!t at home.
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QFT! :thumbsup:
 
What's sad is the inability for so many on the right to have any sense.

It's not complicated: if the speech is clearly protected, the police have no business ticketing someone for it, causing them inconvenience. That's harrassment.

Not everyone who gets a ticket dismissed is harrassed; there's an element of good faith on the part of the officer.

This case does not appear to me the 'good faith' standard and the officer should be disciplined, IMO.
 
So the cop was stupid and wrong first, and then he passed those qualities on to the woman so she can be stupid and wrong now too?
 
Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Georgia, you say? Pffft, I hope the backwoods pig-fsckers get a nice big settlement against them. Ticketing someone based on a law that was ruled unconstitutional 16 years ago really demonstrates what grade-A morons they really are. If the only thing the go-tards at the Dekalb County Sheriff's office seem to understand is a lawsuit with financial consequences, so be it.
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Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Georgia, you say? Pffft, I hope the backwoods pig-fsckers get a nice big settlement against them.
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Real open minded about Georgia eh?
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This is the same Dekalb County that locked me up for Distributed Computing as they said it cost 59 cents a second for 1/2 a floppy of data. They wanted me in jail for 125 years (7 Felony counts) and $815,000 in fines and restitution.
 
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Georgia, you say? Pffft, I hope the backwoods pig-fsckers get a nice big settlement against them.
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Real open minded about Georgia eh?
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Well, you have to admit, the state has a seriously negative track-record when it comes to tolerance.
 
Originally posted by: Trevelyan
So the cop was stupid and wrong first, and then he passed those qualities on to the woman so she can be stupid and wrong now too?
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How is asserting her freedom of speech either stupid or wrong? How is taking him on and subjecting herself to possible public criticism from idiots who are ready and willing to put her down for doing so anything but couragous, especially when those same idiots don't know which side of the Constitution their own freedoms are on.

The cop's job is to know the law and to enforce it evenly and apart from his own political beliefs. If he cited her under a non-existant law because he didn't like her politics, he abused his authority. What alternative action would you recommend in response to such? If he is not disciplined in this case, should she (or we) wait until he shoots someone for the same reasons?
 
YAYYY for frivolous lawsuits!!

bah... f'n ACLU.... "emotional distress" my arse! what a total bunch of crock.

The ticket got thrown out, didnt it? well then she should be greatful that justice won out and STFU already with her whiny-assed BS lawsuit.
 
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