SuperiorDG
05-18-2012, 07:22
I thought you guys would get a laugh out of this.
They were seven letters on the license plates: ICUHAJI.
Phonetically, it could be read, "I see you, Haji."
To the Department of Motor Vehicles, the message was considered offensive to Arab Americans and grounds for the tags' revocation.
But to a former sergeant in the U.S. Army, the plates sent a message of support for the soldiers who served with him during two tours in Iraq.
Sean Bujno of Chesapeake, who was honorably discharged in 2009, is appealing last month's decision by the DMV to revoke his plates. In Circuit Court documents, he contends that DMV Commissioner Richard Holcomb violated his free-speech rights and his 14th Amendment right to due process.
"The government can't be charged with deciding what we can and cannot say," said Andrew D. Meyer, Bujno's attorney. "There are going to be people who don't like a certain message, but that is why there is the First Amendment."
http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/chesapeake-man-appeals-after-dmv-revokes-plates
They were seven letters on the license plates: ICUHAJI.
Phonetically, it could be read, "I see you, Haji."
To the Department of Motor Vehicles, the message was considered offensive to Arab Americans and grounds for the tags' revocation.
But to a former sergeant in the U.S. Army, the plates sent a message of support for the soldiers who served with him during two tours in Iraq.
Sean Bujno of Chesapeake, who was honorably discharged in 2009, is appealing last month's decision by the DMV to revoke his plates. In Circuit Court documents, he contends that DMV Commissioner Richard Holcomb violated his free-speech rights and his 14th Amendment right to due process.
"The government can't be charged with deciding what we can and cannot say," said Andrew D. Meyer, Bujno's attorney. "There are going to be people who don't like a certain message, but that is why there is the First Amendment."
http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/chesapeake-man-appeals-after-dmv-revokes-plates