Exactly who are we supposed to be protecting this time?
Denise Grier says … last June, she affixed a sentiment (“I’m Tired of All the Bush–”) to her right rear bumper.
“With the performance of Bush, I feel like, you know, he’s not done what he was elected to do. I don’t feel like he’s telling us the truth, and those are my personal feelings,” Grier said.
On March 10, she was pulled over by a DeKalb police officer.
“He said, ‘do you know why I stopped you?’ And I said, ‘no I have no idea.’ And he said, ‘you have a lewd decal on your car.’ And I said, ‘I do?’ My first thought was one of my children had put something obscene or filthy on my car,” said Grier.
The officer said the offending bumper sticker violated a law against lewd, obscene and vulgar vehicle decals.
The American Civil Liberties Union points to action by the Georgia Supreme Court 15 years ago that overturned that law.
“A law, such as lewd bumper stickers is unenforceable. What’s lewd to one person is not lewd to another. And it allows officers to end up citing people just because they don’t like the views expressed,” said Gerry Webster of the Georgia ACLU.
Also, from ajc.com:
[Grier] has not removed the bumper sticker in question, or six other mostly politically oriented decals on her car. “I used to think that one person could not make a difference,” said Grier. “Now I’m beginning to think one person can, and should. We shouldn’t be afraid to stand up for what we believe in.”
