Today's bumper sticker.

[hay rick]

Today's bumper sticker wasn't really a bumper sticker- it was silver letters above the silver SILVERADO on the back of a new black pickup. The message: FUCK OFF. There was no other bumper sticker or message adorning the back of the truck to provide context. Not the usual Let's Go Brandon or FU46. Just FUCK OFF addressed to anybody and everybody.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

1. If you could photo that with your cell

and send it to your State Highway Patrol, along with the license plate, you can report people driving around with obscene material in plain view. I recently did just that with a really offensive flag I saw. I mean, children see this garbage and they shouldn't have to. There was a time when public obscenity was a punishable offense.

[rsdsharp]

2. You might want to read Cohen v California,

403 US 15 (1971). It violates First Amendment free speech rights to criminalize profane words in public.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

4. So, I could write

"F**K THAT C**T TRUMP UP THE ASS WITH A PINEAPPLE AND A PORCUPINE" on my car and not get arrested ??

[rsdsharp]

5. I suppose some dumbass cop could arrest you, but not legally.

You could probably get the charge dismissed, and the cops would likely lose their qualified immunity if you sued for violation of your rights.

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The point of the First Amendment is to protect unpopular speech. In Cohen that speech was “Fuck the Draft” on a jacket Cohen was wearing in a California courthouse. In the above video it was “Fuck the Police” on a T shirt at a county fair.
There are exceptions for “fighting words”, but the courts are particularly sensitive about protecting political speech, which is what is at issue in your example.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

6. Yeah, I think running around with a T-shirt that says "F the Police"

might not be the smartest tactical maneuver in these times.

[rsdsharp]

7. Ask the police. The guy walked on the charge,

and the 6th Circuit absolutely torched them for the unconstitutional arrest.

The cops looooove to talk about “these times,” and “in this day and age,” as if that constitutes an exception to civil rights.

[hay rick]

3. I find Let's Go Brandon much more offensive.

I hope we are not a becoming a society in which casual public obscenities are more objectionable than public expressions of hatred.