A recent amendment to legislation changing the height requirement for rear splash guards on trucks in Arizona that would have resulted in the ban of mudflap images deemed obscene or hateful has been defeated in the state legislature.
Thank God! Because if we can’t put obscene or hateful messages on my big rig’s mudflaps here in America, then what the hell have our boys been fighting for over in that godforsaken desert?
Introduced by Tempe State Representative Ed Ableser, the amendment's aims to help promote family values and help curb pornography and sexual predators.
Apparently Ableser saw a vehicle sporting mudflaps that used a derogatory term for black children on them and was so incensed he came up with the proposed ban. But the amendment proved too far-reaching and seemed to be more about taste than values.
But the mudflap controversy doth not stop there. Over on the east coast, in Washington County, Sheriff deputy Matthew Bragunier complains he sees fake bull genitals flopping from the hitches of pickup trucks at least once a day and wants to put a stop to it! So he teamed up with Del. LeRoy E. Myers Jr., R-Washington/Allegany, and filed a bill for Maryland to ban the toys and others like them. The bill prohibits any "model, sign, sticker or other item" that displays uncovered human or animal genitals, as well as human buttocks or female breasts, from motor vehicles.
Myers sees his bill as a legislative public service.
"We're there to clean up the air ...," he said, referring to major bills proposed this session. "What about our minds and eyes of our young people?"
Yes, people, this man just said he wants to clean up your mind.
Scary, huh?
America, stop the war against mudflaps NOW. This is going too far!
Autoblog.com:
AZ legislator's "obscene mudflap" ban defeated
Herald-mail.com:
Bill would ban vehicle vulgarity
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