‘Don’t Tread on Me’ License Plates Could be Coming to VA
- Posted on November 10, 2010 at 9:56am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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The Gadsen flag with it’s popular “Don’t Tread on Me” mantra could be coming to a vehicle license plate near you — if you live in Virginia.
“The citizens of Virginia will soon be able to express their support for smaller government and protest the Federal Government’s intrusion into the affairs of private citizens,” the Richmond, VA 9/12 project website says. “How? With license plates that make a statement!”
The group has introduced state legislation that would make Gadsen-themed license plates an official option for residents.
The group collected the 475 signatures necessary to get the plates and the appropriate legislation considered, which the legislature will do in January.
But the group‘s work isn’t over. If the bill makes it past the legislature and is signed into law, the Department of Motor Vehicles needs 350 applications to establish the specialized identifiers. The plates will cost only $10, and the group is encouraging VA residents to fill out an application form.
Similar proposals are in place in Texas.
“The TIME IS NOW,” the Richmond group writes, “Don’t wait or it may be too late!”
(H/T: TPM)
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Comments (146)
Constitutional
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:49amI wish they were available in all 50 states. I suppose a sticker will do.
Report Post »jollylama
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 4:35pmobama says there are 56 or 57 states!
Report Post »neverending
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:44amHopefully they will come to Az!!!
Report Post »gracie07
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:39ami LOVE it!!
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:38amNah, it’ll just make it easier for us to be spotted!
Report Post »dpselfe
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:25amI’ll give up my “VET” tags for that……..
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 12:51pmPlease don’t give those up, I always feel good when I see those plates.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:25amJust be aware of the possibility of vandalism from the *sswipes on the left.
Report Post »bbquizzle
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:23amWant.
Report Post »bobby535
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:21amThis is awesome!!! I hope this will make people more comfortable about showing who they are.
Report Post »NHABE64
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:17amDefinitely cool. Any way we can wake up more American consciences out there in time to kick Obama out and bring in a Patriot in 2012. Damn right Don’t Treat on Me!
Report Post »Reagan/Demint.deciple
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:16amI live in Florida I bought one for the front of my Jeep and get comments all the time. I got it on ebay for like 4 bucks..If you don’t live in Virginia this is your other option…
Report Post »MaryRProudAmerican
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:12amI absolutely love my state!!
Report Post »dlmarsh
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:11amGod Bless VA
Report Post »The Capital of the Second American Revolution in the mid 1800′s
Our Governor is great and our Attorney General also. We had a $1.75 Billion budget deficit and when Governor McDonnell came in he cut VA Govt. spending so we now have a $200 million surplus. He didn’t raise any taxes or add any new taxes to eliminate our budget deficit. Thank God we have in the VA Constitution the state Govt. must have a balanced budget each year.
DrBeatle
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:20amWONDERFUL: Good for you, best wishes VA from Oklahoma
Report Post »mizflame98
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:08amI want the “Come And Take It” license plate that Texas will be offering.
Report Post »Daragon29
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:14pmnow that makes me wanna move to texas.
Report Post »Country
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:07amCool, I want one for Florida.
Report Post »DE OPPRESSO LIBER
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:07amI love it. I would put one on my truck. I have a crazy theory, maybe Obama’s secret police will round you up if you have that plate. Just a joke.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:14amFine, let them try, just get it on tape and broadcast it across the internet and the phone lines.
Report Post »mizflame98
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:18amI doubt that will be a joke.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:37amMy jeep will be in the impound lot with your truck!
Report Post »Sandy
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:07amOh yea, I will get one!!!!!
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:07amI gotta get me one of those!!!!!!!!
Report Post »charliego
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:07amWAY to GO, Virginia!!!!!
Report Post »rubberbandangle
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:06amLove this! We have to get this in Ohio, along with all other states as well. Plus, liberals should like this idea as well, since we will be paying the state more money to get them, and you all know where most liberals get their money now, don’t you?
Just helping the cause for both sides!
Report Post »radioguru
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:04amI’m not a fan of the “snake” symbol…meaning is great, symbol wrong.
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:08amThe snake is notoriously tempting. But the snake is fair.
– Dimmu Borgir, “The Serpentine Offering”
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:37amOh please…..
Report Post »libertarian8586
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:18pmIn December 1775, Benjamin Franklin published an essay in the Pennsylvania Journal under the pseudonym American Guesser in which he suggested that the rattlesnake was a good symbol for the American spirit:
“I recollected that her eye excelled in brightness, that of any other animal, and that she has no eye-lids—She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance.—She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage.—As if anxious to prevent all pretensions of quarreling with her, the weapons with which nature has furnished her, she conceals in the roof of her mouth, so that, to those who are unacquainted with her, she appears to be a most defenseless animal; and even when those weapons are shewn and extended for her defense, they appear weak and contemptible; but their wounds however small, are decisive and fatal:—Conscious of this, she never wounds till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of stepping on her.—Was I wrong, Sir, in thinking this a strong picture of the temper and conduct of America?”[3]
I think the snake is a fantastic symbol. Thats why its tattooed on my shoulder.
Report Post »CALL ME SNAKE
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 7:16pmFine, I’ll take yours then. Hope this catches on in Ohio.
Report Post »AmericanSoldier
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:04amI want one!
Report Post »Skwerl E. Muckenfutch
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:03amI would consider moving to VA for this…and for the lower taxes than in my state of NJ.
Report Post »Reagan/Demint.deciple
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:13amHold on a few mins. Chris Christie is just getting started over there in N.J….
Report Post »lmao, Give him another year or two and that state will be just fine…
Skwerl E. Muckenfutch
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 9:48amNot if they keep electing tax and spend halfwits to the State Assembly.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:02amRefrain from slithering around me as well.
Report Post »RightWrite
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:02amThis is AWESOME!!
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:01amSweet! I might be moving to Virginia!
Report Post »mizflame98
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:07amI’d move to Virginia just for the license plate…that is if Texas is destroyed of course.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:13amWonder if we could get that done here in AZ.
cubber
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:15amI’m in.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:17amI’ll buy one.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:20amSNOW, I was just wondering the same thing. I don’t know how a person goes about getting the ball rolling on something like that.
Report Post »Jacamina
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:41amI would love to see this happen in Missouri!
Report Post »Thomas Payne
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:53amJust write, call, email your STATE representative and governor to introduce the legislation. Of course, if your representative is a leftist commie pinko then you don’t have much chance……
Report Post »SICKANTIRED
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:55amGot to Print it out and send it in hell ya I want one :-)
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 10:58amSNOW and I both live in Az, our governor is definitely not a pinko commie,
Report Post »GO 1070
CandidCandi
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:05amI am SO grateful to live in Virginia!!! Cannot wait to get this plate as soon as it becomes available! This is truly awesome!
Report Post »theninthplanet
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:19amI think I’ll keep my “In GOD we trust” license plate, from Indiana. I know it ****** liberals off.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:29amIt needs to go nation wide.
Report Post »monroeslb
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 12:18pmGood for West Virginia.
Report Post »AngryTexanFromAmarillo
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 12:29pmI WANT ONE! I hope they do that in Texas.
Report Post »oceandove
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 12:33pmI live in Virginia and this is ONE license plate that I would stand in line to get.
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 12:48pmI was just thinking of moving as well. But since us Pennsylvanians now have tea party folk running the show, I may just wait for OUR liscense plate. Mwahahahaaha.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:11pmObligatory:
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Report Post »PatriotComeLately
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:35pmChecked the FL regulations, which start with a $60,000 filing fee! In addition you have to sponsor a statewide survey and submit marketing plans. Might be a while before we get something like this here.
But if anyone is prepared to get this started, let me know, I am in for one.
Report Post »meisterschaft
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:44pmHEY SNOWLEOPARD….where in AZ are you? I am in AZ too…..
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 3:11pmFlorida has hundreds of vanity plates .. I will have to check and see if they add this one before January when mine renews.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 3:17pmI just checked and FL has a “freeze” on new plates until July 1, 2011 .. I would love to have this option! Ours are way more than $10 and take an organization giving the state a $60,000 application fee … I thought that I miss read that but I did not … holy crap!
http://www.flhsmv.gov/specialtytags/SLP.html
Report Post »kickedoutofengland
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 3:35pmyet another reason to be proud to be a Virginian. Bet your ___ that this license plate will be between the dual exhaust pipes on my CO2 spewing dual exhaust on my full size 4WD SUV .
Report Post »chazman
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 4:21pmThe 9/12 project in VA are the ones who got this ball rolling. I’m calling my chapter here in Ohio tomorrow! I want these plates!!
Liberals suck , by the way …
Report Post »WeimMom
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 4:24pmMe too!
Report Post »Robert W
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 3:59amI knew I moved to va for a reason!
Report Post »waggie
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 9:21pmSweeeeeetttttt!!!!!
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