Cenk Uygur
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DA Can't Use 'Hang Em' License Plate Anymore
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September 16, 2017
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6:30Now PlayingIt’s can’t be comforting to know your state DA wants to hang “em.” Ana Kasparian and Brett Erlich, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"A district attorney in Texas was forced to change his vanity plates after the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) deemed them “potentially objectionable to one or more members of the public.”
Fannin County District Attorney Richard Glaser has had those plates–which read “HANG EM”–for 35 years. He claims to have been inspired by the Clint Eastwood and Ted Post revisionist Western film “Hang ‘Em High,” a classic of the sub-genre. Glaser said:
It really sorta fits what I do. It harkens back to frontier justice… If I’m out on the road, people will drive by, give me a thumbs up, or clap or something like that. I guess the people in Austin have a little different sense of humor.
The DA’s bad luck stems from the DMV’s denial of vanity plates to another driver on similar grounds. That driver appealed his own plate cancellation and wrote, “How can the district attorney for Fannin County have ‘HANG EM’ and that not be threatening? Just wondering?” The DMV claimed this qualified as a complaint.”*
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