{"id":34256,"date":"2013-02-21T16:33:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T20:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34256"},"modified":"2013-02-21T16:33:16","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T20:33:16","slug":"the-great-icuhaji-debacle-of-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34256","title":{"rendered":"The great ICUHAJI debacle of \u201913"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30069\">TSO wrote about Sean Bujno<\/a>, the Iraq War veteran, last May in his quest to get ICUHAJI (That&#8217;s I see you, Haji) license plates in Virginia from the state because they thought it could be construed as offensive. Well, he won that case and was given his plates. But the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles is taking another run at getting his plates from him;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a letter to Mr. Bujno, DMV officials now claim the plate encourages violence and is vulgar, the AP reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat couldn\u2019t be further from the truth,\u201d said Andrew Meyer, Mr. Bujno\u2019s attorney, according to AP. \u201cHe really means it respectfully. Some might see [Haji] as a slur, but it\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haji simply refers to someone who\u2019s made the pilgrimage to Mecca, Mr. Meyer added, according to AP.<\/p>\n<p>The matter is set for another hearing before DMV officials in March, according to AP. Mr. Meyer will argue a free-speech angle, AP says.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I see why he&#8217;s doing it, and it&#8217;s probably not for the reasons his lawyer says, but the state of Virginia is making it more of a battle against them. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Old Trooper and Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TSO wrote about Sean Bujno, the Iraq War veteran, last May in his quest to get &hellip; <a title=\"The great ICUHAJI debacle of \u201913\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34256\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The great ICUHAJI debacle of \u201913<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}