Internet Ruins Racist Pickup Truck's Fun

[meegbear]

Tragedy in America: A nice patriot from Virginia whose truck had a very patriotic paint job, has been stripped of his right to license plate free speech. The plates carried a coded White Power message, citing Hitler and David Lane.

We'd like to think Gawker partly responsible for this, as we picked up (along with many other blogs) the photo of a Ford F-150 with an "Everything I Need to Know About Islam I Learned on 9/11" theme on the back. That lovely message was joined by a Confederate flag and a license plate reading 14CV88.

Seems random enough, right? Aha, but it's not. As commenters on various blogs pointed out, there's a secret Nazi supremacist message in there. The 14 stands for the fourteen words of the cutesy old David Lane adage "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." The CV stands for "Confederate veteran," because apparently this truck owner is 172 years old. And the 8s stand for the eighth letter of the alphabet, H. Doubled together they are Heil Hitler. Yay, everyone!

Anyway, the Council on American-Islamic Relations noticed the secret message and pointed it out to the Virginia DMV, which is now banning the plates. So, crusty old racist Civil War veteran P. Jackariah Biggsby is now driving around with illegal plates. Well done, internet. You made this happen. Get this patriot off the road.

http://gawker.com/5522011/internet-ruins-racist-pickup-trucks-fun

[Brickbat]

1. The CV line cracks me up. "Apparently this truck owner is 172 years old." Classic.

[Kerrytravelers]

2. Can you imagine driving down the road and having this thing in front of you?

I think I'd throw up all over the steering wheel.

[YOY]

3. And on a handicapped spot.

Wonder if he (and it is a he I am 99% sure) has the sticker.

[bullwinkle428]

7. I'm sure this clown thinks that handicap accessability was totally pushed

forward by wingnut legislators!!!

Tell him to thank the late Ted Kennedy for that sweet-ass spot right by the front door of the Piggly Wiggly!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[asthmaticeog]

4. The Ford logo right in the middle of the burning WTC

says something profound, psychosocially, about the relationship of the consumer to the consumed. I therefore applaud this dumb asshole's accidental genius, even as I loathe almost certainly every other thing about every facet of him and his existence down to the tiniest triviality.

Edit: typo

[Robb]

5. Remember this guy from a few months back?

...Damndest thing, I was in a completely different part of town two days ago, looked up and I was behind the same truck. Serendipity, or whatever.

Anyhow, he'd taken down the two homemade bumper stickers and replaced them with one that just said "Think green - recycle congress." :shrug:

[arcadian]

6. Kind of looks like Ford sponsored the 9/11 attacks.

[fishwax]

13. lol -- perhaps its intended as a critique of our automobile-centered culture

Our obsession with Fords et al has increased our dependence on foreign oil, leading to a policy of petro-imperialism resulting in global instability, etc.

Maybe that's what he had in mind.

:freak:

[Kalyke]

18. If I were a Ford C-level, I believe I'd sue this dumb fuck.

I realize Henry Ford was anti-Semitic, but his family and the company have long since denounced his views on the Jewish faith/culture.

This makes it look like Ford is sponsoring this shit and I'm sure they wouldn't like it... AT ALL.

[TokenQueer]

21. Hilarious!

I thought the same thing! Cue voice over: "Fiery carnage sponsored by Ford" with a weblink to the Idol kids' latest group number.

[marmar]

8. Is that the Virginia Attorney General's truck?

nt

[tblue]

9. P. Jackariah Biggsby -- You couldn't make up a better name for a racist.

Since when is honoring Hitler "patriotic"?

Good for Gawker and for the Virginia DMV!!!!

[one_voice]

10. Why would anyone

agree to paint that? People like this are disturbed. Who the phuck wants to drive around with that image on their car?

Reminds me of this story, where a Shop Rite refused to make a cake;



JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell and Adolf Hitler Campbell.

Good names for a trio of toddlers? Heath and Deborah Campbell think so. The Holland Township couple has picked those names and the oldest child, Adolf Hitler Campbell, turns 3 today.

This has given rise to a problem, because the ShopRite supermarket in Greenwich Township has refused to make a cake for young Adolf's birthday.

"We believe the request ... to inscribe a birthday wish to Adolf Hitler is inappropriate," said Karen Meleta, a ShopRite spokeswoman.
The Campbells turned down the market's offer to make a cake with enough room for them to write their own inscription and can't understand what all of the fuss is about.

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/today/index.ssf/2008/12/holland_township_family_angry.html

[Ratty]

11. A picture IS worth a thousand words

Read this story yesterday and thought: 14CV88? Could maybe be a weird coincidence, someone's trying to see something that's not there - like numerology.

THIS clears that up, thank you very much.

[Ian David]

14. It's not numerology. It's symbolism. They do this on purpose ALL the time.

The Google is your friend.

[Downtown Hound]

12. Watta patriot!

Let's see, he honors both the Confederacy and Hitler on his American-made truck. The Confederacy, the greatest terrorists in American history, who led a rebellion against a democratically elected regime and caused the deaths of over 600,000 Americans. And all so their lazy asses wouldn't have to actually do any of their own work.

And then Hitler, whom hundreds of thousands more Americans died fighting. You just gotta love patriotic Americans like these.

[progressoid]

15. On the plus side...it is spelled right.

:eyes:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

16. Ah, 9-11.

The day an experimental Ford UFO crashed into the WTC.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

17. I knew there was no plane!!!!

[PJPhreak]

19. I think one could find...

A quick fix like this...



And you would not be screwing up the trucks paint...That is a sticker like the ones they use on NASCAR Race Cars.

[Mopar151]

36. It's a vinyl wrap

Not a "sticker" and there are lots of them on transit buses and commercial vehicles. There is no seperate adhesive. If it
s a warm day, and you can manage to get a corner of it up with a fingernail, the whole thing will peel off.

[RubyDuby in GA]

20. Serves him right since Georgia wouldn't let me have

IH8GOP or GOPSUX. Really, I tried :)

[KittyWampus]

22. The only thing missing from that truck is some truck nuts dangling

[Saboburns]

23. I call this as BULLSHIT and someone's FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT HAS BEEN TAKEN AWAY

I don't care for any of it, but I will Give My Life to defend his right to say it.

I am a First Amendment Right Believer.

And I understand what you will say about me.

But.

I will not compromise my belief that All people have a right to speak their mind, no matter the message.

[cali]

25. uh, sorry but vanity liscence plates are not a right. duh.

[BlooInBloo]

26. What are the first 5 words of the First Amendment?

[Hosnon]

32. The restriction isn't limited to the federal government. nt.

[msanthrope]

27. No Free Speech on a government-issued plate. Which is why you don't see "BIGCOCK"

on a plate, either.....

but the stupid fucker is welcome to paint it on his truck.

[NoodleyAppendage]

35. That plate would be false advertising on trucks like the one pictured. He got small PP. n/t

J

[NeoGreen]

29. Normally I would agree with you...

but in this case the state owns the license plate (if I'm not mistaken), and sets the rules on what is appropriate "language" when one requests a vanity plate. You can't order a plate that says "Police". Plus, I wouldn't want an obscenity to be allowed on a state owned and mandated item.

[efhmc]

33. The truth is that this vanity plate would not have been issued, as

many aren't, had someone known what the code meant.

See post #20.

[ShortnFiery]

37. The paint-job on the truck is OK, but VA was right to take away the license plate. eom

[newtothegame]

24. I can't believe someone spent that much time decrypting that. nt

[RoyGBiv]

28. It doesn't actually take much time ...

These dog whistles and symbols are everywhere, and people have been studying them for quite awhile. I went on a surveillance mission of sorts for a militia researcher back in the early 90s. Without getting into the details, there was this house out in the middle of nowhere, and the owner had put a road sign on his rather lengthy driveway, naming it 1488 Lane.

The addition of "CV" is something I haven't run across before, but combined with the Confederate naval jack on the window, it's a fairly quick association.

[Zomby Woof]

30. He is also violating the SCV Constitution

His Virginia plates are Sons of Confederate Veterans specialty plates, a 501(c)3 non-profit veterans' descendants organization, and their Constitution EXPRESSLY forbids ANY association, or sympathetic views, with white supremacists or other political extremist hate groups. He should be reported to them immediately, so they can revoke his membership. Religious bigotry is also forbidden in their Constitution, as they welcome members of any faith or no faith to their ranks, as they are, again, a non-profit organization registered with the U.S. Government.

[Solly Mack]

31. Hate filled idiot

[mistertrickster]

34. One wonders what the guy's first name is that he opted to go with "Jackariah". nt