cut and pasted from news article"Manitoba Star Trek phrase license plate revoked for offensivenesshttps://t.co/7zQQPwvAkX Complaints drive province to ban The Borg. — TheWholeTruthXX (@TheWholeTruthXX) April 28, 2017The phrases "we are the Borg" and "resistance is futile" are printed on the license plate's frame.Troller told CTV Winnipeg that he received a call from someone at the Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) office who told him that two people called the MPI and complained that his license plate was "offensive" to minorities. Troller also stated that he received a letter telling him to immediately "surrender" the license plate."Yeah I just gotta add that to the name...Do some of your folks walk like they have a broomstick..............?Yeah I just gotta add that to the charger's nameTHE BORG. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE

Good grief... Should be "we are the MPI" and "resistance is futile."

I wonder what minorities complained? The collective?

That's nothing..........The goobermint on the right coast of Canada recently revoked the plates a guy's had for years, the plates are his SURNAME!!!Grabher.Clicky-clicky i wonder if the PC police will make him change his name too?I had custom plates 'rescinded' too a few years back. "Cherubs 0" a military reference to flying so low over the water you had zero feet below you and zero angel's watching over you. A religious zealot complained I MUST be a devil worshiper inferring there are no angels. Devil-dog, yes. Devil-worshipper, NO.

Every time I've visited, I've met the nicest, most gracious and friendly people on planet earth up there.If license plate policing is contributing to that then I say 'more power to them.' :)

They objected to "resistance is futile??" Gosh, I thought that Manitoba's unofficial anthem was "Ohm on the Range."

Why I'll Never Take My Battery Charger To Canada harrumph

Joel_T
Explorer
May 01, 2017
Good grief... Should be "we are the MPI" and "resistance is futile."
joebedford
Nomad II
May 02, 2017
I wonder what minorities complained? The collective?
JaxDad
Explorer III
May 02, 2017
That's nothing..........

The goobermint on the right coast of Canada recently revoked the plates a guy's had for years, the plates are his SURNAME!!!

Grabher.

Clicky-clicky

i wonder if the PC police will make him change his name too?

I had custom plates 'rescinded' too a few years back. "Cherubs 0" a military reference to flying so low over the water you had zero feet below you and zero angel's watching over you. A religious zealot complained I MUST be a devil worshiper inferring there are no angels.

Devil-dog, yes. Devil-worshipper, NO.
pconroy328
Explorer
May 02, 2017
Every time I've visited, I've met the nicest, most gracious and friendly people on planet earth up there.

If license plate policing is contributing to that then I say 'more power to them.' :)
profdant139
Explorer II
May 02, 2017
They objected to "resistance is futile??" Gosh, I thought that Manitoba's unofficial anthem was "Ohm on the Range."
toedtoes
Explorer III
May 02, 2017
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toedtoes
Explorer III
May 02, 2017
toedtoes wrote:
profdant139 wrote:
They objected to "resistance is futile??" Gosh, I thought that Manitoba's unofficial anthem was "Ohm on the Range."

No, they objected to the actual plate that said "ASIMIL8". The "resistance is futile" was on the plate holder. I think that one would be pretty easy to see the guy was referring to a tv show rather than a prejudiced remark.

The one with the guy's last name is a bit more difficult. When you read the plate, all you get is "GRABHER". There is no context to know that he isn't being a sexist jerk. Heck, he may have put his name on there BECAUSE he is a sexist jerk and thinks it's funny.

These type of things always happen. Years ago there was an article about plates that were denied by NY. One guy had requested "IAM6" - they didn't catch on until they saw the wife's request for "IAM9".

There was a semi running around years ago with "ICYRLGS".
MEXICOWANDERER
Explorer
May 02, 2017
Following a car on the Golden Gate Bridge. A Mercedes convertible. Read the plate and started laughing so hard I dang near hit the railing...

10SNE1
bucky
Explorer II
May 02, 2017
I doubt the guy still has this on his hemi Grand Cherokee in MD. FKRSQWK
Seen in West OC.
buta4
Explorer
May 02, 2017
I once saw a Massachusetts license plate that read MERDE. I wonder how he'd cope if he visited Quebec? That was about 40 years ago or thereabouts.