Licensing global terror.[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As ANY FAN of Oklahoma! could tell you, the hot ride in the Sooner State used to be the "little surrey with the fringe on the top." (A surrey is a covered four-wheeled carriage.) These days, Oklahomans can pick from almost 150 specialty license plates with which to adorn their surreys, cars, or motorcycles. The options cost $37 and range from the anti-abortion slogan "Choose Life" (illustrated with drawings of a smiling boy and girl) to the cryptic cryp·tic n. 1. Hidden or concealed. 2. Tending to conceal or camouflage, as the coloring of an animal. "Killed in Action" (emblazoned with a Native American symbol) to several NASCAR-themed tags (featuring the racing numbers and signatures of about three dozen drivers). Arguably ar·gu·a·ble adj. 1. Open to argument: an arguable question, still unresolved. 2. That can be argued plausibly; defensible in argument: three arguable points of law. the strangest of the bunch is a relatively new offering bearing the phrase "Global War on Terrorism Terrorist acts and the threat of Terrorism have occupied the various law enforcement agencies in the U.S. government for many years. The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, as amended by the usa patriot act ." The plate was sponsored more than a year ago by state Rep. Rex Duncan (R-Sand Springs), who calls it "a 'show of support' tag that I believe many Oklahomans will be proud to display." Curiously, the plate does not refer to the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (1990 pop. 444,719), state capital, and seat of Oklahoma co., central Okla., on the North Canadian River; inc. 1890. The state's largest city, it is an important livestock market, a wholesale, distribution, industrial, and financial center, and a farm by Timothy McVeigh Timothy James McVeigh (aka Oklahoma City bomber April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001), was a former American soldier who was convicted of eleven federal offenses and ultimately executed as a result of his role on the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing. and associates, the deadliest terrorist act on American soil prior to the September II attacks. There are no estimates of how many plates are in circulation, but more than zoo had been ordered by May 31, the minimum number required to keep the option available for another year. |
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