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Scarlet Plates

Except in Ohio sex offenders will be required to display green ones.

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Others warn that the green plate solution totally misses the mark when it comes to targeting child molesters. Rather than being the victims of unknown motorists, the majority of children in these cases are victimized by people they know and trust -- by neighbors, teachers, clergymen and relatives.

For some, the whole thing seems too much like Hitler's mandatory pink triangles and the yellow Star of David.

In other license plate news from Ohio, the state's Bureau of Motor Vehicles has declared a woman's 10-year-old personalized plate to be obscene. Pat Niple, 74 years old, owned the Northwood Tree Farm with her late husband. State officials have advised Mrs. Niple that her license plate, NWTF, an abbreviation for the business, is an acronym that means something else nowadays to young people.

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Business, Law, NATO

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Ralph R. Reiland is the B. Kenneth Simon professor of free enterprise and an associate professor of economics at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh.

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