The truck driver person with the “angry stickers” is just exercising his, or her, First Amendment rights on their own truck!
God bless America (my First Amendment right to say, so exercised).
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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