Also, I don’t see anything in the bill that limits the number of posters they must display to just 1. Send a school 6000 posters and see what happens.
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Yeah, that’s an angle I’ve been trying to puzzle out. It’s clear that display of one is mandatory, but what does happen when they come in the front door in bundles? In a way, plastering every last inch of available surface might be the clearest expression of contempt. How about posting them on the floor?
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Someone should try it. I’d be interested to see the fallout…
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The way I read it, if a poster is donated, they are REQUIRED to display it.
But then there is no penalty for failure to comply, so it probably comes down to the school officials.
I had been wondering what would happen if those donated posters were in 8pt type, so that the tiny national motto would be virtually invisible from more than a few inches away.
How about a dozen 20"x36" posters with heavy black borders? Would the school be required by law to use them to completely “wallpaper” a wall?
How about producing them on transparent plastic sheets so that the borders would overlay in interesting ways?
How about ONE poster, 20’x36’? 
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I am going to propose to Gov. Abbot that he and his legislative cronies pass a law which allows any citizen to file a lawsuit against any school official who fails to post a donated national motto sign—or aids and abets the failure to mount said sign. The person filing the suit would be awarded a $10,000 bounty for a successful lawsuit.
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I like that! And a mailing receipt should be presumed to be sufficient evidence that the person filing did indeed donate the required poster.
Yeah, that’s a good point. It is sort of funny – this is the issue that came up on the last attempt to overturn the ACA in the Supreme Court. The individual mandate was in question, and that had been upheld as an exercise of the taxation power, but now there was no tax – no penalty to be paid if an individual failed to obtain insurance. The Court basically said, well, no harm, no foul; the requirement to obtain insurance might be unconstitutional, but a law which has no consequence creates no injured person who has standing to challenge it. A one-dollar penalty would be enough; a zero-dollar penalty means that the law is like the pirate code: more like a guideline.
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There are no limitations in the law on the poster/frame materials.
Lead? Flickering neon tubes? Hemp? Radium paint? C-4? Tattooed skin?
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Why not produce a large number of large stickers that say " … is a divisive and unconstitutional motto" for people to stick over the poster just below the “In God We Trust” bit?
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The new law reminds me of the laws prohibiting the burning of an American flag or throwing it in the trash can. A cartoonist drew an American flag with a dotted line around it, then urged readers to cut it out. Now, he said, what do you do with it? You can’t get rid of it in any way without breaking the law. Congratulations, you’re stuck with it for life.
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The correct way of disposing of it is to cut out every star and every stripe out individually, so that the individual pieces are now no longer the US flag, and can be disposed of however you like. 
Addendum: could we do the poster as one of those 3D illusions that show one thing from one viewing angle, and something completely different from another? Perhaps something that shows only what the law demands from one angle, but something that subverts that message from another?
Perhaps the US & Texas Flags and “In God We Trust” from one angle and a Swastika and “Gott mit uns” (God with us) from another, playing on the similarity between the slogans.
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