How about just releasing rabid skunks among the rabid skunks.... Uh... Wait.
Oh, never mind.
What have we become when people like this are protected? Almost makes one long for the days when:
Posted on 06/27/2005 4:22:37 PM PDT by raybbr
A Green Beret killed in Afghanistan will be laid to rest in his native Marblehead today as police brace for the anticipated arrival of a Kansas hate group.
``We're in Massachusetts now and we will be in Marblehead,'' said Margie Phelps of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church.
The WBC has blamed the 9/11 attacks and deaths of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan on America's tolerance of homosexuals. The group, which recently demonstrated outside local Catholic churches and public schools it deemed tolerant of homosexuality, has threatened to show up at services today for Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Piper, who was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan this month.
The group's literature proclaims ``Thank God for IEDs (roadside bombs)'' and states that Piper and other slain soldiers were ``cast into Hell to join other dishonorable Americans.'' Officials in Marblehead and Chicopee, home of slain Marine Capt. John Maloney, have denounced the group's plans to demonstrate at the fallen heroes' funerals. Both men's families have said freedom of speech is something they died trying to protect. Maloney was killed by an IED in Iraq this month.
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Hardly.
Earlier post on topic here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1431842/posts
When people like this make such statements and declare themselves to be Christians, actual Christians wince, and the rest of the world sneers or laughs at the prospect.
Here is the story about the demonstration at the Army Staff Sargeant's funeral
I didn't see that. These people are sick. There should be some way to stop them.
I don't think we need to keep dwelling on this -- it doesn't do any good (and it may give these sickos what they want).
It's the first I heard of this. I can't believe these scum are allowed to protest in public.
I can't agree. The families of our fallen soldiers need to know these are KOOKS and don't speak for the rest of us.
Maybe we should start a rumor that Fred Phelps and his whole posse are all closet cases, or a coven of witches.
I wonder if the FBI has anybody planted amongst these nuts the way they do sometimes with the KKK or neo-Nazi groups.
No, not hardly. Not fit to shine that soldier's shoes.
Are there any pit bulls owned in Marblehead? I understand that sometimes they sort of escape... not that anybody would be actually sic'ing them on these protesters...
I didn't see that. These people are sick. There should be some way to stop them.
The term "Deadly Force" comes to mind.
Isn't the Fred Phelps group the ones that go funerals of gay people with signs that say 'God Hates Fags' and otherwise act very disrespectful and un-christian?
Feel however you like about gays and what rights they should or shouldn't have, this group just has no class and give christians everywhere a bad name. And to blame 9/11 on US tolerance of homosexuality instead of where it belongs is way WAY beyond the pale.
This should be added:
"If so, the Sgt.'s friends will see to it that you get your asses whipped."
The NY Times will once again use this as an example of true Christian beliefs in the U.S. I'm sure they're delighted by all this, ugh.
How about just releasing rabid skunks among the rabid skunks.... Uh... Wait.
Oh, never mind.
What have we become when people like this are protected? Almost makes one long for the days when:
see number 16
That would be a "good start".
I remember clearly when Phelps and his band of morons in need of heavy medication decided they were going to disrupte Halloween/the Gay Pride parade or whatever in San Francisco. Straights and gays surrounded their hotel rooms and when the Bats in their Belfries Brigade came out to start their protest, they were pelted with eggs and high-volume water guns.
Squealed like stuck pigs and ran back into their rooms and left town.
These kooks need to be shut up. Freedom of speech has limits and responsibilities. This isn't freedom of speech, this is harassment and invasion of privacy.
How in the world do they get homosexuality was the cause of 9/11 and whatever does it has to do with IED's in Afghanistan, our troops?
These freaks are not Christian by any stretch of the imagination either, they need to be locked up. I hope there is a bigger group of "free speech" advocate from minor league baseball batters in the vicinity when they show up.
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