Protesters target medic's funeral (Kansas kooks are back)

News-Journal Online ^ | 10/13/2006 | By PATRICIO G. BALONA

[trussell]

I wish something could be done to stop these creeps. I pray for the family who lost their loved one.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

The only thing that will stop them for sure is 2000 or so pounds going 70 miles an hour or more. Maybe that could be a mod for Grand Theft Auto.

As far as Phelps and the man/man love goes, Fred thou doth protest too much. Fred wants it in the twins and bad but, he can't because he was most likely abused as a child and feels guilty about it. This is all to compensate.

Fred, do yourself a favor and stop by the Parliament House for your "injection" and leave the sane world alone.

[Mamzelle]

Have they sued successfully before?

What they are doing is expensive...

[trussell]

They have sued and won many times. That is how they are funded. They are mostly lawyers.

[Mamzelle]

If they did sue, do you realize that would give the defendant the opportunity to get the phone records, the credit card records, the bank statements? Defendants may be losers out of the gate, but they aren't without some resources.

I don't buy that their chief goal is to get sued. They are spending money...somebody is financing them.

[graf008]

Leftists are too emotional to be able to do what Phelps does. In addition, it does little to help the left-wing...if at all.

[Mamzelle]

Help the left? Of course he's helping the left! He's feeding the rightwing religious stereotype. As for emotions, they may be genuine enough, which is what whoever is funding this guy is paying for. I looked through the history...still very curious about his finances.

[graf008]

I would think he is helping the right (not on purpose), since he is showing there are wackos that are much further out there.

So I will have to disgree with you - I don't think he is helping the left or the right. Just helping all sane people.

[Mamzelle]

I've looked through the links on his history. What I'd love to know is where his money comes from. He's doing a lot of travelling. There is a history of his trying "civil rights" cases...but I didn't see any recent settlement bonanzas.

He's a democrat, after all.

If he sues, he'd face a Kansas jury. Like he'd win.

How I'd love to see bank statements and phone records.

[graf008]

Phelps is a Democrat? They have all the crazies - Lyndon LaRouche as well, who is about as liberal as Ted Kennedy is conservative...

[graf008]

I don't think he is a leftist. Just a troublemaker, pure and simple. And a crazy one at that.

[Berosus]

Orange City is about halfway between Orlando and Daytona Beach.

[Berosus]

"I agree. This group is either:

1. Completely misguided and attempting to do good, in their hearts.

or

2. Not Christian at all but feed on the publicity.

I think #2."

I would add a third reason for the group's behavior:

3. Inbreeding.

I understand that just about all 75 members of the church are from the family of Pastor Fred Phelps. Cults like that tend to discourage marriage with "non-believers," so where are they going to go for mates?

[Berosus]

If I still lived in Seminole County, FL, I would go. Unfortunately I moved to Kentucky last May.

[Berosus]

We had a similar confrontation just a week ago, at a serviceman's funeral here in Kentucky. 400 Patriot Guard Riders showed up outside the church to offset 8 Westboro Baptist zombies. There was no violence, though; plenty of police and state troopers kept the two groups apart.

I'm hoping for a similar turnout today. Last August my daughter married a fellow from Orange City, so this demonstration is getting too close.

Not too long ago, Clint Eastwood said this when responding to critics of his film "Million Dollar Baby":

"Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right, you meet the same idiots coming around from the left."

I have noticed the same thing; right-wing and left-wing extremists shake hands more often than one would expect. The Westboro Baptist Church is one example. Others include Lyndon LaRouche, the Rev. Louis Farrakhan, conspiracy theorists in general, and those liberals who think Pat Buchanan isn't so bad since he left the Republican Party. All these folks can be described as being "to the right of Attila the Hun, and to the left of Alpha Centauri."

[trussell]

I will take you off the Florida list. Thanks for letting me know.

I hope others who live there will have the same attitude as you. It would be good to hear that the family wasn't even aware of the Kansas creeps.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the ping, and belated congratulations on the family joy. Interesting and insidious group, those fake baptists:

Google

[COBOL2Java]

There is an easy solution: Beat these protestors up every single time they come to protest. They will get the message sooner or later.

No good. Every member of that Godforsaken Phelps family is a lawyer, and they make money for their "church" via lawsuits: to the people who attack them, and then to the municipality for failing to protect them.

[dmz]

I live for my family.
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And that was my point. Best not to put yourself in a situation wherein they may have to live without you.