Need location please if anyone has it.
You are right. There was some talk about a group to confront these folks in Huntsville. I think the group was the Patriot Riders motorcycle club. This group regularly offers to keep the protestors from funeral sites. A friend of mine with connections to this group told me that the Huntsville families declined the offer. The Patriot Riders will not intervene without approval of the families.
That said, my friend also informed me of a terrible coincidence at this groups protest in Huntsville. He could not confirm that this actually happened but said that this was his understanding of what happened.
As you're probably aware, the protestors were granted a permit by the city. The permit confined them to a specific location about two blocks from the church where the services were held. It also limited the protestors to a very small number (10 I think).
Any way, my friend says that just before the family arrived, two large buses just happened to break down adjacent to the protest site. As things would happen, these broken down buses completely blocked the view between the protestors and the families. As I understand, there were heroic efforts to get the buses repaired and moved. Despite the best efforts of all involved, it proved impossible to move the buses until after the services concluded and the families had left the area. I also understand that the mechanical malfunctions caused the engines of the buses to be especially loud which had the unfortunate effect of preventing the voices of the protestors being heard.
As I'm sure you are aware, we here in Alabama fully support freedom of speech and the right to protest. We deeply regret these unfortunate circumstances that precluded the Wesburo church from fully realizing these rights.
As I said, I have no first hand knowledge of the facts of this matter and I was not in any way involved.
I think it was in New Jersey.