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Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church to Protest at VA Tech Funerals
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Posted on 04/17/2007 10:12:50 AM PDT by Malacoda

Fred Phelps and his merry band of misanthropes at Westboro Baptist Church plan to picket the funerals of those killed in the Virginia Tech shootings, according to a message on their website:

"WBC will preach at the funerals of the Virginia Tech students killed on campus during a shooting rampage April 16, 2007. You describe this as monumental horror, but you know nothing of horror -- yet. Your bloody tyrant Bush says he is 'horrified' by it all. You know nothing of horror -- yet. Your true horror is coming. 'They shall also gird themselves with sackloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads' (Eze. 7:18).

Why did this happen, you ask? It's simple. Your military chose to shoot at the servants of God today, and all they got for their effort was terror. Then, the LORD your God sent a crazed madman to shoot at your children. Was God asleep while this took place? Was He on vacation? Of course not. He willed this to happen to punish you for assailing His servants."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Virginia; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: fredphelps; vatech; virginiatech; westboro
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To: Long Island Pete

“Must have taken a break from having sex with his ugly daughters.”

Hey, it is an alternative lifestyle soon to be promoted by hollywood and organized parades.


101 posted on 04/17/2007 11:26:47 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot
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To: dmz

Gotcha! ;)


102 posted on 04/17/2007 11:28:02 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

His antics gain sympathy for queers and hatred for Christians.


103 posted on 04/17/2007 11:28:32 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot
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To: synbad600

Fred Phelps, Democrat.


104 posted on 04/17/2007 11:30:58 AM PDT by sauropod ("An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools." Ernest Hemingway)
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To: Malacoda
I figured word-of-mouth would suffice.

I didn't mean you personally. I just meant that someone should try to get this info out there because you know that it is going to be spun as "the ultra right-wing church blah blah blah"

105 posted on 04/17/2007 11:32:32 AM PDT by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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To: dmz

Gotcha! ;)


106 posted on 04/17/2007 11:36:13 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: Neoliberalnot
His antics gain sympathy for queers and hatred for Christians.

Which is, I think, his real purpose.

107 posted on 04/17/2007 11:40:11 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (A member of the Frederalist Party)
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To: Biggirl
I hope the Patriot Guards can help, because the families of those killed should not have to deal with these fools.

Unfortunately, the mission statement of the Patriot Guards says nothing about the funerals of nonveterans. So the organization probably will not be at the funerals of the Virginia Tech victims.

Local Virginians and their friends will have to pick up the slack in this particular instance.

http://www.patriotguard.org/

108 posted on 04/17/2007 11:55:52 AM PDT by Cheburashka ( World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
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To: Malacoda; You Dirty Rats

It appears all garbage did not go with the trash collectors this morning. I have a feeling these weirdos have chosen the wrong destination this time and are messing with the wrong people.

Do you suppose the MSM will be interviewing them?


109 posted on 04/17/2007 11:59:21 AM PDT by GoldwaterChick (Never give in, never give in, never, never, never give in. Winston Churchill Oct. 29, 1941)
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To: reagan_fanatic

I’m wondering why all the gay and lesbian groups don’t protest against this fool. Where are they?


110 posted on 04/17/2007 12:10:40 PM PDT by GoldwaterChick (Never give in, never give in, never, never, never give in. Winston Churchill Oct. 29, 1941)
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To: Cheburashka

Or better yet, I hope there is a local radio talk show host that will invite Phelps and company for an interview with the condition of giving up the protesting.


111 posted on 04/17/2007 12:28:51 PM PDT by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation.)
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To: GoldwaterChick
I’m wondering why all the gay and lesbian groups don’t protest against this fool. Where are they?

In fact they do, when they come onto the gays’ turf. I came upon a counter demonstration when he was picketing a church that catered to gays in the Lakeview(highly gay) area of Chicago. I didn’t know what it was, but there were probably over a thousand people yelling and cursing at someone/something I couldn’t see. I didn't know what was going on and left fast.

That was well over a decade ago, when I still read the Tribune. There was a microscopic story about page 8 of the second section that told me what had happened the day before. This was long before the war and any demonstrations at military funerals.

112 posted on 04/17/2007 12:38:10 PM PDT by Cheburashka ( World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
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To: StarCMC

I guess we will have to SUE them into bankruptcy!


113 posted on 04/17/2007 1:12:10 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! Or Rudy/Hillary if you want to murder conservatism)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

If I remember correctly, I read somewhere that Mr. Phelps and some members of his cult flew to Iraq to meet with Saddam to give him their support for his stance against the United States. Of course Saddam had no idea who they were, but through the efforts of one of his p.r. advisors, he met with them, apparently to thank them for their support. The tidbit below was taken from Wikipedia’s entry for Fred Phelps. The link is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Phelps

Saddam Hussein
In 2003, before the fall of Saddam Hussein during the Iraq War, Phelps wrote Hussein a letter praising his regime for being, in his opinion, “the only Muslim state that allows the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to be freely and openly preached on the streets.”[40] Furthermore, he stated that he would like to send a delegation to Baghdad to “preach the Gospel” for one week. Hussein granted permission, and a group of WBC congregants traveled to Iraq to protest against the U.S. The WBC members stood on the streets of Baghdad holding signs condemning Bill and Hillary Clinton and anal sex.[41] After Saddam was hanged, Phelps released a video commentary that stated that both Saddam Hussein and Gerald Ford (who had died the same week) were now in Hell.

If this turd and his inbred cult show up at any of the funerals for the VT victims, I hope that law enforcement turns a very blind eye from them and allows a little bit of vigilante justice to be performed ... I think that it is the only way that this group is going to get the message that they are not to be seen nor heard from ever again.

P.S. Pray for the victims, their families, and everyone affected by this tragedy.

Peace out,

Front 242
Florida, U.S.A.


114 posted on 04/17/2007 1:31:39 PM PDT by Front 242
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To: Front 242

Oh, by the way, I found another small sampling of the vileness that Mr. Phelps and his cult like to spew ... it can be found via the Anti Defamation League’s website at the following link:

http://www.adl.org/special_reports/wbc/wbc_on_america.asp

They seem to have a more complete transcript of the pro-Saddam support promulgated by the Phelps clan. He it is in its entirety:

“We understand that Iraq is the only Muslim state that allows the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to be freely and openly preached on the streets without fear of arrest and prosecution. Alas, the United States no longer allows the Gospel to be freely and openly preached on the streets, because militant sodomites now control our government, and they violently object to the Bible message...The same majoritarian sodomite tyranny that now guides the Clinton administration’s repressive policies toward Gospel preaching on America’s streets, is apparently responsible — at least in part — for the merciless slaughter by starvation of 400 innocent Iraqi babies each day in your country. If our government and laws will allow it, and at the invitation of your government, we would like to send a delegation from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, to preach the Gospel on the streets of Baghdad for one week in the near future.”

— Fred Phelps, in a letter to Saddam Hussein,
November 30, 1997

Take care everyone,

Front 242


115 posted on 04/17/2007 1:39:01 PM PDT by Front 242
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To: GoldwaterChick

I know Sean Hannity interviewed the crazy daughter when the Amish school shootings happened, although they failed to protest those because someone in Ohio gave them an hour of airtime on their radio show.

I think they’re mainly attention seekers, and the more people ignore them, the more they’ll go away. But do they seem to protest all funerals these days, use to be as I understand it funerals of gay people and would protest outside of gay-related churches. Guess they wanted more attention.


116 posted on 04/17/2007 3:06:55 PM PDT by Santa Fe_Conservative
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To: Malacoda

It was only a matter of time the wackos came out from under the wood bench. I figured the hate America, hate Bushers would come out form under the rocks. W here is it going to help their cause if they look like fools which we all know they are? Why doesn’t their leader Geogre Soros and their half wit Moore come out from the woods and join in?


117 posted on 04/17/2007 3:13:23 PM PDT by betsyross1776 (BIG HOME DO NOT BUY YOU HAPPINESS)
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To: TigersEye
Hmmm TE, the man is insane. So is his inbred crazy family. If they go there I hope its the last trip that bunch of morons make. Nothing Fred or Shirley Phelps Roper says anymore would shock me. I think they are hoping for some more media time, TV or radio... they will take either. Nobody should give them any IMO either. I knew this would happen, its what they do. Feed off tragedies like a bunch of turkey buzzards. ~P~
118 posted on 04/17/2007 4:40:03 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: trooprally; Brad's Gramma; StarCMC

from The PGR National Site..
Please go here to read..
http://www.patriotguard.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx

Ms.B


119 posted on 04/17/2007 9:05:13 PM PDT by MS.BEHAVIN (women who behave rarely make history)
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To: Malacoda
Will these people ever stop at doing this disgusting display of Anti-American protests at funerals?
I really despise them.
120 posted on 04/17/2007 9:07:46 PM PDT by Mrs.Nooseman (Proudly supporting our Troops,Allies and our President GW!!!)
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