they have the right to be SUED like the last time too...
Posted on 12/07/2007 2:34:30 PM PST by Baladas
Edited on 12/10/2007 4:47:48 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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Similar to many widely documented, photographed, and videoed muslim tactics.
“They will eventually be met with enough opposing force”.
Send ‘em to Pasadena, Texas!
I live in Texas. They’d be lucky if they got away without some baseball bat lovin’. A “good old fashioned butt whoopin’”, end quote.
They get more attention this way. I wouldn't click on an article about a protest at a gay parade, but this is so appalling that one can't help but look.
The sad thing is that the Westboro church has their kids all participating in this deal...
"Similar to many widely documented, photographed, and videoed muslim tactics.
It is also a favored tactic of anti-war peace hypocrites and other leftists.
they have the right to be SUED like the last time too...
Yeah, guess some of those liberals that left comments need to know this, too, but I just can’t.
As Ann Coulter says “only if you must”.
Exactly. If this isn't a case of "yelling fire in a theater", I don't know what is.
Yeah, guess some of those liberals that left comments need to know this, too, but I just can’t.
As Ann Coulter says “only if you must”.
I tried but my message (posted 40 minutes ago) hasn't come up yet. Note that someone using the name Shirley Phelps-Roper has posted on that string and it's apparently legit.
Do any of those judges on the Eighth Circuit have an email address.........
I’d like to exercise my “Free Speach”.
As I heard them say in the hood..(tv land)..someone is going to get capped. I think sooner than later they will protest at the wrong funeral and...that will be the end of it. People are fed up with groups like this as well as the ACLU.
One SHOULDN'T have the right to do that, but no court is stopping the code pinkos from exercising their first amendment rights at Walter Reed every week, either.
So sad.
They won’t want to know that Phelps is a Democrat.
two PGR missions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AupyzbQMLAs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHzSiV5MBq4
Yeah dat would be awwwwwful !
Proverbs 18:6 “A fool’s mouth begs for a beating”... and it seems to be that The Phelps’ are begging loudly. I hope they get what they’re “asking for”. :-)
By the way, in #21, I wasn’t trying to make comparisons of the Boyscouts and the Phelps people on the basis of being for/against homosexuality. I was trying to point out that the govt. is oh-so-concerned about the First Amendment rights of the Phelps nutjobs, but the decent institution of the Boy Scouts don’t get the same consideration. Oh no, their stance against homosexuality means (to the govt.) that it’s OK to subject them to harassment at every turn.
Same lib double standard, equal rights for me but not for thee. In the govt. view, libs get to say and do what they want but the Boy Scouts deserve (and get) nothing but stonewalling and outright punishment at every turn.
Think I’m wrong? Try to schedule a Boy Scout leader for a free speaking engagement on nearly any college campus in the United States. Nutjob “president” of Iran is AOK, Boy Scout leader will generate protest phone calls and letters to the school from liberals living 2000 miles away.
I offer that you may believe amiss. Strictly put, the rights guaranteed under the Constitution do not exist in a moral vacuum, but flow from the very Fount of Morality, such that no right Constitutionally guaranteed may be held inviolate except it be exercised morally.
The Constitutional protection of "free speech" guards only the right to express one's ideas; it guarantees nothing in regard to where those ideas might be allowed to be expressed, nor does it guarantee the unlimited choice of vocabulary available; "living document" renderings of The Courts notwithstanding. The expectation is, at every point, that the speaker's choice of time, venue, and vocabulary will be decided upon in a moral fashion.
It has generally been accepted that all public venues are appropriate to the exercise of this right, and this is consistent with the protection afforded. But the exact constitution of a "public venue" may be altered dependent upon the use made thereof. Insofar as a private event may be held upon a public venue, that venue is not, at that time construed as "public" in the same sense as at times when no such private matter is being conducted.
Many public libraries have meeting rooms which may be reserved by individuals for events of a private nature. Certainly, the First Amendment does not afford anyone the right to burst in upon such a meeting and give air to their mind as freely as they might on any street corner. At such an intrusion a man would stand in a position of luck should he escape with no more than the expressed indignation of the rightful attendees, his moral indiscretion having been thus turned back upon him.
In the same way, the mere absence of an edifice in no way diminishes the private use of outdoor facilities at all other times deemed publicly accessible. So, then, a military funeral held upon the grounds of a national cemetery renders that locale "private" for the duration of said proceedings, and sets a virtual bound -- beyond the limit of hearing, in this case -- against public intrusion that is to be construed as every bit inviolate as the aforementioned library meeting room.
So, then, any who may wish to express their own ideas concerning the deceased, and the cause in which he gave his utmost, are bound to exercise their right to do so in moral harmony with recognition of the privacy of the ceremony, to locate themselves out of earshot of the proceedings, to speak their piece civilly, and to come and go in an orderly manner.
The Phelps Cult may certainly give voice to their opinions, for that right is guaranteed to them, but they are to be at all times bound to exercise that right in a circumspectly moral fashion. At the point they swerve from the moral way, they meet the terminus of their day's exercise. One might object that, were they thus morally constrained, they would be barred from even beginning, as the very mode of their communication is reprobate. To that I could not, presently disagree, and shall, therefore, cast them upon the wisdom of our good Mothers: "If you cannot say anything nice, don't say anything at all", at which any truly wise Phelps would know to keep his peace.
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