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To: topher
The Phelps gang (friends of Al Gore) is a different issue to me: it violates Freedom of Religion -- the right to have a solemn funeral for a dearly departed one...

Okay, but do you believe the Phelps people should be permitted to stand on the sidewalk outside the home of a dead US service member and ask the family questions about what their son/husband/father died for?

36 posted on 01/04/2008 7:04:23 PM PST by trumandogz (Hunter Thompson 2008)
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To: trumandogz
Okay, but do you believe the Phelps people should be permitted to stand on the sidewalk outside the home of a dead US service member and ask the family questions about what their son/husband/father died for?

There have been folks willing to follow the Phelps gang around with paintball guns...

I guess if they show up there (in front of the homes of someone who died in Iraq/Afghanistan, they might get painted...

The more I think about it, paintballs is a form of Freedom of Expression, but it has the problem of damaging property. By the same token, the emotional damage done by the Phelps can be heard in a Civil Court.

Remember that O.J. Simpson was convicted in a Civil Court, where there was less burden of proof.

Now I might say that the Phelps IRS dodgers may have the right of Freedom of Expression, but if this results in emotional injury, then they should filed with a Civil Suit (or many, many Civil Suits)...

50 posted on 01/05/2008 7:12:03 AM PST by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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To: trumandogz
Okay, but do you believe the Phelps people should be permitted to stand on the sidewalk outside the home of a dead US service member and ask the family questions about what their son/husband/father died for?

A shorter reply:

During the Vietnam War, apparently protestors did this with parents of servicemen who were lost.

The movie Hamburger Hill tells one such instance. That was why one person re-upped for Vietnam...

What they described in movie Hamburger Hill was probably much sicker than the Phelps gangs acts...

51 posted on 01/05/2008 7:14:37 AM PST by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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