Posted on 10/20/2010 12:41:55 PM PDT by trooprally
VETERANS DAY, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 8AM TILL NOON
Westboro Baptist Church, aka Fred Phelp's one-branch family tree, is once again targeting Arlington Cemetery.
WBC will be there on Veterans Day, Thursday, Nov. 11, to protest our fallen heroes.
We will be there from 8AM (to start setting up) till noon to be sure our patriotic message is seen long after WBC leaves. WBC will be there from 9 till 11AM
The DC Chapter will have our Walter Reed MOAB, flags, banners, posters, patriotic music, HOT COFFEE, and light snacks.
Our past 4 times opposite WBC have been at the Arlington Cemetery blue line Metro station escalators. We usually permit on the north or American Legion Bridge side of Memorial Drive. But I'm sure you will easily find us.
This thread will be updated as needed. WBC has been known to change their plans.
For all those Marines who took off the day after your Marine Corps birthday celebration, we hope to see you here. Give me your phone number and I'll give you a wake up call at 0600.
Bring a rope.
My Dad’s buried there. Master Sergeant, WW11, Korea, Vietnam. He was in Schofield Barracks, just 200 yards away, getting breakfast when the japs hit Pearl Harbor. He did 2 tours in Vietnam at age 42. I’ll be there.
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[Mr] T
Thank you for telling us about your dad. Prayers for your family.
Thank you for your family’s service to our Country.
It will be good to meet another FReeper.
[Mr] T
Unfortunately WBC is too protected by the local police.
Thanks for the prayers! We buried my Dad in ‘05. The WBC bunch aren’t even human.
“Thank you for your family’s service to our Country”.
...looking forward to being there.
If Randal Terry and other pro life ‘protesters’ can be ordered to stay a certain distance away from abortion clinics why can’t these scummy WBC members be ordered to maintain a certain distance from military funerals.
Heads UP!! New Jersey
North Brunswick Township High School in North Brunswick, NJ November 20, 2010 7:15 PM - 8:00 PMWBC to picket the Larmie Project at North Brunswick Township High School. You are some very lucky ducks having the prophets among you to preach the truth! We bring the only words of hope and life left. You need them more than you need air to breath, water to drink, or bread to eat! WBC will again remind all Laramie Project cast, attendees and passersby the time is short before time shall be no more. Your doom is imminent! Judy Shepard raised her son to be a pervert. Now you follow in her foot steps to raise your children to follow his example. What a shame. You have failed in your duty to yourselves, to your children, and your fellow man. That is: Lev 19:17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. 18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord. Matthew Shepard died October 12, 1998. By the time this play shows Matt will have been in hell for 12 years with eternity left to go. Time is short! This doomed american ship is going down - destruction is coming! You will soon meet him in hell. Praise God!
Have we become a nation of utter WIMPS? Or do we only LOOK spineless when the TV cameras are watching? Good Lord!!
Simplify this equation. Boil it down to its component elements.
Say you lost a loved one and some idiot came to the funeral to scream insults at you and besmirch the good name of your lost soldier. Would you just stand there and accept that humiliation?
Or would you tell your buddy “big Scotty” to go take care of that little problem over there? No deadly force, of course, but all the non-deadly force that Scotty cared to muster.
Now kick it up a notch and bring 20 screaming protesters from some bastard church that only wants the spotlight. So now you roll over then and let them insult you?
Not me! Forgive me for being so politically incorrect, but I’d gather a few of my biggest friends and go crack as many skulls and break as many ribs (but no deadly force!) as God would allow! HONOR says you have to defend the dead and your own good name!
Damn the police, damn the TV cameras and damn the courts! Go to trial on assault charges, but go with the sure and certain knowledge that you did what God intended and trust that a jury of your “peers” will see that!
But so help me God, that pack of protesters would be feeling bruises and broken bones for the next three weeks. Honor would be served and those idiots would NOT be coming back.
Do it. Fight back!
And I would LOVE IT if some Army commander sent his troops, in civvies, to do the beating with the justification that he was training them in hand-to-hand.
Of course, the commander would have to take responsibility afterwards, unless his troops got away without being identified.
— Ahem —
Sure wish I could be there—but it’s just too far....I will say a little prayer for all of you, though.
Feel better?
My brother is buried in Arlington. KIA, 1967, Vietnam, after being ‘in Country’ for about a month. His son was born 2 weeks before he was killed. My brother knew his son was born but never saw a picture. So trust me, I know how you feel.
But these WBC asshat are not worth getting arrested over. Our message of honoring our fallen heroes and supporting those still fighting is what we do. The smiles and hand shakes with a BIG ‘Thank You’ from passerbys for our being there satisfies me.
Wimps, spineless - I take offense to those words when I and others honor our fallen heroes.
And Patriot Guard Riders do an excellent job protecting grieving families from WBC.
[Mr] T
Where WBC stands is about 500 feet from the guarded entrance of Arlington Cemetery. Our many signs and big banners keep most travelers looking at us.
[Mr] T
DNME, the Trooprally’s and their team of DC Chapter Freepers have been fighting back more than 99.9% of us who are mostly keyboard warriors.
Their group has spent close to 300 straight Friday nights in front of Walter Reed counter-protesting the hateful leftists who, years ago, began protesting the war and the military from Georgia Avenue out front. Our conservative bretheren go out there EVERY SINGLE FRIDAY NIGHT for up to four and a half hours, no matter the conditions.
While most of us are watching television, surfing the Internet, eating at restaurants, going to parties or visiting friends on Friday nights, those folks stand in front of Walter Reed for the purpose of letting our wounded warriors know that the hateful Code Pink types don’t speak for all America.
Their reward is the cars that drive by, driven by everyday AMERICANS who take a moment to honk, wave and even stop to talk. Their reward is a visit from wounded soldiers who make a trek out in front of the hospital just to say how grateful they are that SOMEONE is on their side, and that SOMEONE is saying thank you by interposing themselves between the leftists and the wounded.
They are out there in broiling heat, freezing sleet or snow, rain, you name it. And then, you know what? They get up the next morning and counter-protest the Leftists in Olney.
I suspect you didn’t intend for your post to carry the message that it did...the Trooprally’s and their like don’t stick up for themselves, they are too humble to do so. But I think you have them all wrong, my FRiend. If other Americans like you and I could do 20% of what those folks do on a weekly basis, we wouldn’t be in the situation we are today.
I hope your comments about spineless behavior were not directed at the Trooprally’s and their friends because they are part of the few who are actually showing their spine and doing the heavy lifting.
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Far away but your past support at DC Chapter FReeps makes you one of the honored members. Thanks for the prayers, especially for good weather.
[Mr] T
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