Agreed, I wish that they could be disproven for what they are. I feel that they are worse than liberals, because while liberals blame the politicians, these guys take it out on people who followed orders. It’s despicable and beyond contempt in every respect.
They have an organized addiction for drawing attention to themselves. If no one paid attention them all this hoopla would fade away.
what ever happened to a good old rotten tomato pelting?? or a stick bomb or two thrown at them? maybe some pig blood or something dropped from a helicopter??
Speaking of which, Westboro is scheduled to be protesting at Gunderson HS tomorrow...
Who can remember the articles that sort of loosely connect these freaks with Baptists at large?
Who can remember the portrayal as if they are conservative?
Here's the peak of irony, Phelps is a card carrying Democrat and ran for offices as such long before much of this drew national attention. To the leftist media it is literally this simple:
Did it fail, look or feel bad? Blame Bush, Christianity and the Republicans or a patriarchal society.
Did it succeed, look or feel good? Obama, a government program or some progressive paradigm is the reason.
Go right down the list on the issues, feel bad = conservative, feel good = liberal.
Economy
War in Iraq.... until it turned around, then of course that too became Obama’s doing
Health care
debt
Afghanistan
You pick the issue and CNN, MSNBC, Newsweek, Time, the NYTs will simple write everything with this blatant they good those bad perspective. Why even call them news anymore?
they sicken me.
Perhaps this will be successful http://cjonline.com/news/2011-02-28/generals-complaint-targets-phelps-lawyers
Nine retired USAF Generals have filed a complaint with state regulators for disbarment of 10 lawyers who are members of the “church”.
My 9-year old son, a news junkie even at that young age caught the story tonight on the news and was confused as to why they said God loves dead soldiers. After a few minutes explaining to my son what a crazy cult this is and how Satin himself works through these vermin in the same way he worked through a snake in the Garden of Eden. He understood – but it got me wondering how many young and innocent or ill-informed people watch the same thing and thing they are a legitimate church, and with nobody to set them straight.
I pray that God will intervene and put a stop somehow to these creeps who blasphemy his name by saying he is a Hateful God not a Loving God. .
One thing, beside some of my family members who apparently wish me dead, without ever saying so, that I cannot for the life of me understand.
If I were on a jury, I could not find someone guilty who beat the hell out of these guys.
It could happen on video, I still find the attackers not guilty
“It’s Freud who says that what links humanity is not love, but hatred; the bond, the tough stuff is made of hate.” — Bernard-Henri Lévy
It may be time to deal with these folks in an extra-legal fashion. It’s American tradition.
These cretins seem to exist for attention. Perhaps if Freepers indulged them and gave them maximum attention (e.g., klieg lights, loudspeakers 24 hours/day, drum beats, rap music, etc.) they might decide to knock it off.
As distasteful as these people are, this is a victory for free speech. I am appalled that so many freepers do not understand this. If the government can curtail the speech of those with whom we disagree, what’s to stop them from curtailing your right to free speech.
I have seen these cretins in action, up close and personal.
I will tell you now, that they are THE most vile creatures on the planet.
Here in Maine, they must keep a distance, yes, but they can still be SEEN, if not heard, by the families.
How anybody, and I mean ANYBODY, could do this to someone who is burying their child, is beyond comprehension, and being allowed to do it, destroys every fiber of moral decency that binds humanity together.
I know all the fights about freedom of speech, and I understand all the arguments.
But as I see a mother so distraught with tears that she cannot walk without help because these guys are holding up signs that say “THANK GOD FOR DEAD SOLDIERS”, not one bit of it rings true.
Legitimizing a cult! The situation gives the MSM the ammo they need to undermine Christians as backward hatemongers!