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Marine's dad ordered to pay protesters' court fees
AP via SFGate ^ | 3/29/10

Posted on 03/29/2010 12:46:18 PM PDT by SmithL

Edited on 03/29/2010 12:48:04 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

AP material must be excerpted at all times.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; biggayfred; constitution; firstamendment; fredphelps; freespeech; hatemongers; loserpays; phelps; supremecourt; treason; westboro
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To: HiTech RedNeck
If the USSC reverses, will Phelps then be held liable to reimburse this?

It won't be reversed. The Phelps know what they're doing and they're good at it.

Someday these folks are going to mess with someone who has nothing to lose and this will be a very bad day for the Phelps family. And when this day comes, I'll feel not an ounce of sorrow for these despicable people.

21 posted on 03/29/2010 1:03:20 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: SmithL

“It only takes a spark....to get a fire going....and all of those around....can warm up to it’s glowing....”


22 posted on 03/29/2010 1:04:10 PM PDT by Walkingfeather
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To: Drew68

Which would prove the point that Phelps’ words are intended to provoke violent confrontation. I’m sure he has his share of death threats.


23 posted on 03/29/2010 1:04:25 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: nuke rocketeer

You’ll get no argument from me there. I wonder why it hasn’t happened yet.


24 posted on 03/29/2010 1:04:49 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: Drew68

Jay Sekulow for one would be spoiling for a fight with the Phelps phony.


25 posted on 03/29/2010 1:05:10 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: SmithL

Perhaps we missed a real opportunity a few months back, when Ted Kennedy was planted. We should have had tens of thousands of our people out there to protest that prick’s life, and trash his relatives in the process.

Perhaps then Phelp’s antics would be more understood.

Nah, it’s better to realize that Phelps is a brain dead guttersnipe, and that the media in this nation is disgraceful beyond belief. We’ve got individual conscience, something they couldn’t come with up with one of if they pooled their collective resources.


26 posted on 03/29/2010 1:05:22 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Novemberrrrrr.. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2477039/posts?page=16#16)
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To: SmithL
This is another, yet another, example of very bad reporting. the 4th Circuit is not ordering the father to pay the attorney's fees to the winning side on the appeal, just the costs. These are usually small amounts in the hundred dollar range, like the cost of having the briefs printed, and what you can put on your “Bill of Costs” is very strictly defined. The 4th Circuit, like all federal circuit courts, does this in every case: the losing party pays the costs.
27 posted on 03/29/2010 1:05:35 PM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: ladyvet
...may the Phelps clan all burn in hell.

I doubt that will be a problem...

28 posted on 03/29/2010 1:06:53 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Palin bashers on freerepublic, like a fart in Church...)
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To: circlecity

According to the article SCOTUS has agreed to hear the case. How do you see what the enbreeded droolers do as differing from cross burning, which the SC has found not to be protected speech?


29 posted on 03/29/2010 1:09:40 PM PDT by stop_fascism
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Those guys are not Baptists! I’m not even sure if they are human beings!

It truly is a disgrace to true Baptist’s everywhere that this group of misfits aligns itself with them.


30 posted on 03/29/2010 1:12:06 PM PDT by Mrs. Frogjerk
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To: ladyvet

I agree with you wholeheartedly on that one!


31 posted on 03/29/2010 1:13:06 PM PDT by Mrs. Frogjerk
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To: stop_fascism

Ooh, I bet the Conservative 4 all voted for this one. Kennedy, do the right thing!


32 posted on 03/29/2010 1:13:17 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: SmithL; All

I wonder if anyone posting in this thread has heard the Phelps’ political-social-religious argument.


33 posted on 03/29/2010 1:13:38 PM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: HiTech RedNeck
"...which makes Mormon theology look like orthodox Christianity."

Sorry, not even a Phelps comparison turns mormons into Christians.

34 posted on 03/29/2010 1:15:11 PM PDT by SENTINEL (SGT USMC COMBAT VET)
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To: SmithL; trooprally; concretebob; GunsareOK

Another outrage regarding the Phelps Phreaks.


35 posted on 03/29/2010 1:15:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (I am Ellie Light.)
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To: stop_fascism
"How do you see what the enbreeded droolers do as differing from cross burning, which the SC has found not to be protected speech?"

Because in their own sick, perverted way they believe they are protesting homosexuality and the war. Most of the lib anti-war protests included similar offensive speech and posters, heck they openly called for fragging, but I don't think we should shut them up with the courts. Cross burning is not protected when it is found to constitute a threat intended to intimidate.

36 posted on 03/29/2010 1:16:15 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: Mrs. Frogjerk

“Baptist” isn’t a registered trade mark, so whacky one of a kind cultists like Phelps can use it with impunity (on this side of eternity). A similar situation exists with the term “Catholic.”


37 posted on 03/29/2010 1:16:55 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: SENTINEL

Of course not. This is like saying that Obama makes Jimmy Carter look like a Republican.


38 posted on 03/29/2010 1:17:52 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: SmithL

AP calls the Phelps cult “anti-gay protesters”.

Why not call them anti-Iraq war Democrats?

That’s also an accurate description and a more fitting description of why they protested the son’s funeral.


39 posted on 03/29/2010 1:18:31 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
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To: cripplecreek

Suing was the wrong approach. Direct action would have been more appropriate. I would have risked jail time if it had been my son.


40 posted on 03/29/2010 1:18:34 PM PDT by Pecos
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