It's almost too much to comprehend Police provide security at vet funeral

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Police to provide security at Upchurch funeral

Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 2:05:28 PM
http://www.gctelegram.com/news/2006/january/18/story3.html

The Garden City Police Department and the Kansas Highway Patrol will provide security during the memorial service of Garden City resident and soldier Clint Upchurch, who was killed in Iraq earlier this month.

Both agencies will be on hand to maintain peace and order and to ensure the constitutional rights of all who attend are protected, said Garden City police Capt. Mike Utz.

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church Religious Ministry will be protesting at the service.

Utz said a city ordinance states that protesting cannot take place one hour before, during or two hours after a memorial service. He also said protesters may stand only directly in front of a church, cemetery or funeral home.

Other groups attending the funeral will be members of the Patriot Guard and the National Guard, as well as residents of the community.


Westboro Group's alert on their protest:

Thank God for IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices)
God Himself Has Now Become America's Terrorist, Killing
Americans in Strange Lands for "Brokeback Mountain *** Sins.
WBC to picket memorial of Army Spc. Clinton R. Upchurch - at 2 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 21, at Word of Life Church, 3004
N. 3' St., Garden City, Kansas. Killed by IED - like the IED America bombed WBC with, in a terroristic move to silence our anti-gay Gospel preaching by violent intimidation.
America bombed our church with an IED made by ***
students at Washburn U. in Topeka. In his retaliatory
wrath, God is killing Americans with Muslim IEDs:


Amazingly sick and sad. This group is a cancer. Traveling all over the country spreading hate and destroying the sanctity of our soldier's deaths and burials.

[MuseRider]

1. You know what?

I want to know where the police and all the outrage was when they were continuously and callously doing this to the gay community?

I do know that we occasionally had the police protect the counter protesters here but mostly they were used to protect Fred and his merry band of bigots.

Why does it take this to get people really fired up?

Grrrrrrr, makes me mad.

[tnlefty]

2. I am speechless.

Thank God for IEDs...what a sick, sick bunch.

[skylarmae]

3. I'm still not getting it - who is protesting what? at a dead soldier's

funeral service? Oh, I am not getting this at all....

[babylonsister]

6. They must be talking about Fred Phelps and his

hate-filled gang.

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7. It's this one idiot with a 'church' who is a traveling bigot

I hate to provide their link because the name of the group is so offensive

BTW, when I clicked on the info for the protests listed it gave me an error message and a blank page. I told it to load anyway and used the text key to lift the hidden passages.

[Ikonoklast]

8. Fred Phelps from Topeka

Is a so-called minister whose following is mostly family members. A nominal Democrat, for Chrissakes.

His worshipers go around protesting fallen soldiers funerals because God is mad at the U.S. for not killing all gays.

He makes money from suing anyone that crosses him. His family is full of lawyers.


He is a walking piece of human filth.

[sui generis]

4. poor hate filled little fella

You know what we did at Matthew Shepard's funeral, and many others:



It's heartbreaking that the city allows a funeral to BE protested at all - and this guy has a life time history of creating pain and anguish in other people.

Sorry, free speech protests aren't speech when it's outside a private funeral, any more than you can protest a birth. The city management should have qualified his pathetic "protest" speech as condoning the methods of terrorists, and inciting to riot, and kept him out altogether on those grounds.

I'm all for it.

[TomInTib]

5. Who the heck is funding these sickos?

They are showing up coast to coast.

[sui generis]

10. they're an "org"

and the main players are all screechy ambulance chasers and tort lawyers.

Personally I'm ready to amend the constitution to not allow them to marry OR have children.

[Dr.Phool]

9. They're supposed to be in my area this week.

If anybody ever deserved a grand tour of Abu Garib, it's this bunch.

[sui generis]

11. For what it's worth, the counter protests are pretty fun social events.

You meet a lot of people who just show up to mock them and photograph them, kind of like going to the zoo, or on a safari. You even get points if you can trap them into doing something stupid on camera.

[BrotherBuzz]

12. In my perfect world....

Westboro Baptist Church et al would be back billed for the additional security. I'm just saying....

[EC]

13. Watch in Letters to the Editor columns where ever

Pheleps disgraces vets funerals...the Repuges here are writing in trying to get people to think they are Peace Activists....

[theshadow]

14. According to the news coverage...

... when they were here, the church only has 75 members. Each insane, of course, but only 75. I've also read that they're a real pain-in-the-keester for residents and officials in Topeka.

[yellowdogmi]

15. I have finally went to the darkside.

I feel like burning a church. Except I am sure his van down by the river is currently occupied by his wife or his sister but I repeat myself.

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