Counterdemonstrators drive off hate group in Flight 3407 protest

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Dozens of counterdemonstrators swarmed three members of a Kansas-based hate group when they tried to protest near a Main Street church where a memorial service for a Continental Flight 3407 crash victim was being held this afternoon.

The protesters, from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., left the area near St. Joseph University Catholic Church, near the University at Buffalo's South Campus, at about 1:50 p.m., only a few minutes after they arrived.

Counterdemonstrators, carrying plain white flags and banners, surrounded the three Westboro picketers as Buffalo police looked on.
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This afternoon's counterdemonstration near UB's South Campus was planned after the Topeka group, a fringe organization whose members hold virulent anti-gay views and who protest at funerals of American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, announced it was going to picket a memorial service for human rights advocate Alison Des Forges, one of the 50 victims of the crash.

http://www.buffalonews.com/258/story/586891.html?imw=Y

Is there anybody on the planet these people don't hate???

[lostnotforgotten]

1. Right Wing Fundies Are Ever So Warm and Cuddly!

eom

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Kudos to the counterdemonstrators

They blocked the wingnuts and didn't talk to them. They overwhelmed them with numbers, flags, and banners that blocked Westboro's message of hate.

I don't think there is anyone the Westboro "Baptists" don't hate.

[bluestateguy]

3. Westboro Baptist abuses the freedom of speech

Such hateful speech was never envisioned by the Framers when they wrote the Constitution.

[rvablue]

4. This is my take on why these scumbags show up everywhere:

Phelps and his brood live off of lawsuits.

They have to antagonize, rip at scabs, poke at wounds and offend sensibility in the hopes that someone will lose their cool and then they can sue them.

They also like to fuck with the local PDs, demanding special protection and such, so that they can sue them too, if things aren't managed perfectly.

They are the lowest of low, bottom-feeding, grifting idiots.

[TripleKatPad]

5. I just can't twist my brain enough

to figure out how the Westboro guerrillas justify their actions as "this is what Jesus would want me to do." If I believed in such a thing, I imagine these people should be packing their eternal suitcases for a destination much hotter than the Pearly Gates.

[bumblebee1]

6. Second question:

Are there anybody that Fred Phelps and his merry band of morons love? Including themselves. these are the most self hating SOB's that I've ever heard of.

[Maru Kitteh]

8. First cousins, half siblings, farm animals.

[MadBadger]

7. I think we should organize the biggest Celebration/Protest ever when Phelps kicks the can

Which hopefully wont be too long from now