Vet faces 5 charges in Westboro incident

[LiberalArkie]

http://www.kansas.com/2010/12/03/1616214/faces-5-charges-in-westboro-incident.html

Ryan Newell is "Army to the bone," friends and family say of the decorated military veteran who joined the service at 17, lost both legs in an explosion in Afghanistan and now stands accused of stalking members of a controversial Topeka church.

Proud of his service and proud of his country, he never blamed anyone for his injuries and felt guilty, his grandmother said, that he survived when two of his brothers in combat did not.

Prosecutors charged Newell, 26, with five misdemeanors Thursday, including stalking and three counts of criminal use of a firearm in an incident involving the Phelps family of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church. He also was charged with false impersonation of a law enforcement officer.



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[YOY]

1. Poor Mr. Newell fell into their trap.

Half of the reason for the Phelps BS is to get publicity and to sue. My personal theory that makes perfect sense.

[RandomThoughts]

3. Great comment

You use trap, New, and Makes Sense, so you are probably saying something without saying it.

Why don't you say what you intent to say?

Why would there be a duel meaning in your post?




Your going to have to build a better mouse trap :D




Side note, there is a trap in 'being shaken' don't let the concept of what you can not handle when shaken used as some determiner, since the feeling of being shaken sometimes can be added in to justify manipulating a direction. It also can be used as a way to get you to submit to things that do not make sense or can not be justified.

In other words, don't let being shaken, shake you.

[YOY]

4. Um I did say what I intended to say.

This poor guy took action that could lead to legal action against people whose primary motivation, in my opinion, is to make money off of lawsuits and further fuel their audacious antics.

What bothers me is that the Phelps are both within their legal rights and make a mockery of the 1st Amendment purposefully at the same time.

I just prefer to ignore them. Sadly Mr. Newell could not.

[RandomThoughts]

5. Ok, no problems :)

[LiberalEsto]

2. It's ok for Phelps & Co to stalk bereaved military families

but not for someone to stalk them?

What a fucked up world we live in.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. There are a few differences

He lied to the police and he had a gun. I don't recall the Phelps ever doing either of those things.