Westboro Baptist Church To Picket Funerals Of Arizona Shooting Victims

[warrior1]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/09/westboro-baptist-church-arizona_n_806319.html

Westboro Baptist Church, the Topeka church known for its inflammatory anti-gay protests, plans to picket the funerals of the six people gunned down in Arizona on Saturday.

In a flier posted on its web site, the controversial church writes, "THANK GOD FOR THE SHOOTER -- 6 DEAD!" The message continues:

God appointed this rod for your sins! God sent the shooter! This hateful nation unleashed violent veterans on the servants of God at WBC--hoping to silence our kind warning to obey God and flee the wrath to come.

[lonestarnot]

1. Their shit needs to be interrupted.

[AlabamaLibrul]

17. I wonder if - quite honestly it could be this time

Going from "god hates fags" and "thank god for dead soldiers" to "thank god for a specific murderer in a specific situation" is a big jump....

[lonestarnot]

19. we'll see won't we.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. They would, wouldn't they? Attention whores, disgusting excuses for human beings.

[trayNTP]

6. Only if they're given attention. Let them picket if they choose, just don't put them on TV.

Establishment media is pretty good at systematically ignoring truth-tellers, for the most part. There's no requirement for them to cover fools.

[William769]

3. God does have a master plan.

And all people connected with and supporting this vile group will have front row seats to burn in hell for all eternity.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Well there is an upside

They won't be in Kansas that day. Phew.

[MuseRider]

15. That is always the one bright spot

to these things. I know I can go into town and not have to look at so many of them. They are always here, always at the predictable places but when the group goes you can sometimes almost drive by them without registering their presence in your mind. They are never all gone, not here, been here for years and will be for years to come.

[divvy]

5. I will sing at Phred Phelps funeral

Thank you very very much Mr. Phelps. Your death is the nicest thing that anyone has ever done for me.

[white_wolf]

10. Sounds like a plan

though I won't lie it will be very tempting to spit on his grave in front of his whole sick and evil family.

[divvy]

12. I will sing like a Kirkland 'Warbler, and you can vomit then.

It would make a perfect send off to the old bigot. Besides, why simply spit at such an occasion when you can properly vomit?

[The Wielding Truth]

7. If this is true, what sin did the sweet nine year old commit?!

Freedom of speech must not be used to promote falsely founded hate.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. They fail to see the irony of their appearances.

[frazzled]

9. This is enough. Is there no legal remedy?

I know that various municipalities and states have laws that make it illegal for them to protest within a certain distance of the funeral, to respect "first amendment" rights (though here, limited, I might add to all those First Amendment fundamentalists out there). I wish there were some other grounds on which to prevent their doing this kind of thing.

I just remember back to the old days, when the police busted down the door of Fred Hampton's apartment and shot him in his sleep: that was the way things were done back in 1968. God forbid we should ever use those kinds of tactics again in this country, no matter what the politics of the situation. But I really wonder what kind of response these Westboro people would be getting if they were not white.

[yurbud]

11. the public across the political spectrum is starting to treat them correctly: one Oklahoma town

practically ran them out on a rail:
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20101114_11_A12_CUTLIN105145&allcom=1

[frazzled]

22. I'm not in favor of vigilantism to cure this

Have we learned absolutely nothing from this weekend? Fighting bad behavior with further bad behavior is not the answer. We need to turn it down a notch. I said LEGAL remedies.

[yurbud]

27. I was more impressed with the community solidarity and boycott of them and the reaction

to the tire slashing rather than the slashing itself.

[Angry Dragon]

23. I would like to see them lose their tax exemption

They may have freedom of speech and religion but that does not give them freedom of hate speech
They are a terrorist organization hiding behind their god.

[Horse with no Name]

13. I can imagine the Pima County Sheriff's Office might intervene

in their little party.

[tabbycat31]

14. They need to be considered a terrorist organization

[KarenS]

16. oh good grief,,,

I may need to go to Tucson on those days to help take up some parking spaces.

[backscatter712]

18. Speaking of violent rhetoric that stirs up society's psychos... n/t

[Cleita]

20. Maybe Sheriff Dupnik is disgusted enough to arrest

them for inciting violence or any law that he can stick it to them.

[AngryOldDem]

21. How predictable. n/t

[Odin2005]

24. FUCK THEM!

They need their asses kicked! :grr:

[Gamow]

25. How it this NOT considered hate speech, and incitement of violence?

The "church" is a petty, racist hate group, plain and simple.

[Behind the Aegis]

26. I wonder if these signs will be there as well...

[AspenRose]

28. Oh no

I hadn't seen these latest signs. They're sick.