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Title: Fred Phelps' crew get chased from soldier's funeral
Post by: wingnutx on December 07, 2006, 06:28:52 PM
http://www.break.com/index/westboro_baptist_church_chased_away.html?78

With video goodness  grin
Title: Re: Fred Phelps' crew get chased from soldier's funeral
Post by: BakerMikeRomeo on December 07, 2006, 06:41:06 PM
Here's to wishing they had some shattered bones to go with that window. Bunch of rat-bastards.

~GnSx
Title: Re: Fred Phelps' crew get chased from soldier's funeral
Post by: Strings on December 07, 2006, 10:21:21 PM
I keep saying, one of these days they'll hit the WRONG funeral, and just disappear...
Title: Re: Fred Phelps' crew get chased from soldier's funeral
Post by: Cosmoline on December 07, 2006, 10:24:50 PM
Those individuals are in DIRE NEED of a beating.  The fact that they haven't been blown away yet says a lot about the restraint of this nation.  
Title: Re: Fred Phelps' crew get chased from soldier's funeral
Post by: 280plus on December 07, 2006, 11:22:47 PM
Man that's beautiful, sorry I missed it. Makes me proud to be am American.  grin
Title: Re: Fred Phelps' crew get chased from soldier's funeral
Post by: RayannaDeerfox on December 07, 2006, 11:26:48 PM
Anyone else watch the 'related video' from the Tyra Banks Show?  Religion itself aside, these people are hypocrites.
Title: Re: Fred Phelps' crew get chased from soldier's funeral
Post by: mfree on December 08, 2006, 05:11:24 AM
So they're all in one van?

I wonder how hard it'd be to arrange for a runaway semi truck...
Title: Re: Fred Phelps' crew get chased from soldier's funeral
Post by: Perd Hapley on December 08, 2006, 05:38:21 AM
Haven't seen the video yet, but won't this just be a lawsuit for them to win and collect on? 
Title: Re: Fred Phelps' crew get chased from soldier's funeral
Post by: wingnutx on December 08, 2006, 06:14:01 AM
Maybe, but it'd doubtful they'd be able to identify anybody. They'd have to try to sue the police for not keeping the crowd from throwing stuff at their van.
Title: Re: Fred Phelps' crew get chased from soldier's funeral
Post by: Sergeant Bob on December 08, 2006, 06:32:56 AM
Too bad they got away.
Title: Re: Fred Phelps' crew get chased from soldier's funeral
Post by: HankB on December 08, 2006, 09:29:12 AM
Quote from: wingnutx on December 08, 2006, 05:14:01 AM
Maybe, but it'd doubtful they'd be able to identify anybody. They'd have to try to sue the police for not keeping the crowd from throwing stuff at their van.
Ah, but the courts have held that the police are not required to protect anybody in particular . . . 
Title: Re: Fred Phelps' crew get chased from soldier's funeral
Post by: Eleven Mike on December 08, 2006, 09:50:12 AM
Even if they are specifically tasked to keep the peace at a particular event or location? 
Title: Re: Fred Phelps' crew get chased from soldier's funeral
Post by: wingnutx on December 08, 2006, 10:10:37 AM
Phelps sues everybody. That's where they get all their money.

Most of the adult children are lawyers.
Title: Re: Fred Phelps' crew get chased from soldier's funeral
Post by: Ezekiel on December 08, 2006, 10:30:37 AM
Quote from: wingnutx on December 08, 2006, 09:10:37 AM
Phelps sues everybody. That's where they get all their money.

Which is why, of course, the premium choice is to merely ignore them...
Title: Re: Fred Phelps' crew get chased from soldier's funeral
Post by: grampster on December 08, 2006, 10:52:54 AM
or arrest them for inciting a riot.
Title: Re: Fred Phelps' crew get chased from soldier's funeral
Post by: Antibubba on December 08, 2006, 11:56:39 AM
Those people really test my belief in Constitutional freedoms.  angry
Title: Re: Fred Phelps' crew get chased from soldier's funeral
Post by: Perd Hapley on December 08, 2006, 12:11:28 PM
Quote from: Ezekiel on December 08, 2006, 09:30:37 AM
Quote from: wingnutx on December 08, 2006, 09:10:37 AM
Phelps sues everybody. That's where they get all their money.

Which is why, of course, the premium choice is to merely ignore them...

That may be satisfactory in the case of some protests.  When people are disrupting a funeral, however, "just ignore them" is a callous answer indeed.  Such things are not a matter of First Amendment rights. 
Title: Re: Fred Phelps' crew get chased from soldier's funeral
Post by: 280plus on December 08, 2006, 12:30:47 PM
Sic the Bulgers on 'em...
Title: Re: Fred Phelps' crew get chased from soldier's funeral
Post by: Strings on December 08, 2006, 03:44:48 PM
I'm not a lawyer, but something tells me any lawsuit they attempt will result in major problems for them. The whole "inciting a riot" thing sounds really nice as a charge leveled to counter any such suit...
Title: Re: Fred Phelps' crew get chased from soldier's funeral
Post by: gunsmith on December 08, 2006, 06:41:34 PM
What Constitutional rights?

If I am crazy with grief and at a funeral of a loved one, and these demons show up and I bite the nose
off one, then I am guilty of assault or mayhem or something.

If the State says westboro can not protest then it's a free speech issue.

If they get brained with a rock it's a criminal matter.

Title: Re: Fred Phelps' crew get chased from soldier's funeral
Post by: SomeKid on December 09, 2006, 09:10:27 AM
So true gunsmith.

And if the jury says they deserved to be brained with a rock, then you are a free man. This Southern Baptist knows how he would vote were he on a jury. Nullification rocks, eh?
Title: Re: Fred Phelps' crew get chased from soldier's funeral
Post by: Desertdog on December 09, 2006, 11:37:38 AM
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Those people really test my belief in Constitutional freedoms.
They had their say. 

The opposing group had their say. 

Isn't that the way the Freedom of Speech is supposed to work?