Westboro's Lack of Decency
You may want to sit down for this one: Members of the Westboro Baptist Church, notorious for harassing the grieving and desecrating the funerals of our fallen warriors, are gearing up to make another hideous spectacle at the funeral of 9 year-old Christina Green, killed in the mass murder attack in Tucson, AZ. This ghastly group has already belched one press release that reads, “God sent the shooter to deal with idolatrous America,” and another saying, “Thank God for the shooter.”
While the Patriot Guard will not be able to step in and insulate the family of the little girl, other bikers and citizens are stepping up to deal with the situation. Glen Littell, of the Phoenix Motorcycle Rider Group said, “It makes me sick to my stomach. …They’re a stench from a slaughterhouse. We’re going to block the stench so the family can catch their breath.” Well put. State Senator Kyrsten Sinema has sponsored a bill to restrict the Westboro protestors to no less than 300 feet from the funeral. “It’s the most disgusting thing I ever read in my life,” Senator Sinema said of Westboro’s plans. For his part, Glen Littell has reached out to other groups of citizens in an effort to counter Westboro’s protests, evidently including Hell’s Angels. “Nothing says stand back and be silent like a Hells Angels presence,” Littell said.
Meanwhile, Dana Milbank, E.J. Dionne, Paul Krugman, and the rest of the liberal chorus continues to denounce and blame the tea party movement. Just once, let them put their pompous lectures where the facts reside. If the preening class is truly concerned about inflammatory rhetoric, let them reprimand the miscreants at Westboro Baptist.
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Jul '10
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What do these members of westboro do for living? If We knew, then We could picket them in Our Own Capitalist ways.
May '10
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As disgusting as this is, I have to wonder what form that Senator's restraining order takes. Wouldn't it be better to enforce basic civility without involving government?
May '10
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My God, what lunatics. These people are as mad and opportunistic as the crazy gunman.
I'm going to try to buy a tank of gas for the Phoenix Motorcycle Rider Group:
http://www.meetup.com/PhxMRG/
Dec '10
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I can't say I'm surprised or shocked.
If they had been as organized and bold on 9/11 as they are now, the "members" of the Westboro Baptist Church would have probably done their thing at Ground Zero and/or at the funerals of the victims.
They seek the highest profile emotionally laden venues they can find to generate publicity. One hypothesis is they deliberately seek law suits and that is how they generate income and make a living. I don't know if there is any truth to that.
May '10
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No surprise, really. These folks thrive on attention and the media delight in giving it to them.
Some folks grab attention with a gun, shooting a famous figure, or a lot of people. Others grab attention by blathering self-aggrandizing theories about the shooting on CNN or the NYT. And others protest at the funerals.
Its the same appetite at root. Just delusion and self-absorption. I'm no longer shocked or even angry. Just thankful that their numbers are small.
Dec '10
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Are you in the PG, Dave? I'm not a rider, but go to some events with them as part of the Gathering of Eagles.
Dec '10
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Isaiah 5:20-21:
20 Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
and clever in their own sight.
These people grieve the heart of God.
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No, CJRun, I'm not. However, if they ever allow 18 wheelers in their procession...
Oct '10
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Right on the money, GA Dean. Phelps first made the public scene with his "God hates Fags" noise. Now it has expanded to "God hates (write here whatever Phelps dislikes at the moment)."
Dec '10
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I think the real culprit here is our legal system. If it weren't for the current state of lawfare, Phelps wouldn't be able to lawsuit himself to an income.
Aug '10
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“Thank God for the shooter”?! Thank God?!!!
What oozing, festering, fetid putrescence.
To call these folks scum would slander scum.
Edited on Jan 11, 2011 at 9:11pmAug '10
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Al Gore has campaigned for that oozing,festering,fetid, putrescent gubernatorial candidate. But that would be his habit.
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One nice wrinkle to this story: the Democratic and Republican parties in Pima County are reportedly working together to organize a human barricade that will keep the protesters away from the mourners. That's how I like my bipartisanship served.
Jun '10
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I hope that the community support generated will show the grief-stricken enough sympathy and love to off-set the pain that the freak-show is trying to inflict. Still, tolerance of this disgusting behavior is the test of our respect for the 1st Amendment just as the horror of Tucson or Va Tech is a challenge to the 2nd Amendment.
May '10
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Legal tolerance, yes. God forbid law ever becomes our only means of enforcing civility.
Jun '10
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Aaron Miller
Legal tolerance, yes. God forbid law ever becomes our only means of enforcing civility. · Jan 12 at 9:56am
Oh, it is worse than that Aaron, the law might well prevent enforcement of civility -- the law might properly be called upon to protect Westboro from those tempted to enforce civility by extra-legal means. A gun owner with a clean record, but accused of being "weird" or "strange", would have a legimate defense in law against an arbitrary restriction of his gun ownership.