Free Speech for the Dumb...

Like someone else already stated, I will be anxious to see what happens the day Fred Phelps croaks and is on his way to meet Satan himself. I hope there is a huge gathering with the members of Slayer providing the soundtrack. They could play a three piece set ending with "Hell Awaits" and of course dedicate the song to Fred and his hate mongering family.

When I heard these douche bags wanted to protest the funeral of 9 year old Christina Taylor Green, I made up my mind, if these people (Phelps family) happen to die before I do, and they enter the "Kingdom", I might want to go somewhere else. I mean how do people like this redeem themselves in eyes of our maker? There are people out in this world who take a life, who are worth more than these people. Think about all the weak minded individuals that are drawn to this church of hate. Phelps is like a Charles Manson/Jim Jones.

It's sad that we have people like this roaming the earth. There are days where I wish God would just send down lightning bolts from the sky to take scum like this off our planet. There are people who are negative, and then there are people who are filled with such deep seeded hate...

All we have to do in order to end all this bullsh!t right now is find out where the next westboro demonstration is happening, fly all the heart of metal dudes out there to converge on their spot wearing westboro baptist church tie dyed shirts with signs that say like "God supports the troops" "ga-hey-ness rules" and other messages that would obviously offend or confuse their message...make sure the media is there, and all other westboro baptist church supporters across the globe are watching and problem solved.

You covertly hijack the name westboro baptist church and make it a symbol of love and sexual/religious tolerance.

Stender wrote:

All we have to do in order to end all this bullsh!t right now is find out where the next westboro demonstration is happening, fly all the heart of metal dudes out there to converge on their spot wearing westboro baptist church tie dyed shirts with signs that say like "God supports the troops" "ga-hey-ness rules" and other messages that would obviously offend or confuse their message...make sure the media is there, and all other westboro baptist church supporters across the globe are watching and problem solved.

You covertly hijack the name westboro baptist church and make it a symbol of love and sexual/religious tolerance.

A fabulous idea. If it were up to them I'd be drawn and quartered by now.

I can't believe they haven't been shut down because they use kids to hold some of their signs whem they protest. It boggles the mind that Family Services hasn't removed those children due to brainwashing and indoctrination into a hate group. They seem to take kids for every other reason under the sun, why not this? You can't tell me foster care wouldn't be better than being left in the hands of those lunatics.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/anonymous-seizes-westboro-baptists-domain-during-live-tv-confrontation/

No website - less money. Less money - less "protests". Less "protests" - less exposure. Less exposure - less notoriety...eventual disbandment?

The newspaper I work for ran an editorial about this decision yesterday, I'm not gonna type out the whole thing but here's a few highlights:

Maggots feed off the dead. So do members of the Westboro Baptist Church.

Herein lies the dilemma of our great free society. Carrying signs that read "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" and "God Hates F*gs" is constitutionally protected free speech. It is also a vicious, hurtful attack on random individuals. Yet we agree with the court's ruling. There is no easy way of embracing the First Amendment. It's an all-or-nothing proposition. Silencing the rants of Phelps and his followers would also mute other organizations with politically or socially unpopular messages, and that is not acceptable.

But we do not have to enable the Westboro Baptist Church. And that is exactly what we have been doing. Rather than risk its protesting at funerals of victims of the recent Tucson, Arizona shootings, a few media outlets offered them free air time. In short, those media outlets chose to pay emotional blackmail.

The men and women who die serviing this nation are valiant soldiers. They stand for something: The United States of America. The members of the Westboro Baptist Church stand for themselves, nothing more.

The Constitution guarantees their right to free speech. It says nothing about free airtime or media recognition. If they want to stand for hate, let them stand for hate. But let them stand in the darkness, shouting into empty air and spitting into the wind. Let us not give them access to microphones. They are not news. They are maggots."

Excellent editorial and I 100% agree with the writer of this piece, thank you for posting this Keith

manny wrote:

Excellent editorial and I 100% agree with the writer of this piece, thank you for posting this Keith

I do too. Let them exercise their free speech to a round of empty ears. If the media stopped covering this, they would go away.

Waiting for Westboro's inevitable announcement that the earthquake/tsunami disaster in Japan is "God's Wrath" on them for all those weird tentacle porno comics they publish.... or whatever

Have you heard about Phelps older son who left them, many many years ago, and has been outing them? He talks about child abuse that he experienced and other such events. I wonder why he is not getting a lot of press and doing the talk show route(Oprah and such)?


That would shut them up!

chewie wrote:

Have you heard about Phelps older son who left them, many many years ago, and has been outing them? He talks about child abuse that he experienced and other such events. I wonder why he is not getting a lot of press and doing the talk show route(Oprah and such)?


That would shut them up!

Perhaps he has received offers for interviews, but turned them down?

Fat Freddy wrote:

Waiting for Westboro's inevitable announcement that the earthquake/tsunami disaster in Japan is "God's Wrath" on them for all those weird tentacle porno comics they publish.... or whatever

Yeah, I bet it'll happen.

Required Fields wrote:

chewie wrote:

Have you heard about Phelps older son who left them, many many years ago, and has been outing them? He talks about child abuse that he experienced and other such events. I wonder why he is not getting a lot of press and doing the talk show route(Oprah and such)?


That would shut them up!

Perhaps he has received offers for interviews, but turned them down?

Maybe.... I did hear him give a radio interview. I figured that the media would have picked it up and ran with it.

chewie wrote:

Required Fields wrote:

chewie wrote:

Have you heard about Phelps older son who left them, many many years ago, and has been outing them? He talks about child abuse that he experienced and other such events. I wonder why he is not getting a lot of press and doing the talk show route(Oprah and such)?


That would shut them up!

Perhaps he has received offers for interviews, but turned them down?

Maybe.... I did hear him give a radio interview. I figured that the media would have picked it up and ran with it.

that would one positive thing the media could do..

exact33 wrote:

chewie wrote:

Required Fields wrote:

chewie wrote:

Have you heard about Phelps older son who left them, many many years ago, and has been outing them? He talks about child abuse that he experienced and other such events. I wonder why he is not getting a lot of press and doing the talk show route(Oprah and such)?


That would shut them up!

Perhaps he has received offers for interviews, but turned them down?

Maybe.... I did hear him give a radio interview. I figured that the media would have picked it up and ran with it.

that would one positive thing the media could do..

The last thing the media would want is to shut them up..
Scum like Phelbs sells, sad thing is that we are buying.

These guys have nothing have value to say, they make a mockery of their "God", they make a mockery of their country and these people are fools not even worthy to be talked about, all they do is spread hate, fear, and b.s., and if they spent 5 seconds of their lives actually reading the Bible, they might understand how wrong they are.

manny wrote:

These guys have nothing have value to say, they make a mockery of their "God", they make a mockery of their country and these people are fools not even worthy to be talked about, all they do is spread hate, fear, and b.s., and if they spent 5 seconds of their lives actually reading the Bible, they might understand how wrong they are.

I agree. It is not their place to play God.