I have never in my life heard of someone protesting a soldier’s funeral and I am generally pretty up on things. I think the protesting isn’t pissing off people as much as the fact that they called and harassed an emotional wreck of a pregnant woman (she’s hardly a woman, mind you- she’s only 19).
It’s the first time I’ve heard of him protesting a soldier’s funeral, but it’s hardly the first funeral he’s protested. His band of abused goons protested at Matthew Shepherd and Randy Shilts’ funerals.
As for “winning support,” I honestly don’t think he wants it. He doesn’t want people to agree with him, he just wants to hurt people. Honestly, I think the only thing that’s keeping him from comitting outright torture/murder is fear of getting caught. He’s truly an inhuman monster, and trying to understand his motives in human terms is a futile endeavour.
Buses. You get a half dozen school buses. After the nutjobs are assembled in their designated area, you park buses (no, not on top of them, that would be wrong) in front of them. If they cause trouble, arrest them and put them in the buses for the ride to jail.
How do all these people have the cash to just drop everything and fly to California and make asses of themselves?
“We don’t picket to win people over, idiot. It’s to harden people’s hearts. Make them hate. Make them hate God even more than they already do.”
– Fred Phelps
When he came to Pittsburgh to picket Mr. Rogers’s memorial service (Mr. Rogers was a minister who failed to use his TV pulpit to warn the children that God hates fags), a bunch of us went, made a huge circle around Phelps, and sang Mr. Rogers songs loudly. We drowned them out and blocked them from public view, and barely anyone even knew they were there.
According to the wikipedia article, they made money from suing the city of Topeka.
Is that an actual quote?
I just read the Wikipedia article.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. I have never heard of a more deluded group of people, that picture of his son gives me the willies, and to think there are grandchildren ready and willing to step in after Fred dies…
How does one live with so much hate?
Phelps is the reason that I think we need to build a prison in the Asgard Mountain Range, somewheres.
I guess that I’m happy that more people haven’t heard of other Phelps funeral protests, because it means he’s not getting his attention-whore fantasies fulfilled.
Phelps also protested* Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Piper’s funeral in Marblehead, Massachusetts**. The Boston Police Department brought their 14-member bagpipe band and played every time Phelps’s crew shouted. Best anti-Phelps idea I’ve heard yet.
- I hate to use the word “protesting” when really what he’s doing IMHO is whatever it takes to get the name Phelps on the lips of everyone. My gut says that he’s a very successful troll, though I have no proof.
** Because Massachusetts is infected with Teh Ghey, of course.
What’s their beef with the Topeka Vintage restaurant? According to Wikipedia, they’ve been picketing it daily since 1993. Something about a riot where some members got hurt, but why where they there in the first place?
Baker has had first hand experience with WBC too. They’ve picketed her church.
I believe its because at one point they were employing a lesbian as a waitress.
No, I’m not kidding.
And how did they know she was a lesbian?
Never mind. You can’t understand the mind of the criminally deranged. It’s completely alien territory.
Here is a link to a thread from this past March discussing that rat and his “flock”. (Fred Phelps/Westboro Baptist Church) There is a link there to an online expose site showing Fred for the ugly creature he is.
I am truly dumbfounded a group like this exists.
I keep thinking very bad thoughts. Couldn’t Arnie live up to the Governator jokes?
Could we get then all into one compound and reenact Waco?
It sounds like the group is Hate for Hate’s sake.
I once was part of a successful Anti-KKK rally action that was definitely illegal.
We have a township nearby that was almost all White. The KKK decided this was the Ideal location for a NJ Rally.
The township police where not happy. Somehow without any organization, High school kids form all over the County showed up and proceeded to drive through the parade, blast music, and harass in any way possible the idiots. One Van whose driver I met years later race right down the middle and forced them to leap aside. They gave up and went away. Amazingly not one of us kids were pulled over by the cops or harassed in anyway.
Probably doesn’t help but just an idea. Hopefully Local police would be as understanding.
You just summed up Phelps, Miller. The only things he loves are hate and publicity. Religion is just his excuse to indulge his endless hunger for both.
Comparing him to a cockroach rather insults cockroaches. It would be so sweet if Arnie actually slaps him down.
If there’s a prison I don’t want him to go it, it’s one called Asgard.
Surely there are plenty of people with the Photoshop skills to render the good Reverend in a compromising position with some of his male deacons. And then distribute them w/o comment everywhere he appears? Could we not make it a contest somewhere?
How much does it cost to hire the Hell’s Angels for guard duty? Are they still a mercenary group you can hire to beat the shit out of people?
Unless, of course, they decided to join the opposition…or get offered more money…whatever. Let’s hire the fucking Hell’s Angels and tell them to bring lots of knives and chains. They can just knock down and cuss at the kids.