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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-05-05 11:33 PM
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Foes of Phelps fight ire with ire (GREAT IDEA!!)
By SCOTT CANON

The Kansas City Star

SOUTH HAVEN, Kan. — The Phelps family hoisted the same old laminated gay-bashing placards.

They made their same tired chants taking glee in a soldier’s death.

Another funeral, another round of pickets from the minichurch fixated on homosexuality.

Yet now that the Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. has moved on to flinging epithets at military martyrs, a few politicians have begun trying to silence him. Their success will depend on how carefully they mind free speech as they write their laws.

In the meantime, noise is met with noise.

Whenever the few protesters from Topeka’s Westboro Baptist Church shouted or sang Wednesday in South Haven, the earth trembled.

Any time they spoke up, the wrists of biker veterans twisted on dozens of throttles to strike the thundering chords of Honda and Harley-Davidson.

More than 200 bikers had made themselves into a chrome-and-black leather barrier. The 10 anti-gay picketers stood on one side, drowned out by the noise. Mourners arriving for the funeral of Army Sgt. Evan Parker passed on the other side.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/13087184.htm
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-05-05 11:36 PM
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1. Cheers for the bikers!
Phelps is so vile, makes scumtorum almost look human! Well, not quite, but closer!

Peace
V
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-05-05 11:36 PM
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2. this has occurred at several other funerals as well, and I think it is a
marvelous idea.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-05-05 11:44 PM
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3. The article points out
that the legislators are trying to come up with a law that will stop these protests and stick. In the meantime, the bikers are handling Phelps. LOL
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-05-05 11:50 PM
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4. I'm dead set against a law limiting peaceful protest...
and Phelps, Nazis, Klan, and anyone else has the same right I do to stand out there with a sign.

But, BWAHAAAAAAAAAAAA-- the bikers have a right to make some noise.

And that is as it should be.

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kansasblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-06-05 12:38 AM
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5. You may not like it but the ACLU will be on Phelps side....
as it should be.

Let him go. He helps other see the hate that some people have.


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