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Westboro Baptist Church chased away from soldier's funeral
2006-12-02
11/30/2006 - Those religious nut bags at the Westboro Baptist Church were not welcome at this funeral for a soldier who died in Iraq. They are pretty much running for their lives and trying to drive away as fast as possible. This crowd would have torn them limb from limb.

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This gang is not a church at all, of course. It is a sado-masochistic lawyer cult whose membership is limited to one family; the disbarred shyster and longtime Democrat activist Fred Phelps, eleven of his thirteen children, and their assorted children and spouses.

I've always wondered how the Phelps cult gets the money for its various activities. Granted, nine of the thirteen Phelps children are lawyers, four of them with cushy state jobs at the Kansas Department of Corrections; but it is still hard to account for how they can afford to have two or three different groups traveling around the country all the time. At one point, before the 2003 invasion, they even went to Iraq to join one of Saddam Hussein's anti-American demonstrations.

There is some money behind this and it is not from someone who has any respect for Christian principles.

Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy

#10  The cops are doing their jobs just like the professionals that many of them are. Go figure. No officer of the law should stand by idly as someone within their view takes the law into their own hands. To expect that is to encourage societal mayhem. What would your response be if the officers in attendance happened to agree with Phelps?
Posted by: Zenster   2006-12-02 22:59  

#9  What I want to know is what the hell are those police doing there ? Why are there police protecting those parasites ? They would be sent home with a lesson carved on their faces and they would learn to stay home, but the asshole police are protecting them.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-12-02 22:42  

#8  Think FAR FAR right fringe and then go two spaces right from that."

Leftie nutjobs, then.


Posted by: exJAG   2006-12-02 18:58  

#7  My first reaction is: ABOUT FRIGGIN TIME! Too bad one or two didn't get roughed up enough to have a court date. I am assumming that any rational jury would conclude the group was inciting violence and therefore deserved what happened. Also the discussion is correct the bulk of these yahoos are lawyers with somewhat cushy jobs. I think that maybe the MSM needs to give them super publicity and have their names all over the papers. I heard two of the lawyer/snakes on the radio and they have no love for anyone that doesn't worship as they do. Think FAR FAR right fringe and then go two spaces right from that.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2006-12-02 18:03  

#6  Proof that some embryos are just blobs of undifferentiated cells.

Zing! The Phelps clan is the most convincing argument for retroactive abortion.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-12-02 15:16  

#5  RICO anyone?
Posted by: OldSpook   2006-12-02 13:50  

#4  The Phelps people forget that you need to get a jury to go along with your case. Alienating a community doesn't get you a sympathetic jury.
Posted by: Procopius2K   2006-12-02 10:37  

#3  NINE out of thirteen Phelps spawn are lawyers!?!?

Proof that some embryos are just blobs of undifferentiated cells.
Posted by: exJAG   2006-12-02 08:03  

#2  Some bigger rocks might make them think twice about a "next time".
Posted by: gorb   2006-12-02 04:31  

#1  In a related event, a ND Indian tribe has banned Phelp's hate group from their reservation pending a funeral of a ND National Guardsman from the tribe killed in Iraq on Thanksgiving Day.
With so many lawyers in the group, I imagine part of their income is related to tort extortion -- they provoke someone to attack them and squeeze money by manipulation of the US tort system. This is why the video cited in this article was made, as a way of collecting evidence to make money off this racket. Many states have laws against being a public nuisance, I wonder if these could be applied against Phelps and his crew.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2006-12-02 04:21  

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