everyone remeber those nutters from the phelps westboro baptist church? well recently the father of a deceased US Marine has leveled a law suit against the church who are famous for demostrating at militray funerals

I only have one thing to say about this mess and that is that I hope the father wins OOH-RAH!

source: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,99800,00.html?ESRC=marine-a.nl

quote:

Originally posted by Hydrok:
Sir,

My name is [full name and rank was here]. I'm writing to you
in regards to the "peaceful" protesters of the Westboro Baptist Church,
and the lives that they are so ignorantly disrespecting. The families of
the military deserve to be able to bury their sons and daughters in peace,
between them, their family and friends, and their deceased loved ones.

I understand that you are a Christian and a servant of God, as we all
are. I know if you search your faith you will find this act from this
particular community to be unacceptable. Freedom only goes so far sir, I
do not risk my life, nor do my commrads in arms, for the freedom of these
people, just so that they can protest my fallen brothers funerals.

I am calling on you to act in a swift and decisive manner to eliminate
this ugly disgrace on the face of our nation. With out trying to sound
extreme, it is treasonous to commit these invasive violations of privacy
that give our enemy a reason and will to fight against us.

Sir, our enemy is everywhere you know as well as anyone that abroad is not
the only place where we face terror, this is our land, it should be the
high priority of our attention. We fight abroad, we should not have to
fight at home as well.

I am calling on you sir, to please utilize the power of your branch, and
call upon the others to do the same. Please rid us of these monsters, we
fight terror abroad, we should not have to fight terror at home as well.

Very Respectfully,

[name rank etc...]

Brilliant!

Maybe some gays need to get together and have full-on sex in front of their church.

I'll tell ya something. That Phelps scumbag has done more to make me tolerant of gays than any stupid "diversity" seminar ever could.

the stupidity and ignorance of some people amuses me to no end I mean really "people died so killing a guy who's slaughtered hundreds if not thousands of innocent people was evil"

sure, check out the feedback board, if you really wanna get hot under the collar

you have a point I still say we take fine grain manure and send it as a donation of say brown suger

well no, they have assigned a perimeter, which is not out of eyeshot or earshot, and therefore a worthless gesture to make it look like they are doing something.

actually in wake of these people most states have passed laws banning protesting at funerals

Yes, I agree with lina. I don't remember the name of the town, but a while ago their was a Neo-Nazi group that was going to protest in a small Jewish community (I believe in NY), and obviously this was going to affect the daily lives of the citizens of the town. So, what the town officials did was they allowed the NNs to protest for one hour at a specific spot, and warned all citizens of when and where they would be so they could avoid them if need be. So, while the town officially did allow freedom of speech, they regulated harassment.

just a note the institution on the hill is the US Airforce Academy we also have NORAD

any way given all funerals are private things I'm pretty sure they've got this case in the bag

I bet that regardless of what kind of property it is, the lawsuit will be successful, because this is harrassment.

If it is private property, they have an easy case. If it isn't, they don't have a chance. As disgusting as they are, they, like the KKK, the Nazis, etc, have a right to freedom of speech, and it would be stooping to their level to deny them that.

Ignore me, see post above.

I'd love to see that. Seriously.

I'd dare them to come here as well, 2 airbases, 1 fort and the institution on the hill plus this down has more vets than it has mountains

I agree Hydrok, keep the good work up

This is what I sent to the President


Sir,

My name is [full name and rank was here]. I'm writing to you
in regards to the "peaceful" protesters of the Westboro Baptist Church,
and the lives that they are so ignorantly disrespecting. The families of
the military deserve to be able to bury their sons and daughters in peace,
between them, their family and friends, and their deceased loved ones.

I understand that you are a Christian and a servant of God, as we all
are. I know if you search your faith you will find this act from this
particular community to be unacceptable. Freedom only goes so far sir, I
do not risk my life, nor do my commrads in arms, for the freedom of these
people, just so that they can protest my fallen brothers funerals.

I am calling on you to act in a swift and decisive manner to eliminate
this ugly disgrace on the face of our nation. With out trying to sound
extreme, it is treasonous to commit these invasive violations of privacy
that give our enemy a reason and will to fight against us.

Sir, our enemy is everywhere you know as well as anyone that abroad is not
the only place where we face terror, this is our land, it should be the
high priority of our attention. We fight abroad, we should not have to
fight at home as well.

I am calling on you sir, to please utilize the power of your branch, and
call upon the others to do the same. Please rid us of these monsters, we
fight terror abroad, we should not have to fight terror at home as well.

Very Respectfully,

[name rank etc...]

heh, that might be fun, but remember those that fling shit, touched it first

Nah I actually just wrote all 100 members of the senate and 50 congressmen, the president, vice-president, Alberto Gonzalez, the supreme court. God bless cut and paste

And the Westboro Baptist Church.. daring them to come to San Antonio... where there are 4 Air Force bases an Army Fort, and Marine Camp... yeah that would be fun.

don't get to out of hand anything to extreme will be considered a hate crime by the FBI so do something mildly amusing like dumping several thousand pounds of cow shit in their front yards

Me and some friends of mine are thinking about taking some leave in the westboro are... if you catch my drift