@Giveitaday
Members of the Westboro Baptist Church said they want revenge after someone slashed the tires on their van during visit to protest a military funeral in McAlester. The group said it plans to now target funerals for Oklahoma children.
"Hopefully this will backfire and blow up in their faces."
Oh it will do, no doubt about it, my good sir; as surely as day follows night. After all...
Remember how Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist 'crusade' (read: paranoia) ultimately blew up in his face, when he turned his insane witchhunt attentions towards the US military.
It's going to happen to ol' Freddy-boy (if not Shirley, once that subhuman filthbag carks it) & the rest of those inferior inbred ignoramuses one of these days, you mark my words. As with McCarthy, Faggard et al...:
I love the smell of Hubris in the morning. Smells like... victory.
(*Sings*):
'Instant Karma's gonna get you...!'
In fact, I for one encourage the WBC to make good their latest threat. All they'll do is exhibit how unimaginably low they're prepared to go, in the cause of their attention whoring. Therefore displaying the more than infinite evil of their way of thinking. And the media coverage of their vile activities will create such a massive public backlash, that those in Congress/HoR will have no choice but take notice, and finally bring out a law that'll make everything the WBC say, do and think illegal. Rights (such as the 1st Amendment) have no right to be abused - least of all when such are used the way they are by the WBC.
With rights come responsibilities after all. Protesting against injustice is a basic human right. The unjust abusing that right - in the manner of a 'protest' - isn't.
So go on, Fred & co. 'Protest' at little childrens' funerals in Oklahoma. Go ahead.
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You'll be helping in the annihilation of right-wing Fundamentalist Christianity in the US; certainly P.R.-wise: the traincrash that is everything fundies say, do, and think - and how such is perceived by the rest of the normal, sane USA & the world. And we Atheists won't even have to lift a finger, as you do our work for us (Examples: Lack of foresight in fundies, ensuring Kitzmiller vs. Dover destroying 'I.D.'/Creationism. Prop. 8 being overturned. And now 'DADT' in the US Military being reversed, despite you voting in a Repubican majority). Dance, our puppets, dance.
@Northumbrian
"I suspect that the man is clinically insane by now, and dragging his family down into madness with him (think Jonestown).
Fortunately, at the moment, Fred Phelps and his brood are only distressing and harassing grieving families. That's bad, but it could be a whole lot worse.
Let's hope they never get hold of tactical nukes, and that whoever has his finger on the button in North Korea never becomes as mad as Fred Phelps."
Read Northumbrian's post very carefully Troll4Life, then consider this: As you, and even the KKK, have dissasociated themselves from the WBC, on the other hand just ask yourself this question: what created the conditions for the WBC to come to be in the first place? You never hear of any other similarly insane hyper-fundie Christian 'attention whoring' groups existing in any other country (certainly mine, the UK), behaving the same way. Now, why do you never hear of, say, Amish (or Mennonite), Quaker, Unitarian Universalist, Buddhist, Wiccan, Agnostic or Atheist versions of the WBC, hmmmmm?! After all, you never hear of Atheist cults - armed to the teeth - holing up at a compound in Texas, having to be dealt with by the ATF. Or an Atheist planting a bomb in Oklahoma. Or an Atheist shooting a doctor outside a church - because he works at an abortion clinic. Not anywhere in the world - least of all the USA.
A clue for free, dearie. Three Words: Only. In. America. Another Three Words: Right-wing Fundamentalist Christianity. With the emphasis on Mental.
Curious how such events happened only after all the mental institutions in the US were closed by Ronnie Raygun. Who of course, ultimately ended up going loopy himself. And yet, several years ago here in the UK, the devoutly Christian owner of a coach company ('Good News Travel') in my locale was sectioned under the Mental Health Act, after he went all David Icke, and got the idea into his head (no doubt after a vision & message by the 'Holy Spirit') that if he transported all the Jews in Russia to Israel, the 'Second Coming' would happen. Fortunately, the staff (who lost their jobs due to the inevitable financial problems caused by their boss's insane behaviour) were re-employed by (and the coaches assimilated into) the UK's biggest coach firm, National Express. Whose CEO is an Atheist.
The equivalents of the WBC exist nowhere else on Earth. Not in Sweden, Denmark, here in the UK. Least of all in the Czech Republic, which (according to EU polls & surveys) is the least religious country in Europe. You do the maths.
Would the WBC have come to be, if all Christians in the US were more like the Quakers? Non-fundie?
Being a non-fundie Christian (like those here in FSTDT). It won't kill you. You - via your right-wing thinking - don't want to be associated with those hyper-fundie WBC filthbags. Do you?
If you & your ilk don't want to be associated with the subhumans that are Fred Phelps & the WBC, then surely the onus is upon you & your (slightly left of Fred Phelps) ilk to completely eliminate them (the kids might be salvageable, with proper psychological care, counselling & deprogramming) Or at least lobby the GOP to bring in laws to completely gag them - or force them to be hyper-PC. Like I say - they pose the greatest threat to Christian Fundamentalism. You don't want to be tarred by the same brush as they now. Do you?