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NebulousRikulau
said, about 2 years ago
Quit insulting skunks!
jmattadams
said, about 2 years ago
They have the right to speak and everyone else has the right to outnumber them and drown out their message. The system works.
stuckfly
said, about 2 years ago
Outnumber them and drown out their speech… at a memorial service?
It is free speech, yes, and I’m proud of our soldiers, who defend that freedom so boneheads like the Westboro congregation can dishonor their own fallen defenders, shame Jesus Christ, and make fools of themselves and the church in general on national TV.
If tactless people claiming to be Christians want to say to the world by their public poor form that Jesus stands for opportunistic disrespect, needless strife, and misdirected moral outrage then, yeah, they have that right in the U.S.A.
Excellent cartoon!
motivemagus said, about 2 years ago
Now they defend the First Amendment. Not that I disagree here, on all counts. The most effective ploy against the Westboro nimrods has been to organize: some groups have carefully pre-blocked all available sites and screened them from the service with banners, flags, etc.
Harleyquinn
said, about 2 years ago
^ I agree with everyone, scary how someone so stupid can bring people together. They are not a “church” but a cult that follows one guy who is the most hateful thing I have seen on 2 feet. I studied him when they said they would show up in my town. A town that holds the Air Forces largest base. The “church” are cowards who never showed. Like it would have mattered, there where over 300 people and the motorcycle riders. I guess it might have mattered..who knows what would have happened.
DavidGBA said, about 2 years ago
Funeral directors just start hiring mercenary gangsters to make them go away! Like in Pakistan - shoot the minority.
jmattadams
said, about 2 years ago
Yes, stuckfly, at a memorial service. Not so much at it, but 1,000 feet or so away. Seemly or not, their presence within a square mile makes it necessary.
fredgold said, about 2 years ago
Incredible! I find myself agreeing with harley!!
W(ar).Crime said, about 2 years ago
^Every so often he gets one right. Gotta give him credit.
ChukLitl
said, about 2 years ago
Can we put protesting at funerals with yelling fire in a crowded theatre? It’s incitement to riot, whether the riot happens or not.
Simon_Jester said, about 2 years ago
Why not put the Westboro protestors in ‘Free Speech Zones’?
Corosive Frog
said, about 2 years ago
Personally, I think all protest at a funeral should be put along with yelling fire in a crowded theater.
The guy is dead, whatever he’s getting, it is not for a human to give him.
It’s those people that give christianity a bad name.
MurphyHerself said, about 2 years ago
Amen, everyone.
junco49
said, about 2 years ago
It’s time to drown out BAD SPEECH with MORE SPEECH. Wherever they gather they should be surrounded with ten times the people carrying really huge signs supporting their victims and condemning them while chanting “SHAME ON YOU. GO AWAY! DON”T COME BACK!”
Perhaps it could all be organized with texting and twitter. It worked in Egypt.
dtroutma
said, about 2 years ago
The Patriot Guard Riders do their bit at the funerals to keep these folks away. The lawyers and courts need to go BACK after them on the slander and libel of individual soldiers, NOT their “public protests”. If they are OBSERVED, or HEARD, by ANYONE at the funeral and/or procession- they should be charged, not just allowed to be maintaining “distance”.
It is the abuse of their “right” that should be stopped if it impacts ANY “targeted” individual’s rights.