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Protesting military funerals
#486356 - 10/09/10 10:38 AM (14 years, 4 months ago) |
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What's your opinion on this? I'd like to see some vigilantes just roll up and spray these people with bullets, but our government shouldn't do shit about it. There's a case that the Supreme court has before it (Snyder v Phelps). Check out the link below. I guess the ruling wont be done until spring 2011. Lets hope they get it right this time, unlike the campaign finance ruling they made last January. See here

If you don't know about this you can read about it here.
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Re: Protesting military funerals [Re: RasJeph]
#486365 - 10/09/10 11:20 AM (14 years, 4 months ago) |
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I doubt any of them were alive during the late 30's early 40s - when hitler was trying to take over the world. War is the only answer sometimes. but not in the last 70 years.
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Re: Protesting military funerals [Re: MR.HEADY]
#486377 - 10/09/10 12:58 PM (14 years, 4 months ago) |
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yeah, you've got to be a certain kind of crazy to hold up a sign that reads "Thank God for dead soldiers."
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Re: Protesting military funerals [Re: FRACTALife]
#486388 - 10/09/10 02:14 PM (14 years, 4 months ago) |
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yes, which makes me wonder why the supreme court would even hear the case. seems pretty black and white to me. phelps winning that case is exactly what should happen. i dont think that's a sad thing. i think the sad thing is that this case went up to the supreme court. its just not the precedent we need to set.
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FRACTALife said: "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -MLK Jr.
ya, we should have just pushed love energy over to axis powers in the 40s. We'd have it made now, if we had done that.
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Re: Protesting military funerals [Re: Harry_Ba11sach]
#486403 - 10/09/10 03:08 PM (14 years, 4 months ago) |
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In March 2006, seven Westboro members picketed the Maryland funeral of Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, who died when his humvee crashed in Iraq. The Westboro protesters flew more than 1,000 miles so they could hold signs with messages like "Thank God for Dead Soldiers," "You're Going to Hell" and "Thank God for IEDs." Matthew's father Albert Snyder, citing the physical and mental trauma that resulted from being confronted by the group at his only son's funeral, filed a lawsuit against Westboro. A jury found the church liable for intentional infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and civil conspiracy, and awarded Albert $10.9 million in damages (which the trial judge later reduced to $5 million). The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, however, reversed the verdict, ruling that the First Amendment protected Westboro's speech.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2024062,00.html#ixzz11tkMu8YF
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Re: Protesting military funerals [Re: THEBats]
#486452 - 10/09/10 05:17 PM (14 years, 4 months ago) |
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i picked that up too.
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This is a bump! The supreme court ruled on this today. It turns out, we still have free speech, no matter how vile it may be. Unless you ask this freedom hater named Samuel Alito. he was the only dissenter in the 8-1 vote.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20038319-504083.html
anyone upset or surprised about this decision?
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Re: Protesting military funerals [Re: Harry_Ba11sach]
#532396 - 03/02/11 06:34 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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I can't wait to read the news that there's been a huge protest at the funeral of fred phelps and/or his church/family members. That's a protest I would love to join! Signs could read, "God (and everyone else) hates the Phelps'!"
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Re: Protesting military funerals [Re: Tangerines]
#532408 - 03/02/11 06:48 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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I don't know how sympathetic many people are to their cause. I think that once fred goes most of the movement he's started will fade away.
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Re: Protesting military funerals [Re: THEBats]
#532423 - 03/02/11 06:59 PM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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oh that son of a bitch introduces himself wearing a KU outfit.
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Re: Protesting military funerals [Re: DungenessDank]
#532686 - 03/03/11 08:09 AM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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that's glass half full thinking!
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