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Re: Westbro Baptist Church Cheers Child Deaths

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Nov 20, 2010 2:47 pm

Charlou wrote:I was wondering about that too, beige
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Re: Westbro Baptist Church Cheers Child Deaths

Post by charlou » Sat Nov 20, 2010 2:49 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:Four quarts of petrol ACCIDENTALLY spilled near their protest and a dropped match. Just sayin'.
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Re: Westbro Baptist Church Cheers Child Deaths

Post by Ian » Sat Nov 20, 2010 2:50 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:Four quarts of household ammonia ACCIDENTALLY spilled near their protest. Just sayin'.
Camoflaged IED set off by their van before they arrive at the protest. I doubt they're trained to look out for them. Just sayin'.

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Re: Westbro Baptist Church Cheers Child Deaths

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Nov 20, 2010 2:53 pm

Ian wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:Four quarts of household ammonia ACCIDENTALLY spilled near their protest. Just sayin'.
Camoflaged IED set off by their van before they arrive at the protest. I doubt they're trained to look out for them. Just sayin'.
A neighbor had a really loud car stereo that he refused to turn down when he sat in the drive-way when I lived in San Diego. That stopped when he found a bundle of flares and an alarm clock taped to the hood of his car one morning.
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Re: Westbro Baptist Church Cheers Child Deaths

Post by Ian » Sat Nov 20, 2010 2:55 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:
Ian wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:Four quarts of household ammonia ACCIDENTALLY spilled near their protest. Just sayin'.
Camoflaged IED set off by their van before they arrive at the protest. I doubt they're trained to look out for them. Just sayin'.
A neighbor had a really loud car stereo that he refused to turn down when he sat in the drive-way when I lived in San Diego. That stopped when he found a bundle of flares and an alarm clock taped to the hood of his car one morning.
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I mean, uh... that's terrible. What deplorable behavior to threaten someone like that. For shame.







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Post by Twoflower » Sat Nov 20, 2010 2:57 pm

beige wrote:
Twoflower wrote:WBC also has security that travels with them, that is probably why nothing has happened yet.
:? How the hell do they pay for that? And driving around and harassing people?

Where do they get their money from? Are people sick enough to actually donate to them?

So many questions, so much bile.

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Post by beige » Sat Nov 20, 2010 3:00 pm

Twoflower wrote:They make most of their money from lawsuits when people do attack them, they sue for damages and because of freedom of speech they win every time.
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Re: Westbro Baptist Church Cheers Child Deaths

Post by Twoflower » Sat Nov 20, 2010 3:02 pm

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Twoflower wrote:They make most of their money from lawsuits when people do attack them, they sue for damages and because of freedom of speech they win every time.
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:mehthis: You should feel lucky you don't live here. It's very depressing.
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Post by Ian » Sat Nov 20, 2010 3:04 pm

Twoflower wrote:
beige wrote:
Twoflower wrote:They make most of their money from lawsuits when people do attack them, they sue for damages and because of freedom of speech they win every time.
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Post by Hermit » Sat Nov 20, 2010 3:51 pm

Twoflower wrote:
beige wrote:
Twoflower wrote:WBC also has security that travels with them, that is probably why nothing has happened yet.
:? How the hell do they pay for that? And driving around and harassing people?

Where do they get their money from? Are people sick enough to actually donate to them?

So many questions, so much bile.

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They make most of their money from lawsuits when people do attack them, they sue for damages and because of freedom of speech they win every time.
This discussion is disgustingly lopsided. Is there nobody at all in this forum to defend freedom of speech any more? Nobody?

For crying out loud, where are you, CES?
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Re: Westbro Baptist Church Cheers Child Deaths

Post by Ian » Sat Nov 20, 2010 4:16 pm

Seraph wrote:
Twoflower wrote:
beige wrote:
Twoflower wrote:WBC also has security that travels with them, that is probably why nothing has happened yet.
:? How the hell do they pay for that? And driving around and harassing people?

Where do they get their money from? Are people sick enough to actually donate to them?

So many questions, so much bile.

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They make most of their money from lawsuits when people do attack them, they sue for damages and because of freedom of speech they win every time.
This discussion is disgustingly lopsided. Is there nobody at all in this forum to defend freedom of speech any more? Nobody?

For crying out loud, where are you, CES?
Oh, I suppose I could do it.

They have every right to say what they say. Thtis is America after all. And the courts have consistently held up their First Amendment rights.

But I still hope somebody kills one or several of them sooner or later. :twisted:

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Re: Westbro Baptist Church Cheers Child Deaths

Post by charlou » Sat Nov 20, 2010 4:34 pm

Twoflower wrote:
beige wrote:
Twoflower wrote:WBC also has security that travels with them, that is probably why nothing has happened yet.
:? How the hell do they pay for that? And driving around and harassing people?

Where do they get their money from? Are people sick enough to actually donate to them?

So many questions, so much bile.

:|~
They make most of their money from lawsuits when people do attack them, they sue for damages and because of freedom of speech they win every time.
Re the bolded bits .. Is any of this established to be true, or is it gossip/speculation?
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Re: Westbro Baptist Church Cheers Child Deaths

Post by maiforpeace » Sat Nov 20, 2010 4:59 pm

Charlou wrote:
Twoflower wrote:
beige wrote:
Twoflower wrote:WBC also has security that travels with them, that is probably why nothing has happened yet.
:? How the hell do they pay for that? And driving around and harassing people?

Where do they get their money from? Are people sick enough to actually donate to them?

So many questions, so much bile.

:|~
They make most of their money from lawsuits when people do attack them, they sue for damages and because of freedom of speech they win every time.
Re the bolded bits .. Is any of this established to be true, or is it gossip/speculation?
I don't think they have collected any damages...I think at most they have been rewarded attorney fees for when they have been taken to court and won.
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Post by beige » Sat Nov 20, 2010 5:14 pm

Seraph wrote:This discussion is disgustingly lopsided. Is there nobody at all in this forum to defend freedom of speech any more? Nobody?

For crying out loud, where are you, CES?
They're welcome to do it if they see fit, but I don't have to like it.
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Re: Westbro Baptist Church Cheers Child Deaths

Post by cursuswalker » Tue Nov 23, 2010 12:15 am

Ayaan wrote:http://www.koco.com/r/25833473/detail.html
TOPEKA, Kan. -- A controversial Kansas church is changing its protest plan after an incident in Oklahoma last week.

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.
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Stepping back for a moment, one has to say that this is excellent news tactically. Backed into a corner by the use of violence and the refusal of an entire community to help afterwards, these beasts have been forced to up the ante. Only in their case the ante is to be even more outrageously disgusting.

Let them act on this. They will only need to do it once for violence against them to really break out. They then have a choice of trying to keep acting the victim, which will bring them no sympathy, or responding in kind, which will show them up even more as it will be portrayed in the media.

Either way, they are now exposing themsleves to genuine danger, against which they will find little help. They do not have the privelege of anonymous acts of violence. Those they face (who number millions) do.
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