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Wizard Joined: Jun 12 2009 Posts: 4209

Agreed.

If only rocket launchers weren't illegal.... Sigh.

Posted: May 22 2010 12:43 am

Doddsino wrote:

The thing is...I wouldn't put it past them to NOT announce his death and to have a private ceremony before they do, which is very unfortunate. Hopefully they do though, because I will totally be there, mocking them, telling them that God hates Phelps, etc.

Someone will find out where if that happens. You know they will.

Posted: May 22 2010 12:51 am

Shut up, Dorn wrote:

The WBC feeds off of everyone's hatred. Something needs to get to them so bad that they don't exist. Just something that strikes them at their core.

Agreed. The day I saw them holding signs--at a Marine's funeral, a guy who died for the country and whose fucking FAMILY was there, in abject mourning--that said "thank god for dead soldiers" I was deeply, deeply in hate. I know they feed off it, but I can't help myself. I want them all to die, and I want it to be in a horrible, painful, and bloody way. And I want to watch.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

I honestly believe there should be some reform to free speech, especially when it's blatant that some people use it with the intent to harm others. I would almost say that would be fair to put in there, however it would probably lead to the end of free speech altogether.

Maybe events such as funerals should be made the exception of free speech in that "in a time of mourning" or something along those lines.

We had a guy in our town who got picketed against when he died because he was a major high school football star and was openly homosexual, so these assholes showed up and caused havoc. I am truly truly amazed that no one has tried to assassinate Phelps yet. I'm not asking for that to be the answer by any means, I'm just saying I find it amazing they've gotten away with so much.

Posted: May 22 2010 01:21 am

Dodds, they don't because most of the time, when someone starts trying to reason or do anything to the WBC, they accuse them of infringing on their rights and sue them, or when someone snaps and tries to beat them, rightfully IMO, they claim assault. It's just not worth it anymore.

Wizard Joined: Jun 12 2009 Posts: 4209

It makes you wonder... what gives people the right to say things like that? Besides the freedom of speech, I mean. It's just appalling that someone would assume the right to so blatantly abuse the ability to live the way they want to and make OTHER peoples lives absolute hell.

Posted: May 22 2010 01:34 am

I honestly can't believe that one of them hasn't been killed or been beat to shit for doing that crap yet. I can tell you this much, if anybody did that at a funeral for one of my close friends or family I would be going to jail, and at least one of those assholes would be going to the hospital at the same time.

And I would honestly consider making the drive to picket a funeral for one of their own. Then afterward I would piss on the grave and put it up on Youtube.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

Fuck dude...dig the bastard up...open the coffin...then do your business.

Wizard Joined: Jun 12 2009 Posts: 4209

But if he's not alive, then the pain can't be felt, and where's the fun in that?

Posted: May 22 2010 01:50 am

That's why we gotta pee on him while he's alive.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

You track him down, we'll all get together and pee on him, then we'll write an elaborate story about it in the NWO.

Posted: May 22 2010 03:02 am

Road trip!

Posted: May 22 2010 05:05 am

I'm definitely of the school of free speech, but really, shouldn't this be jurisdicted under hate crime laws? It's not illegal to be racist, but if you use your free speech to incite violence or hatred against differing races or sexualities, it's no longer free speech, but a hate crime. Couldn't picketing funerals, a deliberately emotional-traumatizing act, fall under such hate laws?

It's my understanding that intentional infliction of emotional distress is NOT covered under free speech laws, EXCEPT for purposes of satire (ie, Larry Flint vs. Jerry Falwell). Is Phelps roundaboutly admitting to satire, or enjoying hatespeech that simply isn't litigated against yet?

Wizard Joined: Jun 12 2009 Posts: 4209

They may be using 'freedom of religion', rather than freedom of speech. After all, they have established themselves as a religion, albiet a small one.

And yes, a road trip would be fantastic.

Joined: Sep 17 2007 Location: The Opium Trail Posts: 3475

Thunderhorse wrote:

I just went from laughing my ass off at a different thread to intense hatred.

I went from intense hatred in a different thread to laughing my ass off in this thread. Seriously, what won't this guys picket? I'm starting to think that if you haven't been protested by these guys you haven't meant shit to society.

Posted: May 22 2010 03:11 pm

I've heard it said that you haven't lived until you've been threatened.

Posted: May 24 2010 01:46 pm

Wendy Dio, wife/manager of late heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio (Dio, Heaven & Hell, Black Sabbath, Rainbow), has released the following statement in response to reports that the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) — an independent Baptist church and hate group known for its hatred of homosexuals and its protest activities (which include picketing funerals) — intends to picket Ronnie's upcoming public memorial service:

"Ronnie hates prejudice and violence! We need to turn the other cheek on these people that only know how to hate someone they didn't know. We only know how to love someone we know!"

The church, which was the subject of a 2007 BBC documentary entitled "The Most Hated Family In America" (Video 1, Video 2), is made up mostly of pastor Fred Phelps and his family. The pastor has 13 children, and at least 54 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren. He described himself as an "old-time" gospel preacher in a CNN interview in 2006, saying, "You can't preach the Bible without preaching the hatred of God."

Ronnie James Dio's public memorial service will be held on Sunday, May 30 at 2:00 p.m. at The Hall Of Liberty located at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills, 6300 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles, California.

For more information on the Westboro Baptist Church, read this entire CNN.com article from June 2009.

Thanks for the report to Blabbermouth.net.

Good on her

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

I'm glad to see she's above the kind of hatred these people preach.

Posted: May 25 2010 03:50 am

Fuck it, I live close enough to Topeka. I'm going to kill these people.

In all seriousness, if they ever do anything close to where I live again, I'm trolling their protest. My dad signed up to be a part of the group of people that prevents them from getting near military funerals, so I figure that generating some lulz at the WBC's expense is the least I can do.

Title: Cat of Ulthar Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 93

One of the most reprehensible organizations on the planet.

They always pissed me off whenever I'd hear about them picketing the funerals of all those gay soldiers. I hope a group of angry, coked up, drunken bikers show up and chain their asses to death.

Oh, and this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF5mfG0vO8o

Sorry, it wouldn't let me embed.

Posted: May 25 2010 09:33 pm

Char Aznable wrote:

Fuck it, I live close enough to Topeka. I'm going to kill these people.

In all seriousness, if they ever do anything close to where I live again, I'm trolling their protest. My dad signed up to be a part of the group of people that prevents them from getting near military funerals, so I figure that generating some lulz at the WBC's expense is the least I can do.

Your dad is awesome, and I am going to google for a local equivalent of that group as we speak.

Posted: May 26 2010 02:06 am

SoldierHawk wrote:

Char Aznable wrote:

Fuck it, I live close enough to Topeka. I'm going to kill these people.

In all seriousness, if they ever do anything close to where I live again, I'm trolling their protest. My dad signed up to be a part of the group of people that prevents them from getting near military funerals, so I figure that generating some lulz at the WBC's expense is the least I can do.

Your dad is awesome, and I am going to google for a local equivalent of that group as we speak.

They're called the "Patriot Guard Riders" around here. It started out as a group of bikers, but it spread to vets and people working at the guard base, too. I think it's open to the general public now, but I'm not sure if it's a national thing.

Posted: May 26 2010 11:25 am

I like how they mention his "worshipers." Now I know he was popular, but I don't think anyone has a shrine to Dio set up in their houses where they make blood sacrifices to RJ.

Ross Rifle wrote:

He described himself as an "old-time" gospel preacher in a CNN interview in 2006, saying, "You can't preach the Bible without preaching the hatred of God."

And yes, actually, you can. I thought the whole point was that God is love...

Posted: May 26 2010 11:44 am

Why would anyone be a Satanist? Wouldn't that mean that you'd have to believe in the canon of THE BIBLE? According to THAT book, Satan is the losing side...As they say in "Little Nicky," "Pick me a winner."

Posted: May 26 2010 01:45 pm

Black Zarak wrote:

I like how they mention his "worshipers." Now I know he was popular, but I don't think anyone has a shrine to Dio set up in their houses where they make blood sacrifices to RJ.

Ross Rifle wrote:

He described himself as an "old-time" gospel preacher in a CNN interview in 2006, saying, "You can't preach the Bible without preaching the hatred of God."

And yes, actually, you can. I thought the whole point was that God is love...

well, old testament god is vindictive and mean. so, i think thats their justification.