I was just thinking: these people thrive on publicity. Take their reward away. We have still freedom of the press, which means freedom to *not* report things as well as freedom to report them.

Whenever Phelps and his group threaten to show up somewhere, the press release should be passed on to local authorities, and the local group of those veterans on motorcycles. Nothing else. No TV coverage, or radio, or newsprint, or internet.

Just a real-world extension of the "don't feed the trolls" idea...