Oh, for . . .the stupid trolls are back
Apr. 20th, 2007 08:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrThe Westboro Baptist church (of www.godhatesfags.com fame) announced plans to picket the funerals of the Virginia Tech victims because:
"God is punishing America for her sodomite sins. The 33 massacred at Virginia Tech died for America's sins against WBC (Westboro Baptist Church). Just as U.S. soldiers dying in Iraq each day for America's sins against WBC."
"God is punishing America for her sodomite sins. The 33 massacred at Virginia Tech died for America's sins against WBC (Westboro Baptist Church). Just as U.S. soldiers dying in Iraq each day for America's sins against WBC."
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Date: 2007-04-20 01:50 pm (UTC)They are really scary attention whores, forget any empathy, sympathy, or basic human consideration.
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Date: 2007-04-20 01:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-04-20 02:00 pm (UTC)I can't even be angry with them anymore. I watched an interview series with the family, and it's just sad. The children are all brainwashed, and they live in such a tightly controlled world that they can't see anything but what is fed to them.
(Not that I think that what they're doing is in anyway anything except horrific. It's awful and it makes me want to shake them and yell "How dare you!")
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Date: 2007-04-20 02:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-20 02:05 pm (UTC)You evidently have zero understanding of cause-and-effect. Just thought you should know, in case no one has mentioned this to you before.
No love,
Me
P.S. Also, picketing any type of funeral for any reason is incredibly mean-spirited and, well, just plain tacky.
Of course, he's threatened to picket our church many times in the past and never showed up, so this could just be another one of his empty threats. Let's hope so, to spare the families and friends of the victims of this tragedy.
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Date: 2007-04-20 02:56 pm (UTC)These are also the people who were going to picket the funerals of the Amish girls killed at Nickel Mines school here in Lancaster County, and who said the girls deserved to die, and that it was punishment for Ed Rendell insulting Phelps.
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Date: 2007-04-20 02:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-20 03:12 pm (UTC)I wouldn't count on it. He knows that picketing these funerals will give him the ultimate in attention. If I would hazard a guess, I think he would take pains to picket Professor Liviu Librescu's funeral in particular, because 1) the Professor was Jewish and 2) many people regard him as a particularly innocent hero because he gave his life to defend others, and so picketing that particular funeral would give him maximum outrage mileage.
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Date: 2007-04-20 03:19 pm (UTC)think he would take pains to picket Professor Liviu Librescu's funeral in particular, because 1) the Professor was Jewish and 2) many people regard him as a particularly innocent hero because he gave his life to defend others, and so picketing that particular funeral would give him maximum outrage mileage.
I believe Librescu's funeral was already held in Israel...?
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Date: 2007-04-20 03:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-04-20 06:06 pm (UTC)This goes double (octuple? googleplextuple?) for Phelps and the Baptists, I think. Nixon, for all that he was a bad person who did bad things, was not actually evil incarnate in human form, as Phelps is.
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Date: 2007-04-20 06:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-04-20 07:44 pm (UTC)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...
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Date: 2007-04-20 08:09 pm (UTC)I dunno, part of me doesn't think about Phelps, or get het up about him, because a)that's what he wants & b) it doesn't do me any good to work up a head of steam when I have no positive way of using it.
To be honest, however, when I read about him yesterday I did think, "Ok, someone's gotta do something about this guy". And I think that what's gotta be done is something "judo-istic", something unexpected. Like invite his group to a funeral or something, or--when they show up next time throw a party for him. Or angel the hell outta him like the friends of Matthew Shepard did.
(Which reminds me, I once e-mailed Ann Coulter and asked her to add me to her traitors list. Haven't heard anything back from her, and we're supposed to be married in a couple of weeks.)*
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*a) Yes, I have been taking my medications, & b)no, hallucinations are not a side effect.
(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-20 08:21 pm (UTC)Perhaps the only way to deal and not get arrested ourselves is the "oops-ie" torture. Invented just for the occasion.
A bunch of people get as close to the group as they can, smiling, etc. and then let them have it with string cheese, whipped cream, seltzer pumps, etc. Nothing dangerous (Honestly, officer, they were behaving so much NOT like Christians, I thought it was an Onion joke and just joined in the fun!)
Because all we can do is make it plain to the survivors that no one takes these people seriously. Except the riot police, who have to take everything seriously.
(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-20 08:40 pm (UTC)I'm mostly amazed, nowadays, that they /keep getting media attention/. I guess it's a reliable "and here we have the lunatic fringe" shot, but still.
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Date: 2007-04-20 09:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-20 10:16 pm (UTC)It was, obviously, a memorable message. I wonder sometimes if the Phelpsians understood it.
I'm sure they were spewing their hate loudly, but I couldn't hear it over the impromptu brass band and the crowds singing, "Goin' to the Chapel." I doubt much of anyone else could either.
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Date: 2007-04-20 10:58 pm (UTC)Miss Manners needs to open up a can of whup-ass on these people--several cans.
I am appalled that these people are so wrapped up in their own agenda that they can't allow themselves to show any respect for others. Messing with the veterans' families was bad enough; this is outrageous. And am I mistaken, or did they threaten to picket the funerals of the Amish children, too, after they were killed in that school?
Chantal
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Date: 2007-04-20 11:09 pm (UTC)Chantal
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Date: 2007-04-20 11:12 pm (UTC)Chantal
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Date: 2007-04-21 07:50 pm (UTC)Chantal
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Date: 2007-04-21 10:42 pm (UTC)Just wondering.
Never mind The Problem of Evil. My big question for God is The Problem of Stupidity: "How could a loving, powerful Divine Being create STUPID PEOPLE???" ;-)
WBC
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