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ls317 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 12:55 PM
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Fred Phelps
Edited on Tue Mar-07-06 12:57 PM by ls317
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060307/NEWS01/603070432


The service was emotional, patriotic and, perhaps most importantly, free of controversy as Kokomo residents gathered Monday to make a human shield to keep the event a funeral -- and not a protest.
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TAPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 12:57 PM
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1. Thank God (or whatever) for small favors! nt
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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 12:59 PM
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2. what a sleaze...
just might be the most hate-filled person on the planet.

subjectProdigal
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ls317 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:12 PM
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4. Damn
I thought it was bill o liely ?
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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:15 PM
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6. not even close
Bill is small potatoes compared to this guy...

sP
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:10 PM
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3. Here's my fantasy
Phelps shows up at a veteran's funeral, and is immediately surrounded by a ring of Hari Krishnas, chanting. The next ring has a group of meditators from Maharishi University, doing TM and intoning OM. The next ring has Sufis doing zkr. The next ring has Native American shamen bringing forth their power animals and singing the chants associated with those animals. The next ring has the motorcycle riders holding the flags and singing patriotic songs. Wiccans would wind in and out of the circles, bearing salt and casting a circle around Phelps and Co, protecting the rest of us from them.

How does that sound?
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Dunvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:12 PM
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5. Might just be the force field that would cause him to implode.
It would, at any rate, be interesting to watch.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:18 PM
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7. One day, something really bad is going to happen to Phelps.
When it does, then I will believe there is a god.
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:19 PM
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8. I'm just gonna go ahead and say it, ok?
Nobody in the MSM gave a damn about Phelps when he was picketing the funerals of homosexuals, showing up everywhere with "God Hates Fags" signs, and even going as far as planning to build a monument in Matthew Shepard's home town "commemerating his entrance into hell".

But, he pickets a few Iraq servicemen's funerals, and suddenly he is enemy number 1 of the MSM. And some in the MSM even go as far as to suggest he is an "anti-war" activist, trying to group him in with the left.

Sure, these fundie, right wing jackasses hate Phelps now that he shows up at the funerals of fallen soldiers. And they might even consider themselves heroes for keeping him out and forming these human chains.

But where the fuck were they last year? The year before? The year before that?

Truth is, once Phelps gets over this and stops picketing soldiers' funerals, these people won't have a problem with him anymore. The Phelps cult will be able to harass families of gay Americans at their whim, and none of these people will stand up to protect them.
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:31 PM
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9. Comer
:hug: HUGE, long and loving :hug:

I am tired of saying it but you said it better than I ever could.

Thank you.
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July Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:36 PM
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11. Very, very good points, ComerPerro.
A day late and a dollar short, aren't they? I hadn't thought of the smear on anti-war people.

Remember, the MSM are the same people who implied that the anti-war side was unpatriotic until Murtha spoke up (and even then they tried to smear him, but he did finally get the topic taken seriously). It always bothered me that, even though we were right, we couldn't get a hearing until just the right hawk spoke up.
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genie_weenie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:36 PM
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10. I bet Phelps favorite book is the Brothers Karamazov
but, only the Book 5 and the Grand Inquistor...
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