03-07-2006, 03:49 PM | #1 |
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/06/bts...als/index.html
No offense, but i think these people need to be whipped the flesh of their backs. Freedom of speech, okay....but this is just too much.
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03-07-2006, 04:55 PM | #3 |
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Why is it always in Kansas?
I agree that I think they should have their flesh whipped off, I hate disrespect to the dead. Having said that, freedom of speech is absolute and I'm glad that the state won't take action against them. Book them for disturbing the peace by all means, but limiting their right to be t**sers is no different from the demands of Muslims over the cartoons. |
03-07-2006, 04:59 PM | #4 |
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I'm greatly encouraged by the formation of the Patriot Guard Riders... a group of folks deciding to ensure that the dead are honored properly. By my math, the group that showed up for Sgt Jessie Davila's funeral would outnumber the entire Phelps church better than four to one. Good on 'em.
It's not that I'm against the free speech right to protest... but to do so at someone's funeral is just a wee bit too extreme for me to support. Perhaps returning the favor at their Sunday services would be appropriate... but I say no more, lest I bump up against that moratorium.
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03-07-2006, 05:27 PM | #5 |
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Heh, Fred Phelps. IIRC, he's the guy behind that "godhatesfags" website.
I heard he planned to go to Sweden during the Åke Green trial, but as far as I know he never came.
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CNN had a reporter try and get his 'side' of the story. It ended with Phelps calling the reporter a pervert and saying he was going to hell with the rest of us. I would rather be in the worst sort of hell than any heaven which let Fred Phelps in.
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03-07-2006, 07:08 PM | #8 |
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See if there's something wrong with my logic.
Phelps (and his cohort of crazies) live in the USA They pay taxes at some level, at least when they buy things. Ergo, they are supporting financially the same government that they are protesting against, and deserve to have their funerals wrecked. [img]smile.gif[/img] EDIT => Phrased as someone who got an "A" in introductory logic. According to Phelps: IF someone supports the US government, they deserve to have their funeral wrecked. PHELPS supports the US government (by providing it with money from taxes) THEREFORE Phelps deserves to have his funeral wrecked. Simple logic. [ 03-07-2006, 07:12 PM: Message edited by: True_Moose ] |
03-07-2006, 07:40 PM | #9 |
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Moose you are the same smart guy as always...
Except for using the word logic and Phelps in the same paragraph. Seriously, Phelps runs a church made up mostly of his family and probably enjoys tax-exempt status to some degree. It is possible they pay little to no taxes at all if the church is the sole means of livelyhood.
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03-07-2006, 07:56 PM | #10 |
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But does he not purchase things - sale taxes are universal, no?
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