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LongTomH

(8,636 posts)
Mon Jul 30, 2012, 04:25 PM Jul 2012

'Zombies' protest Westboro Baptist Church

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/29/westboro-baptist-church_n_1717142.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

After members of the controversial Kansas-based church announced plans to picket Joint Base Lewis-McChord, a military base south of Seattle, 27-year-old Melissa Neace decided to organize a counter-protest, launching a Facebook group titled "Zombie'ing Westboro Baptist Church AWAY from Fort Lewis!"

"We wanted to turn something negative around, into something people could laugh at and poke fun at," Neace told the News Tribune. "It was the easiest way to divert attention from something so hateful."

About 300 counter-protesters showed up in varying degrees of zombie garb, far outnumbering the picketers from Westboro. According to KIRO in Seattle, just eight protesters from the controversial group showed up.

I love it!! Too bad the Westboro Baptist Types don't have any brains for the zombies to eat!!!!!
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'Zombies' protest Westboro Baptist Church (Original Post) LongTomH Jul 2012 OP
We were hoping for zombies, which was the theme for the Comic-Con, nadinbrzezinski Jul 2012 #1
priceless spanone Jul 2012 #2
Yeah, the poor zombies would starve to death. Wait. Never mind. They're already dead. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #3
my brother in law is stationed at Fort Lewis. His wife was a part of this demtenjeep Jul 2012 #4
About ridicule. From Thomas Jefferson. longship Jul 2012 #5
 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
1. We were hoping for zombies, which was the theme for the Comic-Con,
Mon Jul 30, 2012, 04:26 PM
Jul 2012

would mass protest the religious right folks... we truly were.

 

demtenjeep

(31,997 posts)
4. my brother in law is stationed at Fort Lewis. His wife was a part of this
Mon Jul 30, 2012, 05:12 PM
Jul 2012

they had a blast making signs and getting costumes ready

longship

(40,416 posts)
5. About ridicule. From Thomas Jefferson.
Mon Jul 30, 2012, 05:16 PM
Jul 2012
“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), a statesman, architect, and polymath of some note.


Just thought I'd interject this into the discussion.
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