Freepers and Phleps square off against each other

[booley]

While it's alway s nice to see people opposing phelps, somehow I don't think the freepers are concerned with stopping Bigotry...

As throngs came to the hallowed grounds of Arlington National Cemetery to honor the fallen on Memorial Day, a handful of protesters from an anti-gay group stood across a four-lane highway from a conservative group supporting the troops.
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A small group of members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., who have been demonstrating around the country at military funerals, sang "God hates America" to the tune of "God Bless America" and held signs that read "God is America's terror," "Thank God for dead soldiers," "You're going to hell" and "Bush killed them."
Across the street, a handful of people from the conservative group known as FreeRepublic.com held a large sign saying, "God bless our troops, defenders of freedom, American heroes." Other signs said, "God does love our defenders of freedom" and "This Memorial Day, thank a soldier for your freedom."
As people walked to the cemetery past the Westboro church group, many looked at them and scowled and several shouted insults.
A Marine lance corporal in uniform, passing by on the sidewalk, suddenly lunged toward one of the church protesters. A police officer put his arm around the Marine and led him away before there was any physical contact.
"Shut your mouth," one woman yelled at them, and a man passing by said, "Read your Bible." A spokesman for FreeRepublic.com, Kristinn Taylor, said his group showed up to demonstrate because they knew the church group was coming. He said they have staged counterdemonstrations on several occasions when Westboro protesters disrupted military funerals.
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http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?2006/05/30/1

You gotta wonder how much cognative dissonence the freepers had to endure protesting against an infamouse homophobe.

[LittleClarkie]

1. I got banned at Free Republic for posting a Phelps link

but not before I got a handful of people condemning the man.

Even freepers aren't as bad as Phelps. How low does that put ol' Freddie, I ask you.

[Warpy]

4. Not as low as the people bankrolling him

Think about it, a fringe nutcase who protests the occasional gay funeral to get headlines suddenly seems to have an unlimited travel budget for himself and his family to go protest MILITARY funerals. This provokes laws against free speech and free assembly in cities and counties all over the place.

Connect the dots, people. Just who would be against free speech and freedom of assembly enough to fund Phelps?

[dsc]

6. His family sues everything that moves

and that is where they get their money.

[AndyTiedye]

8. Someone Must Be Funding Them. And Why Do They Get So Much Press?

[cboy4]

10. They get so much press because the story is "sexy" to news

organizations.

It makes for good TV showing videotape of heated confrontations.

[AndyTiedye]

16. If The Media Wants Sex, Why So Little Mention of Hookergate?

I mean, that's the scandal that's got everything:
sex, bribery, and it even happened at the WATERGATE!

<crickets>

Our press is completely own3d by the regime,
and Phelps is getting all this press because
Karl Rove wants it that way.

[cboy4]

17. I'm sure Rove approves of Phelps spewing his hate outside gay funerals but

why would he approve of Phelps protesting solders' funerals?

I guess I missed your point. :shrug:

[dsc]

12. yeah the poor people he sues

that is who funds him.

[Occulus]

18. Exactly. I've never bought that "his family sues" angle

someone's funding him. They can't sue anything unless they're wronged, and nobody seems to be going out of their way to wrong them specifically.

[dsc]

19. Have you ever been sued

especially by a lawyer (ie he has no lawyer bills)? They bury people in frivolous motions and make it virtually impossible for them to conduct business or live their lives. They then offer to settle for whatever the insurance policy will cover. He is the king of the nuisance lawsuit.

[Warpy]

15. No, something has changed

along with their tactic of protesting military funerals.

If we could pry his books open, it would be instructive, probably with the names of a few prominent Straussians.

I'm quite convinced of it. His lawsuits produced a good living and rare travel. This is different.

[MichaelHarris]

9. You know what's really funny?

The Freepers and the Phelp's testicle flakes pull the same lever in the voting booth, republican.

[MessiahRp]

2. I wish someone would put up the clip

of Michael Moore destroying Phelps on The Awful Truth with the Sodomobile. I can't find a clip of it... I bet Freepers' heads would explode if they were caught agreeing with him on anything (even more reason to put the clip up)!

Rp

[ninkasi]

3. Phelps and his group

represent le creme de la crap, as far as I'm concered. I understand on some level why Freepers oppose them, it's because of the anti-American stance they take. Sadly, if Phelps and his rabid group were opposing the funerals of gays, they would have Freeper's full support. Both groups thrive on, and feed on, hatred.

[baldguy]

5. Shit fighting Shit

They're exactly the same in my opinion.

[progdonkey]

7. I know this is stupid, but "Kristinn" is a guy's name?

:wow:

[cboy4]

11. Sicko Phelps and his satanic cult members love, love, love it

when people scream at them and even try to attack them when they demonstrate.

If people would ignore them, I'm pretty sure they'd go away.

[GodlessBiker]

13. The blind leading the blind.

[MercutioATC]

14. This may be one of those situations we should stay out of.

I'm thinking it's more productive to let the zealots attack each other.

[kevinbgoode]

20. Good God. . .it's like the two ugly stepsisters fighting over the Prince

casting bible verses as spells, each trying to top one another.

In the end, the Freepers love the Phelps clan - they just don't like the in-your-face stuff, because it exposes the Freeps for the rampant god-baiting, America-hating, anti-gay bigots they truly are.