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Yea, cause everything I KNOW, I learned from a blog....................... :rofl:
And if the blog is false, then this whole situation never happened and this whole debate is pointless and you threw a temper tantrum for no reason.Bruce Monkhouse said:Yea, cause everything I KNOW, I learned from a blog....................... :rofl:
Nauticus said:We also know that they were knowingly denied that right.
Gimpy said:So then are you fine with saying the same thing to the people supporting the actions of the police officers without all of the facts and it being an incident that no one here knows nothing about? If this is the case then I'm not certain why this thread remains open because there is nothing to discuss and this was really just an exercise in futility from the get go due to the weakness of the original posting.
(CNN)– Rock stars the Foo Fighters played an impromptu show for a group of protesters from Westboro Baptist Church who had come to protest outside the band's show Friday night in Kansas City, Kansas.
Band members jumped onto a flatbed truck, sporting costumes they wore in a recent video parody, parked across the street from the protest, and sang "Hot Buns," CNN affiliate KSHB reported.
That show has gone down hill since season three.Der Panzerkommandant.... said:All hail the hypno-toad!
Regards
?owa said:It's too bad religious groups have to deal with these types of nimrods. There's always a few idiots. I may be atheist, but I support organized religion, and it's too bad there are idiots like this, haha.
But it does make me happy to know that their level of support is so low in the larger population. I think that's a good sign for humanity
ballz said:?
Huh? Are you saying it's too bad the Westboro Baptist Church group had to deal with nimrods like the Comic people?
Westboro Baptist Church protesters will soon be severely limited in their ability to disrupt military funerals, after Congress passed a sweeping veterans bill this week that includes restrictions on such demonstrations.
According to "The Honoring America’s Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012," which is now headed to President Barack Obama's desk, demonstrators will no longer be allowed to picket military funerals two hours before or after a service. The bill also requires protestors to be at least 300 feet away from grieving family members.
Sythen said:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/02/veterans-bill-military-funerals_n_1733080.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#slide=1191005
More on link.
One part of me hates the thought of any restrictions on peaceful protest, the rest of me says its about damn time. I don't mind being called a hypocrite for supporting this at all.
Brihard said:Yup. 'Reasonable limitations'. It's inherently part of our constitutional law up here; a lot murkier down in the U.S. I'll be curious just in the academic sense to see where this one goes legally.
Anyway, sorry, law nerd off. Speaking just as a dude, these folks are total friggin' dirtbags, and I hope this law can be allowed to stand. I'm with Sythen in being willing to accept accusations of hypocrisy on this one.
1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
CRIMINAL HARASSMENT
264 (1) No person shall, without lawful authority and knowing that another person is harassed or recklessly as to whether the other person is harassed, engage in conduct referred to in subsection (2) that causes that other person reasonably, in all the circumstances, to fear for their safety or the safety of anyone known to them.
Prohibited Conduct
(2) The conduct mentioned in subsection (1) consists of
(a) repeatedly following from place to place the other person or anyone known to them;
(b) repeatedly communicating with, either directly or indirectly, the other person or anyone known to them;
(c) besetting or watching the dwelling-house, or place where the other person, or anyone known to them, resides, works, carries on business or happens to be; or
(d) engaging in threatening conduct directed at the other person or any member of their family.
Outrage as Westboro Baptist plans praise gathering outside Sandy Hook Elementary school to celebrate God 'executing his judgement' in horrific shooting rampage that killed 20 children and 6 adults
By Leslie Larson
PUBLISHED: 05:46 GMT, 16 December 2012 | UPDATED: 10:46 GMT, 16 December 2012
The tight-knit community of Newtown, Connecticut is numb in the aftermath of the heart-wrenching massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary school on Friday when a gunman killed 20 young students, all aged six and seven, in addition to six adults. As families mourn the lives that were cut short in this unspeakable horror, an extremist group has announced they plan to congregate at the scene of the tragedy and offer praise to God for 'executing his judgement' - an unthinkable act amidst the sorrow overwhelming the quiet town.
A member from the Westboro Baptist Church, an unaffiliated religious group that self-identifies as a church, said on Saturday the group will picket the school in a so-called praise service, while the rest of the nation struggles to move forward after the tragedy. Westboro, which has been widely described as a hate group, has often courted controversy by promoting an anti-homosexual agenda and picketing military funerals and high profile events to gain publicity. The organization is led by Fred Phelps and is headquartered in Topeka, Kansas but representatives travel around the U.S. picketing events.
Shirley Phelps-Roper, who describes herself as a 'thankful member' of the group, wrote the words to Psalm 104:24 on her Twitter profile: 'O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.' In a message, hours after the tragedy in Newtown she tweeted, 'Westboro will picket Sandy Hook Elementary School to sing praise to God for the glory of his work in executing his judgment.' On the group's website, GodHatesFags.com, the organization states their mission is to conduct peaceful demonstrations against 'soul-damning, nation-destroying filth.'
WBC is not affiliated with a recognized Baptist denomination and the U.S. evangelical community has denounced the actions of the group. News that the organization was going to descend on the community in mourning sparked outrage. 'Stay away from those poor children's funerals. You are SICK, sad, & desperate people,' one angry Twitter user wrote in response. 'Disgusting. Unfathomable. Lack of words at my anger,' another wrote, and more adding their disgust. 'The Westboro Baptist "church" makes me sick. I've never seen such pure hatred and evil like that in my life.'
Two area residents decided to take matters into their own hands and started a Facebook effort to mobilize volunteers to block the Westboro representatives from gaining access to community Taylor Starr and Kelly Shannon have proposed having supporters of the families don angel wings to block the unwelcome protests with the Angel Action - Sandy Hook movement.
The Angel Action movement was started by Romaine Patterson in response to Westboro Baptist protestors who gathered outside the funeral for Matthew Shepard in 1998, to mourn the gay teenager who was brutally tortured and murdered in Laramie, Wyoming. The group organizes counter-demonstrators to dress in flowing white angel costumes with 10-foot wingspans rising seven feet high that aim to block the hateful messages written by the Westboro members.
'Westboro Baptist Church is planning another attack of hateful words, protesting the funerals of the 20 children and 7 adults who died yesterday at Sandy Hook elementary school. You can not fight hate with hate so continuing in Romaine Patterson's footsteps, if they do come here and try to protest we are going to put forth Angel Action,' the two young women wrote in a posting. 'Let's not let more hate and sadness attack the already devastated family and friends of those who were lost,' they added.
In support of the victims
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248892/Sandy-Hook-shooting-Outrage-Westboro-Baptist-plans-praise-gathering-outside-school.html#ixzz2FFGmAwP2
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