>>>>>>>>>http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-westboro0330,0,4683826.story
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>>>>>>>>>Free-speech advocates rejoice, I guess...
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>>>>>>>>I've seen these ba$turds in person. It was all I could do (actually my wife and a police officer were restraining me) not to make an impression on one of them.
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>>>>>>>>My hope is people do more than help this family with the BS court costs. These ba$turds need to be eliminated.
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>>>>>>>My thoughts here are the same as yours.
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>>>>>>>I guess they do have the right to free speech, even in such an ugly form. Just as we are free to consider them scum for their thoughts and actions. Descecrating a funeral -- of a vet who died in Iraq! -- is a really good answer to "How low can you go?"
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>>>>>>Yes.
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>>>>>>I don't think restraint would have worked had I seen them at a funeral. I was ready to go at it with them when they were attempting to block the entrance of a theater in Topeka where my wife and I were going to see a Wynton Marsalis concert. They were outside callign everyone fag lovers (exact words) and yelling that we were all gong to hell. I tried to ignore them up until they attempted to get in my way. they have their kids with them doing this, BTW.
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>>>>>>The police did move them out of the walkway after my little tussle. The officer who got between me and one of the a$$holes told me he had an extra nightstick in his cruiser I could borrow if things got unruly.
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>>>>>Ironically one of the good things about the west is that these people do have a right to speak. You should defend that as the alternative is not so good.
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>>>>These 'people' do not have a right to exist in my book.
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>>>then you should consider yourself a member of the Taliban. People like that are allowed to speak because that also gives you your freedom to speak
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>>Yeah - that's what it is Nick. I think I'll put my turban on and head out and kill a woman for going to school. Then blow up a shopping mall.
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>Fine. You know what I mean though don't you. Beneath that crazed right winger lies a rational man..

Do you think freedom of speech should extend to taunting family members of a slain soldier at his funeral and disrupting the funeral - yelling at them telling them that the soldier is going to hell because he fought for their country that loves fags (this is their terms)?

If that were your father getting buried, would you smugly say that is their right during the funeral?