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

Of course not.I'd reserve the right to dump a bucket of offal on their heads. I'd also expect that the police would be there to enforce their right to be complete d___heads.