if you met a west boro church member......

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The only way we can really defeat the WBC is if the media stops giving them so much public attention. The WBC feed off of provoking the world around them. If we give them even the slightest moment of our time, even if it's to acknowledge their existence or to address their wrongs, we're only continually feeding into their delusions.

Like Charlie Sheen, any negative attention for them is considered good attention. Just imagine if they had none.

Yeah, no. Sorry. Call me immature if you like but I'm not going to let these bastards say s**t about my country. Given, I'm a government malcontent on the best of days, but even I know where to draw the line when it comes to getting a message across. These guys have repeatedly crossed that line, without remorse.

I could be really immature and say I'm going to assassinate the first WBC member to cross the city limits (and given Laramie's previous history with them, I'd probably get away with it too) but I know that a) it's fundamentally wrong, b) it would only serve to make Fred Phelps a martyr, and c) that's not how I roll. Besides, I know how to be annoying without being overtly antagonistic. If I got jumped for "fighting words" (which BTW you are seriously overusing that term) that'd be one thing. But that's different from just being annoying. Even from a completely neutral legal standpoint, being annoying is not a mitigating circumstance for physical assault. And remember that this is Laramie, I seriously doubt after the Matthew Shepard incident that anyone would be willing to stick their necks out in defense of the WBC here. Even if they had a case, they'd have a hard time proving it to a Wyoming judge and jury.

I would hit on the females and ask the males if they would proudly serve our country.

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I don't know Kansas state child welfare law, but I think a pretty good case for intervention could be made given that the Phelps family recklessly and knowingly takes their children to dangerous, intentionally provocative protests.

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"The group carries out daily picketing in Topeka (purportedly six per day with fifteen on Sunday)[13] and travels nationally to picket the funerals of gay victims of murder, gay-bashing or people who have died from complications relating to AIDS; "


Honestly if they did that to a family member or friend of mine. I couldn't be held responsible for my actions. I mean how are they still alive? Obviously the rest of societies a lot more forgiving than they are. I don't think i could "turn the other cheek" to them.

While I've never had a really closely nit family beyond my parent, and while the only immediate family deaths I experienced where when I was 6,7, and 10 (my - through adoption of my father - grandfather, grandmother, and uncle respectively), and while I know of no immediate family member serving in the military, I think I can comfortably say were I in such a situation I'd manage to keep myself restrained. Knowing that the protesters are lunatics on the absolute fringes of society would really blunt the blow, I think.

It might just a temperamental quirk, as I tend to internalize stress and rage quite a bit.

So do I, but there are situations where I would lash out.

I'd ask if they are going to make any more anti-musician music videos.