GOOD LORD...this should make you FUME!

[melody1181]

I have not been this angry in a long LONG time....soFu$*ingmad.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/kmbc/20050805/lo_kmbc/2866367



Members of the Rev. Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., are picketing military funerals, KMBC's Micheal Mahoney reported Friday

The group has made national headlines for traveling throughout the country to picket gay churches, gay weddings, and the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student who was murdered in Wyoming in 1998.

Friday, about 15 members of the group -- some of them children -- picketed the funeral of a St. Joseph soldier who was killed in Iraq. Mahoney reported that the group stood across the road from the Grace Evangelical Church during the funeral of 21-year-old Spc. Edward Myers.

"The first sin was being a part of this military. If this young man had a clue and any fear of God, he would have run, and not walked, from this military," said protester Shirley Phelps-Roper. "Who would serve a nation that is godless and has flipped off, defiantly defied, defiantly flipped off, the Lord their God?"



One protester had an American flag tied to his belt that draped to the ground. He was holding a sign that read, "Thank God For IEDs," which are explosive devices used by insurgents to blow up military convoys.

Protesters said America has ignored the word of God, and those who defend the nation must pay a price.

"That's the first piece of solid evidence that you have that the young man is currently in hell," Phelps-Roper said.

"The soldier is in hell now, you believe?" Mahoney asked.

"Absolutely," Phelps-Roper said.

'Protesters Were Rude'

About a dozen veterans stood across the road from the protesters, and Mahoney reported that there were some harsh words and insults traded between the two groups. However, sheriff deputies were stationed about 100 yards away and there was no violence.

"The protesters were so rude -- were disrespectful," said veteran Jim Fields.

"Do I like it? No, I don't. But what can you say, it's a free country," said veteran Dave Campbell.

Veterans told KMBC that a member of the soldier's family shouted at the protesters to leave, and they left about 20 minutes after the funeral started. Mahoney reported that there was applause from veterans and other crowd members when the protesters left.

After the funeral was over, one of the mourners commented on the irony of the protesters showing up at a soldier's funeral.

"They shouldn't protest the funeral for a man who was out there dying to protect the rights that they're demanding they receive," said Marvin Russell.

Russell said he thinks the soldier's family saw the protesters. "I think it saddened them. They didn't say anything outright, but you could tell by the way they looked down that this was a sad thing to do. They're already in mourning, they don't need people like this to make it worse," Russell said. Myers was buried with full military honors in Leavenworth National Cemetery. He leaves behind a wife and two children. One of the protesters said the group is planning to picket other military funerals.

[BLUEHAWK]

Cripes...

[Seascamp]

The video documentary ?Laramie? dealt with the brutal murder of Mathew Sheppard by two druggie criminal thugs from the lunatic fringe. I mean the poor kid was brutally pistol- whipped, tied to a fence and left to die in the winter cold and then the ?Rev? Phelps put in a revolting cameo appearance, presumably on the perp?s behalf.

The ?Rev? looks to be a very sour, dour, much aged raisin, fear mongering control freak that?s up to no good, craving publicity plus some cash flow no doubt.
I feel genuinely sorry for anyone that would be so shallow, hollow and needful that they must be under that charlatan madman?s spell, management and tutelage. That simply is the definition of hell on earth in bold living color. I can?t even imagine what life is like a layer or so down in that organization, it probably begins with absolutely pitiful and goes downhill from there.

Scamp

[BLUEHAWK]

Originally posted by Seascamp The video documentary ?Laramie? dealt with the brutal murder of Mathew Sheppard by two druggie criminal thugs from the lunatic fringe. I mean the poor kid was brutally pistol- whipped, tied to a fence and left to die in the winter cold and then the ?Rev? Phelps put in a revolting cameo appearance, presumably on the perp?s behalf.

The ?Rev? looks to be a very sour, dour, much aged raisin, fear mongering control freak that?s up to no good, craving publicity plus some cash flow no doubt.
I feel genuinely sorry for anyone that would be so shallow, hollow and needful that they must be under that charlatan madman?s spell, management and tutelage. That simply is the definition of hell on earth in bold living color. I can?t even imagine what life is like a layer or so down in that organization, it probably begins with absolutely pitiful and goes downhill from there.

Scamp

Sir Scampness...

I be gettin' mighty tired of all that.

[Seascamp]

I know Blue, but reality is what it is and in these stressful times I fully expect that the parasitic fungi and blood sucking leaches will come bobbing to the surface for all to see and deal with. Stress and turmoil just gets this idiotic-shit boiling out of the woodwork for there always those who seek an opportunistic leg up or charlatans peddling the latest concoction of snake venom. Lordy, how many versions of this crap did we see during the VN War?

For openers, Charles Manson, Timothy Leary, Fonda, the Simbionese Liberation Army, The Weathermen, plus oodles and oodles of weird, usurious, communes/ cults and I could fill a page if I thought about it a bit. Lots of human wreckage left in the wake of that all consuming monstrosity that boiled up all over the place and I suppose we are still treating/supporting the drug scrambled-brained survivors of the era.

Scamp

[Arrow]

Scamp,

You've got it all right and then some. One more little thought came to mind; the protest of the Vietnam War taught us more often than not the key rabble rousers had quite a different agenda than the follow along 'cause not much is doin' for the day anyway types.

These people hiding in plain sight were very good at aiming at one target while hitting another. We do have an advantage today over thesefor hire firebrandscalled the internet. Information travelsdown the firewire at such a speed your covercan beblown by two clicks of a mouse!!!

Mel...

One of my finer moments in life saw me escorted out of theConvention Center forconfronting a so called "minister of the gospel" for trying to fleece a minority group by promising them riches in exchange for everything they had in their wallets and purses that evening.Two big dudeswere sent down from the podium to lift meand my boot scootin' Ropersright off the floor and out thedoor.

If he brings his rabble rousin' self my way I promise to show up and call him out!

Arrow >>>>>>>

[Arrow]

Those layers Scamp was talking about...

Fred Phelps Criminal record

[BLUEHAWK]

Originally posted by Seascamp I know Blue, but reality is what it is and in these stressful times I fully expect that the parasitic fungi and blood sucking leaches will come bobbing to the surface for all to see and deal with. Stress and turmoil just gets this idiotic-shit boiling out of the woodwork for there always those who seek an opportunistic leg up or charlatans peddling the latest concoction of snake venom. Lordy, how many versions of this crap did we see during the VN War?

...Lots of human wreckage left in the wake of that all consuming monstrosity that boiled up all over the place and I suppose we are still treating/supporting the drug scrambled-brained survivors of the era.

Scamp

They been suckin' and leechin' a mite too much here of late.

[melody1181]

If he comes my way he will have more than my foot up his ass. That group is just one lousy sack of stinky horse $h!t. Lets drop them into a group of Marines just returned from Iraq...let them handle the idiots.

[SuperScout]

This story proves once again my theory that religious people, of whatever stripe, are scary, bigoted, and basically intolerant of anything other than their particular and pecular screed and creed. Give me spiritual people any day of the week.........