Westboro threatens service for fallen Marine.
This is not 100 percent confirmed but it looks like Westbro is threatening to disrupt the memorial service of Lance Cpl. Joshua Witsman. If anyone is near the Covington Illinois that want to be ready to provide interference to help protect the dignity and sanctity for the Witsman’s family would be appreciated.
COVINGTON, Ind. — A 23-year-old Marine from western Indiana has been killed during military action in Afghanistan, family friends said.
Flags are flying at half-staff outside the Fountain County Courthouse in honor of Lance Cpl. Joshua Witsman in his hometown of Covington.
Fountain County Clerk Patty Gritten told WLFI-TV that she knew Witsman his entire life and that he had always wanted to serve his country.
Category: Breaking News, Protests/Rallies, Real Soldiers
Maybe someone good at research can help me out on this one.
I live in Missouri and know some people that claim to know Fred Phelps and they told me a pretty wild story about him and how he is not what he seems. I was told that many Liberals use Fred Phelps as what they call “The perfect example of a conservative” when in reality, he is not only a hard core liberal that is a lifetime democrat, but he also worked for the ACLU and with the SPLC for many years but kept it under the radar.
If anyone has any info on this, plase let me know because I read a little about him and some of the cases he tried in the 60’s.
Lowglow, Wiki shows he is a Dem but a mixed bag…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Phelps
He is clearly deranged IMHO
Phelps needs to be stationed as the Mail Bouy watchstander on the Titanic.
They threaten to show up at every KIA funeral. Most of the time they do not show. The Patriot Guard Riders Do a very good job of keeping them from the Family and showing respect to the Fallen.
The Media is the reason this church exist. Ignore them if you see them, do not do them the honor of saying their name.
What Enigma 4 You said.
@Loglow. Phelps had a well documented career as a civil rights advocate in his early legal career. He worked many cases where he helped African-American clients in cases where they were fighting valid discrimination cases. But at some point, he claimed a gay man made a pass at him in a public park Topeka……and from there he found his new calling. And thus he started his deranged cult.
One of Freddy’s estranged children wrote a book about what it was like growing up in the Phelp’s household. He details child abuse and paranoia run rampant. Looks like Fred’s been like this for a long time.
We need to get a Platoon together with some Super Soakers and fill them with a weeks worth of fermented Beer Urine for these westboro fucksticks. Hose the motherfuckers down when they arrive.
Longlow, Fred Phelps is a Longtime registered Democrat, ran for mayor of Topeka in 1993, 1997, Governor of Kansas in 1990, 1994, 1998, senator from Kansas in 1992 (recieving 31% of the primary vote) numerous times under the democratic ticket. Hell he even was Al Gores kansas campaign guy in 1988. theres pictures of him, Al and Tipper Gore together.
I will be at the funeral, standing with some friends in support of the family. Anyone who cares to join in, bring a flag and come on out.
I wonder what their douchey rationale is this time.
My state originally attracted the Westboro fags because we were the first state to recognize same-sex marriages, and for a while, the only state. So they came here and protested at military funerals. The message, if you can call it one, is that we’re being punished with dead sons and daughters because of our marriage laws. A marine I went to high school with died in Iraq in ’05, and thankfully, Westboro failed to show.
Now, I’m no fan of this ridiculous concept of same-sex “marriage”. If I could vote on it, I’d vote no, but the homosexuals have decided that if the people could speak they’d lose, so they canceled voting and declared themselves the winners. Ever so, I don’t see the connection to war dead. Every state has had men and women come home in coffins.
And now they’re protesting in Illinois, which, as far as I know, does not recognize Gary and Bob as lawfully wedded husbands.
Could it be that they’re just disgruntled assclowns? Do they just love attention? What is it?
Lowglow,
I had always heard that he was a registered Democrat. As far as being a hardline leftist with connections to the ACLU and SPLC, I had never heard that.
It would, however, make some sense. I have long suspected that the purpose of the group is to make all social conservatives look like Westboro-esque assholes. It seems to be working. The liberals I know–and there are plenty of them here where I live!–frequently lump social conservatives together with Phelps. We’re all birds of a feather, you know. He’s bad publicity for social conservatives, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if the bad publicity is in fact manufactured by our opponents.
But that’s speculation and nothing more.
At least several communities have come up with highly effective ways of dealing with them that involve no violence, no shouting, and no threats. My favorite was the town which managed to have parked cars all along the roadway leading to the cemetary and every empty space near it, leaving no room for the nuts to park for their demonstration. By the time they found places to park and hoofed it back to their permitted area the funeral was over, the family was gone and so were many of the cars.
With a little imagination there are multiple ways to deal with these clowns without risking another of their frivolous law suits.
And all thanks to PGR for doing what they do for families and to honor our warriors.
“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Apparently the folks following Phelps and his twisted family at Westboro Baptist “Church” missed that verse in Matthew.
Indiana has a law specifically against the antics of the Westboro “people”. I don’t know the exact length but, they have a line that they cannot cross that puts them about the length of a football field away from the funeral and graveside. The Patroit Guard do a wonderful job of keeping them away and seem to have a habit of reving their motors when the Westboro folks start to get loud. By all reports this will be a very large funeral service. I will also be there with my other Blue Star Mothers.
Churches are tax-exempt. Phelps is a lawyer. The “duh” factor here is an eleven on a scale of one to ten. My only question is why the IRS hasn’t plowed them under by now.
By all accounts, the Phelps church consists primarily of Phelps family members and relatives, a huge proportion of which are lawyers. Their primary source of income is from lawsuits – make any threats, step anywhere outside the law even inadvertently, and you will find yourself in court facing one of them. Hard as it it to believe, they are true bottom feeders who create their own suits and give even ambulance chasing lawyers a bad name.
They are definitely a weird bunch.
http://www.ramblingbeachcat.com/2011/11/stop-taking-westboro-baptist-church-so.html
Try not to give them the attention they crave, shield the family with flags, make sure the family invites PGR to drown them out with the bikes. If the crowd is huge, they will not show, or will leave quietly. If you’re ever in Topeka on a weekend, perhaps look into a visit with one of Charley Barnes’ teams: http://www.journey4justice.com/