Why is Fred Phelps still alive?

[Subnuts]

I'm of course referring to that useless sack of flesh that currently leads the Westboro Baptist Church. You know, the one who sends his congregation to military funerals throughout the US, waving signs that say "God Hates Fags" and "Thank God for IEDs", and so forth? His followers even loitered around the World Trade Center site, disrupting rescue workers.

Why is this man still alive? Christ, Martin Luther King got assassinated just for leading a civil rights movement. Fred Phelps goes about taunting the families of dead soldiers and still hasn't had his skull bashed in by a rifle butt. I sure the hell wouldn't pull him out of the way if he fell into the path of an oncoming bus. And I sure hope as many people as possible picket his funeral!

I listened to an interview with her on our local classic rock station a few months back. The two DJs absolutely reamed her, but god, she ranted like a human chimpanzee. You'd almost think that humanity never left that waterhole at the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey!

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Subnuts

You'd almost think that humanity never left that waterhole at the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey!

I think you missed the point of the 1st half of the movie. You will notice that there is no interlude between the Dawn of Man scene and Floyd trip to the Moon like between the other scenes. Note the bone the ape-man throws up in to the air, the satellite in the next part is supposed to be a nuclear weapons platform. The idea was that Humanity never did go beyond the dawn of man.

[bradclark1]

Well Subnut's, if you did the job I'd cover for you and say we were watching TV at the time.

[kiwi_2005]

I'll take him out, for $20 grand

Im kidding...

[XabbaRus]

Maybe because secretly a lot of people agree with him?

I think he is dispicable but hey, if God is such a caring guy I am sure Fred won't get into heaven.

[Konovalov]

From this article: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/n...0856-bush.html

At the White House, Bush signed the Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act,” passed by Congress largely in response to the activities of a Kansas church group that has staged protests at military funerals around the country, claiming the deaths symbolized God's anger at U.S. tolerance of homosexuals.

The new law bars protests within 300 feet of the entrance of a national cemetery and within 150 feet of a road into the cemetery. This restriction applies an hour before until an hour after a funeral. Those violating the act would face up to a $100,000 fine and up to a year in prison.

Monday's observance at Arlington National Cemetery was not a funeral, so demonstrators were free to speak their minds at the site.

And several did.

Approximately 10 people from the Washington, D.C., chapter of FreeRepublic.com, a self-styled grass roots conservative group, held signs at the entrance of the cemetery supporting U.S. troops. A large sign held by several people said, “God bless our troops, defenders of freedom, American heroes.”

They were faced off against a handful of anti-gay protesters who stood across a four-lane highway as people headed toward the national burial grounds.

The FreeRepublic.com group was trying to counter demonstrations by the Kansas-based group, led by the Rev. Fred Phelps. He previously had organized protests against those who died of AIDS and gay murder victim Matthew Shepard.

In an interview at the time the House passed the bill that Bush signed Monday, Phelps charged that Congress was “blatantly violating” his First Amendment rights. He said that if became law, he would continue to demonstrate but would abide by the law's restrictions.

Bush signed a second bill Monday that allows combat troops to deposit tax-free pay into individual retirement accounts. Supporters of the legislation argued that rules governing these accounts were punishing soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq who earn only tax-free combat pay.

At last something has been done to provide some protection to grieving families. About time to.