The difference between Westboro “Church” and The Patriot Guard
Posted by Moonage on 30 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Comments from the Host, Idiot of the day
Well, Westboro did show up the funeral of Sgt. Charles Jason Jones in London, which is very close to my home town. I sent them a message telling them their message wasn’t wanted here, but they came anyway, sorta. Here’s what their protest looked like:
That’s pretty much it. A couple of adults and some kids not old enough to know better. The Patriot Guard and others showed up as well. This is what THEY looked like:
Kinda hard to get a good perspective, but they basically surrounded the funeral home facing away from the protesters. Their intent was to shield the mourners from the idiots of Westboro. Turns out, they got a little help. Wanna see?
To get a better idea of what’s going on. The Westboro bunch are on the right side of the street. A line of firetrucks, running, are in the middle of the street. And, the funeral home is on the left side of the street. The mourners never would have seen the Westboro idiots whether or not the several hundred people showed up to protect them. The net effect was something like this:
If you looked out from the funeral home, all you saw was this. Several hundred people and the firefighters and police of London supporting you.
Just as it should be.
And when the Westboro idiots packed up to go to the cemetery, those firetrucks, city police, and state police, were right behind them.
As I told Phelps’ bunch, we don’t need or want their hate in Kentucky. I wonder if they ever ask themselves why it is so many people show up to protest them?
Thank you Patriot Guard, I haven’t been so proud of a bunch of people in a long time! And for a very brief period of time, I have never been so proud to be associated with a group like that.
And, to answer the question of the topic of this post. One promotes hate, one promotes respect. Pretty amazing if you think of it since one is a “church” and one is not as well.
3 Comments »
on 03 Oct 2006 at 2:08 am 1.American Phoenix
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Nice to see the miscreants from the Westboro Baptist Church get what’s coming to them: being completely ignored.
Hooray for the Patriot Guard!!!
P.S. With reference to the previous related post, they don’t have to know Latin. If they can read English, it’s been translated. Of course, it wouldn’t surprise me if reading isn’t one of their strong suits.
P.P.S. What also bothers me about the WBC crowd is the children that are indoctrinated in hatred. They have no idea why they are out there picketing. They’re just there because their relatives were there. Picketing - of any kind - is a completely inappropriate activity for children, who should not be politicized and have their childhood taken away from them.
on 03 Oct 2006 at 8:29 am 2.Moonage
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I have commented on the children in other posts. However, the children were on the receiving line of being shut out and ignored. Hopefully they’ll get the very visible message that the message their dad is preaching isn’t what the people want to hear and eventually explore why.
Plus, which is cooler for a kid, holding a sign or Harleys and firetrucks? I’m betting they were wishing they were on the other side.
As far as the language goes, It obviously doesn’t matter. You can’t screw up written instructions that bad without some bias in the first place.
on 01 Nov 2007 at 9:52 am 3.Moonage Political Webdream » Blog Archive » Help sue the Westboro Church said …
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