WBC Gets The "Good Old Boy" Treatment

Oh it is still just desserts for the assholish nature of the group.

edited 24th Apr '11 5:33:28 PM by TuefelHundenIV

I think the beatings went too far, but I think all the other, "borderline-legal" tactics are fucking brilliant. They want to dance the fine line of free speech and rules lawyer their way around? Why not use their own games against them?

edited 24th Apr '11 5:36:44 PM by deathjavu

I'm not gonna lose sleep over this, good job Mississippi.

Yeah, the beating is just kind of meh in my eyes, but then again you run your mouth in the south that's what happens.

Beating up outsiders is a Mississippi tradition. They just did it to the right group this time.

I don't understand what's so "evil" and "ignorant" about calling a registered Democrat who has run for office as a Democrat a Democrat. What, now Republicans have to take the blame for DEMOCRATS who do bad things? I mean, nobody should have to take the blame for anything anyone else does, but you're stretching even more than you normally are here.

It's the implication that the Democrats are behind Phelps.

I think it's stupid to point it out when it's clearly irrelevant.

It's like saying someone who was a mass murderer drove a car, so cars are evil. It's Hitler Ate Sugar.

Nice frantic strawman there. No, that last paragraph shouldn't have been shifted to blame the Republicans. It should have been left out entirely as irrelevant and slanderous.

Yes, it is irrelevant and it indicates that the article wanted to attack democrats by associating Phelps with them. Similarly, it bugs me when Phelps and co are referred to as an anti-war group and their homophobia (and frankly hatred of everyone whose last name isn't Phelps) are ignored.

edited 24th Apr '11 6:28:51 PM by Jordan

Here's what it takes to be a member of a given political party on the election rolls.

Checking a box.

Same with running as one, at least in the primaries.

Do I blame the Republican party for Basil Marceaux?

Nope. Nor with any other such fringe candidates.

But clearly the writers of the story want to taint the Democratic Party with guilt by association.

That's what is wrong. They could have left it off and been much better off, but no, they decided to defend it with a transparent argument that reveals the lack of substance to their claim.

edited 24th Apr '11 6:28:44 PM by blueharp

It's just as relevant as mentioning the fact that some guy who cheated on his wife with another guy is a Republican. Is that implying that there's a gay-Republican-wife-cheating conspiracy?

But that guy is usually a Congressman or Senator, a position for which political affiliation is actually a necessary part, so bad analogy.

If some random guy cheated on his wife with another guy it wouldn't make any sense for a newspaper to list his political affiliation.

OK, can we please not derail into this? Nobody gives a flying fuck what party Phelps supports, and it's not even strictly on-topic, it's just an addendum at the end of the article.

"In addition, the killer listened to Lady Gaga."

Yeah, the point of the article is the troll-tactic using WBC got spectacularly foiled by their own kind of tactics.

In nothing short of a real-life Moment of Awesome.

edited 24th Apr '11 6:35:11 PM by MarkVonLewis

I still want to see just how many people show up with signs at Fred Phelp's funeral.

Mark on the South thumping thing. I believe it goes like this. "Don't start none, won't be none."

I really hope they don't think they could get away with this assholish behavior forever. I am honestly surprised they have not been murdered by angry gun toting loons.

edited 24th Apr '11 7:16:00 PM by TuefelHundenIV

^

I wouldn't really bat an eyelash either. Some fringe groups would gain sympathy from such an event, I don't believe this to be true of the WBC. I think if every member was locked in their church while it was set on fire, there might be a few comments about it being extreme, but the whole thing would quickly be forgotten.

And much rejoicing would be had.

I wouldn't be upset, doubt I'd celebrate though.

I'll celebrate Phelps waking up one morning and saying "All that stuff I did...it was wrong, and I'm very very sorry" .

Admittedly, I'd like him a more robust admission, but you get the gist of it.

I wouldn't kill the children. They would be the only ones I would have spared.

I'm not sure I'd even be satisfied if he suddenly had a grinch-stole-christmas-esque change of heart. I'd still want to put a bullet in that heart.

I'm supremely amazed that he hasn't been assassinated yet for shits and giggles, considering the demographic he's most famous for fucking with these days, people who are trained to kill other people and have the stones to do it.

And may possibly have the mental impairment or other issue to go fuck it and blow him away.