Westboro Baptist Bigots Protest Biden Funeral
I have heard this second hand on Twitter from Liberalgeek, and when I drove by the church this morning I did not see them, but it would be expected that they would protest the funeral of a devoutly Catholic and universally respected mother of four and grandmother of many, because in their eyes she is evil because she does not hate homosexuals as they do, I suppose.
I look forward to pictures of the signs these bigots are holding. Indeed, is David Anderson out there with them? He agrees with the Westboro Baptist position on homosexuality.
UPDATE: CONFIRMED. The News Journal has some pictures of the small protest, and here is one, where in the upper left corner you can see the sign saying “BIDEN in HELL” with a picture of the 92 year old beloved grandmother.
Do you have a link the NJ pictures? I’m looking for them.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=135745&id=94480694479&saved
http://blogs.delawareonline.com/pulpculture/2010/01/12/stay-classy-westboro/
Are these the same crowd who appear at Sidwell Friends?
Some people are just pure evil, dressed in a protest sign.
They make me want to be violent.
isn’t all the grass along that road people lawns? can’t the residents call one of the bazillion cops over there to get them to leave via trespassing?
Yes, I am staying away from that protest because I would violently assault them.
V, it is likely those residents are not home to make such a complaint. But I don’t have an answer for you.
good point. I live less than a mile from IHM and just avoided the whole area figuring it would be impossible to drive through.
I live 2 miles down Shipley Road, and I drove by at 9 am just to see the site. A significant police presence, but at the time I did not see the protestors, and you could drive through. But right now and for the rest of the day I would imagine it is a good area to avoid.
These morons are like Freddy kruger – the more we talk about them and react the more real they become. Ignore them. Pay them no mind. They don’t exist. They just want attention. Let them rot in hell when the time comes.
DD & LG – I’m right there with you. Maybe we should organize a protest in Wichita when Fred Phelps dies.
And that asswipe in the blue coat is wearing the American flag like a diaper? Totally wrong.
Fuck these assholes. I am all for freedom of speech, but they have zero tact. I hope they all die in a fire pit of hatred in some ironic way, so gay people can protest their funeral with signs that say “God hates fag haters.”
They are one of the few people whose murderers should get a waiver of guilt because their death leads to the betterment of society.
😀
Are they still there? We should organize a paintball driveby.
if by “paint ball” you mean “knife”. These “people” are proof torture can be justified.
If the secret service wasn’t going to be there, I’d say let’s paintball gun them down. To me the fame would be worth the bail money. The video itself could be sold off to make up for it.
Isn’t this what they want? TO see the rational people invoking a desire to commit the very violence they typically despise. Don’t give them press, they are freak, fringe lunatics and this thread gives them cover IMHO. Don’t threaten them, ignore them.
There are often protesters at a planned parenthood near where i grew up. A few times, after seeing them scream “whore” at women walking in i got a pound of shrimp, a few dollups of razberry jam and some (clean) medical waste baggies. filled em up good so them would explode on impact and sling-shoted some of the “abortions” at these yag-offs. We should do the same, but use … and i hope this term catches on… a “dildo cannon”
They only show up long enough to get their picture taken by the press and bail anyway.
they are freak fringe lunatics who currently have control of the GOP. we have to assume that they are just as powerful as the TEABAGS and have the blessing of Rush and Glenn. or else we risk actually letting them gain power.
LOL! Dildo cannons! For some reason I had a mental image of a group beatdown with everyone hitting them with two foot rubber dildos.
/I probably should have been anon.. heck with it.
I will post bail for anyone who does the drive by. Seriously, I will post your bail.
what are we talking about here? assult? harassment? murder? cause i’m lookin into anonyadayadayada’s dildo cannon. i have a zuchinni launcher… im sure the mechanics cant be THAT different
The worst insult to them would be to simply point and laugh.
I think dildo launchers tend to have a six inch range. But they are repeaters.
Maybe hit ’em with a couple of good foam fire extinguishers though….
Pandora is, as usual, right. As is John Young. We should ignore them, as all they want is attention, and the worst insult is to mock them. They just inspire the most basest instinct in me, and I suspect that is true for a number of us on this thread.
awwww please cant we launched lubed up 2 foot pink schlongs?
According to to @jdieleuterio on Twitter, someone was hauled away in cuffs at Biden funeral.
I pray they did not actually interrupt the service.
Well… maybe you can launch one. 😉
Seriously, it is only a matter of time before one of these “protests” ends very, very badly since funerals are emotional by nature. They are playing with fire, deliberately trying to add tragedy on top of tragedy. It’s what they want. Stay away from them.
pandora, I’m surprised it hasn’t happened already.
Biden is a hot head – these folks better hope he doesn’t see it. I can so totally see his entourage stop, him getting out, punching one of those fuck-tards in the face, getting back in, and driving away. He’d be a national hero for that.
or if he kicked ’em square in the nuts
LOL. That would guarantee a second term for Obama-Biden right there.
There is actually a group of Hell’s Angels and other biker groups that ride “shotgun” at military funerals so the families don’t have to see these schmucks. They actually surround them and make it difficult for their signs to be seen.
If Beau had a set he’d kick their ass with
his brother for disrespecting his mom-mom.
I’m astonished how they use tough guy
tactics on locals and go white glove if they
think their image might get tarnished.
( no offense to DSP, whom I’m sure would’ve
obliged if asked)
I was there and didn’t even see them. The Bidens know what’s up, and no one INSIDE the church suggested they were anything but the good citizens, good Catholics and good examples they are.
A funeral? That lady never made government
policy, so why would somebody disrespect
her? I absolutely disagree with protesting a
soldier’s funeral, tho protesting a war with the
idea of less should die is logical, tho tasteless.
An 92 yo lady tho? That’s repulsive and so
disrespectful!
Wow I’m on fire about that!
Tigby – do a web search on Westboro and their antics. This is standard fare for them.
There sure are a lot of violent haters of free speech here.
really anonone? i love free speech. im glad these idiots have the right so say what they wanna say. let’s the rest of us know who they are so we can point out how pathetic they are.
There sure are a lot of violent haters of free speech here.
Not true. There’s a lot of anger, revulsion, and frustration, but no one here has said they don’t have a right to spew their filth.
Really? Are we reading the same thread?
They make me want to be violent.
I would violently assault them.
We should organize a paintball driveby.
if by “paint ball” you mean “knife”.
I will post bail for anyone who does the drive by.
cant we launched lubed up 2 foot pink schlongs?
Maybe hit ‘em with a couple of good foam fire extinguishers though….
I can so totally see his entourage stop, him getting out, punching one of those fuck-tards in the face…
or if he kicked ‘em square in the nuts
Lovely.
Did anyone do anything, or… were they exercising their free speech rights, as well?
I believe that it was the Hells Angels who showed up at Cecil College late last year when a sequel to the Laramie Project was performed that Westboro protested. This group was WONDERFUL, silently standing around the Westboro folks, in 7 foot high angel wings that completely hide the hateful signs, in a beautiful, effective, silent, non-violent protest of Westboro’s antics.
THAT WAS POWERFUL
[maybe not as powerful as a dildo cannon, of course …, but I digress]
anonone is defending these demons.
No, a. price, he’s not. He’s just being contrary.
“Did anyone do anything, or… were they exercising their free speech rights, as well?”
Isn’t this the same blog that called teabaggers and certain FOX news personalities out for using hateful,inciteful speech?
Fucking hypocrites.
Anonone, you are infringing on my freedom of speech. I am entitled under our Bill of Rights to vent my anger, even violent anger, towards the followers of the Westboro Baptist Bigots. If you want to condemn me for my anger, fine, but then I will have to question why you feel like defending them. Because none of these bigot’s freedom of speech has been hampered or infringed upon. Indeed, we are talking about them today because they exercised their freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech does not ever mean that I have to agree with them. It does not ever mean that the Phelps bigots are free from consequence of their speech. All it means is that the government cannot interfere in the expression of their views. Third graders know this.
I went to their webside demo schedule and this is what I found
01/12/2010 09:00 AM – 11:00 AM Wilmington, DE Immac. Hrt. of Mary Catholic Church – Whore Mother IN HELL! 4701 Weldin Road Joe Biden learned to be a filthy, lying, hateful, money-grubbing, dirt bag somewhere – and WBC knows full well, now, where he learned it. This Irish Catholic fleabag of an old biddy taught him these things. There is nothing worse on the planet for hatefulness than an Irish Catholic mother. You all know the sayings of their filthiness and guiltiness, and here you see the face of that. Truly a base woman could spawn and raise such a base, vile creature. He hates God because she taught him that. WBC intends to tell the whole round world that this evil woman is in hell. That is the only loving truth on this subject. She took a little boy who KNEW NOTHING and taught him God is a liar; she taught him to live like Satan and chase his lusts and she taught him that the laws of God and man are meaningless if they interfere in the slightest with what he wants, when he wants it. She taught him in short to be a whore, like she is. Proverbs 23:27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. 28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. Biden worships this mean old bat, and now he will join more vehemently with the Beast to try to shut up the truth in this world. Biden surely has very little time to do what he can before God destroys him and he goes to join his evil mother. Praise God for that fact. AMEN!
H, you are another idiot, just like Anonone. How is it hypocritical? Indeed, Fox News, Teabaggers and Westboro are nearly one and the same when it comes to hate speech, and we call them out often. But none of us ever said they don’t have the right to say it. Freedom of speech means you get to say anything hateful thing you want. Freedom of speech protects you only from government interference. It does not protect you from my criticism or anger. And indeed, given the inciteful nature of the speech, it will not protect them from a violent mob should it form.
Thank you Freida. Anonone, that is the speech you are saying should be free of criticism. Wow.
I didn’t say it should be free of criticism. I think it should be free of threats of violence. I think intimidation of free speech by threats of violence by other people is wrong. I have seen too many people beat up for protesting non-violently to think that this kind of violent talk is funny. It is not.
Would you think threats like yours made against pro-choice people by pro-lifers are funny, too?
Sometimes the hypocrisy in this group is palatable.
Wow, the Westboro people are hateful and disgusting.
Such utter B.S.: And indeed, given the inciteful nature of the speech, it will not protect them from a violent mob should it form.
It is people like you that made statements like that to justify lynchings.
Sometimes the hypocrisy in this group is palatable.
Sometimes the reading skills of people reading this blog don’t match up to their own fairly silly agendas.
Most of the people in this thread were talking about their own feelings or wishing that Joe would take matters into his own hands. a.price and Brian went to town on the paintball and dildo launcher thing which doesn’t exactly get you to lynching territory.
People talking about being angry enough to do violence ≠ actual incitement to violence.
The westboro baptists are at worst, offensive, but harmless, jerks.
Now the Obomba/Biden predator drone murders, they warrant getting incensed about.
The people they kill don’t get to die at a ripe old age of 92.
So threatening and wishing violence on non-violent protesters is OK if you call yourself a Liberal? And justifying lynch mob behavior on non-violent protesters is OK if you’re a liberal?
I’ll remember that the next time I read somebody here complain about a wingnut threat against abortion doctors or clinics.
Thanks for the update, cassandra_m. And I am sure that you never ever mistype anything, right?
Hypocrisy. Freedom of Speech. Two concepts that Anonone and H do not understand.
First, the charge of hypocrisy. The day one of us actually goes out and assaults or kills a pro lifer, then you can call us hypocrites. Until then, you are misusing the term. Venting today about our anger at these evil bastards is not the same thing.
Second, freedom of speech. In case you haven’t noticed, this thread is as a result of the Westboro Bigots exercising their freedom of speech without any interference of the government. As far as we know, these bigots were not prevented from airing their hateful views by the state police or Secret Service. Thus, there is no concern of violating their freedom of speech.
What we are seeing now is H and Anonone saying we here at Delaware Liberal cannot react angrily to the hate speech, for that would violate the bigots’ freedom of speech. That reveals not only a fundamental misunderstanding of constitutional law, but also perhaps their own defense of the bigots’ views.
Anonone, no one was threatening violence here today. Wishing violence, sure. And I am sorry, but after reading what Freida posted, are you telling me you are not revolted to the point of hostile anger?? People were venting here today, but no one was going to act on it. Indeed, I said I would purposefully stay away from the protesters so as to prevent my anger from leading to violence.
delacrat is the cartoon America-hater the Republicans want us to be.
You know, I would much rather have seen a thread about the inspiring service and people inside the church than waste energy on these idiots. Truly, I didn’t even see them. They are NOT the story.
I agree, Brooke. You were at the service, weren’t you? Could you perhaps write up a story about the service and I will post it as a guest post under your name? We all would be most appreciative.
Another thing,
Westboro Baptist Church.
It is a “church” for tax purposes only. Every adult in the family has
a law degree. Their gig is to show up at events like this, say and do
horrific things, and provoke someone into taking some sort of physical
action against them. When that happens, they sue anyone connected with
the incident. They are particularly good at securing protest permits and then suing the police for failing to provide adequate protection.
It is simply a bizarre little scam of a business.
So curb you impulse to to do violence shuld you come accross these folks somewhere
So threatening and wishing violence on non-violent protesters is OK if you call yourself a Liberal? And justifying lynch mob behavior on non-violent protesters is OK if you’re a liberal?
It isn’t OK, and since the only violence contemplated here involved launching dildos at these fools, we aren’t anywhere near the red zone here. So save your snit for when there is real violence being really contemplated and really threatened. Because there wasn’t any here.
And I am sure that you never ever mistype anything, right
I mistype much. But I misread little. Would that you could say the same. Or, even, understand the difference.
ps. I would be awesome if Brooke would write up a guest post on her experience at the funeral today.
Good advice Freida.
No, Del Dem, peaceful protests by people don’t drive me “to the point of hostile anger,” regardless of the extremism of their views. The views of the “Westboro Baptist Church” aren’t that different from the tacit views many mainstream churches – they just express them differently.
Don’t tell me that “no one was threatening violence here today” when we all can read what was written in black and white. Just read some of the quotes in my post at 5:30. And h. is right – if teabaggers had written such tripe, ALL of you would be complaining about it. Writing crap like I quoted in 5:30 that brings you right to the same level of the “Westboro Baptist Church” – the only difference is that they put their nonsense on big signs and you post it in threads.
I don’t expect you to see your own hypocrisy since apparently wishing for and fantasizing about violence on peaceful protesters is OK If Your A Delaware Liberal.
And, by the way, it is the role of the government to protect peaceful protesters from mob violence. I thought you would know that.
Since you’re such a good reader, cassandra_m, why don’t you read what was actually written? Most of the words are single syllable, so you shouldn’t have any problem:
They make me want to be violent.
I would violently assault them.
We should organize a paintball driveby.
if by “paint ball” you mean “knife”.
I will post bail for anyone who does the drive by.
cant we launched lubed up 2 foot pink schlongs?
Maybe hit ‘em with a couple of good foam fire extinguishers though….
I can so totally see his entourage stop, him getting out, punching one of those fuck-tards in the face…
or if he kicked ‘em square in the nuts
This is what you’re defending. It is as bad or worse as the signs of the protesters.
Dildos rule!!!
peaceful protests by people don’t drive me “to the point of hostile anger,” regardless of the extremism of their views.
Which doesn’t give you much standing to criticize how these fools make DD *feel*. It isn’t as though he was actively cheerleading for some harm to come to these people. He did not call for people to show up at this protest armed and ready for “peaceful” protest. He didn’t ask people close by to go run them over.
There is still a difference between talking about how you feel (language definitely on display here) and actively cheerleading for violence. A thing you might get if you weren’t so invested in that fake moral superiority.
anonone, no one here would actually do any of that….. although you cant deny how cathartic it would be to slap one of those ass wipes in the face with a dildo. everyone here, including me, are jsut chest beating because of how disgusting these people are. and given the chance, i have NO doubt THEY would kill a person.
*They make me want to be violent. — this is a description of feelings, not a call to actual violence
*I would violently assault them. — edited out of DDs post explaining why he isn’t going down there. Still not advocating or cheerleading violence.
*We should organize a paintball driveby. — advocating a paintball driveby. Not exactly a gangbanger or a Militiaman weapon of choice.
*if by “paint ball” you mean “knife”. — this is borderline, but you still can’t find any advocacy here
*I will post bail for anyone who does the drive by. — posting bail is violent?
cant we launched lubed up 2 foot pink schlongs? — Dildo launching. OK. Violent laughter you get from this.
*Maybe hit ‘em with a couple of good foam fire extinguishers though….fantasy about what Joe Biden might do to them
I can so totally see his entourage stop, him getting out, punching one of those fuck-tards in the face…
or if he kicked ‘em square in the nuts — more fantasy about what Joe Biden might to do them. Still not advocacy and still no cheerleading. Perhaps not the healthiest thing to do. But this is materially different from, say, posting up pictures of doctors and making promises to people who help put red x’s through their pictures.
But really, this isn’t even close reading — but is too damn close to the stereotypical leftwinger who will police even other people’s feelings for whether or not they are in line with whatever superiority is on tap today.
cassandra_m, those quotes weren’t only from DD. The stuff that was written here is on the same level of discourse as “Westboro Baptist Church.” So you can sink to their level in defending this garbage and I am happy to take the moral high ground of non-violence. But IOKIYADL.
And, a.price, violence wouldn’t be “cathartic” to me. Violence hurts both the victim and the perpetrator.
Ever been hit in the face with a paintball, cassandra_m? You sound like Hal Turner, now. Keep on justifying it because IOKIYADL.
I know that they aren’t just from DD — so have your high ground of non violence. It is fine for people to express their anger and what their anger makes them feel. It is not fine to cheerlead for violence or to be violent.
But we’ll stipulate that you do not know the difference and that you think that this not knowing makes you think you have staked out some moral high ground.
Ok, Anonone never again in life gets to be angry, and he never again in life gets to vent his anger at anything.
77 comments? Can’t bother catching up, all I can say is that if I were on that corner that POS “christian” with the sign would have a face full of my boot.
one of the signs did say “Priests Rape Boys”.
they had that one right. Wrong Church though. St. Mary Magdalen up the road from IHM had that pedophile.
Even a blind squirrel…
jason, anonone said you arent allowed to say things like that!
I honestly can’t believe that nobody walked up to that vermin and said “Give me that fucking sign right now unless you want your ass kicked.”
Obviously, what cassandra_m and DD and Jason330 and others are expressing is that “It is not fine to cheerlead for violence or to be violent” if you’re not a liberal.
If you’re a liberal, then it IS fine.
What..? Do you see the sign with Biden’s mother ? Did you know that it was her funeral? I think you are just being a dick to be a dick.
being a liberal doesnt mean being irrationally pacifist. I think the KKK has a right to march down the street. wont stop me from throwing stuff at them.
No laws against hypocrisy, a.price. Jason condemnations of SCCR (or whatever their acronym is) for violent tendencies just lost any moral authority, though. Sorry, J330.
he’s on his liberal soapbox. anonone, you give the ACLU a bad name. keep playing RIGHT into O’reily’s hand as to what a liberal is.
So what? If I believed in Hell, I’d hold a sign like that at Barbara Bush’s funeral.
a.price, it wasn’t I who wrote the violent crap. You’re the ones who are playing into O’Reilly’s hand as to what a liberal says – because you guys actually wrote and defended this stuff!
for violent tendencies just lost any moral authority,
Which is probably OK since no one here was relying on your judgements on moral authority. A result, of course, of having to lie about what other people say in their posts. That are here for everyone to read.
But we’ll stipulate that you are not factoring in lying (to us and to yourself) as part of your stake out of the so-called high moral ground.
a.price wrote: “being a liberal doesnt mean being irrationally pacifist.” Advocating and fantasizing about violence against peaceful protesters is not only irrational, it is lunacy.
Whatever. If I was on that corner I would have ripped that sign out of her hand and hoped she tried to stop me, because them I would have popped her in her stupid face.
Yes, quoting people’s own words is now lying to cassandra_m. You must be taking lessons from Sarah Palin.
…then I would go all MMA on her ass and choke the shit out of her.
i herby dub anonone “king of the LefTeabags”
You are a bad boy, J. Thank you! 😉
Good, jason. The next time somebody does that to a peaceful anti-war protester or an abortion-rights advocate or a gay-rights advocate, I’ll remember that you thinks it is A-Okay.
Apparently, if a person has a sign that you disagree with and also has a stupid face, you can pop her in the face with impunity.
Lovely, again.
…then I would force her mouth open and spit in her mouth and say, “You have AIDS now. Welcome to Delaware fucko!”
I am a teabagger because I advocate non-violence? What a bizzaro world DL has become.
Go to bed, Jason, This isn’t good for your health, remember?
you are a teabagger because you are dogmatic blow hard who only sees the world in black and white. and because you are a teabagger. (following the teabag principle of circular logic) LONG LIVE THE KING! …. jason, yon dont really have AIDS do you?
If I saw that “protester” I would have been very bad for her health.
No. I’m now playing mind games with that POS. While I’m throwing down the Krav Maga moves, I’m saying shit like, “I’m gay as fucking Liberace.” to freak her out.
haha nice. ok good to hear, because i laughed real hard at the spit in the mouth comment.
A1 – My statement was They make me want to be violent. Whis is to say that I am not violent, but that they make me wish I was violent. It is the most passive violent threat in history.
a.price said that I am a “dogmatic blow hard who only sees the world in black and white.”
Well, sir, I’ll give that as much consideration as it deserves from someone who fantasizes about attacking people with “lubed up 2 foot pink schlongs” or thinks that “These “people” are proof torture can be justified.”
And Jason, you made me laugh until I cried. The imagery was stunning.
I had a friend of a friend that was at a gay rights rally 15 or so years ago and there were protesters there that had their children in caskets, pretending to be dead, as performance art protesting abortion or something. This guy was screaming at them at the top of his lungs about acts he claimed to have done to Jesus. Very over the top. Just like you.
a1, you have no sense of humor whatsoever. im guessing you are the type who gets offended by shows like Family Guy.
LG, I appreciate that your comment was not a threat, but a major theme of this thread was about violence (in spite of cassandra_m’s protests). I have read on numerous DL threads the “outrage” that has been expressed by writers here regarding similar language by wingnuts. I don’t think that many of the comments here are any different.
Pandora has it right, as she often does, when she wrote “The worst insult to them would be to simply point and laugh.”
Which is what I am doing now to some of the commenters here.
and all we are doing is thinking of funny ways to humiliate them. you think i would seriously hit someone with a sex toy and not laugh? or put it on youtube? or be more intent on hurting them and less intent on having it be funny? pull the humorless stick out and have a good time, dude.
“These “people” are proof torture can be justified.”
Hysterical.
The Westboro people (it’s not a “church”) are rotten people. I’ve heard that Fred Phelps (the leader) is also an attorney and sues the daylights out of people he provokes into attacking members of the “church” (which I believe is mostly his family). So they bait people into attacking them (e.g. by saying 92 year old grandmothers are in hell) and then sue them. They’ve been harassing mourning families of fallen soldiers for years, and fortunately the groups of vet motorcyclists have done a good effort shielding them. Too bad people didn’t know the FredPhelps-Westboro’s were out there, I’ll bet the Patriot-guard guys would’ve rolled up there. I’m far from a Biden supporter, but for crying out loud, let the guy mourn his mom. Whoever said Biden’s vindictive is right, if he saw them I’d almost wager “Westboro” will wind up in the same context as “Branch Davidian”.
i thought so. but i also find sarah silverman funny, so i guess that makes me “edgy”
Well I was quoted by you twice as one of the offenders, so I take umburage at that. As for the “violence” on this thread, I grant that some probably crossed a line that we would not like crossed in the other direction. And some of it was obviously done for comedic effect (I should have suggested hitting them with a fish instead of a two foot long dildo, for example).
In light of Frieda’s comment above, I am firmly in favor of the motorcycle gang tactic of simply blocking them from view with scowling 300lb guys on Harleys.
Hey, LG, no personal umbrage intended – I was just pointing out that I felt expressions and fantasies of violence toward peaceful protesters was the overriding theme of the thread. That seemed unusually hypocritical and obnoxious from a Liberal site.
Anyway, my hats off to you for using the fine word “umbrage.” It is not used often enough!
I wish I had a great word to say thanks. Now I feel like a failure. 🙂
A1 – I must have missed the “How to be a lIberal” class where they said that we were all ‘spossed to be a bunch of mincing pussies.
Clearly, you and others here didn’t miss the “How to be a lIberal” class on how to be raging hypocrites.
Larry Flynt just called – he wants to know who’s supposed to sign for the shipment of the dildo launchers and the gross of 2-foot long schlongs. The lube was free with purchase.
Larry Flynt just called
I don’t even want to know why Larry Flynt has your number…
he just rolled it on in did he? oh wait….. a1 am i not allowed to reference the fact that larry flint is in a wheel chair?
A1 did not miss the class on how to be a raging ninny, though. Which pretty much explains how he can sound so much like our local teabaggers,
Actually, Anon, he was calling you, but I had my friends at the NSA intercept the call and transfer it to the DL Central switchboard. As a courtesy, I was manning the phones last night to give the regular DL editors the night off to watch American Idol.
Ha, you are funny in your righteous support of shooting peaceful protesters with paintballs and dildos, cassandra_m.
cassandra_m’s world:
Advocate non-violence = tea bagger
Advocate violence = Delaware Liberal
Great stuff! Keep it coming; you’re a comedic genius.
a.price, Larry Flynt, in his wheelchair, might be able to offer some insight and personal experience into why advocating violence against peaceful protesters is not a good idea…
Fail to recognize difference between statements of frustration and actual calls to violence = anonone
Condemning wingnuts and teabaggers for their so-called “statements of frustration” while not condemning their own = Delaware Liberal
So paintball guns = real guns? Because liberal threats of violence often run up against the reality that they’re afraid of guns.
Hint: If the violence sounds like it is being planned by Wile E. Coyote, it is probably a joke.
Paintball guns are, in fact, real non-lethal guns capable of maiming, which is why people where protective equipment when playing with them.
For example:
http://coastalbroadcastingnews.blogspot.com/2010/01/attack-with-paintball-gun-injuries-mans.html
Ha, ha, right?
This discussion has disintegrated into the ridiculous. I’d say that several people deserve a spanking, but I’d be accused of promoting violence.
So here’s a newsflash. My past concerns over violent rhetoric were not sparked by a few tea party signs or the first few times Palin used the term real Americans or the first rallying cry of “take our country back.” It was when these statements moved away from the fringe into the mainstream. It was cumulative.
Here’s another newsflash: I am not the blog police. Okay, sometimes I’m the blog mommy, but that really does become exhausting. I’ve reread this thread several times, and while there are several over the top statements, any attempt to lump them all together as proof of a rallying cry for violence is disingenuous. Seems to me the frustration and outrage quickly evolved – or should I say devolved – into silliness.
Why must everything be spun into extremes? Oh yeah, nuance ain’t easy.
Except that no one here is advocating violence.
But we stipulate that the only way you can try to claim a moral high-ground is to lie about what is written here.
And just so you know that you aren’t even on the playing field here, A1 — “statements of frustration” by teabaggers consist of death threats.
And not even close readers of this thread will claim that death threats have been issued here.
Thank you for opening my eyes to this risk, so to speak. In that case, I can’t condone it.
In cassandra_m’s world, posting quotes of what people actually wrote is now “lying.” And anything short of a death threat is apparently OK.
You’re becoming DL’s own Sarah Palin.
I’m not policing this thread either. It’s devolved into “yes you did” “no you didn’t” arguments which are exhausting.
“a.price, Larry Flynt, in his wheelchair, might be able to offer some insight and personal experience into why advocating violence against peaceful protesters is not a good idea…”
larry flint was not shot during a peaceful protest. He wasn’t spouting hate speech, and MOST importantly, he was not shot with a painball or a dildo. he was shot with a real gun. I am still gobsmacked that you dont find smacking a homophobe in the face with a dildo funny.
Actually, a.price, many followers of Jerry Falwell did interpret Flynt as hateful because of his satirical piece on Falwell in Hustler. You can look it up.
One person’s “hate speech” = Somebody else’s sincere religious or political beliefs
That, in a nutshell, is why peaceful non-violent protesters should not be threatened with violence by their fellow citizens.
thats not why he was shot. It was most likely…although to this day his attacker is unknown… because of an interracial photo shoot. However, you are still not seeing the humor and irony so it is pointless to continue arguing.
dildo= funny
bullets=conservative
A1=(o)
“I’d say that several people deserve a spanking”
Some would call that violence, some would call it foreplay 🙂
I adore you, Mark!
Is this thread finally over?
I must say though, I always wondered why Mike Matthews and Anonone didn’t get along. Now I know.