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That is great. Those azzholes deserve everthing thrown at them.
I really have a lot of respect for the Patriot Gaurd also. They're a group of bikers that block these jagoffs from fallen soldier's funerals. Why don't Phelps and his band of pusses fuck with these guys?


In case you're fortunate to have never heard of him, there's a guy in Topeka, KS, by the name of Fred Phelps who's a right lout. He's the pastor of a Westboro Baptist Church and has long made a nuisance of himself protesting homosexuals, something he and his followers do in completely appalling fashion. They stands on street corners, in parks, at restaurants, at parades, at churches… pretty much anywhere people don't share their extremist views, which is pretty much everybody. They call anybody who passes by a sodomite who’s going to hell. For Phelps and company, unless you're one of them, you're automatically a sodomite. They also have quaint signs with vulgar messages and stick figures arranged in, well, suggestive poses.
Phelps then decided to expand his annoyance of the citizenry and started picketing funerals as well. At first it was just those of homosexuals, but it soon grew to include whomever he didn't like (which, again, is nearly everyone). Since he has decided that America's troubles in Iraq are the result of God's wrath on a "Rump Ranger nation" (that being the U.S.), he has seen fit to start picketing the funerals of America's honored war dead. That's right, he's protesting at the funeral's of fallen soldiers with signs that say such things "Rump Ranger Body Bag"¹ and "Thank God for IED's." The guy's a real piece of work and I'll let you guess out of what he is made.
The adopted tactic of most Topekans has been just to ignore him. Cussing him out, yelling at him, or flipping him off is but sweet song to his ears. The deviant loves to be hated. Protesting soldiers' funerals, though, has proved to be utterly intolerable to people. As Gaijin Biker pointed out here, bikers have recently discovered they can drown out Phelps's invective. At a funeral last month, 125 bikers at a military funeral in Ark City, KS, at which Phelps was protesting, circled the protestors and would rev their engines whenever they tried to yell.
Then, at a Topeka funeral yesterday for Army Sgt. Dominic Sacco, around 100 bikers did the same. My brother, who lives in Topeka and brought the article to my attention, mentioned to me that the Harley-Davidson chapters had been communicating about Phelps's protest plans so that they could disrupt them. It seems they and others have gotten much more organized and have formed a group called the Patriot Guard whose express purpose is to go wherever Phelps is, especially military funerals, and ruin his fun. The man makes it all over the country and there are currently at least 436 members around the nation² prepared to match their expression of first amendment rights against his. And they seem to be getting to Phelps as his group’s recent signs target the bikers specifically. That’s quite a compliment.
For the bikers and Patriot Guard, all I have to say is God bless 'em and keep up the good work.