Reply With QuoteYeah, I heard about this a few days ago.
Dey goan get sued.
This story is making the rounds on facebook. I hope this isn't just a webhoaxrumor type of story, because if it's true, it's awesome.
On Saturday USMC Staff Sgt. Jason Rogers, who was killed in action in Afghanistan April 7, was buried in Brandon, Mississippi.
That, by itself, is a sadly unremarkable – though certainly noteworthy and solemn – occasion for us to mark.
And in fact when Sgt. Rogers’ body returned to Brandon it was greeted by hundreds, or perhaps even thousands, of well-wishers who gathered at the roadside to honor the fallen American hero. The dashboard camera from Mississippi state trooper Elmo Townsend’s cruiser gives an indication of the scene last Thursday.
What is most notable about Sgt. Rogers’ funeral in Brandon, however, is what didn’t happen.
You see, the troglodytes from Westboro Baptist Church had threatened to spew their poison at Sgt. Rogers’ funeral.
But the Westboro mob wasn’t on the scene, and Sgt. Rogers was laid to rest without incident – thank God.
Why weren’t there protestors?
Planning ahead by the locals, as it turns out.
From an Ole Miss sports message board, a tidbit of information…
A couple of days before, one of them (Westboro protestors) ran his mouth at a Brandon gas station and got his arse waxed. Police were called and the beaten man could not give much of a description of who beat him. When they canvassed the station and spoke to the large crowd that had gathered around, no one seemed to remember anything about what had happened.
Rankin County handled this thing perfectly. There were many things that were put into place that most will never know about and at great expense to the county.
Most of the morons never made it out of their hotel parking lot. It seems that certain Rankin county pickup trucks were parked directly behind any car that had Kansas plates in the hotel parking lot and the drivers mysteriously disappeared until after the funeral was over. Police were called but their wrecker service was running behind and it was going to be a few hours before they could tow the trucks so the Kansas plated cars could get out.
A few made it to the funeral but were ushered away to be questioned about a crime they might have possibly been involved in. Turns out, after a few hours of questioning, that they were not involved and they were allowed to go on about their business.
Fred Phelps, the disbarred lawyer and Democrat activist who leads the Westboro congregation, will undoubtedly pursue some form of legal action for the way his people were thwarted in Brandon. Let him try. There isn’t a jury in Mississippi which will see things his way.
This is a template for how to handle the Westboro people. If lawsuits don’t work, other means will. Whatever it takes to keep them from harassing bereaved military families on the day their fallen loved ones are laid to rest.
Yeah, I heard about this a few days ago.
Dey goan get sued.
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It occurs to me that this might also have been a template for dealing with other groups that weren't popular in Mississippi.Most of the morons never made it out of their hotel parking lot. It seems that certain Rankin county pickup trucks were parked directly behind any car that had Kansas plates in the hotel parking lot and the drivers mysteriously disappeared until after the funeral was over. Police were called but their wrecker service was running behind and it was going to be a few hours before they could tow the trucks so the Kansas plated cars could get out.
A few made it to the funeral but were ushered away to be questioned about a crime they might have possibly been involved in. Turns out, after a few hours of questioning, that they were not involved and they were allowed to go on about their business.
Fred Phelps, the disbarred lawyer and Democrat activist who leads the Westboro congregation, will undoubtedly pursue some form of legal action for the way his people were thwarted in Brandon. Let him try. There isn’t a jury in Mississippi which will see things his way.
This is a template for how to handle the Westboro people. If lawsuits don’t work, other means will. Whatever it takes to keep them from harassing bereaved military families on the day their fallen loved ones are laid to rest.
you have to admit there would be a nicely awful symmetry were a westboro baptist person to find themselves lynched or otherwise terrorized by a bunch of angry townsfolk
Oh yeah, that would just be hilarious! [eyeroll.gif]
Do unto others before they do unto you.
The best way to handle them is to stop giving them attention.
Last edited by Athryn; 04-22-2011 at 07:38 PM.
I thought the guy who set up an area to collect donations for gay-related charities in the vicinity had the right idea.
Me too.Originally Posted by lesslucid
But this is Mississippi, the person asking for donations would have probably been beaten by honest patriots too...
Sorry Ryan, I can't agree with you. I find the attitudes of these folks despicable, but I don't believe having hateful attitudes makes anyone deserving of a beating or any type of physical violence. Free speech ain't always pretty, but I've got to support the principle.
That said, the county pickups parked behind the cars with Kansas license plates was brilliant.
Man, I totally agree that assaulting them and falsely arresting them is a good way to deal with the WBC, but why stop there? Clearly the ideal response is to drug them, take them to an island and provide them with some weapons, then hunt them down in a deadly game of cat and mouse that ultimately ends with every member of the WBC being killed and skinned, their flesh becoming jackets for Swedes with AIDS and their heads jammed on pikes and placed outside of the capitol buildings in every state that went red in the '08 election to show them what we think of intolerance.
(This post is not meant to be taken seriously. If you find yourself hunting members of the WBC for sport please stop, apologize and leave.)
Of all the things done, this was the good one.
"Democrat activist?"
I have no real objection to the police giving them the fullest legal extent of "Let me see your papers. Do these papers say exactly what they should to permit you to protest?" hassle, but I gather the police in the story went beyond that, and I can't really approve of it despite the grin on my face.
Were they taken in and questions about the assault though? That's what it sounded like to me, and while unlikely suspects in a beating of one of their own it puts them right in the center of being questioned regarding it, if only to rule them out =P.
I finished high school in Brandon, MS. This story is 100% believable. People would get similar asskickings just for being in the town of a rival high school. The local bubbas certainly wouldn't hold back for the Westboro cretins.
The "Democrat activist" mention lends an air of authenticity, too. [Edit: They added a section to the original article to explain that callout.]
In late 1981 I was working in the Brandon Burger King and there was a KKK rally at the livestock pavilion across the street. Yes, in broad daylight, renting out a pavilion, on a weekend afternoon. Assholes came in to our BK afterwards. Terry, our manager, was African American, and he personally ran the register and served every one of those guys. Terry was in no way a badass, but he was that day.
I may have accidentally dropped a Whopper or five on the floor that day....
Last edited by DennyA; 04-22-2011 at 10:33 PM.
Aside from the beatings, seems like classic civil disobedience to me.
Snooooooooopes. Not because of what happened, because of the source (?) means of transmission, and patent "facebook-story-forwardability."
Just a transparent attempt at guilt by association. It is a right-wing website, after all.
Yeah, some of what they say is true ... in part.
However, there's a huge difference between a Democrat activist and an activist who was or is a Democrat. Trying to connect him to Gore without also mentioning that Phelps also picketed the funeral of Al Gore's father while saying he was burning in hell, and that he also called Al Gore some extremely nasty things on different dates is disingenuous at best.
I understand having an angle, and I understand having blinders on because of your own viewpoint - heck, we all do to an extent. However, that's a pretty disgusting piece of "reporting" that was done.
Last edited by Dan_Theman; 04-23-2011 at 06:34 AM.
Trolls were trolled by better trolls with pickups, both sides look like douchebags.
Any LEGAL way to thwart the protesters is great, but aren't cemetaries private property?
I don't know how they're allowed to protest at any funeral.
I assume there's some kind of public road leading to any cemetery, though, and the protesters just set up on the nearest bit of it to the funeral.
They set up shop near the entrance to the cemetery, on the sidewalk.
If this is true then more power to anyone who beats their worthless asses and gets away with it. I agree that ignoring them would be the best route but that is simply not going to happen.
Yeah! And it worked pretty well then, so go with what you know, I say. :trollface:
Sounds like someone's anti-WBC fantasy to me, but I do like it.
Violent lynching is never acceptable, what's with some of you.
It wasn't lynching, it was an ass-whooping. I'm pretty sure if the Founding Fathers had seen how WBC exercised its first-amendment rights, they would have added a clause allowing ass-whooping as a punishment if those rights were misused in an egregious manner.
BTW, discussions with certain high school classmates who never escaped Rankin County indicate that this story is true. Give or take the "Democrat activist" appelation.
Yah, don't you know that being really, really angry at someone's behavior gives you full license to ass-whoop them? What are you, a Democrat activist?
The founding fathers were pretty sharp dudes. I think they would have put in a provision for big fat poopie heads if they really thought it was necessary.
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