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Westboro Baptist Protesters Get Tires Slashed Following Protest Saturday
HotAir Pundit ^ | 11-15-10 | HotAirPundit

Posted on 11/15/2010 4:17:02 AM PST by radioone

McALESTER - Members of a Kansas church that protests at military funerals may have found themselves in the wrong town Saturday.

Shortly after finishing their protest at the funeral of Army Sgt. Jason James McCluskey of McAlester, a half-dozen protesters from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., headed to their minivan, only to discover that its front and rear passenger-side tires had been slashed.

To make matters worse, as their minivan slowly hobbled away on two flat tires, with a McAlester police car following behind, the protesters were unable to find anyone in town who would repair their vehicle, according to police.

The minivan finally pulled over several blocks away in a shopping center parking lot, where AAA was called. A flatbed service truck arrived and loaded up the minivan. Assistant Police Chief Darrell Miller said the minivan was taken to Walmart for repairs.

Even before the protesters discovered their damaged tires, they faced off with a massive crowd of jeering and taunting counterprotesters at Third Street and Washington Avenue, two blocks from the First Baptist Church, where the soldier's funeral was held


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: protests; westboro
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1 posted on 11/15/2010 4:17:06 AM PST by radioone
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To: radioone

They are lucky it was only tires.


2 posted on 11/15/2010 4:19:55 AM PST by BigCinBigD (Northern flags in South winds flutter...)
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To: radioone
Just because you have freedom of speech doesn't mean you have freedom from responsibility for what you say....That being said one of these days someone is going to be left bleeding.
3 posted on 11/15/2010 4:20:48 AM PST by rightwingextremist1776
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To: radioone

>as their minivan slowly hobbled away on two flat tires...

No spare?


4 posted on 11/15/2010 4:22:08 AM PST by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: radioone

Somewhere out there America has a new hero.


5 posted on 11/15/2010 4:26:45 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: radioone
Don't "tread" on me?
6 posted on 11/15/2010 4:27:18 AM PST by Jonah Hex ("Please call me Senator Leech, General. I worked so hard for that title.")
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To: radioone

Gee... let me see if I can give a rat’s patootie............... nope... sorry.

LLS


7 posted on 11/15/2010 4:29:54 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: radioone

HA HA!!!!!


8 posted on 11/15/2010 4:30:51 AM PST by stratman1969 (Regime Change Begins November 2, 2010)
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To: radioone

Checking the “Give-A-S**t Meter”...nope. Still zero. Sorry, Phelps. You lose. Now go play in traffic.


9 posted on 11/15/2010 4:32:27 AM PST by OCCASparky (Obama--Playing a West Wing fantasy in a '24' world.)
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To: bill1952

The interesting part (not surprising) is that, according to the police, they could find no one locally who would repair their flat. It is McAlister.

The Police could not say so, but I am sure they were neither surprised by or opposed to this treatment of those who disrespected the dead soldier.

AAA sent a car hauling vehicle from outside and towed the car away.

There is a fine little “bomb factory” in McAlister, and anti-American sentiment is not tolerated there.

Oklahoma is NOT Obozo country. Not a single county in Oklahoma voted for him in the Presidential Election. Not one.


10 posted on 11/15/2010 4:32:49 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: radioone

Tody they are protesting at the funeral of Lance Cpl Terry Honeycutt, a marine who died in Afghanistan. The funeral will be in La Plata this morning.

Many Americans will be there to shield the family from this scum. Myself included.


11 posted on 11/15/2010 4:34:37 AM PST by Venturer
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To: radioone

God sent a message to those who would use His name in vain.


12 posted on 11/15/2010 4:35:36 AM PST by Fresh Wind
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To: rightwingextremist1776

That’s true and it won’t be a good day for anyone.


13 posted on 11/15/2010 4:35:47 AM PST by sauropod (The truth shall make you free but first it will make you miserable.)
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To: radioone
Always worth posting this pic

14 posted on 11/15/2010 4:43:11 AM PST by Christian Engineer Mass
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To: Jonah Hex; STARWISE; maggief; onyx; SE Mom; penelopesire; Liz

Don’t “tread” on me?

That’s SOOOOO bad!


15 posted on 11/15/2010 4:44:56 AM PST by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: Venturer

In Missouri ?


16 posted on 11/15/2010 4:48:22 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: radioone

“The wheels on the van go thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump. The wheels on the van go thump, thump, thump all through the town!”


17 posted on 11/15/2010 4:50:59 AM PST by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: Venturer
Tody they are protesting at the funeral of Lance Cpl Terry Honeycutt, a marine who died in Afghanistan. The funeral will be in La Plata this morning. Many Americans will be there to shield the family from this scum. Myself included.

Please give your fellow FReepers an after-action report-I would love to see the hand of God silence these people.

18 posted on 11/15/2010 4:51:40 AM PST by thethirddegree
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To: radioone

Good.


19 posted on 11/15/2010 4:53:20 AM PST by babble-on
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To: bill1952

A missed opportunity for the patriotic police officer to have issued a citation for “operating an unsafe vehicle”, except that would have given them a reason to return to town.
My question? Who is financing these clowns?


20 posted on 11/15/2010 5:02:07 AM PST by bitterohiogunclinger (Proudly casting a heavy carbon footprint as I clean my guns ---)
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