Posted on 11/15/2010 5:35:38 AM PST by Cailleach
LAKE RIDGE, Va. --
Members of the radical group Westboro Baptist Church picketed at Woodbridge High School this morning, but they were outnumbered.
Prince William police say five people from the extremist Kansas-based group showed up for the 7 a.m. protest. At least 200 counter-protesters were there, too.
The counter-protesters carried signs bearing positives messages and sung "God Bless America."
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For those who aren't from around here, Woodbridge/Lake Ridge, VA is a suburb of Washington, DC (20 some-odd miles south). It's between Ft Belvoir to the north and Quantico MCB to the south, and of course within working reach of all the military spots in DC (we live here, and the hubby is stationed at the Pentagon)...so, I am assuming they were hoping to upset military children.
I really want to know why the police allowed it happen...if I were the parent of a student...whew...I'd be one pissed off Mama Bear!
I’d like to know how these idiots fund their protests. Seriously, how can they afford to be traveling around every weekend for protests hundreds of miles from home?
Westboro Baptist Protesters Get Tires Slashed Following Protest Saturday
According to Rebecca Rooney, organizer of the Weston, MO counter protest, the Westboro Baptists are also lawyers who file lawsuits against those who obstruct them during their activities. So don’t do anything actionable around them and they may fade away...
I guess, maybe...for each wandering protester, they’ve got a spouse back in Kansas working (aren’t most of them lawyers, and all related to each other?)...and I think I read that they are traveling in a van or two, not flying or anything. I don’t know...
There is a case dealing with them in front of SCOTUS right now. It’s already been heard and I assume judgment will come down in the spring. I trust the Roberts Court.
Yeah, the founder, Fred Phelps was once a prominent civil rights lawyer. He has something like 11 children and 9 of them are lawyers - something like that. But I can’t believe that they are all making a living as lawyers if they are on the road protesting. I wonder how they pay for all of that protesting, travel, hotels, food, etc.
From the local paper’s Facebook page:
“Apparently they didn’t quite make it to the Coast Guard office. They were on Smoketown at the parkway by Boston Market. But now there are only counter-protestors there.”
and then...
“Westboro didn’t make it to the Coast Guard recruiting office. But dozens of counter-protesters were out on Smoketown Road near the PW Parkway.”
Woodbridge HS has a bunch of military families, I guess that’s why the nuts chose it. There were kids there who lost their parents at the Pentagon on 9-11.
Who gets “free speech” permission to harass children at a school?
By lawsuits against those who obstruct them.
For non-locals...it seems that they made it about 1/2 way from the school to the Coast Guard office...then gave up/got hungry or something. Are they walking, I wonder? Goodness...I hope the counter-protesters are in shape if they are all walking...that’s one heck of a march! On the plus side...it’s not freezing this morning...45 degrees out. :P
I don’t think so. They can’t be making that much money from that. There are dozens of Phelps kids and grandkids to feed, house, educate and ship from protest to protest.
According to the hate-filled Westboro “Baptist Church” fanatics they went to Woodbridge High School to “picket the students, parents and teachers at Woodbridge High School who live in rebellion against their creator every minute...”
So, whatever you folks at Woodbridge High School are doing, please KEEP IT UP!
They apply for and are granted all the necessary permits etc.
v: I’d like to know how these idiots fund their protests.
Lawsuits! When the WBC takes its show on the road, they are accompanied by lawyers and vidiographers. Whenever a threat to their First Amendment rights is perceived it is duly recorded. Since the WBC is in that jurisdiction legally (see above) they will threaten a lawsuit against said jurisdiction for failure to protect their First Amendment rights. The insurance carrier for said jurisdiction will almost always settle rather than face a drawn out legal fight.
It would be interesting to figure out but where to go first and who has the time?
Again taken from the facebook page for the paper (someone asked if they knew why they picked that school)
“Reporter spoke to one of them and they didn’t offer a reason beyond they disagree with what high schools teach.”
I just looked at their website (and now must shower, and bathe my computer in bleach)..apparently, they think that Woodbridge HS teaches that it’s OK to be gay and that God is a liar, and that’s why they picked it. My personal thought is that it’s within spitting distance of Belvior, Quantico, the Pentagon, other military destinations, and the Coast Guard Recruiting station that got shot at recently (which is where they are supposed to be protesting now)...they probably originally thought about Gar-Field HS (which is closer to the CG office), but noticed the church across the street, and knew that they’d catch fire or implode if they got too close...
Really, who’s got time to do what they do... do they ever enjoy the good things in life; going to kids football games, dance recitals, going to movies, family reunions, heck, do they even know what sex is? Must be hell, dragging yourself out of bed trying to decide who’s lives to interrupt and make miserable.
They probably get funded by wacko, left-wing liberal groups.
I’m disgusted that a permit would be granted to protest in front of a school, during school hours with those signs (the paper posted one pic on the facebook page...at least one Thank God for Dead soldiers sign is visible). Again...if I were a parent of a student there...
He was disbarred and defrocked.
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