What would you do about the WBC?

[OptimisticPessimist]

Well, on a societal level, I respect their right to free thought and speech. On a personal level, though...well, they're fucktards. So, I guess....I'd continue not giving a shit what they think or say. Really, is it that big a deal that a bunch of holy-rolling retards got all up in arms about something that shouldn't even be an issue anymore?

 

[Maphysto]

Overturn the Supreme Court ruling on their actions and make it legal to sue them for emotional damages.

But that alone would be too boring, so let's make a game out of it.

The WBC are still allowed to picket funerals provided they go through all the proper channels. However, if a SINGLE funeral attendee sees the WBC-tards or their signs, he or she is then eligible to file for emotional damages. And this is in effect throughout the entire day of the funeral, meaning they can go out and actively look for the protesters if they feel like it.

 

[Screamarie]

Pass laws that define unwanted assembly and protest at funerals as harassment and, as such, a violation of the law, regardless of Free Speech.

You have the right to believe and say whatever you want in this country. You are not allowed to chant hateful slogans with the intent of mentally assaulting people, especially those who are grieving.

Dude, I don't know you but I love you for that post. That's exactly my feelings. I hate the WBC, but being the person that I am, I know I must allow them freedom of speech, but there is a place and time for everything and that's not it. Ever.

The "protests" on funerals are not protests, they're not being wronged in any way, in fact they have nothing to do with the funeral. They are hiding behind the word protest, instead of calling what it really is, harassment and emotional abuse.

 

[BrownGaijin]

My plan is already in action.

Phase 1: Form the EBC(Eastboro Baptist Church), an organization dedicated to protesting protests.

Phase 2: Show up at all Westboro protests with signs saying "God hates Protesters (1st Corinthians 10:10)" (Note: This strategy is so meta it hurts.)

Phase 3: Focus on martyrdom angle: We protest, sacrificing ourselves to condemnation to save others.

Phase 4: ?????

Phase 5: Assume complete and total dominion over the universe.

Can I be your monkey boy on this adventure?

OT: Assuming that I could make everyone one turn a blind eye for a few moments, I would send in ninjas to take them all out. Should any of them escape, I would have pirates on standby.

 

[DoubleTime]

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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Actually, it was Evelyn Beatrice Hall writing ABOUT Voltaire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall

So really his view, her words. It's sort of funny this came up, I was just reading about it.

 

[zelda2fanboy]

Have you ever read the Bible?
You can argue that people don't adhere to it, that it's symbolic, that certain parts are outdated and are therefore legitimately subject to a modern reinterpretation, but arguing that the Bible itself, as it is written, says you should be a good person or that it discourages discrimination is just silly (except in the vacuous sense that it defines what a good person is). Again, your interpretation of it may lead you in another direction, but what it literally says (not in the sense of "what is its sacred intended message", which is subject to the above qualifications, but in the sense of "what would the average take as the meaning of the written words") is pretty hard to defend in this way.

What this guy said. I personally don't see how the message of the Bible is anything but discrimination. Chosen people, slavery, Lot's wife, that Jesus line I mentioned, Job, the plagues, and the basic idea that if you don't believe in this stuff you burn in a lake of fire forever. You could interpret the Necronomicon to mean that you should be nice, but it doesn't make it a "good book." We all know Ash did his best.

 

[astrav1]

Easy get people to shut the fuck up about them. *ahem*

 

[Manicotti]

Surgically remove their vocal cords and their thumbs. Let's see them protest now!

 

[Feste the Jester]

Why get rid of them. They're hilarious. Greatest trolls ever. If I'm ever bored hearing one of their crazy speeches or rallies tends to give me a good laugh.

 

[AgDr_ODST]

pass a law on the national level that criminalizes the act of protesting at funerals and then put them all on trial for disturbing the peace and and breaking this new law. Have a hand picked jury find them guilty and order the adults of a certain age and up sent to an insane asylum and have the kids placed into adoptive care where their new families will get the ridiculous ideas of there heads that were drilled in by there parents

 

[Nicholas Woodruff]

It's like the Peter Coffin/Xiaxue fiasco from last month (For you who didn't know or care, forget about it.) Just ignore it, and let them troll on. When the time comes, Karma will come around.

 

[Direwolf750]

send them to the middle east. that would be funny...If the natives don't kill them, the soldiers would.

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

By reacting you're doing exactly what they want you to do. Someone said on another thread that the WBC wants to piss someone off so much that they get attacked. They will then sue for assault, possibly with a deadly weapon. They will use that money to fund even more of their hatemongering so they can become even richer.

If I could do anything to them, I would just force them all to have CT scans. I'm pretty sure a whole lot of them have mental problems.

 

[acosn]

Ignore them completely.

They don't care that you openly disagree with them- they're not going to change their opinions. They like that you think they're crazy extremists as it gives them more exposure.

They are literally so backward, falling so far outside of what's the accepted norm that there is no arguing with them. Ignore them, let them fall into obscurity.

 

[Ziadaine_v1legacy]

Beat them to death with a bible wrapped in barb wire for bitter-sweet irony.

 

[SinisterGehe]

Pass laws that define unwanted assembly and protest at funerals as harassment and, as such, a violation of the law, regardless of Free Speech.

You have the right to believe and say whatever you want in this country. You are not allowed to chant hateful slogans with the intent of mentally assaulting people, especially those who are grieving.

Isn't slander and public harassment punishable violations in US law? I am very sure Hatespeech is.

When they came to Finland after the Kauhala tragedy they were ordered to leave the graveyard grounds, they wanted to go and protest in the chapel and burial site - on burial events everyone is allowed to attend the ceremony regardless are you connected or not to the deceased or not -. They were allowed to protest, but they had to do it across the road to the graveyard. Tho they got a lot of hate and almost got attacked by locals, people were ready to beat these assholes up, they didn't which was good thing and a bad thing.

 

[eljawa]

even in total power...I believe in freedom of speech, in my freedom to ignore their speech

 

[Lucifron]

You have the right to believe and say whatever you want in this country. You are not allowed to chant hateful slogans with the intent of mentally assaulting people, especially those who are grieving.

Actually, you do have that right.
Also, sticks and stones. It's 2011. If you haven't learned to ignore the trolls by now, then it is high time to do so.

Edit: OT: Absolutely nothing. I could very well force them to keep a set distance from whatever they're protesting, however.