Censorship and Grief(ing) by ANTHONYT

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Censorship and Grief(ing)

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UPDATED: Saturday, December 22, 2012 08:28
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012 4:35 AM

Freedom is Important because People are Important

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/16/tech/web/anonymous-westboro-baptist/inde
x.html?iref=allsearch

Hello,

Efforts against the much despised Westboro church are underway. Some are approaching the problem via sabotage of Westboro assets. Others are seeking ways to censor the group within the realm of law.

With Westboro promising to appear at the site of a recent tragedy and display their vulgar views, people are becoming tempted into suppressing speech in any way they can in order to lessen the grief of those who are mourning.

--Anthony

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012 4:54 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

I'd like to surround them with hundreds of gay men and women in full-on dress-up mode - flirting with the Westboro folks and making out with each other. A few drag queens in full regalia would be a nice touch. Probably not appropriate for a funeral, though.

But really, unless they get listed as a hate group (and I'm kind'a uneasy about that precedent), counter-protests, blocking them from view of the mourners, drowning out their screeds with revving motorcycles and such are about all that can be done.

"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012 5:19 AM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important

Hello,

I concur that free speech solutions are best used to counter free speech problems.

--Anthony

Note to Self:
Raptor - woman testifying about birth control is a slut (the term applies.)
Context: http://tinyurl.com/d6ozfej
Six - Wow, isn't Niki quite the CUNT? And, yes, I spell that in all caps....
http://tinyurl.com/bdjgbpe
Wulf - Niki is a stupid fucking bitch who should hurry up and die.
Context: http://tinyurl.com/afve3r9

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” -T. S. Szasz

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012 5:31 AM

BYTEMITE

Certain people are so much fun to grief. I don't abide censorship but I enjoy me some jerkass comeuppance. Almost too much, really - so it's a good thing I'm not a Christian, they tend to frown on schadenfreude.

The lamentations of the truly awful are my cheese and WHINE. It's like drinking their tears from one of those beer helmets, so you have your hands free to clap and cheer and eat popcorn and throw the crunchy hard kernels at people.

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012 5:47 AM

BYTEMITE

The rest of my contribution to this thread will be people trolling WBC with signs and selected internet search pictures.

I hope you find it as hilarious as I do.

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012 6:16 AM

BYTEMITE

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/30/arlington.cemetery.protesters/index.h
tml?hpt=T2

"Hours before President Barack Obama led the nation's Memorial Day observances at the Tomb of the Unknowns, three members of the Westboro Baptist Church were challenged by others who disagreed with them -- including members claiming to be from the Ku Klux Klan."

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012 8:01 AM

STORYMARK

The best anti-WBC trolling ever was at Comic-Con a couple years ago:

Excuse me while I soak in all these sweet, sweet conservative tears.

"We will never have the elite, smart people on our side." -- Rick "Frothy" Santorum

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012 1:29 PM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

If nothing else, Westboro Baptist Church is important because it gives everyone in RWED something they can agree about.

"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012 2:02 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Rick rolling WBC ... too gorram funny.

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." - Socrates

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Saturday, December 22, 2012 8:28 AM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

Good point Geezer, we all seem to dispise what they do.

It sounds like a clever 15 year old is helping take care of that problem, I know s/he is breaking the law by hacking like that, but I hope they go easy on him/her anyway. :)

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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