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Anyone meet Westboro Baptist Church

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Anyone out there ever have these parasites visit their town? How did your town handle them?
I live down south and we just had a shooting in a theater so WBC has announced they are on their way down to see us, to picket the funerals of the 2 girls killed.

@Malachy told me when they planned to come to his town, everyone just ignored them so they didn't even bother showing up.

They won't be ignored here. We have thousands of people who have already RSVP'd to come block their protest.

I read that they try their best to get physical with you, have their kids throw things at you as it is harder to charge kids, etc.

If you don't know who Westboro Baptist Church is, they aren't really a church. They're a group of real life trolls who go to funerals of newsworthy situations carrying signs and screaming about how God sends shooters because we accept homosexuality etc.

I think the best way to handle them is to not give them any attention or media coverage or anything but since they are coming here, I wondered who else has had them visit.

I posted this here instead of poli because I'd like user accounts of how your area really dealt with them, not so much opinions about what scum they are. Did they get anyone arrested? Did they hurt anyone?

If none of this interests you, here is a baby raccoon.

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Response to Anyone meet Westboro Baptist Church 2015-07-25 20:54:39


I like your racoon.

Also I'm surprised no one has lit the WBC up.

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Response to Anyone meet Westboro Baptist Church 2015-07-25 21:03:19


At 7/25/15 08:51 PM, SubliminalVirus wrote: I have a thing for Shirley Phelps...

sexy things?

anyways, no my town is to boring to bother with..but if they did happen to come by, i reckon i would give them the clap.
(gonorrhea)

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Response to Anyone meet Westboro Baptist Church 2015-07-25 21:23:39


Not big enough here, and no tragedies that would interest them. Agreed that if they're ignored they'll go away. I honestly don't think it's anything more then the Phelps family who comprise this thing (even at that some have defected). The best thing I think for people who do plan to counter protest to do is show up, face them, and then turn their back and ignore them. Make THAT how they get protested, just ignore them no matter what they do and if these idiots throw things or accost anybody, press charges.


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Response to Anyone meet Westboro Baptist Church 2015-07-25 21:28:31


Nope, only heard about them on the news. I don't think anything especially tragic has happened around where I live. Just the usual quiet tragedies that we all have to deal with.

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At 7/25/15 08:44 PM, Sekhem wrote: they won't come to texas again lol

i remember last time they tried starting shit in dallas and got chased out of town with ar15s

Haha, yeah... don't fuck with a state full of gun owners.


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At 7/25/15 08:44 PM, Sekhem wrote: they won't come to texas again lol

i remember last time they tried starting shit in dallas and got chased out of town with ar15s

Southern Louisiana is the same. I am interested to see how this turns out.

At 7/25/15 08:51 PM, SubliminalVirus wrote: I have a thing for Shirley Phelps...

I prefer Shirely Manson

At 7/25/15 08:54 PM, MrPercie wrote: I guess its fair to really test the mettle of Americas "freedom of speech" to the common folk

I know a lot of places have simply contacted all property owners along the funeral procession routes and they waited on their property and informed them they have to leave.

You do have a right to protest, but not on someone else's property.

And in Louisiana, our law says we can shoot trespassers. (After warning)

At 7/25/15 08:54 PM, Prinzy2 wrote: I like your racoon.

Thank you!

Also I'm surprised no one has lit the WBC up.

agreed

At 7/25/15 09:03 PM, General-spitsDd wrote:
anyways, no my town is to boring to bother with..but if they did happen to come by, i reckon i would give them the clap.
(gonorrhea)

Well, Lafayette isn't too terribly huge and important either, but any shooting and WBC comes running.

At 7/25/15 09:23 PM, aviewaskewed wrote: Not big enough here, and no tragedies that would interest them. Agreed that if they're ignored they'll go away. I honestly don't think it's anything more then the Phelps family who comprise this thing (even at that some have defected). The best thing I think for people who do plan to counter protest to do is show up, face them, and then turn their back and ignore them. Make THAT how they get protested, just ignore them no matter what they do and if these idiots throw things or accost anybody, press charges.

Yeah, I know a lot of people who are very angry and wanna go kick their asses etc. I'm like don't do it.....Don't post in the IRL spam thread guys......


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Response to Anyone meet Westboro Baptist Church 2015-07-25 22:50:03


At 7/25/15 09:23 PM, aviewaskewed wrote: Not big enough here, and no tragedies that would interest them.

When they said they were coming to my area it came out of the blue. They just up and decided it was time to hate on the local college because it had an LGBT society (which wasnt new or even in the local news as far as I know). I think they just send out press releases all the time saying they're going to protest some town or funeral and go wherever people make the largest stink about it and not bother anyone who ignores them


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Response to Anyone meet Westboro Baptist Church 2015-07-25 22:57:48


These sound like delightful people, we should invite them around for arsenic tea and poisonous cookies.

I do quietly hope there is a version of them out here I need to let off some steam

Response to Anyone meet Westboro Baptist Church 2015-07-26 00:09:21


Never met 'em personally, but I think we can all agree that the general bipartisan consensus is that nobody likes WBC.

Nobody.

Response to Anyone meet Westboro Baptist Church 2015-07-26 04:26:36


During Mardi Gras of 2014, me and a few of the friends at this house I was staying at threw fishbowls full of piss at a bunch of religious zealots in New orleans on Bourbon street.

They were wearing ponchos despite clear weather of course, in anticipation of drinks being thrown at them. After I threw one at them, they sort of just doubled back, and registered that they were covered in a fishbowl. They looked at me and my clown friends and were about to launch into their usual 'got hates fags' shpeel until they realized it was piss they were covered in, after which they just kind of looked disgusted.

granted, i wasn't 100% certain they were westboro baptist church, but nevertheless they were the same brand of religious zealots- a bunch of folks with really, really hateful signs saying 'got hates fags' 'gays will burn in hell' etc. etc.

Response to Anyone meet Westboro Baptist Church 2015-07-26 04:31:31


They haven't come to my town. Although, I personally wish they did, so me and some friends can counter-protest, like kevin smith did!

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Response to Anyone meet Westboro Baptist Church 2015-07-26 04:37:54


HAve a bunch of gay porn on TVs facing them, with riot shields protecting them so they can't break them from a distance. Then you just park it closer and closer to them until they leave. It also helps to have the audio plugged into a amp system.

Hiring security for the funerals and making them private events could also work.

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At 7/25/15 10:50 PM, Malachy wrote:
At 7/25/15 09:23 PM, aviewaskewed wrote: Not big enough here, and no tragedies that would interest them.
When they said they were coming to my area it came out of the blue. They just up and decided it was time to hate on the local college because it had an LGBT society (which wasnt new or even in the local news as far as I know). I think they just send out press releases all the time saying they're going to protest some town or funeral and go wherever people make the largest stink about it and not bother anyone who ignores them

I have seen a lot of people saying they will photoshop themselves into locations and post, "We are approaching such and such city" meanwhile they are still out inbreeding on their Kansas compound.

At 7/25/15 10:56 PM, SansNumbers wrote:
At 7/25/15 08:42 PM, SevenSeize wrote: They won't be ignored here.
I think the best way to handle them is to not give them any attention
I am experiencing cognitive dissonance.

*I* think the best way to handle them is to not give them any attention. *I* am not the entire state of Louisiana. What I feel, and what I know will happen when they show up in southern Louisiana are two different things.

At 7/25/15 10:57 PM, FoAngel wrote: These sound like delightful people, we should invite them around for arsenic tea and poisonous cookies.

I do quietly hope there is a version of them out here I need to let off some steam

I think Australia should stage a HUGE tragedy so they spend all kinda money trying to get down there, then when they show up, not a damn thing is going on.

At 7/26/15 12:09 AM, DJ-Ri wrote: Never met 'em personally, but I think we can all agree that the general bipartisan consensus is that nobody likes WBC.

Nobody.

The shooter, down here, had social media and it was full of posts supporting him. They are claiming he was not a member but whatever. They're all drinking the same koolaid.

At 7/26/15 04:26 AM, Ass-Crumb wrote: During Mardi Gras of 2014, me and a few of the friends at this house I was staying at threw fishbowls full of piss at a bunch of religious zealots in New orleans on Bourbon street.

Yeah But those crazies are always out in New Orleans. I go during non carnival season all the time and they are out and about preaching damnation.

At 7/26/15 04:31 AM, NEOSLAYRE wrote: They haven't come to my town. Although, I personally wish they did, so me and some friends can counter-protest, like kevin smith did!

I think the counter protest is up to like 14 thousand people signed up.....It's a ridiculous amount of people.

At 7/26/15 04:37 AM, DarkMatter wrote: HAve a bunch of gay porn on TVs facing them, with riot shields protecting them so they can't break them from a distance. Then you just park it closer and closer to them until they leave. It also helps to have the audio plugged into a amp system.

As hilarious as this is, I don't think it'd be appropriate for a funeral.

Hiring security for the funerals and making them private events could also work.

To me it would seem the owner of the cemetery/funeral home could simply say they are not welcome and to leave, as that is not "public" land. I know the ACLU is all over this, as our governor has declared they cannot protest within so many feet of the services etc.

Why can't their bus/van just drive off a cliff?


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I haven't met any, but....... I haven't met anyone as trollish as them in Britain yet.

inb4 my fiancé takes me to Ireland or Glasgow and we pass by some hardline Orangemen...

Response to Anyone meet Westboro Baptist Church 2015-07-27 01:10:15


They visited the school I was attending back in 2011.

From what I remember, the whole experience was basically like a big party with all of these kids surrounding them in their little blocked off approved protest zone and making fun of them by shouting things at them. I was only able to see a glimpse or two of the actual WBC protesters because there were so many people in the crowd in front of me. However, I do recall that the best moment was when these total frat boy goons walked by them in rainbow underwear and started gyrating their bodies in front of them.

So, my personal experience with these people was kinda enjoyable because I was with young kids who just relentlessly mocked them and their dumb protests by acting like silly hooligans.


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Response to Anyone meet Westboro Baptist Church 2015-07-27 02:41:41


No, and I would ignore them anyway. Fuck em.


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Response to Anyone meet Westboro Baptist Church 2015-07-27 03:02:25


At 7/25/15 09:03 PM, General-spitsDd wrote:
At 7/25/15 08:51 PM, SubliminalVirus wrote: I have a thing for Shirley Phelps...
sexy things?

anyways, no my town is to boring to bother with..but if they did happen to come by, i reckon i would give them the clap.
(gonorrhea)

I thought the clap was chlamydia (the slut flu).

Glad I read this thread.

I judge women who've had this, despite having genital warts myself.

They might not be genital warts. They're hard to see. I saw a dermatologist and he said they're not genital warts unless they get more noticeable, but I'm pretty sure they are.

I suspect foul play. I have no sex life outside of my camcorder.

Response to Anyone meet Westboro Baptist Church 2015-07-27 07:19:39


If they showed up Id make them all gay. I remember this photo of Bailey Jay getting hit on by anti gay protestors. More people should do that.


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Response to Anyone meet Westboro Baptist Church 2015-07-27 12:29:11


I honestly think that they're not actually using their protests out of any kind of faith, but are more like glorified con artists who try to goad others into suing them so they can turn around and win dat $$$

I read somewhere that their tiny "church" is coincidentally over 50% lawyers.

Anyway fuck westbap

Response to Anyone meet Westboro Baptist Church 2015-07-27 21:23:41


At 7/27/15 01:10 AM, ZJ wrote: They visited the school I was attending back in 2011.

Heh. My high school too, in 2009, just because the school was named after a gay poet. I was in community college by then but there's a shortcut home through the school grounds so I remember the huge mass of 500 some counterprotesting students shouting and singing clad in rainbows and rebellion on the school grounds, the three or four Westboro Baptists across the street kept across the street by the bus stop with their signs, and the 40 some police officers, some on horses, present to keep the peace. It was ridiculous.

Response to Anyone meet Westboro Baptist Church 2015-07-29 20:07:28


They set up camp across from my school just about a year ago. There were only like four people, and they were completely overwhelmed in the dozens by counterprotesters. They had the standard green and yellow signs out, but we couldn't hear a thing they were saying because we had music blasting so loud. In any other instance, the police would have probably shut the place down for a noise violation. They stayed for about two hours and went to somewhere closer to Cape Canaveral, I think.


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Response to Anyone meet Westboro Baptist Church 2015-07-29 21:14:29


Fortunately, they chickened out and no one showed. The two girls were buried in peace. (The counter protesters didn't assemble either.)


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Response to Anyone meet Westboro Baptist Church 2015-07-29 21:16:13


At 7/29/15 09:14 PM, SevenSeize wrote: Fortunately, they chickened out and no one showed. The two girls were buried in peace. (The counter protesters didn't assemble either.)

guess you didn't throw up enough of a stink, which is good. Seems to be their MO to rile up a community and then not even have the balls to show up. Glad your area is able to heal in peace


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Ways to Troll WBC

Remind them that they probably spend more time thinking about gay sex than actual gay people do.

If a protester approaches you and says "God hates fags", respond by saying "He must be hatin' on you a lot," or "Then switch religions. Buddha has nothing against you guys."

Pay a gay stripper to show up for a WBC protest and dance for him, or hire a female stripper if unable to do so. Extra points if you are the stripper.

Check their picket schedule, meet them if they're scheduled to be in your town, and play The Village People if you want maximum irony, doubly so if it contains the track YMCA. Record what you did, and submit the recording to YouTube for extra points.


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