Should free speech cost $5MM

[hemmy]

Just ignore them.

[Jeffy]

Just ignore them.

That method was working for a time.  And they knew it.  So they adapted.  That's when they started protesting soldier's funerals.  They needed something to restart the shock that gets them headlines.

I still think Fred is compensating from abuse, likely sexual, by his father.

[Sugar Dick]

GMAFB, forbidding the protest of funerals is oppression, you're a jackass

You have stated in another thread that you don't mind the government spying on you, and now you're saying that you want to government to set guidelines for how, when, and where to protest. Free societies do not give the government these kinds of powers.

*I understand that protesting funerals is not politically correct, and I hate the Phelps clan as much as the next guy. I just don't want a government as big and powerful as you do.

Yeah, it would take a huge government agency/bureaucracy to make protesting funerals illegal 

After reading a little bit more about this, I think the case will clearly go to the Phelps monsters.  They only protest military funerals, over 1000 feet away from the cemetery, and don't shout stuff at all, just hold their offensive signs.  They are even discretionary about which military funerals, only choosing those that the media has been invited to (not surprising here).  Apparently the father suing didn't even know they were there until after it happened.  Probably not the strongest case to bring to the Supreme Court if your goal was to end this practice.   

[Sugar Dick]

this thread was such an epic fail for sugar dick.  oh, well.

Seems like it's still going 

P.S.
You are and continue to be an enormous tool

[Jeffy]

this thread was such an epic fail for sugar dick.  oh, well.

Seems like it's still going 

P.S.
You are and continue to be an enormous tool

That doesn't mean that it isn't continuing to be FAIL.

[Sugar Dick]

this thread was such an epic fail for sugar dick.  oh, well.

Seems like it's still going 

P.S.
You are and continue to be an enormous tool

That doesn't mean that it isn't continuing to be FAIL.

I've gotten pretty much everything I wanted out of it.

[Jeffy]

this thread was such an epic fail for sugar dick.  oh, well.

Seems like it's still going 

P.S.
You are and continue to be an enormous tool

That doesn't mean that it isn't continuing to be FAIL.

I've gotten pretty much everything I wanted out of it.

Christine O'Donnell doesn't think you should masturbate.

[Sugar Dick]

this thread was such an epic fail for sugar dick.  oh, well.

Seems like it's still going 

P.S.
You are and continue to be an enormous tool

That doesn't mean that it isn't continuing to be FAIL.

I've gotten pretty much everything I wanted out of it.

Christine O'Donnell doesn't think you should masturbate.

Rosie O'Donnell hates your point of view

[The42Yardstick]

Free speech wasn't intended to allow douchebags like the Phelps cult to desecrate the funerals of fallen US soldiers, or anyone for that matter. 

so let's take away free speech for stuff that we don't like amirite

 

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

If the government can force us to buy health insurance from a private company, why can't we keep assholes away from a funeral? This country is mumped up.

[Rage Against the McKee]

If the government can force us to buy health insurance from a private company, why can't we keep assholes away from a funeral? This country is mumped up.

Actually, it might get kind of interesting if republicans use the result of Roe v. Wade to say that our new health care plan is an invasion of privacy.