Good
This is how you handle these asses:
Local 25 was contacted by some concerned citizens of Medford asking for
help to keep members of the Westboro Baptist Church from protesting the
funeral of Krystle Campbell, scheduled for tomorrow morning at 10 AM in
Medford.
Local 25 President Sean O’Brien asked all off-duty Teamsters to participate:
Teamsters Local 25 will be out in full force tomorrow morning at St.
Joseph’s Church in Medford to form a human shield and block the Westboro
Baptist Church from protesting the funeral of Krystle Campbell. The
Campbell family and friends have already endured immeasurable amounts of
heartache and tragedy this week, and deserve a peaceful funeral with
time to grieve privately.
Westboro Baptist Church should understand that we will go to great
lengths to make sure they don't protest any funerals of the victims of
the past week’s tragedies, and that those we lost receive a proper
burial.
Teamsters Local 25 represents 11,000 hardworking men and women from the Boston area.
Rising Hegemon
8 comments:
Can't we just set up a "free speech zone" for WBC? I hear Dracut is nice this time of year.
Can't we just set up a "free speech zone" for WBC?
Yes, odd, isn't it, that protesters with substantive complaints get corralled into so-called "free speech zones," but the Weird Wailing Wahoos of Westboro claim their 1st Amendment rights are being trampled upon if they aren't permitted to run roughshod over every funeral in the country.
And, what is this obsession of theirs with funerals? M'self, I think it's just cowardly tactics--they think people will be less likely to fight back or respond if they're grieving, which is nothing more than a calculated means of using someone's loss to seize an advantage (an advantage to what end remains utterly unclear).
One thing is certain, though. They can afford to do this because of WBC's tax-exempt status. The time is long overdue for the IRS to declare them a cult and yank their exemption. They've been proving that they're fanatics for years.
And, what is this obsession of theirs with funerals? M'self, I think it's just cowardly tactics--they think people will be less likely to fight back or respond if they're grieving, which is nothing more than a calculated means of using someone's loss to seize an advantage
No - check out the history of the Westboro Church. It's exactly the opposite of what you suggest here - funerals are where emotions run high so there's a much MORE likely chance that someone will haul off and hit one of the Westboro protesters. Leading to a lawsuit, an out of court settlement, and money in the bank for the church.
The Phelps family owns its own law firm - old Fred has been disbarred but the family is full of lawyers. That law firm mostly, as far as I understand it, handles church business and lawsuits. They sue other people and when other people sue the church they represent the church. And they apparently are experts at using the laws that protect people from frivolous lawsuits to get payouts from people who sue them (because honestly - suing them to stop a protest on public property neatly fits the definition of "nuisance lawsuit" and is something that in general we want protected, even if in this particular case it would be nice to ignore it and let them go bankrupt).
The Teamsters better walk a fine line here and have their legal guys cross every t and dot every i, because I imagine Phelps Chartered Law will be there to document the whole thing and be ready to file documents with the court within days (if not within the hour).
Damn them unions. Why do they hate 'Merica?
"The Phelps family owns its own law firm - old Fred has been disbarred but the family is full of lawyers. That law firm mostly, as far as I understand it, handles church business and lawsuits."
All the more reason to yank their church status, then, since they're using the veil of religious freedom in the courts as a cash cow.
And thanks--that explains where they get the money to traipse all over the country, stirring up shit and trying to create the circumstances for new suits. You'd think that most judges would be on to them by now, if that's their MO.
The chickenshit bastards didn't show.
human decency is far more prevalent than hate and cynicism, but hate and cynicism have all the money.
the tax exemptions churches get should have to be defended annually to the irs and the communities they "serve". or, as montag says, yanked completely.
feralcrj
maybe they will go to france.
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