Utterly disgusting...

[Cricket]

Check out his (the son's) website some day. Don't have time to hunt up the URL just now, but you can google it. Sad.

[daftbeaker]

I'm not sure what to make of this. Even the Klan has standards



Taken from the bottom of here.

[Angry_Santa]

When you make the KKK look tame you know your on top of the idiocy pyramid.

Follow Up: So once i get my computer fixed i'll post my interesting AOL chat witha supposed member of the westboro church, many lawls ahead.


-RAmen-

[TalkingBull]

I find it very sad that they take their children to their little displays... not for the reason you may think. I find it sad because it prohibits my driving into their crowd and rolling over each and every one of them. I certainly wouldn't hurt children... I imagine they are using their kids as human shields to a certain extent.

Ah well, I may not beileve in hell but if I did I would comment on the special place reserved for Fred Phelps. May he get some horrific sort of cancer that requires treatment from a gay, black, veteran, post-operative transexual.. and ultimately die a very very very very painful drawn-out death of course :)

[Roy Hunter]

The message about countering hatred with satire is spreading. Surely the nerds shall inherit the Earth.

[Ubi Dubium]

I had heard that WBC was planning to picket ComiCon. I was hoping they'd be met by a troop of Borg bearing "You will be Assimilated" and "Resistance is Futile" signs, but the protest that happened was pretty great. I loved the sign that said "Is this thing on?"

[daftbeaker]

Pee Zed had a post about this as well, the originals are here in their full-sized glory.



If you squint you can just about see Phelps and co at the left of the next picture


It's worth going to Pee Zed's post and opening the full-sized ones, there's a lot of good signs. 'God loves FSM' is an obvious highlight but some of the others are inspired. 'God loves gay porn', 'Jesus was nailed to a cross, Thor has a hammer', 'Magnets; How the *?*! do they work?' 'Odin is god. Read the Mighty Thor #5' and one Rain will appreciate 'God hates sentries'

To tell the truth I am surprised it was so peaceful, I'd have been sorely tempted to run at Phelps and punch him

[Angry_Santa]

A few notes: I blocked his name as a nice gesture, the times stamps are gone as my compture clock is well FUBAR, I also can't confirm he's an actual member and not just either a religous person.

[Arkaeon]

Just a quick note to google if you haven't already:

"God hates shrimp"

It's... tasty.

[CommanderTako]

They were due to visit the UK this year, where there is no constitutional freedom of speech and we have specific laws about hate crimes against people who might not share the WBC's religious or sexual orientations. If Fred had opened his mouth in this country, I sincerely hope he would have gone to jail for the crap that comes out of it.

WTF? UK outlawed Hate speech? When did that happen?

You know that if WBC kept a paedophilia bashing attitude, the UK would hail them as heros.

In 2001, the series was repeated, along with a new show, which tackled the tricky subject of paedophilia and the associated moral panic prevalent in parts of the British media at the time following the death of Sarah Payne, focusing on the controversial 'name and shame' campaign of the News of the World. This included an incident in 2000, in which a paediatrician in Newport had the word 'PAEDO' daubed in yellow paint on her home.
Celebrities including Gary Lineker and Phil Collins appeared in videotaped interviews, in which they endorsed a spoof charity "Nonce Sense" ("nonce" is a common British slang term for a sex offender), Collins going so far as to announce, "I'm talking Nonce Sense!" Tomorrow's World presenter Philippa Forrester and ITN reporter Nicholas Owen amongst others were tricked into explaining the details of "HOECS" (pronounced "hoax") computer games, which online paedophiles were supposed to be using to abuse children via the Internet. These fairly simple plays on words were opaque enough that none of the guest celebrities understood that they were being lampooned until the show was aired, in spite of what often seems to the viewer like plainly absurd subject matter. The Capital Radio DJ Neil "Doctor" Fox, for example, informed viewers that "paedophiles have more genes in common with crabs than they do with you and me", before qualifying his remarks with "Now that is scientific fact - there's no real evidence for it - but it is scientific fact". Viewers were also told by the then Labour MP Syd Rapson that paedophiles were using "an area of Internet the size of Ireland", and by Richard Blackwood that internet paedophiles can make computer keyboards emit noxious fumes in order to subdue children (Blackwood even sniffed a keyboard and claimed to be able to smell the fumes, which he said made him feel "suggestible"); Blackwood also warned watching parents that exposure to the fumes would make their children "smell like hammers".


The episode went on to win a Broadcast magazine award in 2002 and the complete series, including the 2001 special, was released as a bestselling DVD later that year.
The show caused a furore among sections of the British tabloid press. The Daily Star printed an article decrying Morris and the show next to a piece about the then 15-year-old singer Charlotte Church's breasts under the headline "She's a big girl now" . The Daily Mail featured pictures of Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, who were 13 and 11 at the time respectively, in their bikinis next to a headline describing Brass Eye as "Unspeakably Sick". Defenders of the show argued that the media reaction to the show reinforced its satire of the media's hysteria and hypocrisy on the subject of paedophilia. This episode has been shown 3 times even though controversy was caused each time.

And for the bonus question:How do you say "young adult" in French?

[Roy Hunter]

"Heroes" has an 'e' in it. There's a TV show with that name and everything. Google / IMDB.com / spellcheck is your friend.

If the WBC targeted paedophiles we wouldn't be half as bothered about them as we are. If misguided religious fundamentalists chose to target paedophiles instead of servicemen, law-abiding gay citizens and atheists, then we might laugh them off as slightly eccentric. But the WBC are cowards who hide behind the first amendment, and insult the American population. The WBC deserve their scorn more than their pity.

If Fred came over here, he would be regarded as the criminal he is. He's very hung up on hating homosexuality is Fred - do you ever wonder why? I suspect he's had more than a brief encounter, and I suspect he liked it. Not easy for a morally hidebound individual to deal with.

Now, as to your lengthy and frankly stupid quote from the TV series "Brass Eye": you do know the series was a satire? In the tradition of Monty Python's Flying Circus and TW3? I feel I have to ask this since you have shown a painfully literal attitude up until now.

And for the bonus question:How do you say "young adult" in French?

French is gender-specific. Which gender are you referring to? Most people who ask rhetorical questions ensure they have an answer first. Just a little FYI there...

[Arkaeon]

Ok, I've been over Tako's post there a few times, and I'm not sure what point he is trying to make. Is he saying that pedophilia is a good thing? There is so much quote there with so little actual post, it's not really clear. Obviously, there is some history regarding the media and pedophilia in Britain, but the excerpt there doesn't really put it in context.
Many of the mass media of USA, particularly Network/Hollywood TV and its advertisers, are so patently pedophilic that I'm surprised they haven't been censored by the FCC. It's a big part of why I don't watch TV. It's repulsive, but I don't have the power to change it, so I do the next best thing and boycott it.

[CommanderTako]

If the WBC targeted paedophiles we wouldn't be half as bothered about them as we are. If misguided religious fundamentalists chose to target paedophiles instead of servicemen, law-abiding gay citizens and atheists, then we might laugh them off as slightly eccentric.

Why is it OK to hate law abiding Hebephiles and law abiding Ephebophiles?

UK is with 21 and younger is a child crowed. so lets go with Canada, since I actual read their legal code.

He's very hung up on hating homosexuality is Fred - do you ever wonder why?

You guys are vary hung up and hating "youth"-sexuality. Do you ever wonder why?

Let's see if I can say this an words you can understand.

You are a hateful bigot just like Fred.

French is gender-specific. Which gender are you referring to? Most people who ask rhetorical questions ensure they have an answer first. Just a little FYI there...

The royal dictionary. French and English. English and French.

A French and English dictionary

[daftbeaker]

If the WBC targeted paedophiles we wouldn't be half as bothered about them as we are. If misguided religious fundamentalists chose to target paedophiles instead of servicemen, law-abiding gay citizens and atheists, then we might laugh them off as slightly eccentric.

Why is it OK to hate law abiding Hebephiles and law abiding Ephebophiles?

Who's doing that?

UK is with 21 and younger is a child crowed.

What? The age of consent in the UK is 16 for straight and gay sex. It used to be 18 for gay sex but that homophobic bit of legislation was removed a few decades ago.

He's very hung up on hating homosexuality is Fred - do you ever wonder why?

You guys are vary hung up and hating "youth"-sexuality. Do you ever wonder why?

By 'youth sexuality' do you mean 'child abuse'?

[Roy Hunter]

The primary language of this community is English.

Why is it OK to hate law abiding Hebephiles and law abiding Ephebophiles? UK is with 21 and younger is a child crowed. so lets go with Canada, since I actual read their legal code.

Let's see if I can say this an words you can understand.

Language fail.

I am Scottish, and it is New Year: I should be the drunkest person on here. But apparently I am not.

You are a drunken troll. I call pooface. DB? Qwerty? Are you listening? Any objections? Pooface?

Going to bed now...