Funeral Protection Zone

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

And to claim he 'tripped' and dropped his bottle of alcohol.

[Tyyr]

As much as I'd love his friends and family to have to walk through a crowd cheering and holding up signs reading, "Thank God for Dead Phelps," I'd rather hope we'd have the dignity and maturity to let the man be buried in the peace he tried to deny others and let his family feel like complete shits when they realize they were just beaten at their own game.

[Tsukiyumi]

As much as I'd love his friends and family to have to walk through a crowd cheering and holding up signs reading, "Thank God for Dead Phelps," I'd rather hope we'd have the dignity and maturity to let the man be buried in the peace he tried to deny others and let his family feel like complete shits when they realize they were just beaten at their own game.

I guess I'm just not that nice. I'd prefer that someone piss on his grave.

[Tyyr]

I'm not that nice either. The thing is nothing would please this shithead more than a thousand people protesting his funeral. Nothing would horrify him more than to be buried and no one give a shit he's dead.

[Nickswitz]

I'm not that nice either. The thing is nothing would please this s******d more than a thousand people protesting his funeral. Nothing would horrify him more than to be buried and no one give a s**t he's dead.

Yeah, that's in the boat I'm in. I would love nothing more than hearing that he died, and nothing more was said about it at all. That would be an incredible stance on how horrible what he was doing was.

[Mikey]

I'm not that nice either. The thing is nothing would please this s******d more than a thousand people protesting his funeral. Nothing would horrify him more than to be buried and no one give a s**t he's dead.

As has been said many ways, the only thing worse than hatred is indifference. The other aspect to what Tyyr says is that an utter lack of interest in his death, rather than a huge hue and cry, would be that his followers and like-minded people would finally realize that what they are doing isn't the way humans really act.

[Deepcrush]

While I respect the opinions stated here, I personally believe in exile. If he hates this country so much, we should just kick him and all of his followers out and be done with it. Then they can cry and bash all they want while being someone else's problem. I think Iraq would be good.

[Mikey]

I like the way you think.

[Sonic Glitch]

In an interesting twist, apparently a Canadian disc jockey also helped out. In exchange for not protesting the funeral, he offered to let WBC have an interview on his radio station. He said they could talk about whatever they wanted, as long as they agreed not to protest the funeral -- and apparently Shirley Phelps-Roper agreed. Details below

Canada Saves Tucson Funeral From Protestors

By Max Fisher | January 13, 2011 4:37pm
Canada Saves Tucson Funeral From Protestors Kevin Winter/Getty Images

The dilemma of how to respond to the Westboro Baptist Church is a familiar one. While their outlandish protests, which often target high-profile funerals and feature outrageously offensive signs, test the very limits of free speech, legal analysts generally agree that the church's speech is legally protected. When the attention-seeking wingnut church announced it would protest the Tucson funerals of the recent shooting victims, it raised a potentially unsolvable dilemma about how to protect victims' families without illegally violating the church's regrettable but free speech.
It's a problem that gets right to the heart of the American experiment. Where is the line between public good and individual liberty? So it is perhaps fitting that, when the solution came, it came not from within Arizona's or even America's borders, but from our brethren to the North. Michelle McQuigge of The Canadian Press reports:

Members of a radical Kansas church have cancelled plans to picket the funeral of a nine-year-old girl killed in a shooting rampage in Arizona, after being promised a live interview on a Toronto radio station.

Dean Blundell, a controversial morning show host on rock radio station 102.1 The Edge, said he brokered the deal with Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church in an effort to prevent further suffering for the victim's family.

... "I said, 'I'll let you say whatever you want to say. You can spew whatever religious rhetoric you like, you can talk about how terrific it is on our morning show ... if you agree not to protest the funeral,' and she agreed," Blundell said in a telephone interview.

Toronto radio host Dean Blundell, America salutes you.

[Mikey]

Thanks, Dean, for sucking it up and taking one for the team.

[Deepcrush]

I like the way you think.

I'm in a good mood so I figured I'd leave violence out of the equation for now.

Thanks, Dean, for sucking it up and taking one for the team.

Now if only we just left them in Canada...

[Mikey]

Now if only we just left them in Canada...

Only if we could leave they way up north... where there's lots of polar bears... and a distinct lack of prey...

Hmmm, you guys don't have leopard seals up there, do you?

[Griffin]

Hmmm, you guys don't have leopard seals up there, do you?

Only if they're incredibly lost, Leopard seals live in the Antarctic, but I prefer your first idea of polar bears anyway.

[Mikey]

Leopard seals live in the Antarctic

Yeah, I know. I just thought a combination drowning/mauling would have an interesting impact.