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[Snaggletooth]

I have to stop reading the news. It's not good for my blood pressure.

 

I realize this may be like throwing a gernade into a vat of gasoline so it may not last long but I had so say something.

 

And this happened in the city that is home to Offut Air Force Base.

 

"BELLEVUE, Neb. -- An Omaha suburb has paid a member of a Kansas church that protests at soldiers' funerals $17,000.

 

In exchange, Shirley Phelps-Roper has dropped her lawsuit against Bellevue.

 

 

The settlement with Westboro Baptist Church, which says troop deaths are punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality, was signed last week.

 

The church said it shows that responding to public anger by taking action against it costs taxpayers.

 

 

City attorney Michael Polk didn't respond to a message seeking comment.

 

Phelps-Roper was arrested during a 2007 protest in Bellevue after she and her son allegedly mutilated the U.S. flag.

 

 

The settlement was signed the same day a federal judge, with agreement from Attorney General Jon Bruning, permanently stopped the flag-mutilation law from being enforced. They said it's unconstitutional."

 

(this latest ruling was that these people can NEVER be arrested in Nebraska for defacing the American Flag.)

 

And that's all I'm gonna say about that. I'm going to go grind my teeth some more.

Mike

[Sylvester]

Makes you want to cry. Where did all this politcal correctness begin? And when will it end? I left the city and moved to the country to get away for it. It has been great but sometimes I have to go back into the city for business and I hate it.

 

[saddlebum]

I am not even American, and it makes my blood boil to hear stuff like this. Why is it the disrespectfull and trouble making fanatics always seem to win out?????:bang head:

Political correctness is like picking up bodily waste, and not being allowed to say YUCK

[Flyinfool]

Maybe what it will take is to get a LARGE group of people to protest these bozos. Kind of put the shoe on the other foot.

Follow them everywhere and protest their church, after all it is freedom of speech. Burn what ever relic it is that they worship or believe in. It is still freedom of speech. They have set the legal presidents and their own cases should be enough to win any legal battle they may use to try to stop us.

 

Surely there must be some people with enough time and money to turn the tables on these morons.

 

I am sure that enough noise could be made so that these morons are not heard, they have the right to free speech, but do not have the right to be heard.

 

What can we come up with to LEGALLY make their lives miserable, and their demonstrations mute?

[Bobby G]

It may truly be the most difficult part of being a free society that we must also endure the freedom of some to do and say things that make our blood boil. It's civics 101. The same principles of free speech that allow all of us the freedom to have forums like this also allow low life scum like the Phelps family to picket Heroes' funerals and burn the American flag. The courts have no choice but to rule in favor of the Constitution in these matters. All we can do is punch the wall, kick the dog, and stand with our backs to them while we hold our American flags in honor of our Heroes. If we can just find the strength to ignore them, they will continue to have a hard time getting their 15 minutes of fame on the Communist News Network (CNN).

[KiteSquid]

How about getting a legal protest outside their church.

 

Every day for about ten years should work.

[Flyinfool]

How about getting a legal protest outside their church.

 

Every day for about ten years should work.

 

That is right along the lines that I was thinking of, give them a BIG dose of their own medicine.

[KiteSquid]

When is the next bike rally going to be held in Topeka, Kansas????

 

 

The parade route should go down 12st and turn on Orleans.... several hunderd thousand bikes should be enough.

[Flyinfool]

Maybe a continuous loop around the block.

[Sonnyboy]

When my son came home for the last time we recieved some vile e-mails from Westboro and they stated they were coming to his funeral mass. I wasn't too worried as I resigned my self to jail time if they did and I knew that I would have some good Marines there with me if they showed up.

 

Fortunately they didn't show, but my county police and fire deptments took the threat seriously. The police got, from all the neighbors on all the surrounding roads, the right to arrest anyone blocking any egress from their property or for so much as stepping on their land. We live in a rural area..no sidewalks. The fire dept ran out a huge American flag along with a charged inch and a half fire hose.

 

I will be forever indebted to them for that. What was an occassion no parent wants to go thru, that could have turned out worse if those rejects of society had shown up, turned out to be a day of gratitude to people I had never known before. My grandson still remembers playing on the fire truck with all his new 'friends'.

 

As for those rejects...I wouldn't waste my water to spit on them.

 

A proud Father of a son who gave his all 1/24/2006

 

Semper Fidelis

[Snaggletooth]

This is causing quite a stir locally. People here are not happy with the situation. It just gets sadder as it goes along.

 

"BELLEVUE, Neb. --

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Shirley Phelps-Roper outside a Sarpy County courtroom.

 

The widow of a Nebraska soldier killed in action is furious by a Bellevue's decision to pay thousands to the woman who protested at the funeral.

 

Dee Bailey is also protesting the decision by federal judge to block the state's flag mutilation law, which let the protester, Shirley Phelps-Roper, largely off the hook.

 

"It just infuriates me that she's allowed to stomp on a flag, the flag that my husband gave his life for," Bailey said.

 

 

Bellevue's city attorney said settling the lawsuit with Phelps-Roper was in the best interest of the city. Bellevue paid $17,000 to the woman on Tuesday. The decision came a week after the federal judge permanently blocked the flag mutilation law, calling it unconstitutional.

 

 

"You don't get to violate people's constitutional rights -- it might cost you something," Phelps-Roper told KETV NewsWatch 7 over the phone.

 

 

The funeral for Bailey's husband, William Bailey, took place in June of 2007. Bailey and her family were physically protected from Phelps-Roper and her group, the Westboro Baptist Church, during the funeral. But three years later, the emotional protection is gone, Bailey said. "I was just enraged, like why should we have to pay her money?" she said.

 

She said she doesn't want to take away the church's freedom of speech rights; she just wants them unable to protest at funerals.

 

 

Phelps-Roper, however, said she'll use the payment to fund her protests. "We're going to use it to get this message before the face of this nation," she said.

 

 

Bailey said she disagrees with the settlement, but that she understands the city had to do what was necessary.

 

 

She said she believes the flag desecration law should stand.

 

"That federal judge, to give her the right to stomp on that flag, it's … I know he's appointed. I wish there was a way to get him voted out or something. I just don't know where we can go from here," Bailey said.

 

Bellevue's administrator declined to comment on the matter.

 

The city attorney who made the settlement, Patrick Sullivan, didn't return calls requesting comment.

 

 

Phelps-Roper still faces charges of negligent child abuse and disturbing the peace. Her attorney said he has filed a motion to recoup attorney fees and costs."

 

I'll be adding another flag to go with my American Flag soon. And I'll be collecting flags from anyone not treating them with the proper respect. Enough is enough.

 

Mike

[painterman67]

Ive ridden one pgr ride. We escorted a marineto his finall resting place. I was put of by a group( not sure if it was the same) and retaliated. I was also imediately stopped by the ride capt. He told me to stand the line and handled them hiself. His calmness I admire as it was only in me to find a new whole in the ground for these idiots who not only decided to prtest this young man but succeded in getting the best of me. I apologised to the family for my reaction and was then thanked by the father. He told me that if he had his way the ride capy would have stayed out of my way.

 

 

 

Now I just stand the flag line when I can. Until I get my temper under control its the least i can do.

 

 

david