You are not required, as a human being, to weep when you read the account of the murders of 20 small children in an elementary school. You are not required to turn to your partner and ask what the hell happened, to feel a lead ball of terror in your intestines when you think of sending your own children off to school, to post a Facebook status about it asking why and how this could happen, knowing there are no answers, blindly seeking them anyway. You are not required, as a human being, to even acknowledge that the shooting occurred.
You are required, as a human being, to have some compassion about the fact that it DID happen. Children died. Parents are grieving. The world is grieving. Not because we all knew someone at the school, or because it triggered memories of something similar that affected us directly. We grieve because these were children. We grieve because they were slaughtered in a place that was supposed to be safe for them, among the comforting smell of fresh Crayolas and the new-plastic scent of those thin little nap mats piled in the corner of every kindergarten classroom in the country. Someone needs to be punished, we think; we know this with the utmost certainty. Whether it be god or the government, the mental health professionals that may have let the gunman slip through the cracks, liberals, conservatives, someone has to be at fault.
And the “people” (I use that term loosely; there is little if anything human about them) of Westboro Baptist Church have decided that the people who need to be punished are the parents of these tiny murder victims. The parents, who are already suffering more than most of us can possibly comprehend, who are trying to cope with the fact that their children have been irrevocably removed from their lives, who are now faced with empty bedrooms and unopened Christmas gifts and the absolute agony of having to decide what to do with that wee pair of shoes left by the front door. The sick, ignorant, inbred degenerates at Westboro Baptist have decided to show up at the children’s funerals–not to lend support and comfort, which might ACTUALLY be what Jesus would want them to do, but to use this tragic situation as a platform to draw attention to their disgusting beliefs, the core of which appears to be that god hates homosexuals but is totally okay with you fucking your own sister.
By now, you may know that Anonymous hacked WBC’s web site and published all of the members’ contact information. I got that information from this site, but I copied and pasted it below, just in case the link failed to work or was taken down. Normally, I wouldn’t post people’s contact information like this; it reeks of minor high school delinquency, prank-calling and harassing people. The thing is, if you want to show up at the funeral of a child with the sole intention of causing further distress to the family and spewing filth, fuck you, you deserve to be harassed. You deserve to be called on your despicable behavior. Will it change their minds? It’s highly unlikely. But that’s not really the point. The point is to disrupt their lives and to call attention to the pathetic pieces of human waste that they are.
The list of members and their contact information is below. They might enjoy receiving information from the following resources:
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*Please note: These people are ignorant pieces of shit, but I do not support, suggest or condone violence against anyone. Call them up, write and tell them what you think of them, give them generous gifts of free subscriptions to magazines their postman would love to see in their mailboxes, but no matter how tempting it is and how much they may deserve it, do not get yourselves in trouble by doing anything to harm anyone.
It’s still Freedom of Speech if it’s about something you don’t like. Attacking that is as worse as what the church(es) did for thousands of years, trying to oppress other opinions. We may not like what they have to say, but we have to fight for their right to do so – if only because it’s our opinion that could be next.
They have the right to say whatever they want. That right does not extend as far as infringing on others’ right to grieve in peace. It’s one thing to stand in your own pulpit and hurl shit at willing recipients, quite another to seek out unwilling victims and throw it at them. Freedom of speech protects your right to express your opinion, not your right to inflict emotional injury on others. The same as emotional domestic abuse is not protected as free speech, this kind of abuse isn’t either.
Don’t be ridiculous, just because they’re exercising “freedom of speech” doesn’t mean we should ignore the fact that they are inbred trash completely devoid of class. “Freedom of Speech” also includes our right to call them out on their idiocy… common decency is what stops us from pulling the kind of tasteless stunts that the WBC is famous for.
Come on guys, let’s be honest here. You are hoping that some people start harassing these people, because you think they deserve that. Either that or you are very, very naive. You can choose whatever you want to be. So, be at least honest, ok? You are as bad as them, perhaps even worse. At least they do their dirty work themselves, instead of hiding behind “I do not condone violence against anyone”, while secretly wishing exactly that.
Did you read the post at all? I came right out and said I wanted them to be harassed. I posted links to things you can send them to help facilitate their harassment. I’m not hiding behind anything. I’m reminding people not to do anything for which they could get in serious trouble. Do these idiots deserve to be punched in the face? Sure. But I don’t want to be responsible for a decent person getting thrown in jail for doing so after I shared this information. And just because someone deserves something, doesn’t mean I’d necessarily condone it.
I’m pretty happy to accept a negative assessment of my character from someone who wants to fight to preserve the “right” to invade, with picket signs reading “god hates fags”, the funerals of small children. Thank you.
I think you’re misunderstanding something here. I believe in their right to think and say whatever they want, no matter how repulsive it is. I disagree that they have the right to do so while infringing on the privacy of others, and using that speech for the express purpose of hurting others. There’s a reason I equated it to emotional domestic abuse. There is a line between expressing yourself and being abusive. WBC has crossed it.
I agree with you April and think it’s a great idea to shower these guys with “GIFTS”! As I commented to another friend, “I do not condone violence in any form!”. That being said, I’m appalled by the fact that these “people” (and I use that term lightly) should not be allowed to infringe on the rights of others our take away from these tragic events by making it their platform to show themselves and get media attention! I believe in equal rights for ALL PEOPLE..including any religious group, this however is a HATE group who is trying to take away memories of deceased loved ones funerals and replace them with their hateful, ridiculous antics for no other reason than to spread more hate and condone violence in the hopes someone will put their hands on them so that they can sue!!
I agree with you completely and love your idea. I only hope that if they are so insensitive and cruel as to show up at the services, they won’t get one moment of air time on television nor one inch of coverage in the newspapers. They should be ignored by all media and the focus should be on the victims.
Atomic Mutant – You don’t apparently understand free speech very well. It is the Westboro Church of closeted homosexuals that have been hiding behind their “Church” with their tax exempt status and using the law of the land they hate so much to protect their free speech. Then they sue people who threaten them or yell at them and that is how the church gets most of its money. Now we can call them at home and tell them what we think of what they have said. That’s total free speech. Either you are for it for everyone, or against it for everyone. Thank you for the phone numbers. I want to use my free speech to let them know that I think God hates the Westboro Church.
April Fox 
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