We have a few Amish communities around here, and while those folks may be pledged to live a good life by the rules of God, they aren't allergic to delivering a good old-fashioned assbeating when they think someone needs it. We can only hope. =^_^=
To outsiders, yes. Something about outsiders being innocent by virtue of their ignorance of Amish lifeways.
I've heard attitudes can be different within the community, however, among those who should know better...I'll just hope they feel a bit brotherly when Phelpsie shows up. :)
I wonder if the Amish would do the regular world a favor and throw Phelps and his ilk into a burning barn? I was going to say woodchipper, but an Amish woodchipper would be really slow.
He gets the media coverage by constantly lowering the bar. He and his followers aren't getting the attention they were when they first started picketing the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq, so they've uppped the ante a bit.
The problem is that he and his cronies are just barely keeping themselves within the law in what they do. They are a very smart and cautious lot, seeking out ways to maximize attention and outrage without technically breaking any laws.
I read the Wikipedia article about them not too long ago. Although I'd heard of the Westboro Baptist Church before, there were some things in that article I hadn't heard before that really had me thinking, 'holy crap, these guys are scary'.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2006-10-04 03:16 pm (UTC)-TG
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Date: 2006-10-04 03:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-04 05:53 pm (UTC)Um, I thought the Amish were non-violent? Turning the other cheek and all that?
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Date: 2006-10-04 06:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-04 06:28 pm (UTC)I've heard attitudes can be different within the community, however, among those who should know better...I'll just hope they feel a bit brotherly when Phelpsie shows up. :)
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Date: 2006-10-04 05:15 pm (UTC)Hell, law or no law; If these folk ever showed up at funeral I was attending somebody had better call and ambulance.
All I can hope for is that he and his ilk are miserable in their own pathetic lives and that nothing good will ever happen for any of them.
They pick their targets carefully
Date: 2006-10-04 06:16 pm (UTC)Re: They pick their targets carefully
Date: 2006-10-04 11:20 pm (UTC)Phelps is such a sad little shit monkey.
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Date: 2006-10-04 05:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-04 05:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-04 06:14 pm (UTC)The problem is that he and his cronies are just barely keeping themselves within the law in what they do. They are a very smart and cautious lot, seeking out ways to maximize attention and outrage without technically breaking any laws.
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Date: 2006-10-05 12:18 am (UTC)A dozen sticks of dynamite under the new construction...
I figure it might be a pleasant change of pace to help these whale turds experience a soldier's life in Iraq?
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Date: 2006-10-06 12:08 am (UTC)