Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Wednesday, March 02, 2011 4:34:07 PM
Okay, we tried. We took the Westboro BS Church, or at least peace-loving Americans who think that funerals should be dignified and respected ceremonies of mourning and healing did. All the way to the Supreme Court they went, only to have eight -- EIGHT -- Supreme Court Justices stick their heads firmly up their posteriors and rule that the First Amendment Freedom of Speech protects the right to raise a ruckus at an event having nothing to do with anything they're raising a ruckus about. BY the justices' reasoning, if they were to invade a kindergarten class and yell obscenities and wave revolting placards, that would be protected speech, too. This decision is fantastically stupid, and should go far toward destroying whatever reputation for intelligence the current members of the Court (except for Associate Justice Samuel Alito, who got it right) have left.
The old question arises again -- how do you protect your rights when the powers that be (stupid) will not? Well, desperate situation, desperate remedy. I suggest that the next time that rabble shows up anywhere, two things may be considered:
Burn down their church while they're gone.
Beat the ____ out of them.
I would be willing to contribute to the legal defense of anyone who did either of these things, although it would have to be a reaction to one of their disgusting actions. I'm willing to bet a lot of people would be willing to support them, as well.
By the way, what happened to the sacred "right of privacy"? The pro-aborts claim that it applies in the case of abortion. Why, pray tell, shouldn't that right apply to funerals?