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09-24-2009, 04:20 PM
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On a personal note: My parents live in Great Neck. I'm concerned for them, but they plan to attend church as usual (they are Catholic) and otherwise to stay away from the protests. I hope they stay safe.
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They don't like Catholics either.
They tried to protest a funeral here a few years ago of an Iraqi war soldier. It didn't work out so well for them.
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09-24-2009, 05:08 PM
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They protested outside my (Episcopal) church in Boston a few years ago. It was kind of weird - they were there when we were walking in before the service started, but when we left, they were gone.
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09-24-2009, 05:30 PM
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They coming all the way from Kansas huh...?
She'll get you my pretties...
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10-04-2009, 12:26 AM
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so...bump???
I didn't hear anything about any riots, so I guess they're okay.(the residents, I mean. I don't give a crap about westboro.)
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10-04-2009, 10:31 AM
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so...bump???
I didn't hear anything about any riots, so I guess they're okay.(the residents, I mean. I don't give a crap about westboro.)
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Even if the protesters are awful people, I don't know that I've heard of a community reacting violently to them. People are usually pretty well-behaved, and try not to give these groups more attention than is necessary.
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10-04-2009, 01:34 PM
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I'm from Long Island, but being away at school I've only actually heard about it through GC. My father works in the Great Neck/Kings Point area; he never mentioned anything about it though. I would assume they were largely ignored.
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10-04-2009, 02:18 PM
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Describing Westboro Baptist as an "Anti-Jewish Hate Group" is like describing the plot of the first Godzilla movie as "Tall Foreigner visits Japan". Accurate, but in many, many ways insufficient. 
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10-04-2009, 08:58 PM
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This cracked me up.
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10-04-2009, 09:14 PM
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The protests pretty much fizzled out. There was a bit of counter-protesting, but that was all. Article from Newsday.
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10-04-2009, 11:11 PM
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The protests pretty much fizzled out. There was a bit of counter-protesting, but that was all. Article from Newsday. |
I still don't even get what they were protesting this time. Just being Jewish in general? Or was it some specific thing?
They were pretty aggressive at the Virginia Tech memorial, and actually crossed the street a few times. Luckily, it didn't get physichal.
That is why my earlier suggestion about bringing hard ass JDL types along. I'm not saying violence is always the answer, but I am saying that when violence is the answer, it's the only answer. And when someone says that someone else's religion should be wiped off the planent, that is usually a precrussor to violence. That could almost be construed as a threat.
These people are scary.
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10-07-2009, 10:05 PM
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Westboro comes down here every so often. My feeling is that it's best to ignore these goobers. The only way they exist is for us to validate them by continuing to comment on their existence. I think the first few times they came to OKC, I was outraged, angry, etc. Since they're not going away, I figure the next best thing to do is to pretend they don't exist. They'll probably never actually do anything besides act like buffoons. They have zero political clout, so who really cares what they say or do?
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10-07-2009, 10:25 PM
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Westboro comes down here every so often. My feeling is that it's best to ignore these goobers. The only way they exist is for us to validate them by continuing to comment on their existence. I think the first few times they came to OKC, I was outraged, angry, etc. Since they're not going away, I figure the next best thing to do is to pretend they don't exist. They'll probably never actually do anything besides act like buffoons. They have zero political clout, so who really cares what they say or do?
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This.
They thrive on people reacting to them. The best thing to do is ingore.
Besides, isn't Westboro just that old dude and like 3 of his kids anyway?
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10-07-2009, 11:29 PM
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This.
They thrive on people reacting to them. The best thing to do is ingore.
Besides, isn't Westboro just that old dude and like 3 of his kids anyway?
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I'd guess it's around 50 people.
http://www.vimeo.com/6552578
That's probably all of 'em.
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