Fred Phelps on the death of William Rehnquist, Funeral picket planned

[PageOneQ]

Complete story AND poster from Westboro Baptist Chruch here:
http://pageoneq.com/news/2005/rehnquist_gay_phelps_080605.html

by Michael Rogers

Reverend Fred Phelps, the man behind the Westboro Baptist Church's pickets of gay and military funerals has set his sites on the late William Rehnqust, the late chief justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Complete story AND poster from Westboro Baptist Chruch here:
http://pageoneq.com/news/2005/rehnquist_gay_phelps_080605.html

[gratuitous]

1. They're apparently not getting any traction with the liberals anymore

Let 'em piss off the fascisti for a while.

[Charlie Brown]

2. I hope those of you who have been deriding Rehnquist are happy

now we're all going to be associated with this slime.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

8. ROFL....who you kidding?

:rofl:

[tkmorris]

14. Oh fer chrissake

Phelps is a freakin loon. No one knows where he will turn up next or why. Besides, Rehnquist WAS an asshole of the highest order. You want me to not tell the truth because some clown with a cranium full of mealworms decides to picket?

You have an amusing, if ass-backwards, way of looking at the world.

[Charlie Brown]

17. If people see deragatory comments about Rehnquist here

they may associate DU and other liberal blogs with the Phelps crowd. It does not help that Phelps has run for office at least twice as a Democrat, and his family has vague ties to Al Gore. I agree that Rehnquist deserves candid criticism for his rulings and judicial views, but the proper time for that is after he has been laid to rest and an appropriate time of mourning for family.

[tkmorris]

19. Yeah ok

It isn't worth the trouble refuting any of that. I'll be the judge of what I think is a proper time, thanks for caring though.

[genieroze]

23. Um, Crazy as hell Zell Miller is a democrat as well.

He's what's referred to as a DINO. Just like flipped out Phelps.

[Maraya1969]

24. It take a lot more than criticizing Renquist to get into the Phelps frat

You need a documented psychotic episode. That man is a confirmed freak of nature and you would have to try REALLY hard to get into his clique.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

36. Nice try....but no cigar. Next.

[Judi Lynn]

37. It would be delightful of you to provide evidence of both Phelp's

Democratic ties, and his family's "vague ties to Al Gore."

I can't even count the number of Democrats I've seen on one finger who are foaming-at-the-mouth-rabid at the very thought of other peoples' sexual orientation. That would make Phelps 100% different from Democrats.

I'll surely check back to see your information on Phelp's and Phelp's family's connections to the Democratic Party and to Al Gore.

[Charlie Brown]

40. How's this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rev._Fred_Phelps

or this:

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=%5CPolitics%5Carchive%5C200010%5CPOL20001016c.html

or this:

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1999/03/lauerman.html

"Phelps remained prominent in state and local politics, working for years as a major organizer for the state's Democratic Party. (He still calls himself a Democrat, refusing to change just because his party has.) In 1988, Phelps housed campaign workers for Al Gore's first presidential run; in 1989, his eldest son, Fred Jr., hosted a fundraiser for Gore's Senate campaign at his home."

"Phelps has frequently run for public office -- for governor in 1990, '94, and '98, for the Senate in '92 -- always losing the primaries by a landslide. Because of their years as loyal Democrats, the Phelpses have even been invited to -- and attended -- both of Clinton's inaugurations. They protested at the second one. But Phelps' campaign against homosexuality actually began in earnest just before the 1992 campaign, when politicians, especially Democrats, began to openly court gay voters."

Like it or not, Fred has ties to our party. We should do everything possible to avoid association with him.

[Judi Lynn]

41. I don't know any Democrats who would be interested in associating

with Fred Phelps.

He must have allied more closely with the Southern Democrats who became MEpublicans during the 1960's, when the Democratic Party became completely identified with civil rights.

Nope, Democrats are NOT now, and will NEVER be associated with Fred Phelps. Two totally different ways of looking at life. Anyone knows that.

He is so much more like a MEpublican.

[saigon68]

42. Fred has ties to the Repukes he doesn't like the UN either

[donco6]

47. I grew up in Kansas.

Phelps has ALWAYS been seen as a NUT by everyone I've ever known. And I've been both a registered Republican and Democrat.

[BiggJawn]

51. Oh, but he's not a "REAL" Democrat!

Hey, it works for the other people who believe in Fred's angry boss...

Charlie, your admonitions to "Watch what you Say, Watch what you Do" about Judge Bill make about as much sense as the mouth-breathers who froth "Iffn yew don't support Dubya, then yew is a terra-ist!"

And the Dead are dead. They don't care if we look critically at their lives. What was that line? Hmmm.....Oh!
"I come to BURY Caesar, not to PRAISE him."

[bitchkitty]

55. So what? Ted Bundy had ties to the Rethuglicans -

and it doesn't seem to have hurt them much.

Nice of you to be so concerned about "our" reputation though.

[frankly_fedup2]

61. Also, the majority of the KKK is Republican and put their money supporting

local Republican candidates. None admit this publicly but it is well known that no one turns the money down.

Of course, you will hear the KKK are mostly behind Dems. That is a lie from the first time they ever lit a cross. Which is the largest minority in the Democratic Party . . . African Americans. Now do you think these racist pigs would support the Dems or the Republicans?

The right keeps trying to throw the KKK in the Dems laps because Byrd use to be a member. He use to be a Republican too.

Even Mrs. Babs Bush made a racist remark regarding those who are now homeless. Republican radio hacks continue to call them "refugees" knowing that is offensive to those who are homeless now. They are Americans just like Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, and those other idiots.

After all these people have been through, I cannot wait to see them when they get on those cruise ships. Talk about living the life of luxury. They will have their own pools, basketball courts, hairdresser, cooks, maids, etc. Maybe a little pampering will help them deal with their obviously frazzled nerves. I cannot wait to hear the diatribe from the right about how all these people are living better than the rest of us. So what! I say they deserve it after what our government has put them through. Plus, I wouldn't want to have gone through the Hell they have (and some still are).

[LostinVA]

44. gigglegigglegiggle

That's all I can say to that!

[Benhurst]

50. I just consulted Miss Manners. You are supposed to curb all

criticism until the funeral service has concluded, then blast away to your heart's content. :silly: Excuse me while I go lower my flag for the Great One and goose-step around the front yard.

[mcscajun]

63. When the Search function comes back...take a look around DU

on any posts involving Phelps, and you'll see we're in no way associated with ANY position/action he takes.

He may be picketing the dead Rehnquist this week, but that doesn't mean DU gets associated with him.

[anotherdrew]

65. thanks for looking out for us charlie brown, but I'll say what I please

stop it already with this crap about "what they'll think" if they want to paint this site in a bad light, they will, it could happen any day, regardless of reality. Ya know, what the mainstream media says anymore, it's like Bill Murray in meatballs, "IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER"

Don't lend them ligitimacy by pretending to have to clean up our act for any visiting reporters. Just be free in thought and speech and you've got nothing to worry about.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

70. Wrong

He was a worthless, rabid bastard while he lived, he corrupted our Constitution every chance he got, and he died far too late. He should rot in Hell longer than eternity, and the people whose lives he ruined - and they are legion - should be set free from the prisons to which they were consigned thanks to the slimy, button-down mind of William Rehnquist.

Just for what he did to the Fourth Amendment, he should have been hanged by the neck until dead thirty years ago.

He wasn't worthy of any kind of respect while he was alive, so let's not get next to that pious bullshit about "the proper time." Rehnquist didn't believe that there was any proper time for the rights of a lot of Americans, so let's remember what a prick he was, and pay homage to that.

I mourn my lost America, and that people like Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, and those vile rightwing fuckers aren't all dead.

[really annoyed]

83. Get over it

If you can't take criticism, you are probably at the wrong message board.

[laylah]

84. With all due respect...

PUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHLEASE!

Jenn

[Stockholm]

96. Fred Phelp is just another Freeper

attention whore.

By ignoring his absurd rantings and pathological want for media coverage you starve him until he whither away.

BTW I heard he lives in the basement of phoney patriot and chickenhawk RimJob :evilgrin:

[MountainLaurel]

99. Not quite

Fred Phelps is just an uglier face on hatred that you'll find every day in mainstream America.

[Wilber_Stool]

87. You should have been here when they un-plugged Raygun

Even I felt sorry for him. Well, no I didn't but you get the picture. This is the place to go for insulting gopers.

[MODemocrat]

90. Go to Oprah with that one

He was rotten whether he was a republican or democrat, period.
:yoiks: :nopity:

[ruggerson]

93. Wow, that logic is deserving of a Freeper Spin award

[Charlie Brown]

95. How do you figure that?

I don't think it's decent to scorn a deceased person while their family and loved ones are mourning. Especially when someone like Phelps is doing it. That makes me a freeper? Whatever

[mitchum]

25. Phelps and I both breathe oxygen also...so what?

Hell, that crazy bastard may even like chocolate.

[mcscajun]

64. NO! Say it isn't SO!

I don't want to have to give up chocolate, so as not to be associated with Phelps. :sarcasm:

[TankLV]

30. I am ENTIRELY happy - in fact ESTATIC that I have continually

condemned and hated this awful piece of shit known as rehnquist - the very asswipe who made it possible for the CRIMINALS who currently occupy OUR White House to get in the door when they STOLE the 2000 elections!

I am in fact PROUD that I harbor the hope that I can one day piss on his fucking hole in the ground.

I can be somewhat mollified that he is beginning his first days of eternity in HELL for the LIVES he's killed by his horrible actions!

[Charlie Brown]

31. So, will you be joining Phelps?n/t

[iverglas]

53. so, will you be delivering the eulogy?

After all, there are only two choices here, right?

[mitchum]

76. Beautiful retort, my friend

well done :)

[TankLV]

91. No, but I'm glad you have your butt up his ass!

And your fellow repukes!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

35. Maybe you should take Snoopy out for a walk.

[donco6]

46. Huh?

That would be QUITE a stretch, even for the Bushistas. It's a simple matter of trotting out the HUNDREDS of photos of Phelps protesting at AIDS funerals.

[DS1]

52. Fuck that

Scum is attracted to more scum.

[silvermachine]

56. Please...

...we have nothing to worry about regarding Phelps.

[MissB]

71. You forgot your sarcasm smilie.

[fishwax]

80. phelps hates bush too, so does that mean we shouldn't criticize w?

:shrug:

[Arkana]

81. Are you kidding me?

Who is going to associate Mr. "God Hates Fags" with liberals? We're supposed to be the "faggot commie pinko Stalin-loving tree-hugging freaks", aren't we?

NOTE: My apologies for the word "faggot"...I hate to use it, but it applied here.

[MODemocrat]

88. Could you please explain this statement?

Truthfully, I don't understand what you're talking about. Is having an opinion supposed to be akin to deriding someone?

:shrug: :hi:

[Charlie Brown]

94. For the deceased, I usually wait a respectable time before being critical

that doesn't make me very popular here, but it does make me a better person than Phelps. Would it really inconvenience posters here to put off the assessments of Rehnquist for a week or so for the sake of his family, friends, etc. I really wouldn't care for the Freeps incendiarating a prominent Democrat while those of us here were mourning.

[fleabert]

97. no.

bush certainly isn't going to wait to fill his seat, so we need to scrutinize and compare and contrast asap.

[trapper914]

98. Sadly, we already are...

Hannity is already telling his Kool-Aid drinkers that Phelps and his cronies are a liberal group.

[darkism]

3. I'm beginning to think this guy doesn't take himself seriously

After all, he did use the word "faggyass" on the poster...and thinks that Rehnquist was too liberal. He reminds me of an internet troll, saying outrageous things simply for attention. There HAS to be something seriously mentally wrong with this guy.

If there is something wrong with him and he's not just an asshole, that means his supporters are worse than he is. Phelps may be so insane that he doesn't really grasp what he's saying; his little klan, however, are all perfectly cognizant of their actions and truly believe what they're spouting off about.

Either way, shall we picket Phelps' funeral when HE croaks?




EDIT: I'm not defending this fuckwit, I just can't believe that anyone, anywhere could be so utterly hateful and not have something seriously wrong with them.

[Todd B]

7. Meh..

Methinks he is just an attention craver. He has essentially been cast aside by both the left and right as not really being relavant so he is just trying to come up with wild assertions to get his name in the media any way he can.

I doubt if anyone really takes him seriously anymore (besides, perhaps, his brainwashed children).

[Maraya1969]

26. Picket Phelps's funeral? HA! What would our signs be?

"Phelps will FINALLY meet his 70 virgin men" ?

[Orrin_73]

45. Phepls and his congregation have mental problems

His congragation was asked what they would do if there were no gays in America, the answer was simple 'we would picket someothing or someone else!!!!'. These people are mentally deranged, they need a shrink not religious help.

[ridgerunner]

59. That reminds me of a former skinhead

I saw a program where a former skinhead was talking about what caused him to renounce his ways and he said something to the effect that he was joking around with some other skinheads about what they would do when there were no more non-whites in America. He told them that he reckoned they would go after people with brown eyes and when the others told him with all seriousness yes, he realized that they were in fact insane.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Yay! The Right Wing Loonies are eating themselves alive! . . . nt

[Judi Lynn]

21. WhoEVER expected to see a right-winger attack a right-winger's

funeral? When they strike back at him, they'll be lashing out at one of their own.

Strange days.

[Name removed]

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[jmowreader]

43. You'd bomb a trailer?

Guys, I've seen movies of Phelps preaching in his church. His church's sanctuary has seven-foot walls and that cheap-ass paneling on them, just like old trailers do.

[WindRavenX]

6. Wow.

Hey, knock yourself out, biggot. :sarcasm:

[Mz Pip]

9. Faggyass judge???

Sounds like a badly written piece from The Onion.

These people must be carrying around one hell of a lot of self hatred to set themselves up for the ridicule and mockery that they must get. They are truly dumb, deranged and pathethic people.

I cannot imagine going through life so full of hatred and loathing for my fellow man. Pathetic.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[AspenRose]

27. There's nice Christian speech for you...."Faggyass judge"

eom

[Brundle_Fly]

29. I hate these clowns.

but I always see the humour, through my disgust.

you faggy assin' DU'ers

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. Y'know, if all the fundies followed Phelps, and shunned politicians

and voting, the country might get back on track.

[IndianaGreen]

11. Renhquist is being buried at Arlington

I don't think Homeland Security and the Secret Service will take too kindly to the Phelps clan.

[saracat]

12. Phelps is the sickest fuck in the world. He also seems illiterate.

Does he have any type of education at all? It is hard to believe anyone with even a second grade education could be this stupid.

[Lecky]

18. I heard he used to be a lawyer!

Can someone clue me into why he would picket Rhenquist's funeral? Well...besides the fact that Phelps is a batshit crazy maniac...

[sakabatou]

13. You know...

he's gonna get killed for this...

[Charlie Brown]

15. I'm sure Phelps will not actually be there

it's usually his braindead followers and a family member who end up "picketing" these events.

[anotherdrew]

67. Phelps is EXACTLY like that evil preacher in poltergeist 2

[Judi Lynn]

38. How could he pass up appearing at the funeral of a Chief Justice?

I think he'd rather burn in hell himself than to miss such an auspicious occassion!

[ellie]

57. Topeka: A City of Whores!

Topeka, Kansas? WTF?

[MuseRider]

75. Yes

we are all whores. I'm a whore, my friends are whores. We are all whores.

He is an ass and he craves attention. That is why you all have to deal with him now. We started to ignore him and he had to go out for attention. Once that started to go away he took on the soldiers. Now on to something else.

If anyone is really a whore it is Phelps who is the biggest attention whore I have ever met.

[JI7]

16. Phelps is a joke and his actions make the Republicans look not as bad

as they are.

they can just say "well, at least he isn't like Fred Phelps, or he must not have been as bad as you liberals say since Fred Phelps didn't like him".

[expatriot]

20. Why aren't they in New Orleans right now?

"God Loves Hurricane Katrina!"
"God Hates Your Dead Loved Ones"
"God Hates New Orleans"
"God Hates Louisiana"

Now that would take courage.

[belle]

22. Maybe he's not, after all, THAT crazy.

He knows that if he did, that would probably mark the picket where people finally snapped...his sign, and "sodomized" him with the splintery handle before beating him to death with the rest of it.

Or, maybe he just hasn't gotten around to it. So many sinners...so little time.

[ecoflame]

34. Good point!

In fact, there was an abridged version of the http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1482166,00050001.htm">Decadence Parade today.

"Music, Mardi Gras beads, costumes and confetti returned to the French Quarter as a determined handful of hurricane survivors vowed to keep the spirit of New Orleans alive.

<snip>

<snip - again>

"It's usually a lot bigger," Georgia Walker, 53, called down as she tossed more beads.

<snip>

<snip - again>

"Look at all these costumes! I'm the happiest fag in America," shouted a man who tossed beads and beer from a balcony on top of the bar...."

There's all the proof Fred should need. Of course the article is from the Hindudstan Times, but hey!

[noahmijo]

28. Phelps violates a serious cardinal rule

he makes enemies with EVERYONE and has NO friends

Anyone who does that is destined to fall...HARD

[ecoflame]

32. Oh boy! The circus is coming to town!

This actually made me laugh. I can hardly wait. It'll take my mind off the Hurricane Katrina fiasco for a bit.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

33. What? He and his merry men decided not to take on the King of Sweden?

Last I heard he was heading to Sweden to teach King Gustaf a lesson. He changed his mind or did they deny him entry? Or, did the nut-case just forget?

[Judi Lynn]

39. You're right! Maybe he had to take time out from hunting down the King

to get back to Washington in time for this important funeral.

He can always hunt down the King later.

[cliss]

79. Yes. I've been following Swedish newspapers

all weekend. We're expecting the Reverend to arrive on Sep. 5 in Stockholm.

I guess he postponed his plans?

(Trying to stay on top of this.)

[Judi Lynn]

89. Hope you'll keep us informed!

This could be a giant moment in world affairs!

[Mizmoon]

48. Funerals should be off limits

even the funeral of a creep like Renquist.

[WePurrsevere]

49. He's a total nutcase DINO... Anyone can register under any party...

From what I've read his "followers" are mostly family members and I've never gotten the impression of his having a large "membership". Does anyone know how many members there actually are? WHY, other then pure sensationalism, does ANY one give this disgusting bigot airtime or paper space?

It wouldn't surprise me if he's actually a Republican who registered Democrat just to make the Dem party look bad with his actions. (Rehnquist was too LIBERAL? You have GOT to be kidding!

(Why does the song "Dualing Banjos" come to mind everytime I hear this horrendous bigot's name?)

[TheCowsCameHome]

54. Who would even bother to attend Phelp's funeral?

[SillyGoose]

58. Doesn't this whacko have anything better to do than picketing funerals?

For a guy who calls himself a "reverend" it seems he could be putting his time to better use than picking on grieving families.

[WhiteTara]

60. this guy is if nothing else, equal

opportunity. He hates everyone and doesn't let an occasion pass without his particular brand of lunacy stamped on the occasion. I am amused by this one. The soldier funerals are disgusting displays from Phelps, but this? Someone needs to spit on Rehnquist's grave.

[Senator Lamb]

62. i bet hannity finds a way

to once again portray him as a liberal activist.

[LiveWire]

66. Exactly how big is Phelps' following these days?

I hear he is picketing iraq war victom funerals as well...He seems to be losing more and more focus these days...the fags are everywhere! Anyone who preaches a gospel of hate deserves to have his ass kicked. You picket any of my friends' funerals Mr. Phelps, and you will have a raging bull on your hands.

I am all for free speech, but when you preach hate, you deserve to be stoned to death. Or perhaps stomped on by a thousand gay men. Take your pick.

[Ganja Ninja]

68. How the hell does this ass wipe get the money to go around ...

doing this stupid BS? There must be a lot of money in bigotry and hate to be able to spend your time traveling around the country and even going as far as Sweden just to show people what an ass you are.

[shavedape]

69. the stench of ROVE hangs all over this

Phelps is creating a scene to take the attention off Roberts. No doubt just another cog in the Rove machine...

[Seedersandleechers]

72. I have butt heads with Phelps a few times in Kansas

His cronies are people that have mental and physical problem-pretty much the people that society tend to throw away.

[Medium Baby Jesus]

78. You really have to try harder than that. n/t

[pursuivant]

73. Don't the Phelpsites have JOBS?

How the heck can they afford to drive all over the country picketing?

[Seedersandleechers]

74. It's called donations.

[Initech]

77. Fred Phelps has to be the biggest DOUCHEBAG in this country right now.

[LTR]

82. They eat their own

FYI, Fred: Rehnquist hated fags too!

And Phelps just hates everyone!

[liberalhistorian]

85. God, what a sick motherfucker

Phelps is and what an absolutely, massively, unbelievably inappropriate thing for him to even consider doing. Given his tiny, hateful mind with maybe one working brain cell, and his tiny, dark, shriveled-up heart, it's not surprising, but STILL! For God's sake, this is the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. There are simply no words to describe how sick that fucker is. I hope he's arrested on live national TV and has his ass whipped good in jail.

[GOPBasher]

86. Seriously? Rehnquist isn't right wing enough for him? You've

GOT to be kidding me! :wow:

[NuttyFluffers]

92. Where DOES he get the money to travel so much?

i'd love to go all over the country, too! sure, i won't be carrying abhorrent "god hates fags" and "america deserved 9/11" posters, but i'd love the airline peanuts and free drinks. and i think buying donuts, slurpees, beef jerky, and doritoes is a delightful breakfast for a roadtrip. to think all the places he could be a tourist and taking pictures and he wastes all that fuel trying to be the world's biggest horse's ass.