“Intellectual” Property Rights?
It would seem that another group of whackos is upset that the whackos in Gainesville are stealing their schtick. McClatchy reports:
One of those angry at a Florida preacher’s plans to mark Sept. 11 by setting fire to copies of the Quran is Shirley Phelps Roper, a leader of the Westboro Baptist Church.
…It’s that in 2008 she and her father’s Topeka flock set fire to a Quran in plain view on a Washington, D.C., street and nobody seemed to care.
“We did it a long time before this guy,” Phelps-Roper said by telephone from a street corner in downtown Chicago, scene of the latest Westboro picket — against Jews this time, not gays.
The difference could be that in 2008 many news media outlets had decided to ignore the group’s routine of spewing hatred at funerals of fallen American soldiers.
Well, Ms Phelps Roper is an attorney, and the Westboro Baptist Church does make the bulk of its money from law suits against people who object to their “performance art”, so this would be an obvious move.
The event in Gainesville is “news” only because the media decided to make it news. It has no more validity today than it had in 2008.
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Great minds think alike. Sadly so do morons
It is totally unreal the amount of media coverage that has been given to less than 3 dozen people located in a college town. If it weren’t for college football, no one would known that Gainesville existed. Having so many world leaders comment on this stupidity is beyond all proportion to its importance.
This is about the money these whackos hope will follow after the publicity.
Well, thanks to the media coverage of morons doing the usual moronic crap… there are more now.
This is the latest:
Inspired By Florida Hate Pastor, Tennessee Minister Also Plans To Burn Qurans On 9/11
And it seems that the USA is even more today a safe heaven for the World’s lunatics. The retarded *Pastor* you have in Florida was run out of Germany for trying that crap there.
Quran Burning Pastor Was Expelled From German Church He Founded After His Radicalism Alienated Congregation
So, the USA has gone from being the “sword, Shield and Light” of Democracy, Sanity and Tolerance… To the “Land of the Lunatics”! 😈 (and yeah, I know the former part was all just PR!)
Still, I am grateful we have somewhere to send them all! LMAO 😛 Ahem… sorry! 😉 😀
I’m surprised he wasn’t arrested in Germany as their “hate laws” are really strict, and not just about Nazis. They are really touchy about religious persecution of any kind. With so many Turkish “guest workers” in the country, Islam is not exactly unknown in the country, although they tend to be clustered in the manufacturing areas, and Köln / Cologne is definitely not an industrial city.
The only good thing you can say about these self-proclaimed religious leaders is that they keep the older strip mall rented, as that’s where most of them set up shop after their trailer becomes too small. The authorities are really cowardly when it comes to dealing with religious whackos. I would have shipped a half dozen of the local ones to a psych unit if I was still wearing a badge.
The legitimate local leaders don’t want to get involved, so you have to wait until someone gets sent to the hospital or morgue before there’s any action.
I, for one, am grateful for Mr. Duff’s comment above, which was clearly written in good faith!
best,
Jim Bales