10 Nonviolent Ways to Thwart a Westboro Baptist Church Protest

The infamous Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) has announced their intention to demonstrate at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 27 young students and school staff members were killed Friday. The WBC has garnered plenty of publicity over the years for their tactics. Adrienne Crezo rounded up the stories of how people band together to counter-protest the WBC, from human shields to fundraisers to creative ridicule. Read about them at mental_floss. Link

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I read there will be Hell's Angels there to keep them in line...sort of crazy modulating crazy

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I think your comment has one severe argumentative error... In my world "...a crazy violent psycho ... gun(ning) down" people ... can not be considered as doing something good... (no matter which people are gunned down)...

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I would just like to quote Voltaire: "i do not agree with a word you say but i will defend to the death your right to say it"...
I consider the freedom of speech (and as an atheist also the freedom of religion) much higher than any urge to get rid of these religios (please insert yor favourite insult)...
I think, the price for freedom of speech and freedom of religion is that even WBC has to be tolerated...
Freedom of speech and religion may only be tested on these groups that are not in line with your personal world-view...