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Employ antipicketers (I'm betting the Society for Creative
Anachronism and other medieval reenactment groups would be
intrigued by the offer) in a standard military line formation with
mirrored tower shields, possibly in Roman Legionaries' uniforms,
to
form an unbroken visual barricade between
military
funerals and
antimilitary protesters who make an effort to ruin the experience
for
all the visitors. All the hateful protestors are going to see is
themselves and the hate they're spewing, and the funeral-goers
wont see 'em at all.
A slight change in local law limiting the legal maximum raised
height
of protestors' signs to the exact same height as the tower shields
will ensure that all the antipicketers have to do is stand in their
formation holding their shields to prevent the message of hate
from
being delivered to its intended recipients.
Inspired by the controversy surrounding the followers of Fred
Phelps.
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I think we should find a way to 'improve' their Sunday
service. I wonder what the folks at Improv
Everywhere could come up with. |
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Why go to the effort of wearing historical uniforms? Modern riot shields would do the job just as well. They could even be made in a lighter, cheaper material since they wouldn't need to actually be anything-proof. |
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Well the uniforms were more of an affectation than a real
requirement. The idea behind that was to make the shield
bearers drive the point home about the respect and tradition
that should rightfully be shown at a military funeral. |
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CS gas. Make the demonstrators as sad as the mourners. |
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You've omitted the obvious use of the massed mirrors as a solar death ray. Probably for the best.
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Similarly, in my city, a small group of fundamental Christians has been aggressively picketting events that they disagree with. Apparently, the legal system has found against them on occasion, because although they have a right to freedom of speech, they are abusing the rights of others by shouting over them and so forth. They have continued their activities regardless. Bring on the mirrors, I say [+]. |
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can someone tell me why these people would show up at the funeral of a young girl? |
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I would support anything to keep these vile people out of the path. [+] |
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I think what they are saying is god, who is a homophobe, doesn't want to lower his ''noodly appendage" down into America because he doesn't want gays to touch it, but without his noodly appendage there to nudge good people miraculously out of harms way little girls get shot, so they are protesting against gays at the funeral because gays scared away gods noodly appendage long enough for something bad to happen. |
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learn something every day - I didn't realise that god had a noodly appendage. |
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I have provided [po] a [link] to the satirical letter sent to a Kansas school board, that first uses the term 'noodly appendage'. The main sentence can be found below.
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"But what our scientist does not realize is that every time he makes a measurement, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is there changing the results with His Noodly Appendage." |
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I must be guided by the noodly appendage. |
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I hate to say it, but there is a loophole in today's
modern society that Phelps has cleverly identified
and manipulated to his own ends.
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In a mass-media driven society, where audience
size = power, if you can find some way to outrage
as many people as you possibly can, you are
guaranteed exposure. And through exposure, get
your message across to millions and millions of
people. All you need is 1 in a million, and in
population sizes of 310,000,000 that's 310 followers
- get each one to pay subscription fees of 1,000 a
year - and you're collecting a not insubstantial
amount of cash. So all you need to do next is find
a message so abhorrent, so warped and so
twisted, but which somehow skirts within the
bounds of any local freedom of speech laws, and
you're guaranteed airtime. |
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That's why I suggested a row of militant shield bearers. Just
silently standing and blocking the abhorrence from being seen.
No extra media coverage, no outrage, just stoic unyielding
defense. |
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The Patriot Guard riders more or less do this, with, admittedly american flags and motorcycle engine noise. Not ideal, but it works. |
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//assless chaps// I say! Fetch those lads some donkeys! |
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Now there's a comment that could be seriously misunderstood ... |
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What other kind of chaps are there? If a pair of chaps included an ass, it would be a pair of pants. |
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//just stoic unyielding defense//
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I believe the term "assless chaps" refers to the practice of
wearing chaps without pants underneath. |
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Bun for any anti Phelps idea short of a flamethrower. |
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What ya got against flamethrowers, kid ? |
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