DIY Justice of the Day: Long story short, the Westboro Baptist Church arrived in Brandon, Mississippi, to picket the funeral of Staff Sgt. Jason Rogers who was killed in action in Afghanistan.
However, a series of events reportedly kept the WBC from doing any actual protesting: A WBC member was beaten by locals at a gas station; Rankin County pickup trucks strategically blocked Kansas-plated cars outside the WBC’s hotel; protesters that made it to the funeral were “ushered away to be questioned” under cover of an alleged involvement in a crime.
The source of the report is a lone member of the Ole Miss message board The Oxford Square, and the account is nowhere to be found in mainstream media outlets, but it’s interesting to note that the controversial nature of the tactics supposedly employed to prevent the WBC from protesting Rogers’ funeral — namely the beating and the questionable detainment — has forced Redditors and MeFites to do something they likely find as repugnant as the WBC: Defend the WBC.
WBC is among the most despicable hate groups operating in the US today. As such, they are our generation’s litmus test of whether we really believe in the Bill of Rights. If you agree that they should be beaten up and detained by police on false pretenses then the answer is simple, you don’t.
[blackfive / reddit / mefi / video: thehayride.]
-
normalitygue liked this
-
inseparablyo liked this
-
syntacticast liked this
-
advocatedise liked this
-
periodicdial liked this
-
latexcutelesbian liked this
-
includecoy liked this
-
topmetesla liked this
-
iuwaehfoaiuwhefoiaulfjqn reblogged this from thedailywhat and added:
-
ilikeitsticky reblogged this from thedailywhat
-
ericbdk reblogged this from thedailywhat
-
eidolonity reblogged this from thedailywhat
-
bluecarpettreatment liked this
-
rayray760 reblogged this from thedailywhat
-
idratherbenapping liked this
-
gchoate17 liked this
-
gene-how liked this
-
alchemyfreak990 reblogged this from thedailywhat
-
fruor liked this
-
tamatha liked this
-
closeincline liked this
-
panemetstrages liked this
-
haylyeah reblogged this from thedailywhat
-
lavenderxsmile liked this
-
-coolrunnings liked this
-
mityelpoc liked this
-
jjarichardson reblogged this from thedailywhat
-
ratherthanfairness liked this
-
1hatlady said:
It’s about time. You can question the legality of it, but this is the breaking of the boiling point we have all been waiting for when it comes to the WBC.
-
ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan liked this
-
unicorn-booger liked this
-
imjustapoorwayfaringstranger reblogged this from thedailywhat
-
hedgewytch reblogged this from mkhall
-
tiffanyb liked this
-
mkhall reblogged this from thedailywhat and added:
-
ohwellwhatev3rr reblogged this from thedailywhat
-
nakedinbed reblogged this from hippygrungehipster
-
negativeexpectedvalue liked this
-
honeyandsun liked this
-
mrjiggyfly21 liked this
-
jdotcole reblogged this from thedailywhat
-
comeheregoaway reblogged this from thedailywhat
-
comeheregoaway liked this
-
randomactsofchaos liked this
-
cantyoujustadoreher reblogged this from thedailywhat and added:
-
chonaporcina liked this
-
too-cheesy liked this
-
obviousobservations liked this
-
bubbybobble liked this
- Show more notes