These People Need To Be Shot

[HAZE]

Wow, I can't imagine if these retards showed up to one of my family member's funerals.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/06/btsc.lavandrera.funerals/index.html

DODGE CITY, Kansas (CNN) -- This past Saturday morning I found myself in a five-car caravan cutting across the Kansas plains with about 30 religious protesters. In the back of a truck, there were signs that read "Thank God for IED's" and "Thank God for Dead Soldiers."

I was with the Phelps family. They've launched a disturbing campaign to tarnish the funerals of fallen soldiers.

This is a painful drama playing out at dozens of military funerals across the country. The group is led by Fred Phelps.

He and his family have picketed and heckled military families at more than 100 funerals since June. They say the soldiers are fighting for an army that represents a country that accepts homosexuality. (Watch how protesters targeted the funeral of a soldier killed in Iraq -- 7:08)

I have spent a great deal of time in the last few weeks tracking the movements of Fred Phelps and his family. Saturday, I followed him and his family from their home in Topeka, Kansas, to a funeral in Dodge City, Kansas.

Fred Phelps is the pastor of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka. The congregation is made up mostly of his family. Phelps has 13 children, 54 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.

He describes himself as an "old-time" gospel preacher who says, "You can't preach the Bible without preaching the hatred of God."

Phelps and his family have made a name for themselves by showing up at high-profile events preaching their hate-filled brand of Christianity. They blame homosexuals for the destruction of America.

This past weekend's target was Army Sgt. Jessie Davila.

Davila was killed February 20 in Iraq by a suicide bomber. He served as a Marine after graduating from high school. He returned to civilian life, and had a daughter. But he was always a soldier at heart, so two years ago he joined the Army National Guard and was three months into an Iraqi deployment when he was killed.

This is also very much a story about another phenomenon the Phelps protest has created. That's the birth of a group called the "Patriot Guard Riders." They're a volunteer group that came together after hearing that so many military families were being blindsided by the protesters. (Watch bikers ride to protect a funeral -- 2:11)

More than 400 motorcycles thundered toward this showdown in Dodge City this weekend to make sure Sgt. Jessie Davila's funeral was not overshadowed by the Phelps protest. They converged from small towns all over southwest Kansas to support Sgt. Davila's family. One group leader says, "I knew we would have a crowd, but I didn't know it would be this big."

The procession of rolling thunder escorted Davila's family from memorial services to the grave site on a quiet hill.

In the end, Sgt. Davila's family says they were only able to hear a little bit of the Phelps protest. Davila's mother, Linda Claus, says she's grateful for the Patriot Guard Riders. But she also wants other military families to be aware that this could happen to them.

"When people begin to know what they're (Fred Phelps' family) really doing -- killing the American Dream -- they won't be around very long, because nobody's going to let them. They'll drown them out. They'll be gone," Claus said.

Since CNN started airing reports on these funeral confrontations a few weeks ago, the Patriot Guard Riders say its membership has almost tripled. And more than a dozen states are now considering legislation that would restrict protesting at funerals.

The Phelps family vows to continue these protests. They might be outnumbered, but the way the Patriot Guard Riders see it, it only takes one of them to dishonor the memory of a fallen soldier.

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I couldn't AGREE more.

[barraquilla]

over being shot, i would prefer he and his followers experience a realllly painful, lingering death. idk, i find people who are overly concerned with homosexuality and the intricacies of two men having sex, to be possible self-hating gays. but beyond that, disrespecting a fallen member of the armed forces and his family is completely out of line, no excuse for it whatsoever.

to the patriot riders.

anyone else notice he kinda looks like the scary preacher from poltergeist?

[HAZE]

I found the queen of the retards.

This bitch should be killed slowly.

http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/2178.html

[SlickSlider]

I found the queen of the retards.

This bitch should be killed slowly.

http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/2178.html

That stupid bitch has a face like the Joker, contorted in a fake smile through the whole interview. So according to her, 9-11 was a great event from God and none of those killed were innocent. She sounds just like Al-Queda. She should be killed just like them.

[misk]

...i think i would seriously beat them to death ....i know that would result in myself being jailed cause this country is fucked.....but i think i might go completely apeshit....

..what is wrong with these GOD people and their hang up with homosexuality?!.....isn't 'the word of god' to love everyone the same and do one to others blah blah?......what the fuck.....

[crowina]

oh goodness, if they did that with my family:

i'd get a few firends who served in the military, and ask them to be part of the services...instead of the gun salute in the air, i'd ask them to shoot the people in the crowd.

[dgmodel]

Wow, I can't imagine if these retards showed up to one of my family member's funerals.

its rather ironic, considering soldiers died for this country so they can have the right to express themselves... so as unethical or tactless as they may be they have a right... i may not agree with them, i dont think theyre going about it the right way but they have a right to express themselves.