Phelps' gang, enroute to beheading victims funeral, stopped at Canadian border

[struggle4progress]

Controversial U.S. church group stopped at border
Paul Gackle, Winnipeg Free Press
Published: Thursday, August 07, 2008

WINNIPEG -- Residents rallied Thursday to protect the family of a young man murdered on a Greyhound bus last week from a posse of radical religious protesters planning to portray Tim McLean's death as God's wrath.

Earlier this week, the Westboro Baptist Church - an organization branded as a hate group and infamous for protesting the funerals of slain U.S. soldiers - announced they would picket Mr. McLean's funeral to let Canadians know that his decapitation was God's response to Canadian policies enabling abortion, homosexuality and adultery.

But Shirley Phelps-Roper, daughter of church's founder, Fred Phelps, said a small group of protesters was stopped at the Canada-U.S. border on Thursday afternoon.

"They won't let us in, but we have a group that will cross in another spot," she said. "They'll have to strip search everyone who crosses that border or they won't know who we are. They'll have to see the WBC (Westboro Baptist Church) tattoo on our butts" ...

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=707624

[maddezmom]

1. what disgusting human filth

:puke:

[mzmolly]

24. Well said!

:puke: is right.

On a lighter note - :hi:

[tavalon]

36. I'm not at all sure we could call them human at this point

I think the humanity dried up long ago.

[EFerrari]

2. Sorry, Canada.

:(

[Mike Nelson]

3. good for Canada

too bad for US

[dems_rightnow]

4. Damn they've got tattoos?

WBC tattoos? Sick.

[Joanne98]

5. They have tattoos on their butts?

[ColbertWatcher]

7. See? I didn't need to know this.

There goes my whole week.

[proud patriot]

10. betcha it's a brand

x(

[renie408]

15. 666?? n/t

[spoony]

39. Maybe on the inside, since that's where their heads are.

[High Plains]

6. That's no surprise. Canada doesn't want American pot smokers,

let alone ugly hate-filled American religious freaks.

[Whoa_Nelly]

8. They want officers to look at their butts???

That is so gay! :silly:

[realisticphish]

9. what?

you just got cancer! GOD'S WRATH I SHALL PROTEST YOU!!!

Seriously, these guys are loons

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. Do you think we could talk Canada into keeping them?

:evilgrin:

[liberalmuse]

12. What?!? Didn't their church just burn down?

I'm thinking god let their church burn down because they're a bunch of stupid, inbred, evil twits. I'm glad Canada didn't let this traveling, flesh-eating freak show in their country. And the tattoo thing... :puke:

[renie408]

13. Ok, can we agree that it would be alright to shove THESE people off a train platform? n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. Dang.:^( I hope that none of the others got through either.

[Taverner]

16. If there were a god, these folks would contract terminal malaria on their trip

But alas, no god, and we're stuck with these fucks.

[fudge stripe cookays]

17. Anyone have pictures...

from the Michael Moore thing or any counter-protests they've done?

Every border crossing guard from Vancouver to Augusta needs to have these sick fucks' pictures to compare. Not everyone is as stupid as you, Shirley.

[Hawkeye-X]

34. Hey cookay - doing ok?

haven't seen you in awhile!

:hi:

Hawkeye-X

[fudge stripe cookays]

40. Hey Hawk...

I've been around. Not as much. Getting lots of research done up here!

:hi:

[MicaelS]

18. Tattoos???

I thought Fundies believed the Bible was against tattoos.

[Patchuli]

28. Those aren't "fundies"

They're just plain freaks. And not the good kynd of freak, neither!

[suffragette]

19. Doesn't Canada have very stringent laws against hate speech?

Phelps and friends may find themselves in trouble there.

[Arnold Judas Rimmer]

20. Seems that God already "hates" Canada and has since 2004

So why should the Phelps cult be surprised they got turned away at the border?

http://www.godhatescanada.com/

[Electric You]

27. I wonder if there's some country

they don't hate.

Well. They once praised Zimbabwe for their persecution of gays.

Yes, you heard that right. Zimbabwe.

Ain't they precious?

[book_worm]

21. I'm still waiting for some family member of one of these funerals they are protesting

to slug a couple of these pieces of human waste. I wouldn't blame them in the slightest, but then, of course, they would be the ones in trouble if charges were pressed.

[MadMaddie]

23. I would take it further...because I believe it's gonna happpen

they are going to protest at the wrong funeral and one day the cops and the towns people will stand by and react very slowly.

Americans are sick of these sick assholes. This is not jut freedom of speech, I consider these threatening acts. These nuts feel that the ends justify the means and they are of the same mindset as the OK bombers. It's just a matter of time.

[Catherine Vincent]

22. These people are TRASH.

No ifs, ands or buts about it. :mad:

[beam me up scottie]

25. So, they stopped a gang of radical white christian militants from crossing the border?

Just another day's work.

Bravo, Canada! :applause:

[JBoy]

26. From the story it sounds like grassroots work in Winnipeg helped keep them out.

Well done 'Peggers!

[Darth_Kitten]

31. Peggers can be cool.

Pretty disgusting about the Phelps gang......so many people using this tragedy for gain. :(

[Pab Sungenis]

29. Thank you, Shirley.

When they catch your buddies (and they will), you just made it possible for them to add "conspiracy" to the charges and have you extradited.

You go away looooooong time.

[Sheets of Easter]

30. Apparently, God Loves Canada.

[bridgit]

32. WTF is wrong with those people and their brains? Why can't they just be happy...

staying home and dancing with their snakes?

[ThoughtCriminal]

33. Do you get the feeling they WANT to be strip searched?

"They'll have to strip search everyone who crosses that border or they won't know who we are."

And spankings... they will have to spank us...

[tannybogus]

35. They are the real terrorists!

I say empty Gitmo and put their skinny, hateful asses there. Waterboard them. They need to be baptized.
:evilgrin:

[formercia]

37. I hope the Canadians throw them in jail

and cast them down with the sodomites.

A year or two of sexual slavery will tune them up real good.

[FiveGoodMen]

38. All right Canada, they're sneaking in.

Look around ... make sure no one's watching ...

You know what to do.