Fred Phelps is a terroist? No wai!!!111

Most everybody knows who Fred Phleps and the goddamn morons over at godhatesfags.com are so I'll not bother with and explaination with them in this post (use the link if your unaware). Most people also know of the recent Amish school shooting, a horrific and tragic event, which recently occured in Pennsylvania. After this event the westboro baptist church (fred phelp's cult) aired out some more of their typical nonsensical ranting. The claims that God hates the Amish and that they are self-serving which they made are so absolutely insane there's also really no need to go into them (hey fred, I didn't see your ass down here building homes free of charge for tornado victims you self-serving asshole. Who was it? O wait, it was the Amish of course!). However, a notable circumstance occured following this last threat to picket the funerals which warrents some discussion.

Basically what unfolded was that the group pulled out of the picket after recieveing airtime, an hour to be exact, on a radio talkshow. This is interesting for a few reasons. First off, it shows that the true objective of phelps and his cronnies has been, and always will be, to be in the lime light of public attention. They are media whores. They use tragic events to try and gain attention which they capitalize upon to spread their message of paranoic fear of homosexuals. O noes...the gays are out to eat our children!!! Second, they literally feed and get joy off of the suffering of others. That is why they wish to spread their message as much as possible, to cause pain. You see, these people happen to be strict predestinationists and as such, do not believe anybody can change in order to please God but rather we are all already marked for heaven and hell. As such no amount of their preaching will ever serve to do any "good" since we have no free-will to listen and make any sort of response in the first place. Therefore, when you believe like this, the only reason you would go to a funeral in "protest" is in order to cause more pain and suffering to people during their worst hour. They want to kick others while they are down. They want to cause sorrow. That is their highest ambition.

Their fanatical devotion to their ideology is also expressed in the desire to change the current state of laws in order to "outlaw homosexuality and instate the death penalty". In order to gain publicity to try and bring about this change, they cause pain to others so as to get media attention and also these people use the threat of funeral picketing as an intimidation method to attempt to coerce others to pussyfoot around them. That's exactly what happened with this lastest travesty. In the end they traded their picketing for a much more enjoyable prize... radio time. The wbc doesn't give a fuck about the people they protest or the grief they cause so long as they get the spotlight for a few minutes in which to pour out their asinine doctrine.

Does this sound familiar to anybody? This set tactic of using fear and intimidation to bully others into conforming with their desires? I'll let dictionary.com spell it out for you:

terrorist
adj : characteristic of someone who employs terrorism (especially as a political weapon); "terrorist activity"; "terrorist state" n : a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities

Damn, that sounds spot on to me.

I understand what the radio show host was attempting to do. He was trying to save some people some extra grief in their time of sorrow. But in the end he gave the terroists what they wanted, and the only thing that does is teach them that in the future their fear tactics and grief mongering will get them exactly what they want. In the end, let them come. Let them cause an entire nation to despise them, ostracize them, and revile their actions. Let them cause us to hate them. They can't win, their message is evil and unacceptable to every decent human being on Earth. Let them unify us in our hate for them. Because in the end, if you let them have their radio time, if you give them what they really want, you let the motherfuckers win.