During the same week that the U. S. Supreme Court, by an 8-1 margin, upheld the Westboro Baptist Church's First Amendment right to protest at military funerals, the Missouir House of Representatives, by a wide margin, passed a bill which would place restrictions on such protests:
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Harassment by religious extremist
Jehovah's Witnesses instigated court decisions in 1942 which involved cursing a police officer calling him a fascist and to get in your face at the door steps,....this same JW 1942 court decision upheld infamous Phelps hate church in 2011
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It's interesting that no one cared much when the Westboro hate-mongers were protesting at the funerals of AIDS victims. It was only when they protested at the soldiers funerals that they got the attention they desired. They're behavior is constitutional and reprehensible in all their funeral protests.
Thanks to the fools in Jeff if the Westboro group hears of this they will be targeting MO funerals because of course they thrive on any kind of attention.
So they got more unconstitutional restrictions passed which will simply be overturned after great expense by fools.
The recent decision by an 8-1 majority pointed out the facts of the case. Phelp's bunch lawfully got into a 'free-speech' containment area over 1,000 feet away from churches and cemeteries and there they lawfully protested. The only way Snyder was able to see them was on the television site. Thus it became simply a matter of whiners all annoyed that somebody dissented over the Afghanistan War or homosexuality or whatever. Snyder got to bury his drone son ground up in an unnecessary foreign war for the Empire. All that was ever hurt was his notion that he gets to pretend that everyone is sorry about this matter, when obviously the Phelps group, and quite a few others are not. People who go over to foreign countries to kill and enslave and pillage from the natives sometimes get killed. If every soldier in an unjust war was guaranteed death or maiming for life, then these wars might cease.
I suspect that this new law for the benefit of whiners and pandering politicians will be declared unconstitutional concerning the times allowed for protest. The 500 ft. provision is not an issue because the Phelps decision involved 1000 ft distance minimums. The name and overt purpose of the law -- concerning 'unlawful' picketing -- will make sure it is struck down when it winds its way to the federal court system.
The problem is that some fools think that because Phelps-tards get what they wanted -- publicity -- that they should undo the Constitution and Bill of Goods in order to get what they want -- the silencing of anyone daring to disagree with them and their own personal solipsistic moronality. These petty-minded moral imbeciles won't in the short time get what they want, complete censorship of everyone else disagreeing with them because every other little moron wants to censor his fellow idiot as well. In the long run, when every little moral imbecile gets what they want, then the end result will be civil war in which every one of them will become casualties, and the former way of life which spawned these mental and moral weaklings, let them live without struggle, shall become gone with the wind.
That was sure a long string of drivel. Editing is not censoring, and less can often be more.
Ummmm, the Supreme court did not rule regarding restrictions. It ruled that a father can't suffer grief from someone executing their 1st amendment rights - including those protesting a funeral.
It's has been and continues to be the case that restrictions, including buffer zones, can be put in place if the safety of the public is a concern.
Notes from the coverage of the suit:
The picketers obeyed police instructions and stood about 1,000 feet from the Catholic church in Westminster, Md., where the funeral took place in March of 2006.
This is what Missouri is attempting to regulate for public safety concerns.
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