regulator 0 #51 December 27, 2012 Users of the White House's "We the People" digital petition platform have flooded the site in support of an effort to officially designate the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group. The most popular petition was submitted on Dec. 14, the same day as the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., an incident that Westboro responded to by announcing its intent to picket the funerals of the 26 victims, including 20 young children. This plan made them a prime target of hacktivist group Anonymous and eventually drew a well-attended counter-protest to block the church's followers from disrupting the services. The individual push has since received the support of nearly 250,000 signees, making it the most popular single petition ever created through the White House initiative. It recently cruised past a call for federal action on gun control, which along with a number of other petitions on the issue of gun rights, drew a response from President Barack Obama last week. But the quarter-million signature effort to recognize Westboro as a hate group is also getting a boost from two other petitions calling for the congregation's tax-exempt status to be revoked. Both of those have also crossed the 25,000 signature threshold needed to prompt a response from the administration. Official action has been taken against Westboro's most frequently utlized weapon -- its highly inflammatory, anti-gay displays at military funerals -- though not directly against the church itself. In August, Obama signed the Honoring America's Veterans Act, which declared that protests must be held at least 300 feet from military funerals and were prohibited two hours before or after a service. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/26/white-house-petition-westboro_n_2365799.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 212 #52 December 27, 2012 Quote http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248892/Sandy-Hook-shooting-Outrage-Westboro-Baptist-plans-praise-gathering-outside-school.html Well, lets not hate . . . Instead lets do something green for the environment: RECYCLE!!! Recycle your dog/cat poop. Mail to Westboro Baptist Church C/O Fred Waldron Phelps Sr. 3791 SW 12th St. Topeka KS 66604I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,384 #53 December 27, 2012 If Jesus Christ himself returned today, ran afoul of the powers-that-be, and was crucified again...these imbeciles would be there to picket his funeral. "There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
regulator 0 #54 December 27, 2012 QuoteA piece of me roots for Anonymous, but another piece hopes that they don't then decide, if this effort is successful, to go after some other group. And then another one after that. Wendy P. ------------------------------------------------------------ Seems like your argument is holding water. Manteca Police are taking threats seriously after "Anonymous," a widely known "hacktivist" group, threatened to hack into the police department's public website, Fox40.com reported. On their YouTube channel, "Annonymous" shows video of Ernesto Duenez Jr., being shot and killed by Manteca Officer John Moody. The group demands that the officer be fired from the force. "Otherwise, Annonymous users will act appropriately with the inevitable shutdown of the official website," said someone on the site, disguised in a Guy Fawkes mask. The Manteca Police Department told the Manteca Bulletin that they view this as a valid threat. The threat comes a little more than a week after Moody was cleared of any wrong doing in the 2011 shooting, where he fired more than a dozen rounds at Duenez. Since the shooting, many supported the Duenez family, but never has there been a threat of this magnitude. The Duenez family says while they appreciate the support, they do not condone any illegal activity http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/27/anonymous-threatens-to-shut-down-california-police-department-website/?test=latestnews#ixzz2GI6SLwnY Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
firemedic 7 #55 December 29, 2012 Quote If this one doesn't get one or more of them killed, I don't know what will. Makes you wonder. If this tragedy had befallen one of their protests and 30 of them had been gunned down. Would they be "celebrating God executing His judgement on them?" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tink1717 2 #56 December 30, 2012 Yeah, they never complain that jeebus left them out to dry when the mechanics in OK refused to fix their slashed tires. Skydivers don't knock on Death's door. They ring the bell and runaway... It really pisses him off. -The World Famous Tink. (I never heard of you either!!) AA #2069 ASA#33 POPS#8808 Swooo 1717 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
