[Peace-discuss] Westboro Baptist and NIU

[Marti Wilkinson]

That would certainly be a valid possibility.

On Feb 15, 2008 8:08 PM, Laurie at advancenet.net <laurie at advancenet.net>
wrote:

>  >What is really amazing is the leader of this 'church' Fred Phelps
> actually practiced as a civil rights attorney before being disbarred.
> Somewhere along   > the line his wiring short circuited.
>
> Hmmmmm!  Just to be perverse and cause everyone to stop and think.  Could
> it be that his wiring never short circuited; but rather it was a deliberate
> strategy aimed at giving his clients just the sorts of defenses that would
> land them in jail, result in their getting more time than they otherwise
> would have, or cost them money in fees and civil actions against them.  His
> being disbarred came as a result of people finding out the nature of his
> strategy and/or the non-representation of his clients' interests in favor of
> his own agenda.
>
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> As I said, just a thought.
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> *From:* peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net [mailto:
> peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net] *On Behalf Of *Marti Wilkinson
> *Sent:* Friday, February 15, 2008 5:15 PM
> *To:* John W.
> *Cc:* peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Peace-discuss] Westboro Baptist and NIU
>
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> This is the church that has taken to protesting at funerals of Iraqi
> soldiers, threatened to picket the services for Health Ledger, and garnered
> attention when they picketed the funeral of Matthew Shepard.
>
> What is really amazing is the leader of this 'church' Fred Phelps actually
> practiced as a civil rights attorney before being disbarred. Somewhere along
> the line his wiring short circuited.
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 3:03 PM, John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> At 02:43 PM 2/15/2008, Wendy Edwards wrote:
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> >Just as a heads-up, the infamous Westboro Baptist Church (as in
> >godhatesfags.com) is planning to show up at NIU in the wake of the
> >shootings to "protest" at memorials.  Some counter-protests are planned.
> >Here's the WBC flyer:
> >
> >
> http://www.godhatesfags.com/written/fliers/20080214_northern-illinois-university-shooter.pdf
> >
> >Wendy
>
>  Ugh.  I had never seen that web site before.  It makes me literally
> nauseous just to read it.
>
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