Great response to Westboro protestors

[Undertoad]

The Westboro Baptist Church are the "God Hates Fags" bunch of nuts who protest with signs everywhere they can get attention. The finest answer to these loons happened the other day:

Westboro Baptist Church showed up to protest in front of Twitter’s San Francisco office on Thursday, but found themselves severely outnumbered by a crowd of absurdist pranksters, including guest blogger EDW Lynch above.

WBC’s hate-promoting signs were answered by multiple signs of randomness, nonsensical yelling, and even a unicorn. A portable stereo blared Lady GaGa, while press and people passing by ignored the WBC signs and took pictures and videos of the more entertaining signs.

http://laughingsquid.com/san-francis...aptist-church/

[Cloud]

that's what they get when the protest in San Francisco!

[Pete Zicato]

Gotta love the signboard rickroll.

[Happy Monkey]

Reminds me of my alma mater.

They should have gone with "UNIX is not Xenu".

[classicman]

I just had to link this. Pete - ya beat me to it.

[Happy Monkey]

"I HAVE A SIGN" is my favorite.

[DanaC]

lol

'I was promised donuts'

I love it.

Reminds me of the mass individual protest in London a few years ago. In response to the changes in law making any protests within a certain distance of Parliament Square illegal without prior written permission from the Met police; Mark Thomas used to his radio show to organise a mass of small and individual protests: each of which applied in person to the met at the same time.

There were people protesting all kinds of things. One of which was a woman holding a big sign saying: "Will you please stop putting bits in cheese!"

Also, since in order to get permission one must apply in writing, people were turning up with their application written on everything from toilet roll, to an iced cake.

[signfeld]

[lumberjim]

I'll remember this if we ever get picketed.

[Clodfobble]

Then there's the people who counter-protest KKK rallies, dressing up as clowns and shouting things like "Wife Power!" and "White Flour!" I think there was a video posted around here at some point.

WBC thinks America is immoral, what could possibly be moral about protesting at a funeral. I've heard of anything more disrespectful. Not only do they target our soldiers, but they are also targeting the fallen miners in the Upper Big Branch mine disaster. God does love WV and the fallen soldiers and miners. God loves the sinners, even the homosexuals. God does not like the sins they commit. Love thy neighbor. Love the person not the sin. I don't know what Bible they are reading, but my Bible does not say God is hate. The only unforgiveable sin is blasphemy. Is that the next step for WBC?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yeah, they're going to get their own level of Hell, nobody wants to be near them, even down there.

Welcome to the Cellar, taysue82.

[Cicero]

LOL! The Rick Roll Phelps...LOL!!

[TheMercenary]

A great solution

[jinx]

New law prohibits protests at funerals

In light of rumors circulating that out-of-state protesters might show up to picket Army Specialist Clayton McGarrah’s funeral on Wednesday, at its regular July meeting Monday night, the quorum court unanimously passed an emergency ordinance drafted by county judge Mike Moore that applies “current Arkansas state law to the offensive actions taken by those who would attempt to harass, torment, ridicule or otherwise annoy those who are grieving the loss of a loved one during any portion of a funeral visitation, procession, service or interment.”