Most cities, when giving them a permit to protest, stick them in some out-of-the-way location or spot where no one will notice them. While it's quite funny, it does however raise interesting questions about free speech and right to assemble, and it causes the WBC to engage in trickery as to when and where their protests will be, so the counter protestors go to the wrong place because the permit details are so guarded by the establishment.

They are jokes now. The party is over, people ignore them, the muzzle is on. They lose. And to think it all started with Matthew Shephard.