Quote Originally Posted by AntiochusIII
Well, to play the devil's -- or even worse, Fred Phelp's -- advocate here. This is Freedom of Speech and enduring what we REALLY don't like to hear (not to mention completely twisted) is part of our public virtue. Beating the Phelps out of him might be gratifying in a sense but that would eventually conclude us as the same bunch as the mob that burned the "witches" at Salem, albeit on the other, more acceptable end of the spectrum.

Mocking the dead, hating the "fags," declaring some twisted falsehood as realities; of course, the guy really cries for somebody to punch him, but we should not. The bikers do a good job, by the way, in keeping with protecting those who suffer both emotionally and physically at the death of the soldiers.


This is not free speech necessarily even by todays standards.

No. Funerals are on public or private property in some form or another, and there are property laws to protect the actual cemetary which is private and you can make laws that prohibit certain activity on public lands illegal at certain times, or to make permits required for that type of public land that would never be granted because you included some criteria no one could meet. It's done all the time to keep people from protesting 4 feet from a governor, or during a parade, . You could also make certain acts considered aggravating to certain people grounds for disorderly conduct. You make no-mask laws to keep the KKK from marching, you can do something creative with funerals as well

You dont let kids talk in class, people shut up during a movie, so make the conduct illegal and let Fred blow it out his booty. This law should have been enacted 5 years ago but no one had the balls. You don't disrupt funerals.