Westboro Baptists ‘booking flights’ for Johannesburg to protest Mandela’s funeral
Source: THE RAW STORY
The Westboro Baptist Church has a long history of media-soliciting domestic and international hate protests, with pickets targeting the funerals of dead children at Sandy Hook, fallen soldiers and celebrities like Paul Walker drawing outsized attention.
Their next dive into the fray is a triple-gainer by their historical standards, though — a protest of Nelson Mandela’s funeral. In South Africa.
In a series of deliberately-provocative Twitter posts, the church says it is buying plane tickets to South Africa and is hoping to coordinate with South African police while they stage a protest at the funeral, citing Mandela’s divorce and remarriage as evidence of damnation.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/07/westboro-baptists-booking-flights-for-johannesburg-to-protest-mandelas-funeral/
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learnin' of any sort is not one of their strong suits. 
DRoseDARs
Wondrous élan. 
Paulie
Haven't they got enough people to hate at home!
They planned to disrupt the funeral of a murdered man, but the government tried to keep them out, although some of them snuck in:
Church members enter Canada, aiming to picket bus victim's funeral
"We're not going to allow these people to compound the tragedy of the McLean family loss, and Canadians simply won't tolerate these lunatics disrupting what should be a respectful service," he told CBC News on Friday.
"Your freedom to swing your arm in the air ends when it touches the end of my nose," he added. "What these people were going to do was hurtful, harmful and disruptive to the peace, order and good government that we guarantee to our citizens, so they have no place in this country."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/church-members-enter-canada-aiming-to-picket-bus-victim-s-funeral-1.703285
UK bans UK anti-gay pastor Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3747823
AFAIK, here is part of their little hate group in a public park. I found it on the net, but didn't save the link:
Yes, the First Amendment has been abused terribly. It may be due to the idea that we are supposed to be rebelling against everything, even what is good. There comes a point when one is rebellling against one's best interests. And no respect for anyone else, to cause enmity that doesn't work in the long run.
The Westboro Baptist Church are lawyers, most of them, and have taken advantage of the First Amendment's shield on political and relgious rights. The 1stA no longer serving its purpose to inform people to make good choices in voting, interacting with others or making informed choices in other areas of life.
It's more about propaganda or making money, as this group specializes in lawsuits.
Wow.
on both counts!
your post.
I once lived in a rural place where there were lots of wild turkeys. Very early one morning I woke to a strange noise outside the house so I got up to see what it was... there were about 50 or 60 turkeys all circled around my vehicle in the driveway in a very tight group. On the outer edge of the group there were about seven or eight of them constantly announcing that something was going on and it was upsetting. Then I noticed the six Toms that roosted in my trees strutting around all puffed up outside the circle. They would come close to the group and one would set out his wings a bit and say "ooobalooobaloooble!" and the whole crowd would just go off like a screeching gossip competition on steroids as if they were all screaming "OMG!! Did you hear that!? OOOHHHH!" all at once. After a minute they would settle down as the Toms had singled out one of the crowd and herded them off a ways while the "callers" at the edge of the circle would keep announcing the event. And five minutes later the whole thing would start all over again. This went on for a couple hours.
That's what the WBC and the public response to their threats to show up somewhere and protest reminds me of!
Firstly they'll be asked why they are visiting South Africa and if they answer to picket Nelson Mandela's funeral then they won't get in......secondly they have enough hateful white bigots there already ...thirdly they're just plain scum...they are a waste of air
bullshit. 
Seriously.
I wonder if they have any of those necklaces left that they used to give away publicly. Maybe a donation could be made to Westboro.
to protest with a burning tire around your neck though.
This year, I would be so pleased if they actually did go. I know they're usually all talk, but the child in me is going "Please! Please! Please!"*
*So long as they leave their kiddos here 
don't want the young ones paying for the stupidity of their grandfather.
...wants to get in an airplane with these assholes and have to fly over that much water?
- Even atheists would be praying for god to smite that airplane.
What do these people do other than stage protests at funerals? It seems to be their main reason for existing as a church.
