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Robdawg

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Albert Snyder, the father of fallen Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, took the stand this week in the Baltimore trial against the Westboro Baptist Church and testified that protesters waving signs at Matthew's burial made him nauseous. He'd wanted a private service for his son.

"They turned this funeral into a media circus and they wanted to hurt my family," Snyder said on the stand Wednesday. "They wanted their message heard and they didn't care who they stepped over. My son should have been buried with dignity, not with a bunch of clowns outside."


Albert Snyder, of York, Md., is seeking unspecified monetary damages for invasion of privacy and intent to inflict emotional distress as a result of the Topeka, Kan., church's protest at his son's funeral in Westminster in March 2006.

The church's protests have inspired several state laws and a federal law about funeral protests, but the Maryland suit is believed to be the first filed by the family of a fallen serviceman.

Matthew died March 3, 2006, at age 20 from a non-combat-related vehicle accident in Anbar province, Iraq. He'd served with the 1st Marine Logistics Group in the Marine Expeditionary Force in Twentynine Palms, Calif.

Asked Wednesday about a sign that read "Thank God for dead soldiers," Albert Snyder said he thinks about it daily.

"I see that sign when I lay in bed," Snyder said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,305279,00.html

its freedom of speech... they can say or preach whatever they want.
 
besides you can't silence holyrollers, do you think suing these people will do anything to stop them from preaching their hate??

the only way you can scilence them is with a smith and wesson.
 
Robdawg said:
besides you can't silence holyrollers, do you think suing these people will do anything to stop them from preaching their hate??

the only way you can scilence them is with a smith and wesson.
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Naah hit em in their pocketbook.
Hurts a lot longer.
And there is a slim chance they could get their heads out of their butts....eventually.
 
There is a time and place circumstance for free speech limitation. This just may be one of them.
 
Taser man, Taser :)

Holy rollers might think all the jumping and jerking is a religious thing and then they would all want to be tasered.
 
uscitizen said:
Taser man, Taser :)

Holy rollers might think all the jumping and jerking is a religious thing and then they would all want to be tasered.
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I'd like to have it done once, to understand the effects better. But heck, I've always been the try it kind of person. I'll even try death once, someday.
 
Damocles said:
I'd like to have it done once, to understand the effects better. But heck, I've always been the try it kind of person. I'll even try death once, someday.
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I remember hearing about this convention once where you could volunteer to be tasered.

You can actually go buy one right now, Damo, and taser yourself.
 
uscitizen said:
Plus it makes you ache and taste your fillings for a while if anything like other forms of electrocution.
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I've been electrocuted many times. Usually from the transformer in a TV set I was repairing for my father's TV repair business back when he finally returned from his long hiatus from our lives.
 
Watermark said:
It's certainly not good for your heart or health, Damo...
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Nor was bull riding, but I did that for a while. The idea that you must attempt to protect every ounce of time you have to the point that you never live will never be one of my main drives in life.
 
Damocles said:
Nor was bull riding, but I did that for a while. The idea that you must attempt to protect every ounce of time you have to the point that you never live will never be one of my main drives in life.
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Being tasered isn't even fun. You have a congenital heart defect, taser yourelse, and you're dead. It's senseless. Bull riding at least has great imagery to it.
 
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