Dean's World

Yes, Mr. Phelps.
I could actually support the bayoneting and beating to death of Mr. Phelps and all his followers. Maybe do a "Kent State" on them, except keep pouring the rifle fire in and make sure the morters are dropping on their position.

Yes, he certainly is a true piece of shit.

Steven:

I find myself incapable of hating him. He is beyond despicable. He is not human to me, only a bizarre photographic negative of the human being, as if from another dimension.

Ah, the style of that! :-)

I had never heard of Fred Phelps until about 45 minutes ago. Which shows you how I keep up with popular or unpopular culture.

Moments after I read about him, I got up from the computer, and joined my wife for a cup of coffee and some fine devil's food cake (small slice!) at a table on one of our outdoor decks. Right in the middle of the table, there was encrusted on the plastic tablecloth a tiny piece of birdshit that had escaped our attention since yesterday. Stefi and I chose to ignore the damned thing and not let it spoil our morning coffee and cake.

Coming back here to the computer, it occurred to me the way we both ignored that small speck of birdshit on the table, under the circumstances, is probably the best way to deal with Americans so rabidly hateful of our country that they write and disseminate stuff as vile and the person so quoted on Objective Justice.

In other words. Since we can't go upside his head with a baseball bat, which is what would have happened to people like this in the real wartime of my childhood, just treat them like minor league Amaleks, whose very names ought simply to be made to disappear from the current and historical records.

(How's that for an old-time bible reader?)

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI

Aw the great and hated Phelps.

I remember the day he came to Casper, WY, for the mathew sheppard funeral. A big rally was planned, many from out of state were to come to protest, but God stepped in, and Casper WY had the largest snow storm in recent history for early October.

The funeral was held, in the snow, with Phelps and a few followers outnumbered by the locals, in the peace and quite of a heavy wet snow.

Jiggers! He's on to us boys! Dispatch the assassins before he tells the others!

A sufficiently clever US Attorney might actually make a case that this constitutes treason under the adherence clause. You need "two witnesses to the same overt act," but then, Phelps was dumb enough to post his hallelujahs on his webpage.

It wouldn't work (nor should it, I suppose) but the Constitution also says "Congress shall have the power to declare the punishment of treason" and I can think of someone pretty ironic ones given Phelps' fixation.

Noel

Here is his monument to the Swedes who were killed by the tsunami.

Too bad his name wasn't Steven Malcolm Anderson. That would fit him perfectly since everybody knows that Steven Malcolm Anderson is a ------g ------e ----n ------d.