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The five people from the Westboro "Baptist" "Church" who picketed Brooklyn Tech yesterday were drowned out more by the hundreds of Tech students, counterprotesters, and Brooklynites chanting "We Love Jews" and shouting "Go Home" to the freaks from Topeka, who were outnumbered more than forty to one. The Times' Fort Greene blog noted that "many if not most" of the counterprotesters were students who had organized by "word of mouth and Facebook status." You do need something to do in Health class.
The Times' blog showed the Westboro group (which claims to worship a Jewish man who said "Love Your Enemies") holding signs like "YOU WILL EAT YOUR BABIES," "GOD HATES YOU," and "THE JEWS KILLED JESUS." They also held pictures of Obama labeled "THE BEAST." Earlier they had promised "double destruction" for Brooklynites who opposed them. They also picketed the Jewish Theological Seminary in Morningside Heights (pictured), where they looked as forlorn and unimportant as they truly are.
The Brooklyn Paper also reported a hate incident in Windsor Terrace, where someone sprayed "F--- Jews" on a Jewish Center's sign. The day before, someone broke into the Brooklyn Heights First Unitarian Universalist Church, scrawling, "racist, homophobic, anti-Arab, and anti-Semitic" messages along with "White Power - We Will Be Back." Why the hell are all these things happening in Brooklyn all of a sudden?
The Brooklyn Paper has a nice editorial with recommendations for how to treat the protesters tomorrow, when they will be targeting Brooklyn synagogues. Ideas include: dressing up as pirates, protesting the Alien and Sedition Acts in a John Adams outfit, and our favorite bit of randomness: "dress up as Mr. Met and wear a huge 'Kick me' sign."
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"Why the hell are all these things happening in Brooklyn all of a sudden?"
Gee, I dunno, all these Midwestern transplants maybe?
And where the hell is "Brookyn"?
nah we're too busy takin yer jobs
the best counter-protests against these guys are definitely just counter-randomness. wikipedia talks about signs reading things like "GOD HATES DIAL-UP".
i'll be there distributing rainbow "GOD HATES SAXOPHONES" signs.
Retards.
How about a spur of the moment transsexual fashion runway show in front of everyone of their protests?
Make sure all of the models are minorities.
BROOKYN?
Now that is an embarrassing typo. Fixed.
I guess some people really don't like the L that runs through brooklyn!
BROOKLYN: Really, ask Spike Lee where it is:)
Straight from Crookyn, better known as Brookyn?
Just doesn't sound the same.
:/
Or have people sneak in making pretend to be Westboro members, but show up at the protests with signs like "we ate paint chips as babies" or "my mother is my father's sister".
Here's what i don't understand, is this not considered some form of hate crime because the sings say "G-D" instead of "we" or "i"?
Like i just don't get how this is OK, and not seem as some kind of hate crime, with such vitriol coming from these people?
OR better yet, since obviously they cannot truly be speaking on g-d's behalf, can i sue them for defamation of character on his behalf?...that would be fun!
No, here is what you don't understand: it is not a crime to admit to hating people. It is not even a crime to advocate hating people. The right to possess feelings and beliefs and express them is protected, and rightfully. These Topekan fools tend not to commit property damage, assaults, or actually advocate violence, and so therefore commit no actual crimes (their crimes are against rational thought and perhaps nature, but not against the law). A hate crime is any general criminal act committed out of hatred for a group of people - the hate itself is not a crime.
Also, really? You're going to speak from an obviously Jewish perspective on a public forum (your inane unwillingness to put a circle-shaped signifier instead of a short horizontal line in the word 'god' is a dead giveaway, I was told to do that in Hebrew school) and wonder if you can sue the WBC on behalf of your deity for defamation of character? You prop up ugly stereotypes with your silly drivel.
They sure are making the rounds. This is how a friend protested when they did the same thing in Seattle earlier this year:
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/06/13/westboro-comes-to-washington
I call on all area rapists to converge on Westboro's little demo and send them back to Kansas frantically buying EPT test strips and Ben Gay.
Umm, because its not a crime, 'hate' or not, to hold a sign
Great pic, can I borrow those platforms for tom?
Hello all. I live up the block from Beth Elohim, where they are going to protest on Saturday morning. A lot of people say that we shouldn't give them attention: I agree. So I organized an anti-protest to take attention away from them. I'm gathering performers: musicians, magicians, jugglers, etc, to meet up up the block from Beth Elohim and distract everyone. The goal is to make the WBC non-existent.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170181639847
Hooray Brooklyn.
mmmmmmm, let's eat some babies!!