Allahpundit (who is getting waaaay too much linkage from me these days, but he’s been on some really good issues) talks up the Supreme Court case regarding those blackguards of Westboro who engage in vile protests at military funerals:
Glenn Beck: We must defend Fred Phelps’s right to picket soldiers’ funerals
Must we? Even the Supreme Court sounds like it’s not sure. Via McClatchy, a report on this morning’s oral arguments in the hotly anticipated Snyder v. Westboro Baptist Church case. Does a scumbag have a right to be a scumbag on the street outside a fallen hero’s funeral?…
To me, there is a very simple test to be applied here. If you really want to know what a right is, then ask yourself: would I die for it? In such a case as that of Westboro, we should ponder whether or not a young soldier, slain on a battlefield and, perhaps, leaving wife and children behind in this world without his help and guidance, would choke out his last words and say, “I’m pleased to die so that lowlifes can shout ‘God hates f***’ at my funeral”. If you can answer that in the affirmative, then you’re a purblind idiot we need pay no further attention to.
We’ve allowed a lot of nonsense to encrust our thinking over the past few decades – everyone is shouting for this, that and the other thing, claiming they are rights, when they are really just personal desires…and often narrow minded and selfish personal desires, in to the bargain. I’m sitting here safe and dry while much younger men and women are laying their lives on the line for me – I’ll not have them shed their blood for nothing…I won’t allow the noblest sacrifices of youth to be given up for shit.
Not only do Phelps and his cretins not have a right to engage in disgusting demonstrations at military funerals, they should all be flogged within an inch of their lives for even trying such a thing (yes, I know this makes twice this week I’ve come out in favor of flogging…and, yes, I further realize that being a man I probably could not survive an inquest in to my own life without earning a few stripes on my back…but I’m not going for “non-hypocrite” here: I’m going for a bit of vigor in defense of decency). It is high time we started to put the nauseating in their place – this nation is built by patriots to be a place for patriots to live in honor, liberty and peace…it is not a clown shop where cowards and mountebanks get to live off the sacrifices of others.
Enough is really quite enough – it is time to smack down the insects like Phelps and let them know that men and women of honor and courage won’t be having any more of their garbage.
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