Westboro Baptist Church gets pwned by San Franciscans at Twitter protest

Posted by Natalie Zutter , Feb, 2010 @ 10:50 am

Last week, despicable fleshbag Fred Phelps and his brainwashed followers, aka the WBC, decided that they should make a pitstop in SF on their whirlwind “WE HATE EVERYTHING WAAAAHH” tour. Was it to see the sea lions’ absurd midafternoon fights, or to sample the incredible fried dumplings in peanut sauce? Nope. They found twelve different institutions/performances to protest. I’m including the picket schedule only because it’s so terrifying. Equally scary? That they freely posted it on their website, probably believing that people would join up on the way.

Thursday

12:15-12:45 Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission Street
1:10-1:40 Anti Defamation League, 720 Market Street
1:50-2:20 Jewish Community Center, 3200 California Street
3:20 3:50 Lowell High School, 1101 Eucalyptus Drive
4:30-5:00 Twitter, Inc., 795 Folsom Street
7:20-8:00 Golden Gate Theatre [Fiddler on Roof], 1 Taylor Street

Friday

10:00-10:30 Congregation Beth Israel & Day School, 625 Brotherhood Way
11:00-11:30 Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, 225 Bush Street
11:45-12:15 United States District Court, 450 Golden Gate Avenue
2:10-2:40 Jewish Community High School of the Bay, 1835 Ellis Street
3:00-3:30 George Washington High School, 600 32nd Avenue
6:50-7:30 The Randall Museum Theatre [Rent], 199 Museum Way

Phelps runs a tight ship, doesn’t he? Thankfully, during their afternoon protest at the Twitter headquarters, a number of bloggers spurred on by Laughing Squid appeared to stage a counter-protest and even prank the WBC guys.

(EDW Lynch)

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(sandwichgirl)

Phelps is one of the few people who can make me shudder with rage. I’ve seen but one video of him in-person, but it’s really his words that get to me; a few years ago, I saw Josh play him in The Laramie Project and even with that bias I felt disgusted. Now there’s a case for abortion, if ever I saw one.

Check out the rest of the counter-protest, including a video from one of the participants, at the source. I leave you with this question… Why did they decide to protest Twitter, of all things?

[Via Laughing Squid]

[Image source: EDW Lynch]

Tags: free speech, idiocracy, prejudice, protest, Westboro Baptist Church

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chelseadavison says – reply to this

Didn’t you hear? Twitter is a gay, jewish, aborted baby. It all makes sense now, eh?

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