On Nov 1, 12:59 pm, Radix Lecti Artemia Salina <y...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> The judge in the trial didn't make that judgment, the jury did. No doubt
> the jury remembers the Phelps' plans for picketing at those Amish girl's
> funerals. That was one of the most heinous things I've ever heard of.
No doubt they did. Of course, this trial wasn't about the Amish
girls' funerals, or Matthew Shepard's funeral, or all of those other
funeral pickets; it was about this one particular funeral picket. The
amount of the judgment suggests that it was indeed meant as payback
for all of the other disgusting things WBC has done. Or as Rev.
Junior Mints stated above: "This is the kind of case were rules, laws
and everything else will be bent to get the evil doers."
WBC are s***, Fred Phelps is slime, and he certainly deserved to get
raked over the coals for what he did. I'm not disagreeing with you on
that, and I'm not saying he should walk away from this scot-free. I
just have this feeling that the judgment is overkill, meant to ruin
WBC forever and stop from ever picketing anyone ever again. That's
not what the trial was about, but that's probably what the judgment
was about. If the judgment was only about this particular funeral
disruption, then it should probably be a smaller amount, say (wild
guess) $100,000 plus WBC paying legal costs. That would certainly be
a slap in the face to Phelps, but it wouldn't ruin him. And if
everyone he protested sued him and got a similar judgment? Good!
Then it would be payback for each and everyone of those protests.
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