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Hundreds of Motorcyclists Guard Funeral of 9 Year Old Tornado Victim After Westboro Baptists Threaten Protest

written by Staff

Friday May 24, 2013

Following Monday’s devastating tornadoes in Oklahoma, the Westboro Baptist Church (“WBC”), famed for picketing to high-profile and military funerals, announced that it intended to picket the funerals of the nine children who died that day. When they tried to do so, however, a group of American Patriots gathered together at one of those funerals today, creating a human shield between the WBC picketers and the mourners.

Yesterday, the hate-mongers at WBC officially tweeted out their plans:

Westboro Baptist Church to picket funeral of Nicolas Scott McCabe of Moore, OK tomorrow May 24 from 9:15 - 10:00 AM: twitter.com/WBCFliers/stat…

— Westboro Baptist (@WBCSays) May 23, 2013

This is 9-year-old Nicolas Scott McCabe, whose funeral the WBC planned to desecrate:

WBC applied for a permit to protest at the church, which was denied. Despite that denial, the WBC members showed up to picket the funeral and were promptly arrested.

Looks like Westboro got arrested. At least that's what friends who are at the funeral are saying. I hope it's true.
— Necia Phoenix (@Necia_Phoenix) May 24, 2013

Even if the police hadn’t acted, American Patriots stood ready to stop Nicholas’s family from having the WBC bring their unique brand of hatred to this unthinkably painful day. Hundreds of bikers gathered at the church to create a human shield protecting the mourners from the WBC members:

Across the political spectrum, people agree that WBC is a “hate group.” The chief focus of its hostility is homosexuality, but WBC members are also anti-Semitic and racist against all non-white groups. WBC is well-known because, to get the publicity it craves, it pickets funerals across America. WBC started with the funerals of gay people, or people who died of AIDS, but eventually began to attend any funerals that could get media attention.

During the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, WBC increased its profile by protesting the funerals of troops who died in Iraq and Afghanistan. The group routinely showed up at these funerals carrying signs such as “God hates fags” and “Thank God for dead soldiers.” Many states were forced to pass legislation similar to that passed in Arizona, in order to protect the mourners from the ugly sight of WBC members standing nearby with hate signs.

Given its penchant for seizing upon newsworthy events as focuses for its protests, it’s scarcely surprising that the WBC latched onto the tragedy in Oklahoma. In addition to the ominous tweets, this foul excuse for a religious organization also posted on its blog a lengthy, only-marginally-coherent article conveying its absolute delight about the tornadoes:

We pray for your destruction. We pray for God to send tornados, hurricanes, tsunamis … whirlwinds of every form and size … to slaughter you malicious, violent americans. And when our Father answers our prayers by dropping a relentless torrent on the vile citizens of Oklahoma … we rejoice and wash our “feet in the blood of the wicked”. (Psalms 58:10) That simply means that we are fully refreshed at the very thing you find most calamitous!

[snip]

So, as we look upon Oklahoma … filled with the terror that only a Sovereign God can bring with His whirlwinds … we are again refreshed that He heard our prayer and showed Himself strong for his people. We say with energetic joy: “Thank God for the Oklahoma tornado, and the dead rebels, one and all!”

In the past few years, they’ve started targeting children’s funerals. When the Tucson shooting took place, killing six and injury several others, including Senator Gabby Gifford, the group announced that it would picket the funeral of 9-year-old Christina Green. The Arizona legislature responded with an emergency bill banning protests within 300 feet of a funeral service. Sadly, WBC members are no strangers to children’s funerals in Oklahoma. In 2010, these parasites embarked upon a concerted effort to protest at children’s funerals in Oklahoma to retaliate for the fact that their tires were slashed when they protested at a serviceman’s funeral in McAlester, Oklahoma.

Back then, reported KTUL.com, WBC’s venom towards the innocent children of Oklahoma was both staggering and sickening:

On the WBC website, members say they are protesting because of the vandalism they suffered over the weekend while protesting at the funeral of McAlester serviceman Jason McCluskey.

They say quote “the Lord curses them by killing Oklahoma’s children and casting them into Hell.” Furthermore, their website reads “Thank God For More Dead Children In Oklahoma!”