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Anonymous Goes After GodHatesFags.com

Posted by timothy on from the will-change-the-church's-facebook-relationship-status dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Anonymous is now recognised as a serious force to be taken seriously, but its activities aren't confined to mass global protests, as the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, is discovering, according to p2pnet. Says the Examiner, 'Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church is infamous for their "Love Crusades," obnoxious displays of insensitivity and homophobia at the funerals of fallen American soldiers. The controversial if monotone message of the "Love Crusade" seems to be to blame everything that is wrong in the world on homosexuality. The crusades are part of a hate-based mission started in Kansas by the WBC and Fred Phelps.' In an open letter on AnonNews, 'We, the collective super-consciousness known as ANONYMOUS – the Voice of Free Speech & the Advocate of the People – have long heard you issue your venomous statements of hatred, and we have witnessed your flagrant and absurd displays of inimitable bigotry and intolerant fanaticism,' says Anonymous, stating 'Should you ignore this warning, you will meet with the vicious retaliatory arm of ANONYMOUS.'"

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  1. "An anonymous reader writes" by gcnaddict · · Score: 5, Funny

    I smell a conflict of interest.

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  2. Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Anonymous is now recognised as a serious force to be taken seriously..."

    C'mon, "a serious force to be taken seriously?" Who wrote that?

    1. Re:Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Serious force is serious.

  3. Re:Hate meets hate? by Foobar+of+Borg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why not ask the easter bunny for peace in the middle east?

    How do you think all these anti-government protests in the middle east got started? I definitely see the easter bunny's paws in this one!

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  4. Re:Do not fall for the trolling by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Funny

    So what you're saying is they're two whores fighting over the same street corner.

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  5. I don't normally condone vigilantism.... by GeneralEmergency · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and I cherish the First Amendment above all the others.... ...but just this once....I'm gonna be spending all my time looking in another direction.

    And -Damn you to Hell- Fred Phelps, and your inbred collection of Olympic class haters, for pushing me to this hypocrisy.

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  6. Re:Hate meets hate? by Yvanhoe · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think the idea is to overwhelm the target websites with love.
    Something like 100,000 kind prayers a second.

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  7. Re:Hate meets hate? by Requiem18th · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, that was the work of the *middle* easter bunny.

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  8. Re:At LEAST it's better... by kevinNCSU · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not that I pity Westboro at all (hypocritical demon warshipers)...

    Fuck me, who let that crazy church build demon warships?!?!