If these victims have not suffered enough and will continue to suffer a piece was brought to my attention in which Fred Phelps of the Westboro Church will be picketing at the funerals of these victims.
On their web site, this is posted, “WBC will preach at the funerals of the Virginia Tech students killed on campus during a shooting rampage April 16, 2007. You describe this as monumental horror, but you know nothing of horror — yet. Your bloody tyrant Bush says he is ‘horrified’ by it all. You know nothing of horror — yet. Your true horror is coming. ‘They shall also gird themselves with sackloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads’ (Eze. 7:18).” As if we did not think the words of a killer were horrific enough, this group sees fit to invade the privacy of the family members left behind.
Oh and we thought that Don Imus was bad in which many cheered of his firing, at least he apologized. This group never does apologize. This group has also picketed the funerals of our dead soldiers; yet where is the country’s outrage in doing so? How come we do not see any wall-to-wall coverage by the media as this group is has picketed funerals of our fallen soldiers who came back from Iraq? Will the country speak out in outrage as they picket the funerals of these victims?
If hearing from Fred Phelps was not bad enough, enter stage right is Ann Coulter’s opinion of this tragedy in a World Net Daily column titled, “Let’s make America a ‘sad free zone’! It is not as much as what she opined of this tragedy but past statements concerning the NY Times building opining that Timothy McVeigh blow it up or that rat poison should be put into Supreme Court John Paul Stevens Crème Brule in which both are words that could have led to violence. Should some nut-case put her words into action; a judge would have been dead and countless others in the NY Times building. Also let us not forget her opinions of the genocide that is going on in Darfur.
In all three cases, are we to listen to the likes of Ann Coulter in order to help not only the Virginia Tech community, but how that tragedy is affecting the rest of our country? She should be the last person we turn to. Just go away, Ann and let compassionate people figure this out.
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