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Congress has voted to set restrictions on protests at military funerals. This will hopefully deter them from even showing up.

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My daughter was one of the thousands that formed the wall in Missouri last month. Here is a news clip with her interviewed. She is the first girl interviewed in the video

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Good job Keith. I now know a celebrity.

Good job. It makes my day to see the younger generation embrace solid ethics. Gives me hope for the future. Congrats Keith for raising an active American patriot.

I am totally on board with the two hour limitation, but I'm not sure the 300 foot thing will hold up. 300 feet from family members when? If no protest is allowed during the ceremony then that's a moot point and beyond the two hours how is anyone to know who family members are? I thought a distance restriction was going to be within a certain distance of the ceremony and outside a certain time frame.

Like the stolen valor act this is well intentioned but counter to the 1st amendment.

If congress really wanted to nail Westboro Baptist Church revoke their tax exempt religious status and tax them to death with burdensome healthcare mandates. Like they are doing to the rest of the country

You raised a lady with some morale values.

psijac wrote:Like the stolen valor act this is well intentioned but counter to the 1st amendment.

If congress really wanted to nail Westboro Baptist Church revoke their tax exempt religious status and tax them to death with burdensome healthcare mandates. Like they are doing to the rest of the country

Agreed. Their political activism should negate their tax exempt status as it is.

I agree that I don't want Congress involved. These "human shields" are working just fine. It is time that WE stand up and fight this junk...not expect Congress or the police to do it for us.

What we really need is a SCOTUS ruling that beating the snot out of protesters is free speech.

Pawpaw wrote:What we really need is a SCOTUS ruling that beating the snot out of protesters is free speech.

And thanks for the complements on the daughter. I am pretty proud of her. However, she is a Journalism major, so hoping she can keep her conservative values and not drink the liberal media Kool-Aid. Luckily she wants to go into magazine editing, in particularly bridal magazines. Hopefully she can get a job with Southern Bride or another wedding magazine in the south where they understand that a Winchester 101 and wedding gown CAN compliment each other.

Keith, you have apparantly raised a fine daughter there and you should be proud. As you said, I just hope that she maintains those morals in the coming years of journalism.

I am a member of the Patriot Guard Riders and we stand a flag line for the fallen soldiers to keep the likes of the Westboro bunch away. There have been several times that a group of younger people (18-25 year olds I would guess) have joined us. I even have a picture of one of the PGR that brought his 10yo son and he was saluting as the family went by. It was great.

Keith B wrote:

Pawpaw wrote:What we really need is a SCOTUS ruling that beating the snot out of protesters is free speech.

And thanks for the complements on the daughter. I am pretty proud of her. However, she is a Journalism major, so hoping she can keep her conservative values and not drink the liberal media Kool-Aid. Luckily she wants to go into magazine editing, in particularly bridal magazines. Hopefully she can get a job with Southern Bride or another wedding magazine in the south where they understand that a Winchester 101 and wedding gown CAN compliment each other.

I'm with you Pawpaw...I've read before that several of these WBC folks have legal training and a very large part of what they do is designed to incite violence...then, when they get "roughed up", they can sue the municipality for not protecting them and their "free speech rights" to protest, OR that the municipality itself would, in trying to protect the funeral, do something to the WBC folks so that they would have an avenue to litigate about it. I wish I could find the link again where I read about this...the person who wrote the article seemed like they did some serious research into the background of these people...all this stuff about the military and folks' "orientation" was calculated to cause the most amount of irritation and upset, and emotions are already running high at a funeral for a soldier, sailor, airman or Marine...and like it was said above, I think the "human walls" and the groups of Patriot Guard riders are just as effective at blunting the effectivity of these vile trash as any law Congress may try to create. IF those WBC folks' KNEW they couldn't get anything out of this dirty little business of theirs, then they just might knock it off once and for all, and let these families grieve in peace.

Keith B wrote:And thanks for the complements on the daughter. I am pretty proud of her. However, she is a Journalism major, so hoping she can keep her conservative values and not drink the liberal media Kool-Aid. Luckily she wants to go into magazine editing, in particularly bridal magazines. Hopefully she can get a job with Southern Bride or another wedding magazine in the south where they understand that a Winchester 101 and wedding gown CAN compliment each other.

You need to lock your daughter up or at least make sure she is well-armed!

Same major that I went through...I ended up on the business-to-business / trade journal side of journalism (managing editor for five regional manufacturing engineering magazines). Always an option for her to consider. It's not as glamorous as a consumer mag but the rewards are quite nice! Pay and travel (international too) are quite good. There is the Garden & Gun magazine too...just throwing that out there....

While on the "What Your AR Says About You" web page (that AndyC posted) I saw this...thought it pretty fitting...

Blindref757 wrote:I agree that I don't want Congress involved. These "human shields" are working just fine. It is time that WE stand up and fight this junk...not expect Congress or the police to do it for us.

Amen brother. That's how America used to be. We dont need any more laws, especially to legislate behavior.

In Port Arthur, there is an ally behind the east side businesses on Houston Ave. Back in the day, it was a place where people got robbed, rolled, and held accountable for many offenses ranging from debts to bad behavior. (around the corner, there was a lynching of a bully on one of the lamp posts.) The alley was known as Mistreatment Alley.

I'm not endorsing Mistreatment Alley justice, but it serves as an example of how once there was a another law that dealt with those who had no respect for conventional law. Back then it all depended on which justice you chose to follow.

Pawpaw wrote:What we really need is a SCOTUS ruling that beating the snot out of protesters is free speech.

If burning the American Flag is covered under the 1A then I don't see why this shouldn't be either.