More stupidity of the far right: Fred Phelps and John Derbyshire
While the Virginia Tech shooting was indeed horrifying, some nutheads out there actually feel invigorated to see such pain and suffering. They are too often out of touch with reality and associated with the far right fascists. Crooks and Liars has coverage of Fred Phelps and John Derbyshire's atrocious handling of the VT massacre.
1) Fred Phelps is the far right-wing pastor in Kansas who preaches the murder at Virginia Tech was a justified act of God.
2) John Derbyshire is the old loser at the National Review who hates everyone and everything. His writings express hatred for himself and the world, and he is a close associate of Steve Sailer. In his latest hatefest, he starts ranting against the victims of Virginia Tech.
1) Fred Phelps is the far right-wing pastor in Kansas who preaches the murder at Virginia Tech was a justified act of God.
The Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), which is not affiliated with any national Baptist organization, announced plans to protest at victims' funerals only hours after 32 people were killed in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. They also may protest at other events on the Virginia Tech campus.
The organization, founded and led by Fred Phelps, believes the United States has condemned itself to destruction by accepting homosexuality and other "sins of the flesh." Phelps' daughter, Shirley Phelps-Roper, said the Virginia Tech teachers and students who died on Monday brought their fate upon themselves by not being true Christians.
"The evidence is they were not Christian. God does not do that to his servants," Phelps-Roper said. "You don't need to look any further for evidence those people are in hell."
Cho Seung-Hui, the Virginia Tech student responsible for the killings who took his own life after the shootings, was sent by God to punish those he killed, and America as a whole, for moral decline, said Phelps-Roper, while adding that she believes Cho is also in hell for violating God's commandment to not kill.
"He is in hell," Phelps-Roper said. "But he was also fulfilling the word of God."
2) John Derbyshire is the old loser at the National Review who hates everyone and everything. His writings express hatred for himself and the world, and he is a close associate of Steve Sailer. In his latest hatefest, he starts ranting against the victims of Virginia Tech.
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Fred Phelps has actually campaigned in support of Democrats and as a Democrat. He has also been supportive of Fidel Castro and Saddam Hussein against the U.S government. He is not a Republican. I don't try to tar Democrats as being represented by him, because they obviously are not and I'm not compelled to spout bull like you. The sooner you realize neither political party is worth a damn, voting is irrational, and the political squabbles of our time are essentially feces-throwing contests between a bunch of monkeys, the happier you'll be.
P.S, what did this or most of your blog entries have to do with Steve Sailer? Reason's "Hit and Run" jumped on him for bringing up "Oldboy" after the Virginia Tech shootings, the least you could do was make a note of it.
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Albert Jay Nock, at 4:23 PM
While Fred Phelps ran as a Democratic candidate imposter in the past and lost, he is truly a right-wing fascist. Fred Phelps:
* Hates homosexuals to death.
* Hates AIDS victims.
* Hates abortion doctors.
* Hates the Clintons and the Democrats.
* Hates anyone who is not a right-wing Christian cult member.
* Hates anyone who does not look like him.
BTW, the Republicans sure loved Saddam Hussein in his heydays.
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sailerfraud, at 6:01 PM
Hating homosexuals (and Swedes, and Americans, and soldiers, and the Amish and so on...) is not sufficient to make one a right-winger. Phelps doesn't hate "people who don't look like him", he was a civil-rights lawyer in the 60s, and he has used that to assert his more-liberal-than-thou credentials against Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center. You have a very simplistic world-view which causes you to label all whites you dislike as "right-wing", even if they have never given themselves that label or (in the case of Phelps) would reject it. You never seem to acknowledge that a person can both do much bad (most of what Phelps does) but also some good (working for civil rights, opposing the Iraq war).
Hating Bill Clinton does not make him right-wing either. He also hates Bush, Reagan and "right-wing Christians" you try to lump him in with like Falwell, Robertson and Graham. He and his family have been called "evil", "sick" and damned to hell to their faces by right-wing talking-heads on Fox News and elsewhere.
I am not saying this to defend his religious message. I'm an agnotheist. I'm not trying to tar those who oppose the Iraq war or ennoble those who support it, as I myself am an isolationist opposed to pretty much every war the United States has engaged in. I am saying this because you put out an extremely distorted and incorrect view of the world that is the result of trying to force it into a simplistic paradigm.
Regarding Saddam, his Iraq was a Soviet, not an American, client state. That's why during the Iran-Iraq war the Soviet equipment was on the Iraqi side and the American equipment was on the Iranian side (the Shah's Iran was an American client state). You can look at the numbers and see how piddly the contribution of the U.S was to Iraq. The Iranian revolution caused only a small alignment of interests, and one not sufficient to stop the U.S from also assisting the Iranians through Iran-Contra. Your take is not as off as other ones I frequently come across (commonly believed by the same people who think the U.S created al Qaeda or the Taliban), but "loved" is never the right word for the attitude of the American government toward a Soviet client state (in addition opposed to all the regimes friendly with the U.S in the region) during the Cold War.
I was somewhat surprised my comment got approved. Here's to continued conversation.
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Albert Jay Nock, at 9:23 PM
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