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Fred Phelps protests in Sweden - Nobody notices

Cromotar
07-09-2005, 11:30
From http://www.dagen.se/nyheter/artikel.asp?ID=94869

Loosely translated:


The controvertial American pastor Fred Phelps' visit to Sweden went by unnoticed. According to his parish the visit is already over.

Fred Phelps has become famous by spreading hate propaganda against homosexuals. After the ruling against Åke Green he has among other things said that "God hates Swedes". Phelps was to visit Sweden yesterday to "preach against the king".

"Yes, he's already been there. They held a protest outside the royal castle between 12 and 2 PM on Monday," says Megan Phelps Roper, member of Fred Phelps' bizarre parish, Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas.

Security officials and the royal court were prepared for the visit. But no Fred Phelps has been seen.

"No, we haven't seen or heard from him today," says Ann-Christin Jernberg, press spokesperson at the court.

What lies behind this mystery? Is Phelps too afraid to actually show his face here? Has he become so decadent that he now just claims to protest without actually going there? Is he actually dead and his parish are keeping up pretenses?

Or is it just that no one really cares?
Kanabia
07-09-2005, 11:33
He was last reported wearing that cowboy hat in a gay bar in central Stockholm.
Bolol
07-09-2005, 11:34
Heh heh heh...

There IS a God afterall!
Cabra West
07-09-2005, 11:47
Doesn't really surpirse me that much. He's much more of a celebrity in the US than he is in Europe. If he had protested, I guess people would have smile at him in a slightly bemused manner and would have walked on...
Soviet Haaregrad
07-09-2005, 11:51
People in civilized areas don't show concern for ignorant barbarians, they snicker and continue with their day.
Fass
08-09-2005, 00:07
That is so weird. There really are no signs of him having been here. So not only do they hate, they lie. Colour me unsurprised.
Kroisistan
08-09-2005, 00:09
That is so weird. There really are no signs of him having been here. So not only do they hate, they lie. Colour me unsurprised.

Mr. Fass, if you see him, could you please kick his ass? Please? :)
Sildavya
08-09-2005, 00:09
maybe he got raped by a gay swedish prince...
Vetalia
08-09-2005, 00:10
I was hoping his no-show was somehow due to his timely death...too bad. Just being a coward and a liar again. Maybe he's afraid of some of the homosexuals would kick his ass up and down the country.
Lunatic Goofballs
08-09-2005, 00:11
maybe he got raped by a gay swedish prince...

YAY! :D
Fass
08-09-2005, 00:12
Mr. Fass, if you see him, could you please kick his ass? Please? :)

People like that aren't worth the ruined manicure.
Nadkor
08-09-2005, 00:13
They probably just thought he was some drunken lunatic and passed on by smiling.
Kroisistan
08-09-2005, 00:15
People like that aren't worth the ruined manicure.

... You could beat him with a shoe or something. Make sure it's an old, ugly shoe though because you should burn it when you're done.

Or... I have a better idea. Come onto him. Really. Then when he attacks you, get him arrested. The ultimate revenge - Phelps jailed in Sweden.
Domici
08-09-2005, 00:15
From http://www.dagen.se/nyheter/artikel.asp?ID=94869

Loosely translated:



What lies behind this mystery? Is Phelps too afraid to actually show his face here? Has he become so decadent that he now just claims to protest without actually going there? Is he actually dead and his parish are keeping up pretenses?

Or is it just that no one really cares?

You got to hand it to the guy. It's a creative excuse to take a vacation in a place that you've already publicly said God should obliterate.
Vetalia
08-09-2005, 00:15
They probably just thought he was some drunken lunatic and passed on by smiling.

There are drunks who are more coherent than him...those people should have given him a kick in the nads or two.
Fass
08-09-2005, 00:16
maybe he got raped by a gay swedish prince...

We have a surprising low amount of those, not being German and all. There were rumours (and pictures!) about HRH Prince Carl Philip (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Carl_Philip%2C_Duke_of_V%C3%A4rmland), the duke of Wermelandia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wermelandia), but his current live-in girlfriend is acting quite the convincing beard (http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=543957). Shame, really. :(
Fass
08-09-2005, 00:20
... You could beat him with a shoe or something. Make sure it's an old, ugly shoe though because you should burn it when you're done.

Umm, I'm gay. I have no ugly, old shoes. :p

Or... I have a better idea. Come onto him. Really. Then when he attacks you, get him arrested. The ultimate revenge - Phelps jailed in Sweden.

Nah, he doesn't deserve the publicity and the outcry sure to come from his fellow American fundamentalists, itching for an excuse to attempt to rail on us for being such godless liberals. This is a fitting end to his attention-whoring. It gave us a few laughs at the American Christian right and that's about it.
Vetalia
08-09-2005, 00:26
Interestingly enough, not a word on Phelps' site. It appears the "King of Fags, King of Zoophiles, King of Pedophiles, and King of Incestuous Perverts" has driven off the jackass again.

I agree, time to ignore him. But plunger sodomy followed by death would be a fitting end.
Kroisistan
08-09-2005, 00:26
Umm, I'm gay. I have no ugly, old shoes. :p



Nah, he doesn't deserve the publicity and the outcry sure to come from his fellow American fundamentalists, itching for an excuse to attempt to rail on us for being such godless liberals. This is a fitting end to his attention-whoring. It gave us a few laughs at the American Christian right and that's about it.

Okay I concede. We'll all just agree to ignore him, and hope he goes away.

...
...either that or trap him in a bathroom and sodomize him with a plunger :p ...

...
Okay okay, we'll ignore his homophobic ass.
CthulhuFhtagn
08-09-2005, 00:34
People like that aren't worth the ruined manicure.
My suspicions have been confirmed! Fass isn't gay! If he was gay, he'd know that kicking people ruins the pedicure! :p
Fass
08-09-2005, 00:39
My suspicions have been confirmed! Fass isn't gay! If he was gay, he'd know that kicking people ruins the pedicure! :p

I don't have a pedicure. I'm not that gay! Plus, I do taekwondo, so it would be a waste of money.
Vetalia
08-09-2005, 00:41
I don't have a pedicure. I'm not that gay! Plus, I do taekwondo, so it would be a waste of money.

Really? What belt are you? I used to do it but had to quit when I moved to Cleveland.
JuNii
08-09-2005, 00:42
I vote this...
Or is it just that no one really cares?
Fass
08-09-2005, 00:47
Really? What belt are you? I used to do it but had to quit when I moved to Cleveland.

Blue with a red stripe. I should actually have been a red with two or three black stripes by now, but I don't have the time to put into the kind of studying and practising that goes into advancing, so I just go because it's fun and a great form of exercise. What was yours?
Vetalia
08-09-2005, 00:54
Blue with a red stripe. I should actually have been a red with two or three black stripes by now, but I don't have the time to put into the kind of studying and practising that goes into advancing, so I just go because it's fun and a great form of exercise. What was yours?

In our belt system (Ahn Taekwondo Institute) it was navy blue with two black tips. Effectively, I was on the verge of getting my black belt; I had memorized Koryo and was very clost to 1st Dan. I was even taught by Grandmaster Ahn at his main school in Blue Ash, Ohio. (I lived only 2 or 3 miles away)

http://www.ahntkd.com/index.htm for reference.
Sdaeriji
08-09-2005, 01:01
... You could beat him with a shoe or something. Make sure it's an old, ugly shoe though because you should burn it when you're done.

Or... I have a better idea. Come onto him. Really. Then when he attacks you, get him arrested. The ultimate revenge - Phelps jailed in Sweden.

Mr. Phelps doesn't attack people. He waits until people attack him and then sues everyone within sight.
Fass
08-09-2005, 01:03
In our belt system (Ahn Taekwondo Institute) it was navy blue with two black tips.

The belt system used here:
http://hem.passagen.se/tkdavesta/grafik/huvudsid/belts2.jpg

They really should standardise.

Effectively, I was on the verge of getting my black belt; I had memorized Koryo and was very clost to 1st Dan. I was even taught by Grandmaster Ahn at his main school in Blue Ash, Ohio. (I lived only 2 or 3 miles away)

http://www.ahntkd.com/index.htm for reference.

I'm even more impressed by you now.
Bunnyducks
08-09-2005, 01:06
Mr. Phelps doesn't attack people. He waits until people attack him and then sues everyone within sight.
He sounds like very zen.
The Downmarching Void
08-09-2005, 01:45
He sounds like very zen.


About as Zen as a Midget dressed in violent pink leotards walking down the street and kicking random men in the shins.
Heikoku
08-09-2005, 18:40
About as Zen as a Midget dressed in violent pink leotards walking down the street and kicking random men in the shins.

*Pictures that*

Oookay, no more LSD for you...
Kanabia
08-09-2005, 18:59
About as Zen as a Midget dressed in violent pink leotards walking down the street and kicking random men in the shins.

You've been watching me, haven't you... :(
Borgoa
08-09-2005, 20:53
Who is Fred Phelps?
Liskeinland
08-09-2005, 21:06
Who is Fred Phelps? I can't link to it from here, but look him up. Especially on Wikipedia.
Super-power
08-09-2005, 21:07
ROFL Ahahahahah!!!!
Borgoa
08-09-2005, 21:08
I can't link to it from here, but look him up. Especially on Wikipedia.
I was being sarcastic ;) Look where I am from....