I think going the federal way isn't the way to get to these guys. Civil lawsuits demanding crippling amounts of money would be better anyway.

I think the best way to deal with these guys is setting up a claymore in front of their next protest....

Wait for one of them to die and we could all show up at THEIR funeral and celebrate.

why wait to show up at their funerals?

Seriously, people should start picketing their homes, church, and where ever the members are employed. It would be simple to make their life very difficult, but do so in a legal manner. Use their own weapon against them.

As I have said many a time, I don't agree with them but they have every right to protest. Thus, I am glad that they can continue to do so, and free speech and assembly will continue to thrive in at least one way.

I don't want to agree but I do. If these people are banned from protesting a funeral then suddenly you'd be getting banned for protesting a lot of things. Just because people are morons doesn't mean they don't have a right to their own opinion. I would say I can be pretty moronic at times, would hate to be locked up for it.

but they aren't protesting the funeral. The funeral has nothing to do with anything they are protesting about.

In any case, that is why I suggest allow them to protest at the handful of funerals, meanwhile thousands of people protest at their homes, businesses, church, even places where they shop.

Make their life impossible using the same protest tools.

What they are doing is not just exercising free speech though, they are also invoking their right to "peaceably assemble". That's also constitutionally granted but there are restrictions on it. So the laws against them protesting at or near funerals are well within reason. They are granting these people the right to free speech and to peaceably assemble, they're just limiting the time and location of that assembly which is perfectly allowable under U.S. Constitutional law. Now, if they want to "singly" march up and down the street (not in a group) chanting their vitriol, they subvert the current restrictions but no one can stop them because that's a pure exercise of free speech. But they won't get much notice doing that so their real aim has nothing to do with what they're "preaching" and very little to do with free speech. They only get attention in numbers.

If I lived in the area, 2many; I would be doing just this.

Why is it that the crazy mass killers will go to a school or a mall and kill people but none would go to this church and take a dozen or 2 of these b*****ds out?

Imagine the mixed feelings that would produce.

While I agree to their right of free speach,that right ENDS at the point where they try to take away MY RIGHT to bury a deceased loved one in private with the dignity and respect they deserve.

Not if it's a public cemetery.

Free speech is such a dicey issue sometimes...personally, I would be disappointed with the lack of tact that the protesters displayed, but I would (somewhat reluctantly in this case) admit that they do have free speech. As long as they do not resort to blatant harrassment and taunting, then I feel - and this is backed by the Bill of Rights - that they are well within their rights to protest this abdominable war. Granted, a funeral is a disrespectful way to go, but all the same...

Only those who are purposefully pushing the limits feel the need to scream "FREE SPEECH! FREE SPEECH!"

That being said, Free speech does not allow you to just say whatever the heck you feel wherever the heck you want to go.

Free speech is the right of the individual to express their views without the government telling them what they are 'Allowed' to think or say. Nobody will stop them from standing in front of their own building and telling us what they think. The government (FCC) won't tell them what they are allowed to say on Television if they buy the commercial time during the superbowl.

BUT! The Government WILL and SHOULD stand up and say that they are not allowed to rush into a Library and scream their viewpoints. The Government will tell them to 'move along' if they are standing in the middle of an Emergency room and causing a disruption. And the Government SHOULD protect those people at a funeral from their rights to a peaceful assemby being intruded upon.

Everytime they cause pain for others they will receive grief in kind from the law abiding respectful citizens who do what IS right instead of abusing the bill of rights to cause grief for others!