I'm sorry, but I'm gonna be the odd man out. I see nothing to be proud of here. I think its UnAmerican its insulting to the soldiers that died to prevent this very thing from happening.

I canÆt believe folks don't get how wrong this all is.

Beating up a man over political views? His political speech? Doesn't that ring a bell to anyone? Like say, the Soviet Union? Nazi Germany? China?

There are lots of people who views greatly offend me, including the Westboro nuts, but I would NEVER, dream of beating someone for their political views of all things. And that includes cheering on people who did.

As for as the folks who refused to talk to the cops, I wouldn't be surprised if at least one person in that crowd had a consious and desperately wanted to talk to the cops, but was in fear for their lives? This was a mob and if a mob is willing to beat up people over their speech, they could be just as willing to beat up a perfectly innocent person who dared to talked. Just digusting.

But its the actions of the government officials that are the real problem. Using government power to not only illegally quell free speech, but to bully and ultimately deprive people of their liberty over their political views goes against everything our constitution stands for and everything that soldier swore an oath too and ultimately died for.

The Constitution was specifically written to protect citizens from the abuses and oppression of the government. EXACTLY what happened here is EXACTLY why the Constitution was written and what it is suppose to defend us from.

To use government vehicles to oppress people and block their cars in just because they had the same state license plates as the people you politically oppose? Even if they had the moral right to block only the actual Westboro protesters, which they did not, what about the poor innocent people who may have just happen to have been from Kansas but were perfectly innocent?

But worst of all, the illegal arrest and detention of innocent people by bullying cops? over what? THEIR POLITICAL VIEWS???

It never ceases to amaze me what otherwise very honorable and reasonable people are willing to do and put with up in support of their view point or opposing someone elseÆs, never realizing that one day, the roles could easily be reversed.

I donÆt like the Westboro idiots one single bit more than anyone else. The moment the idiots stepped on private property uninvited, I would condone any action necessary to legally remove them. And I do mean legally. Obviously if they are trespassing, then arrest them. If they are committing a real crime and the police would otherwise arrest anyone else, then by God, arrest them. I have no problem with any of that.

But if what I read was true, the people here were nothing more than Soviet like thugs, oppressing political viewpoints they disagree with.

IÆm sure they are well meaning people. Our history is full of well meaning thugs who strung up people they didnÆt agree with.

Good people do bad things all the time, because they think what they were doing was right. That the ends justified the means. But it doesn't. Not even in this case.

Please reconsider your position on what happened here. The future of our country and constitution depends on it.

IMO.