Internet Celebrates Small-Town Police for Squelching Free Speech
The feel-good blog item of the day is the story of when the
small town of Brandon, Mississippi successfully foiled Westboro
Baptist Church's plan to protest a Marine's funeral. (Here is a
video of the refreshingly protester-free road as Marine Staff
Sgt. Jason Rogers is returned home on April 14.) How'd they do
it? They sicced the police on them and beat them up.  Here is
the story that is blowing up the blogosphere, which was
originally posted on an Ole Miss sports message board:
[Westboro Baptist Church] did show up, a few showed up a couple
of days early.  A couple of days before, one of them ran his
mouth at a Brandon gas station and got his ass waxed. Police
were called and the beaten man could not give much of a
description of who beat him. When they canvassed the station and
spoke to the large crowd that had gathered around, no one seemed
to remember anything about what had happened.  Rankin County
handled this thing perfectly. There we