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On Monday, 22 April 2013 17:44:57 UTC-3, JustWaitAFrekinMinute! wrote:
On 4/22/2013 12:26 PM, J Herring wrote:

On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:04:05 -0400, Hank© wrote:

On 4/22/2013 10:58 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:

Teamsters gather outside Medford church to shield Krystle M. Campbell?s

funeral Mass from possible Westboro Baptist Church protesters

MEDFORD - Some 200 members of Teamsters Local 25 members began gathering

at St. Joseph?s Church before 8 a.m. today, promising to block

protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church if they follow through on a

threat to picket the funeral of Krystle M. Campbell, who died in the

Boston Marathon bombings.

Campbell?s funeral Mass is set for 11 a.m., a week after the bombings.

Sean O?Brien, president and principal officer of Teamster?s local, said

the community reached out to the Teamsters yesterday ?because they know

how influential we are.?

?It?s the right thing to do,? O?Brien said of the decision to protect

the funeral. ?The family deserves a peaceful grieving process that?s

free from any coward-led group.?

O?Brien said the Teamsters mobilized their members and other unions

through Twitter and Facebook yesterday. He added that about 350

Teamsters are expected this morning, ?and we can get 1,000 if we need

them.?

The Westboro church is a fringe religious organization whose members

stage protests at high-profile funeral services to draw attention to

their views. At 9:30 a.m., no church members were visible in the crowd

growing around the church. The service is set for 11 a.m. today.

On Sunday, about 1,000 mourners attended Campbell?s wake at the Dello

Russo funeral home here.

A funeral director said that among those who came to pay their respects

were US Senator Elizabeth Warren, US Representative Edward Markey,

Attorney General Martha Coakley, Medford Mayor Michael McGlynn, and

Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone.

Mourners waited in a line that sometimes lasted nearly an hour and a

half to file by photo displays chronicling Campbell?s life from when she

was a baby through her childhood and teen years to when she was an adult.

Through all the photos, her smile and freckles were ever-present.

Campbell was one of three people murdered during the April 15 terrorist

bombing that also wounded more than 170, some of whom lost legs or other

limbs from the shrapnel the bomb makers put inside their explosives,

officials said.

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In the good old days, the Teamsters would have beaten the Westboro

assholes to a pulp.

Wouldn't you know that wherever there is potential for violence, the

unions are drawn like flies on ****.

Wonder where the union folks were during the funerals for the soldiers killed in Iraq?

Salmonbait

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'Name-calling' - the liberals' last stand.

There was nothing for them there... They are only doing this to glom

onto the Boston families thing.. Kind of like harry and jps rubbing

blood on their ****s every time somebody dies with a gun. It's all for

the photo op, after all, the WBC has been kept in check by HA and Vets

for years now...

You really are crazy as a bedbug.

Just now figuring that out??