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Updated: 10:36 AM Aug 4, 2008
Phelps Calls Fire "Hate Crime"
Westboro Baptist Church Pastor Fred Phelps sent the U.S. Attorney General's Office a letter requesting that the fire at his home be treated as a hate crime. Posted: 10:30 AM Aug 4, 2008 |
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The pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church has asked Attorney general Mike Mukasey to treat the fire at their home over the weekend as a "hate crime."
Pastor Fred Phelps sent the Attorney General's office a letter Sunday claiming "[t]here is evidence that hatred of our religion was the motivation, in part at least."
The letter calls upon the Department of Justice, as well as the other law enforcement agencies who received copies of the letter, to involve themselves in the investigation and treat it as a violation of Federal Civil Rights and Hate Crime legislation. State Attorney General Stephen Six and Shawnee Co. District Attorney Robert Hecht were also listed as recipients.
In the letter, Phelps asserts the fire began as two elderly people slept inside the church; and, though Phelps credits the rapid response of the Topeka Fire Dept., he states that preliminary estimates range from $20,000 to $30,000 in damages.
Investigators believe the fire began when two large trash cans were set on fire as well as a garage and wooden privacy fence.
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It is truly interesting that this Jew hating turd, Fred Phelps appealed to Michael Mukasey who is an Orthodox Jew ,about the fire at his den of hatred!!!! I hope "Freddy Kruger" Phelps returns to New York City with his inbred family to get their asses kicked!!!!
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If any act is an act of God, the burning of the Phelps church is one. Irony levels sky high.
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I am all the way from Orange County Ca. I ended up here by doing a furious Google search of these evil, wreckless and dangerous people. I would not only be ashamed to live in the same zip code, I would vomit to be a reporter in thier same home town having to report the news on them. They make your town look tragic, backwoods and redneck. Someone probably took the intiative to clean the city up. Take A STAND FOR YOURSELVES PEOPLE. Picket them. Spray them with hoses. Drive them out of your town!!! If you arent outraged enough, you can at least take it to your city government. The KKK have more tact then these people.
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