Teamsters to help circle Medford church to let Krystle Campbell be remembered in peace

By adamg on Sun, 04/21/2013 - 8:43pm

This just in from Teamsters Local 25:

"Teamsters Local 25 will be out in full force tomorrow morning at St. Joseph's Church in Medford to form a human shield and block the Westboro Baptist Church from protesting the funeral of Krystle Campbell," said Sean M. O'Brien, president/principal officer of Teamsters Local 25, headquartered in Boston and representing 11,000 members from the area. "The Campbell family and friends have already endured immeasurable amounts of heartache and tragedy this week, and deserve a peaceful funeral with time to grieve privately."

"Westboro Baptist Church should understand that we will go to great lengths to make sure they don't protest any funerals of the victims of the past week's tragedies, and that those we lost receive a proper burial," O'Brien said.

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Comments

So glad to see this!

By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 04/21/2013 - 9:23pm.

I need to work tomorrow, yet I was torn. My husband was considering a vacation day. If they went for the Cemetery, there were rumors that the High School might empty out.

Glad that these folks could give their time so that the community can carry on and bury one of its own.

I wish I could be there too.

By SupGup on Sun, 04/21/2013 - 9:26pm.

I wish I could be there too. Pretty sure the Teamsters can handle it in my absence. Once again, the bad guys picked the wrong city.

Now THIS is a good use for a

By Omri on Sun, 04/21/2013 - 9:54pm.

Now THIS is a good use for a Teamsters sound truck.

Non-Teamsters as well

By anon on Sun, 04/21/2013 - 9:51pm.

My neighbor is going as well and she isn't a Teamster. May have heard about it on FaceBook.

More the merrier, I say. I'd be there as well if I could get out of work.

What would Jesus do? The

By anon on Sun, 04/21/2013 - 9:55pm.

What would Jesus do? The complete opposite of what the Westboro "Baptist" Church would do.

Watch the BBC documentary with Louis Theroux about WBC. It's repulsive and bizarre but also...in some ways it reminds you that they're really much smaller than they'd like you to think. Really just one sad, creepy, screwed-up family of attention whores.

So in other words

By anon on Mon, 04/22/2013 - 7:11am.

the Kardashians of Topeka Kansas?

Worse than that

By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 04/22/2013 - 7:33am.

They're lawyering attention whores.

Flesh trolls - provoke responses to derail society.

Woody Allen said it best...

By Brian Riccio on Mon, 04/22/2013 - 12:48am.

Isaac Davis: Has anybody read that Nazis are gonna march in New Jersey? Y'know, I read this in the newspaper. We should go down there, get some guys together, y'know, get some bricks and baseball bats and really explain things to them.

Party Guest: There is this devastating satirical piece on that on the Op Ed page of the Times, it is devastating.

Isaac Davis: Well, a satirical piece in the Times is one thing, but bricks and baseball bats really gets right to the point.