CJOnline / The Topeka Capital-Journal - Walls close in on Phelpses
A federal judge in Maryland on Thursday ordered liens on the Westboro Baptist Church building and the Phelps-Chartered Law office.
If the case presided over by U.S. District Court Judge Richard D. Bennett is upheld by an appeals court, the church, at 3701 S.W. 12th, and the office building, at 1414 S.W. Topeka Blvd., could be obtained by the court and sold, with the proceeds being applied toward $5 million in damages Bennett imposed on church members for picketing a military funeral.
Great news. But these evil whackjobs are certifiably crazy - almost as nuts as a legal system that permits them to verbally and visually assault grieving family members at funerals of loved ones in the name of the First Amendment.
