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Dateline: Here and Now

Subject: Westboro Baptist Church

Reddit, What could a person with a lot of money do to legally disrupt the Westboro Baptist church?

A rich person could do the following:

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Announce plans for a large, multi-use public building. Be vague about the final purpose (Use Karl Rove's SuperPAC application as a guide). A few weeks later, with cooperation of nearby residents and business begin buying parcels of land and homes and business buildings (keep the leases or grandfather current residents in). Let the property owners in on the joke, and have a side contract for a return sale to them for a 25% profit anytime they want.

File a petition (power of REDDIT) to Westboro's city council and have them condemn the church as blocking a vital new facility. The church will fight back.

Action Plan:

Make the entire circumference of the Church property into a construction zone. Begin moving 100 loads of gravel each Sunday and Wednesday into the "construction site". 50 loads in, 49 loads out.

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Eventually, the church will be condemned for public good, it will be paid for (not generously) by a contribution you make to the general fund.

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Turn the building and any properties that you now own free and clear into a youth center and GLBT tolerance museum, featuring our slain heroic men and women of all genders, and returning soldiers as primary exhibits.

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Then we all get to go to heaven, if it exists. If you aren't there when I arrive, I'm calling a cab.

Maybe we need to find the guy who owns this boat: