Alan Fitzgerald: Article Rebuttal
Article Rebuttal
Alan Fitzgerald
BCOM/275
January 24, 2013
Jo Bogan
Article Rebuttal
“The Night America Bombed Westboro Baptist Church With An IED (Improvised Explosive Device) In A Cowardly Move To Stop WBC 's Anti-Gay Gospel Preaching - Thereby Bringing Down The Unmitigated And Irreversible Wrath Of God Upon This Evil Nation, Manifesting Itself In The Daily Bloody IED-Deaths Of American Soldiers In Iraq And Other Places.” Shirley Phelps-Roper
Thank God for the bombing of the WBC!
On August 20, 1995, Shirley Phelps-Roper, attendee of the WBC, heard an explosion outside of her home in Topeka, Kansas sometime after 11:00 pm. After going to see where the noise came from, she called the police department to report the explosion. The police department told her that they had already had news of the blast and that it wasn’t from her house, yet a mile away from where she lives. She had to call them back several times before an officer finally responded to investigate the situation and gather evidence of the crime.
IED debris The family was eager to gather their own evidence and do their own investigation, since that is how they were used to being treated in the past. They found orange plastic debris from the bombing in other yards as far away as the length of a football field. News stations reported that the blast was not aimed at WBC since there were other blasts that same evening around the town.
Interviews and questions Throughout the next few days, Shirley and her husband were interviewed by the Fire Marshal and ATF. They discovered that they weren’t being questioned about the bombing, yet to get information about her brother who had been doing his own investigation to find the source of the bombing. After long periods of questioning, Shirley and her husband decided that they were not gaining any ground in the investigations, so they left since they were not going to get any help from the authorities.
Vicious hate of the Community toward
Alan Fitzgerald
BCOM/275
January 24, 2013
Jo Bogan
Article Rebuttal
“The Night America Bombed Westboro Baptist Church With An IED (Improvised Explosive Device) In A Cowardly Move To Stop WBC 's Anti-Gay Gospel Preaching - Thereby Bringing Down The Unmitigated And Irreversible Wrath Of God Upon This Evil Nation, Manifesting Itself In The Daily Bloody IED-Deaths Of American Soldiers In Iraq And Other Places.” Shirley Phelps-Roper
Thank God for the bombing of the WBC!
On August 20, 1995, Shirley Phelps-Roper, attendee of the WBC, heard an explosion outside of her home in Topeka, Kansas sometime after 11:00 pm. After going to see where the noise came from, she called the police department to report the explosion. The police department told her that they had already had news of the blast and that it wasn’t from her house, yet a mile away from where she lives. She had to call them back several times before an officer finally responded to investigate the situation and gather evidence of the crime.
IED debris The family was eager to gather their own evidence and do their own investigation, since that is how they were used to being treated in the past. They found orange plastic debris from the bombing in other yards as far away as the length of a football field. News stations reported that the blast was not aimed at WBC since there were other blasts that same evening around the town.
Interviews and questions Throughout the next few days, Shirley and her husband were interviewed by the Fire Marshal and ATF. They discovered that they weren’t being questioned about the bombing, yet to get information about her brother who had been doing his own investigation to find the source of the bombing. After long periods of questioning, Shirley and her husband decided that they were not gaining any ground in the investigations, so they left since they were not going to get any help from the authorities.
Vicious hate of the Community toward
References: Phelps-Roper, S. (1995, August 20). WBC Bombing. Retrieved from http://www.godhatesfags.com/bombing