This diary isn't intended to be long, just to the point.
I'm a student at Virginia Tech. We all know the tragedy that occurred at my school on 4/16. I wasn't here when that happened, but I stop by at the memorial as much as I can to remember, because we will never forget. I can never truly understand the pain that the family, friends, and peers went through on that day and onward, just like how I can never understand what a soldier's family goes through when he gives the ultimate sacrifice for our country.
That's why I'm really pissed off.
This Friday Westboro Baptist Church is coming to Virginia Tech to protest and claim that we deserved that day. There will be counter-protests, of course, but that's not what I want this diary to be about.
Those bastards at Westboro Baptist Church just want attention. They want attention because their church only has 100 members that's almost entirely family members. They just want us to be mad, shout back, and most importantly, talk about them.
You know what, I'm not giving in. I'm not going to that counter-protest. I won't waste my time on such low lives. The 32 that died that day wouldn't want me to waste my time arguing with such disgusting human beings.
So I'm asking the entire daily kos family (is it weird to say family?, I really don't want to sound like these guys ) to PLEASE stop making diaries about Westboro Baptist Church.
I know it sounds like I'm saying that we shouldn't condone them. That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that we shouldn't give these guys what they want, and what they want is a lot of attention. That's why virtually the only way to make them mad is to take pictures with them smiling. They hate us being happy. They hate people being who they are. They hate it when we live our lives acting like they're not even there.
So lets do that.