Arlington National Cemetery Scene Of KKK VS Westboro baptist cult

It has been widely reported for years that members of the Westboro baptist cult protest at funerals of military men and women.

However, CNN is reporting that on Memorial Day outside the Arlington National Cemetery, members of Westboro Baptist Church were confronted by a group of counter-protesters, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).

According to CNN, three members of the Westboro baptist cult were met by a small group, claiming to be a branch of the Knights of the Southern Cross out of Virginia.

The news station is reporting that the confrontation happened just hours before President Barack Obama led the annual  Memorial Day observances at the Tomb of the Unknowns.

Dennis LaBonte, of the KKK group, told the CNN reporter, that the soldiers, who the church members are protesting, are the same ones who fought to give them their right to free speech.

In a counter comment, Abigail Phelps, the daughter of the Westboro cult founder, said that the KKK can counter protest, because they have no moral authority on anything. (talk about the kettle calling the pot black!)

Click on CNN to read more on this story.

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Reportedly, people passing by the incident shouted their thanks to the counter-protesters.

While this Southerner is not the biggest fan of the Klan - in fact, not a fan in any sense of the word - one has to hand it to them for this.
You know you have to be a very special kind of hate group for another hate group to protest you.

Or as one blogger from Down Under put it:

Even the KKK think the Westboro baptist wankers suck