Bombers and moonbats. A fine send-off for the Rev.

From The Sunday Morning Herald:

Police have arrested an American university student over a bomb plot connected to the funeral of controversial American evangelist Jerry Falwell, US media reports say.

The arrested man, 19-year-old Mark D Uhl, reportedly told police he had made the bombs to prevent protesters from disrupting Mr Falwell's funeral, held in Virginia yesterday.

The reports said Uhl is a student at Liberty University, a Christian institution founded by Mr Falwell, who referred to it as a "Bible boot camp".

The undergraduate student had allegedly stored several homemade bombs in his car, and police were hunting three other suspects, including a soldier and a high school student, the ABC News report said.

The bombs were "slow burn" devices made of gasoline and detergent, and would not have been very destructive, a law enforcement official told ABC News.

What this report doesn't say is that the protesters were from the Westboro "Baptist Church" (they are in fact neither Baptist or a church):

The members of Westobo Baptist Church carried placards accusing Falwell of being in league with gays and of cozying up to Israel.

The church, which operates the GodHatesFags Web site, had warned Lynchburg police in advance they were coming.

On its site Westboro, run by Rev. Fred Phelps, called Falwell, a "corpulent false prophet" and said he"spent his entire life prophesying lies and false doctrines like 'God loves everyone.'"

In attacking Falwell the church says he "warmly praised Christ-rejecting Jews, pedophile-condoning Catholics, money-grubbing compromisers, practicing fags like Mel White (of Souflorce), and backsliders like Billy Graham and Robert Schuler, etc."

OK, they have a point about Schuler, but like Mother Calhoon says, "even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while".

It's kind of hard not to feel that a little homemade napalm would be just the thing for these alpha-hotels. They are, you'll remember, the group (I will not call them a church) which pickets military funerals with signs saying that the deceased are in hell.

But then again, they'll be getting all the fire they can handle soon enough.