FBI admits training members of anti-gay hate group Westboro Baptist Church

okay, as long as the seals train Green Peace, I would consider that fair.

What ever happened to protect us from enemies foreign AND domestic, and believe you me, these fucking freaks are enemies to the Constitution.

So what does one of the largest police departments do? They TRAIN an enemy of the state, and put people like you and me on no-fly lists.

To the FBI ( I hope you read this ) I want you to go fuck yourselves and realizes you are now the enemy of the American people. You have become the SS Storm Troopers.

i always wondered if the government payed protesters...now i know

I knew they had to be a government connected operation.

There is no way in hell the FBI accidentally trained these religious kooks.

So let's recap on all of the shennanigans that the FBI has been involved with:

The FBI has trained Hal Turner, a fake neo-nazi and white supremacist, to make an internet broadcast and to try and get people to e-mail him after making threats against Jews, minorities, and politicians like Cynthia McKinney.

The FBI has organized fake terror in order to keep the fake war on terror TSA bullshit going by working with Muslim extremists whom they trained to take part in terror drills and then arrested them for terrorism.

The FBI trained an Egyptian explosive expert to build a fake bomb for a terror drill on the WTC, and then at the last minute, told him to build a real bomb which ultimately killed six and injuring thousands.

The FBI worked with more neo-nazis when they helped organize a neo-nazi rally in Orlando.

The FBI had an undercover FBI agent who was a member of the Hutaree militia. The FBI then arrested the members of Hutaree were then arrested on conspiracy charges.

So who are the terrorists?

It doesn't inspire much confidence that the FBI is associating with these whackjobs. Next the Aryan Brotherhood and HUD get togethor?

No surprise, the roots of McCarthyism from the 1950s' and 60s' are still present - I have had personal harassment experiences from the DEA and a bunch of state and local "personnel" who used us for SWAT training in 1993 under the premise of "Gay." Hatred: a social scission growing within.

At first I was floored by the headline... It sounded like the WBC was GETTING training FROM the FBI. I thought wtf!? But reading the full article at the link, it seems a LOT different... sort of like the FBI tricked the WBC into training them to know how the WBC idiots think, and how to negotiate with/investigate them and similar groups. Knowing what the FBI has done to the civil rights movement, environmental, anti-war and other non-violent groups it is almost enough to make me feel bad for the WBC... ALMOST... but not really.

FBI= Friggin Brainless Idiots. And to think I have relations that work for them and I at one time use to for about a month that is. Even then I knew they were Idiots.

The ones that need training is the News Media, they just need to turn their cameras away from any action, and this group will learn a lesson.

WHY?

"...The bureau underestimated how the involvement of the outside organization would be perceived." - Anonymous FBI official.

Really? Are the people who make decisions in the FBI that fucking stupid?; Or was that simple, shameless bias? Either way, whoever extended the invitation to W.B. Church should go to the back of the unemployment line.

OK, I am starting the Liberals Against Foolish Fundies group to protest outside of Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, KA every time they have people show up for worship. I feel it is my right to let them know that their god is ashamed of them for allowing Phelps to preach hate and cause so much pain to grieving families.

And I expect the FBI to train me and any other LAFF members on how to best use high powered weapons. Should the FBI not allow us to join such training, for LAFFs I will endeavour to find some lawyers who will work pro bono to sue their RW enabling asses.

Seriously, it is frightening that some managers at some level of the FBI think it is OK to train civilians who belong to a hate group that does such heinous things to grieving families of US servicemen and women.

It is also frightening that a similar RW/fundy xian mindset is alive, well, and had been allowed to pressure/threaten others on the campus of the US Air Force Academy. Just how easy would it be for some religiously intolerant AF officers to start their own little crusade/jihad from, oh say 48,000 feet, and leave the rest of us to deal with the blowback?

The directors who approved this shit should be fired and their pensions taken away from them.

You say:
" the bureau underestimated how the involvement of the outside organization would be perceived."

So, they underestimated how the public might perceive the government training domestic terrorists how to use weapons.

How DID they estimate how the public might perceive the government training domestic terrorists how to use weapons?

I'm guessing they hoped we would not find out at all.

I'm just wondering why this story in nowhere to be found in the national media this morning....

oh.....right.....casey anthony. pshh.

Does this really suprise any of us.

Oh goody, the FBI admitted to doing something stupid....and we can only guess how much more their signature is on that they will NEVER admit to.

Why am I not surprised?

ffs why does this shock anyone? the power behind the throne wants to sow discord, confusion and create 'sides' that we can pick and fight each other over, forgetting who the real enemy is.
abandon borders.
reach out to neighbors
become part of humankind
we can do this and change the world

Thank you for the post. I felt the need to dig further on the story and go to the source,NPR. http://www.npr.org/2011/06/29/137454497/fbi-invited-controversial-church-to-talk...
When I first looked at the post (with image) I erroneously assumed that the FBI was giving the Westboro group arms training. Not so. Apparently the FBI was attempting to train agents and police on how to hand the likes of the Westboro crazies.
As much as I have disdain for hate groups from any faction, I feel the need to be careful and not become a hater like them.

I am not suprised that the FBI would train any of the "Fringe Groups" in any kind of way. In my opinion Westboro Baptist is the perfect "smoke screen" for the rest of the sudo-religious-political-regieme. How many automaticaly think of Westboro Baptist when we think of religious nuts. While we are thinking of them the elected religious nuts are destroying the country. The sad part is that big corporation and fundamentalist christianity are hand and glove.

So, this is what the FBI does? Nice. Sounds to me like the FBI are homophobes, too. Why else would they be training these bunch of nutbags? Thanks for posting this, jeffissleeping. Otherwise, we wouldn't of known about this. This should be major news but of course it isn't. Now the FBI spreads hate and intolerance as well. What a messed up country we live in.

I don't think this was entirely a bad idea. It's the FBI's job to know when a religious wackjob cult is just a harmless cult, and when they are a nascent terrorist organization plotting attacks on the nation.

What group of religious crazies is currently the best known wackos in the nation? The Westboro idiots.

So getting those idiots to voluntarily talk to a bunch of FBI officers to give the officers exposure to crazy people sounds like a pretty good idea to me. For once the Westboro idiots were actually doing something useful for society, even if they were somewhat tricked into doing so.

Haven't solved a case in ten years still finding time to train white bigots. Part of there New Reaching out to God approach on crime I guess. Guess they'll offer the training to gov. Christie as a way to reach out to the Rights White Buddha.

They knew it was wrong on at least some level but they didn't think *we* would think it was a big deal?

"...the bureau underestimated how the involvement of the outside organization would be perceived..."

Shame. Shame. Shame.

Most of the country is against this hate group but the FBI isn't? Not only is the FBI not against it but, they actively encouraged this group to train with them?

The FBI can ferret out at least one hatemonger from the FBI by firing the person who thought training this hate group was a good idea.

good to see ya jeff..woke up eh? great article nice job. voted/\

WTF? no wonder they are so terrible

The FBI *invited* those fools to take part in the training?

How amazingly stupid.

The problem with this whole situation is that our FBI, our communities, our government do not want to admit we have a serious home grown terror problem. Partly because America, in general has deep seated prejudices to justify turning the blind eye to groups that target Gays, Abortion providers, mosques. If these people were brown when they walked into the FBI training facility......yktr..

Training our own terrorists.

I think we should follow our normal practice here. We gave weapons to Iraq and look what happened there. We gave weapons to Osama bin Laden and he's dead. Better watch your back Phelpsie boy.

This is too much don't you think?

Now there's a comforting thought! Really? Whose ever bright idea that was should be FIRED and do jail time WHEN Westboro begins to use that training in the form of hate crime. We know it's going to happen.

This Spring? Even I knew of their actions this Spring? Why didn't the FBI? Or, was their actions acceptable to the FBI? Shame, shame, shame!

yes, because I want the batshit crazy insane people trained by the F.B.I. Its not enough being afraid that I'm going to be jumped walking down the street, l also want the fear that these extremists know how to snipe and build bombs.

Insane. This should be a big effin deal.

Really, with this kind of judgment, the FBI should not be allowed to handle firearms.

Hell, they shouldn't be allowed to drive a car.

Why don’t they train some Neo-Nazis and Klan members too! Christian fundamentalist has proven to be as hateful and dangerous as either of those groups. I bet the Black Panther Party wouldn’t be extended the same courtesy of being trained by the MOTHER BLANKING FBI!!! Jesus H Christ on a popsicle stick the lunatics are running the asylum!!!!!

The FBI is still embarrassed that J. Edgar Hoover was a transvestite, and the organization is trying to atone for its sins. Maybe they should crucify the current head of the agency.

Figures that they would train the enemy.

at least offer training to all of us... And let us form our fucking militias without being raided by the FBI... But of course, you'll train these crazy bastards.

That's what are nation does best, train our enemies then go after them...

WTF?!

..."the bureau underestimated how the involvement of the outside organization would be perceived..."

...HUH!!!!!!!!!!

Oh ! They didn't ! Are they recruiting local terrorist too ?

Sound crazy to me