This is why Westboro Baptist Church is a joke

[kandrathe]

Also, how are you counting the international dimension here? This is obviously going way beyond the US now...

I don't think it really matters what happens outside the US. This movement is primarily organized around US tax policy, and the alleged inequity of "1%" of US citizens who control a large percentage of the wealth.

I don't think this is related to the chaffing that has been going on elsewhere due to austerity. If anything, the people in the US have been coddled by their government with tax cuts, supposed health care reform, unprecedented extensions to unemployment benefits, and multi-year bailout of broken state budgets which allow the states to continue on as usual without cutting benefits.