A friend was a retired federal lawyer who worked in same office as Fred Phelps.
She explained the scam.
They apply for a protest permit. If denied they sue. If the get to go ahead they have their foot soldiers hold those signs to provoke the people they are targeting. Fyi. Those boards are solid, not cardboard. If you assault them for their in your face provocations they have their own security take you down, get you arrested, then they sue YOU and the city.
I believe this is the motivation for this group of aholes to come into a community of people of their targets of hate, they want the video of the assaults.
In our current political arena it could give the nazi regime the excuse to send in his goon squads (remember the BLM protest in Portland?)
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