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Bill would prevent mobs from attending funerals

February 01, 2006

Dear Editor:

I read with shock an opinion piece by Herb Brock about SB 93, our bill to make it illegal to protest at funerals, memorial services, and funeral processions. Putting aside Brock's ignorance that hateful protests have been happening in Kentucky at the funerals of our fallen heroes, would this not be the right thing to do? We live in a time when people have been courted by the ACLU, People for the American Way, NOW, and other leftist groups to protest everywhere and anywhere in the most outlandish and hateful of ways. Remember them at President Reagan's funeral procession?

Those who use free speech to attack everything that is American would tell you that this is a "fundamental right," a cornerstone of our constitutional republic, only they would most likely use the false description of democracy to describe our government. The difference is that democracy is mob rule and a constitutional republican form of government is rule by law.

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These mobs who show up at funerals in Kentucky and all across the country to make their sick points, at a time when families and friends of our fallen military are grieving, are not exercising freedom of speech as they would have you believe. No, they are exercising what they think is their right to desecrate the most solemn of moments that any family, or community, ever endures.

It is sad that Brock used his "power of the pen" to speak against this very necessary bill I asked state Sen. Tom Buford to sponsor. Even though these protests at funerals have already received national and local press coverage, if Brock would like to attend the next military funeral or memorial service with me, I will gladly provide the escort so that he may see firsthand what these terrible people are doing, and may then realize the importance of SB 93 introduced by Senator Buford.

Jeff "Mario" Smith

Lexington

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