August 22, 1995

Honorable Janet Reno
U.S. Attorney General
Washington, D.C.
FAX 2025144371

Dear General:

In the night hours of August 20, 1995, a bomb was set off on the property of church members which adjoins our church property and where eight little children from 4-days-old to 16-years-old lay sleeping. (See, news story attached) This is but the latest in a series of such violent attacks on Westboro Baptist Church members and church property, including the scrawling of terroristic death threats on outside churchhouse walls. (See, attached "DIE PHELPS!" photo) Even when the criminals are identified, neither the district attorney nor the state attorney general will prosecute. When black churches were bombed in Birmingham, and local law enforcement backed by Alabama's Jim Crow media broke down, Congress enacted federal law providing for very effective and immediate federal intervention in such cases.

This letter is a request for very effective, immediate federal intervention pursuant to said federal civil rights church-bombing law for such cases made and provided, just as in Birmingham. Because, just as in the Jim Crow South of the 50s and 60s, the pro-homosexual media in Topeka and in Kansas have so wrongfully and mercilessly demonized our church and our people that a lynchmob demagogic mentality has paralyzed local law enforcement. We know from years of experience that these latest ACT-UP/Queer Nation-style terroristic church bombings will not be investigated, and even if investigated and suspects positively identified, will not be prosecuted by our pro-homosexual female district attorney nor our pro-homosexual female attorney general. In fact, we will be lucky if we are not criminally prosecuted for getting our people and our property in the way of the terrorists' bombs.


Sinecerely,

Fred Phelps


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