
“In our experience, no modern country is more repressive of human rights than the USA.”
Fred Phelps, writing to the Ambassador to the United States from the People's Republic of China, February 26, 1997.
About the Westboro Baptist Church http://www.adl.org/special_reports/wbc/print.asp. Anti-Defamation League.
1990s
Context: In our experience, no modern country is more repressive of human rights than the USA. The vaunted First Amendment is nothing but empty words on paper…we will journey to China at our expense, and tell our story of modern American repression of human rights, upon invitation.