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As a collection of Twitter videos shows, Blythe’s plan worked. There are drums and noisemakers, there is dancing, and, last but not least, there are kazoos.

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The counter-party was a success: Westboro Baptist Church cut its protest short.

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According to Blabbermouth, Blythe organized the event for a number of reasons. “Well, first and foremost, Danica [Roem] is my friend,” he said. “I don’t like people who mess with my friends.”

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“Second, their ‘message’ sucks—they do have the right to preach it, but we also have the right to drown it out with kazoos,” Blythe continued. “Third, it’s too good of an opportunity to pass up. Who doesn’t want to hear a few hundred people playing the Sanford And Son theme on kazoos? Only a truly godless and un-American puppy-kicking troglodyte, that’s who.”

He also mentioned the Church’s fundraising tactics as the reason for his loud, non-violent approach to shutting them down. ”Someone loses their cool and punches one of them, and then they sue the pants off of the aggressor,” Blythe said. “Or a city won’t let them protest, and then they sue the city. This has substantially increased their coffers several time.”

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His counter-party follows in the grand tradition of others, from Foo Fighters and Robert Smigel to Vince Gill and Patton Oswalt, who have organized competing events or otherwise mocked Westboro as a way to ridicule and defang their cause. For more on Robert Blythe’s event, follow the insectile hum of kazoos over to Blabbermouth’s full story.

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