Let his days be few; and let another take his office
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes.
May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children.
In response to this, I wrote Mr. O'Neal the following email.
Dear Speaker O'Neil
I am sure in light of your recent email regarding the death of our president you have taken a lot of heat. I'm sure that you have been called a racist. I'm sure that you have been called insane. I will not refer to you as either of these. As far as I am concerned you are a traitor. You cited a psalm that in it's entirety begs for innocent children to be beggars in the street and to go without comfort. I ask you, what if someone said the same of your children. You asked that Mrs. Obama be left a widow. What if someone said the same of your wife.
I have followed the actions of your state since 2010 and find the legislation against women passed by your legislature repugnant. I still would not celebrate if you died. Perhaps you forgot the national tragedy that is the assassination of the president, because you have just called for our nation to be dragged through it again. Perhaps you have forgotten the national tragedy that came only a year ago when a Representative was shot. The Giffords shooting was not over political causes and still it gave all parties in the country pause to consider their conduct. You have just called for a man to be killed because you disagree with him on a political level. You have called for the death of the President of the United States who was elected by the people of this country and who can in his due be fired by said people if they so choose. Yet you obviously have no love for this country because you have asked that the institutions and processes that make it great, that make it fair, that make it free be tossed aside by some enterprising nut job.
Your excuse that the prayer asked only for his days in office to be few holds no water, because you callously went on to the next line of the psalm asking that his children be fatherless and his wife be widowed. If someone answers your prayer Mr. O'Neal, on your urging, then you are a traitor and have acted against this country. Perhaps I should thank my lucky stars that in such an event we have the recently signed NDAA to deal with you accordingly.
The people of your state would be wise to call for your ouster now, but may be patient enough wait for an election to fire you from your job. I will repeat one line of your prayer for you "let another take his office" the rest I will be civilized enough to ignore.
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