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It's a simple prayer, along the lines of "bountiful and loving God, please take (X) into your heavenly bosom. Tomorrow would be great."
Now, I'm not one to think prayer does anything much, really; but what if it works? What if that someone were to die tomorrow? There is legal precedent here. Back in the late '70s, a man was convicted of manslaughter when he told his friend to "Drop dead." Thing is, the friend had a heart condition; the verbal assaulter knew of the heart condition; and the court reasoned that the verbal abuse could have been judged sufficiently stressful to induce cardiac arrest. (Sorry, pre-web ancient story. No immediate linkage.)
So let's take that reasoning to the faithful.
To the faithful -- especially to leaders of the faithful's faith -- pray is real. Prayer gets results. Therefore, when one prays for the death of the President, that someone is using, under the terms of his or her faith, a weapon just as powerful as any gun or knife. Since threatening the life of the President is a crime worthy of a federal investigation, I say these people get visits from the appropriate authorities.
As many separate visits as known public imprecatory prayers.
Now, I'm not one to think prayer does anything much, really; but what if it works? What if that someone were to die tomorrow? There is legal precedent here. Back in the late '70s, a man was convicted of manslaughter when he told his friend to "Drop dead." Thing is, the friend had a heart condition; the verbal assaulter knew of the heart condition; and the court reasoned that the verbal abuse could have been judged sufficiently stressful to induce cardiac arrest. (Sorry, pre-web ancient story. No immediate linkage.)
So let's take that reasoning to the faithful.
To the faithful -- especially to leaders of the faithful's faith -- pray is real. Prayer gets results. Therefore, when one prays for the death of the President, that someone is using, under the terms of his or her faith, a weapon just as powerful as any gun or knife. Since threatening the life of the President is a crime worthy of a federal investigation, I say these people get visits from the appropriate authorities.
As many separate visits as known public imprecatory prayers.