[Vision2020] Say What?

[Kenneth Marcy]

On Monday 13 July 2009 19:07:00 Joe Campbell asked, referring to a 
conversation between Alan Colmes of Fox News Radio and Pastor Wiley Drake of 
First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park, California, who admitted that he 
is praying for Obama's death. Specifically, the conversants said:

Colmes: You would like for the president of the United States to die?

Drake: If he does not turn to God and does not turn his life around I am 
asking God to enforce in imprecatory prayers throughout the scripture that 
would cause him death, that's correct.

> Is intolerant to say this guy is nuts?

No. However, more to the point, this is encouraging and inciting a violent act 
toward the President of the United States, which is specifically illegal. 
This conversation is not covered by free speech rights. Wiley Drake needs to 
be investigated by Federal authorities to determine with whom he may be 
interacting concerning specifically carrying out such "prayers." The fact 
that Drake claims to be a pastor should neither mitigate nor impede an 
investigation. Drake's imprecations should cause an examination of whether 
the organization he leads is in fact terrorist while in name only religious.


Ken