My response to Representative Collins...

...and his nasty little tweet about Bishop Budde

I’m sure everyone heard that U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, Republican, Georgia (naturally), went to that big service for the Bloated Yam in the National Cathedral.

Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde delivered a powerful sermon on offering God’s mercy to the undocumented residents of America. The Bloated Yam stared stonily at her, then down at his program, waiting for the service to end, and doubtless adding her to his list of future "detainees in protective custody.”

Next to him sat Melania, with an equally cold expression, and the Fake Hillbilly and his wife, with embarrassed faces.

Among the dignitaries was Collins, who reacted to Bishop Budde’s powerful sermon by Tweeting as follows: “The person giving this sermon should be added to the deportation list.”

Well, I didn’t sit on that. I just mailed this good ol’ boy the following letter, and included a self-addressed stamped envelope, to spare his office the costs of answering it.

Dear Congressman Collins:

I have the honor to refer to your Tweet on Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s sermon at the National Cathedral earlier this week.

It reads, and I quote: “The person giving this sermon should be added to the deportation list.”

1. Bishop Budde was born in 1959 in New Jersey, to a Swedish-American mother, Ann Bjorkman, and an American father, William Edgar. She grew up in Mount Olive Township in New Jersey, attending local schools and those in Colorado.

Therefore, she is a native-born American citizen, with American parents. She cannot be “deported,” no matter how much you would like to. The United States is still neither Adolf Hitler’s Germany, nor Josef Stalin’s Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, no matter how much you would prefer to live in either nation. Both had redeeming features, I suppose: no dissidents, full employment, and no street crime. I think you would enjoy living under Adolf or Josef.

2. I direct your attention to the First Amendment to the Constitution, which reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” All United States Representatives, including you, take a sacred oath on the Holy Bible, to uphold the Constitution of the United States.

Therefore, when Bishop Budde delivered that sermon, she was exercising her right to freedom of worship. That is a core concept that you are supposed to defend and uphold in your position. I don’t know what happened to your commitment to uphold and defend that position, but I think you never had much of one in the first place.

3. I direct your attention to the First Amendment to the Constitution, which reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” All United States Representatives, including you, take a sacred oath on the Holy Bible, to uphold the Constitution of the United States.

Therefore, when Bishop Budde delivered that sermon, she was exercising her right to freedom of speech. That is a core concept that you are supposed to defend and uphold in your position. I don’t know what happened to your commitment to uphold and defend that position, but I think you never had much of one in the first place.

4. I direct your attention to the First Amendment to the Constitution, which reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” All United States Representatives, including you, take a sacred oath on the Holy Bible, to uphold the Constitution of the United States.

Therefore, when Bishop Budde delivered that sermon, she was exercising her right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. That is a core concept that you are supposed to defend and uphold in your position. I don’t know what happened to your commitment to uphold and defend that position, but I think you never had much of one in the first place.

5. I am a native-born American citizen. I am also an eight-year veteran of the United States Navy. I put my life on the line and swore a solemn oath to defend the United States Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That particularly included the First Amendment.

Unlike members of the Army and Marines, US Navy Sailors who die in battle are not buried in immaculately-maintained American Battle Monument Cemeteries like St. Laurent-sur-Mer, or Andersonville in your native Georgia, or Arlington. Our tombs are the rusting hulks of sunken ships at the bottom of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean – and, for 1,300 of my shipmates, the blasted wreck of the battleship USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

You may have heard of some of the battles we have fought, like Coral Sea, Midway, and Leyte Gulf. You might be aware of the distinctive and horrific sacrifices we have made to protect, preserve, and defend the Constitution – sailors on aircraft carriers who were burned to death in fires created by exploding Japanese kamikaze aircraft. Sailors who died in sunken submarines as water rushed in and air rushed out under depth-charge attack. Sailors who drowned in freezing, oil-filled water.

They died to protect, preserve, and defend the Constitution.

I see that you have no military service. You do have a record of making what you think are amusing comments on Twitter, probably to gain attention, and smirk at how you have bent “libtards” and “pussies” out of shape. “Lighten up, son, it’s just a joke!”

You may be a “good ol’ boy” from Georgia, and this may all be amusing around the cracker barrel to you and your pals, but I find your post, your previous posts, your attitude to your elected position, to the men and women you defend our country and Constitution, extremely offensive. You did not put your hand on old black book and tell some ordinary lies to take a cushy job with great prospects of promotion. You took a solemn Oath before God and your Country to do your duty. As one of your favorite generals (I would assume), Robert E. Lee, said, “Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.”

You owe Bishop Budde an apology. I’m sure you will never give it, because you are incapable of learning, have no care or concern for any other living human being, and utterly lack empathy.

Fortunately for you, in the present political climate…you will go far. You will be able to shred the Constitution and replace it with a Stalinist or Hitlerian police state – which will be more convenient for you, I’m sure. You will be able to deport Bishop Budde and anyone else you find annoying, be they a tiresome constituent, an opposing politician, or an irritating reporter. You may even be able to rid the world of the Jews you openly detested in an earlier Tweet. As we have seen from history, mass extermination is not that hard to achieve. And you will be amply rewarded for these deeds, and go down in local, state, and national history, as a great American hero.

However, I don’t think you deserve it. I think what you tweeted was wrong.

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

And beneath your suit and job…you know it.

That’s all I got.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Kiwiwriter47

Well, I think that letter speaks for itself.

What do you folks say?