EDITOR:

Poor Dr. Blasier. He made a faux pas, social blunder, and his constituents want to remove him from office. My, what an evil man he must be. He made a remark that rioters and looters and those that destroy property to display their anger should be shot in the leg.

Although maybe not a politically correct way to express a personal feeling, he did not say anything that I am sure many people would not say if given the chance.

Any rioting demonstrators that try to burn my house down or destroy any of my property can rest assured that they would not get coffee and donuts served to them. They would get a lot worse than a bullet in their leg.

They have started a recall petition to remove him. I would like to suggest reading this poem before signing it.

When somebody yields to temptation

and breaks one of man’s or God’s laws,

We look for no good in his make-up,

But oh! How we look for the flaws!

No one cares about how he was tempted,

nor praises the battles he’s fought;

His name becomes food for the jackals —

For us who have never been caught.

“He has sinned!” we shout from the house-tops,

We forget the good deeds he has done,

We focus on that one lost battle,

And forget all the times he has won.

“Come, gaze at the sinner!” we thunder,

“And by his example be taught

that his footsteps lead to destruction!”

Cry we who have never been caught.

I’m a sinner, O Lord, and I know it,

I’m weak, I blunder, I fail.

I’m tossed on life’s stormy ocean

like ships embroiled in a gale.

I’m willing to trust in Thy mercy,

to keep the commandments Thou’st taught,

but deliver me, Lord, from the judgement

of saints who have never been caught!

— Anonymous

William Nelson

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