The security guard who got shot in the leg defending anti-Muhammad cartoonists down in Texas? I hope he volunteered for that shift. If he didn't, then, once again, the marginally willing low-wage worker puts it all on the line for somebody else's money and beliefs.

The rabid jihadis did not shoot the fame-seeking missile of a woman who organized the event. They shot the security guard. Even the cops who killed the jihadis made more money than the security guard.

It's like working in a corporate-owned convenience store. When a junky wants money, he doesn't take a bus to corporate headquarters and rob the CEO, taking all the money in the guy's wallet and his $8,000 watch. Nope. The junky comes into the crappy little store in his neighborhood and threatens to kill YOU for the $7 in the register. And you're making $10.50 an hour, part-time, no benefits.

I see a big future in principled death for the poor or at least in poor people being asked to apply the principles of those devout Christians who pay them minimum wage for part-time, no benefits work.

You're working away behind the counter of a bakery. Your boss, the devout Christian paying you $8.25 an hour, stands on her principle that the bakery will not make wedding cakes for gay couples.

Ah, but the boss can't be there all the time. Sometimes she's in Aruba. So, when she's gone and gay people come in looking for a wedding cake, it's your job to say, "Sorry, but this is a Christian business. Take your filthy little perversions somewhere else." Then, you go clean the toilet in the ladies' room.

Someday soon, some warrior for Jesus will make a movie about Muhammad (probably animated), which will show the prophet in compromising situations with teenage boys and underage swine. The maker of the movie will be trying to get famous by "taking back America."

When the movie is shown at the mall, jihadis will bomb the theater, killing several of the right-wing Bible bangers who have bought tickets in the hope of enraging Muslims.

Along with the movie patrons, the bomb will also kill Louis the janitor, who, at $8.25 an hour, couldn't afford to see the movie even if he had the time, which he does not because this is his second job. His first is behind the counter of an often-robbed convenience store in a bad neighborhood where he makes $9 an hour.

There is an old Yiddish proverb/joke: "If rich people could pay someone to die for them, a poor man could make a decent living."

Rich people can pay someone to day for them but, no, you can't make a decent living. Turns out it's a minimum-wage job.

To find out more about Marc Munroe Dion, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com. Dion's newest book "Marc Dion: Volume I" is available for Kindle and Nook.