Taking a stand against the dreaded chimera

Under the headline “Old white guys create force to protect them from foreign-looking people; economic development efforts to attract knowledge workers in a world market plummet,” Waldo Lydecker highlights yet another harebrained scheme from the good folks inside the S.C. General Assembly.

“Down at Boys’ State in Columbia, they’ve decided to create yet another police force to harass South Carolinians,” Waldo writes. “With its own pretty little cars. Call it the Freedom Fries Force.

“The S.C. General Assembly would have to find money in its already strapped budget to pay for its version of a border patrol if the latest version of the state’s proposed immigration law wins approval,” he adds. 

Yes, for those of you who hadn’t noticed, it’s barely 1,350 miles from that notorious illegal alien entry point of Brownsville, Texas, to South Carolina, meaning we’re in imminent danger of being overrun by those unlike “us.”