TO THE EDITOR:
Mr. James R. Hardy from Browns Summit certainly has a way with words, doesn’t he?
Within the five brief paragraphs of his July 9 letter to the editor of The Daily Tar Heel, he managed to use the word “illegal” or “illegally” nine times, and I found that the words “foreign children who entered the United States illegally,” “illegal children” and “the illegal entry of these children” were used once each.
I also noticed that he used the word “criminal” or “criminals” seven times, phrases such as “criminal activity” and “people who enter the U.S. illegally” one time each, and, lastly, the phrase “illegal criminals” was used by him four times by my count.
So, Mr. Hardy, I must confess that I am quite overwhelmed by your undoubted expertise in the subject of criminal law in this country, as well as by your apparent and quite formidable skill in the use of the English language, but what, exactly, is the point you’re trying to make here?
“Just curious” in Chapel Hill,
Marshall S. Wade
Class of ’70