




2 arrested in theft of scrap metal
North Charleston police said dirty, rusty clothing helped them connect two men to the theft Monday of $4,000 worth of rusty scrap metal from an iron works storage area.
The owner of Cooper Iron Works at 2341 Spruill Ave. reported the theft of at least 50 pieces of solid iron plates and other scrap metal at 8:30 a.m. A witness told the owner he had seen two men loading the metal into a green minivan a couple of hours earlier.
This is a shame!
I have a sure cure for the epidemic of scrap thefts that has swept the nation.
First of all, let’s talk about the cause of this epidemic. It’s the building up of one country at the expense of another. While China buys up all our metal resources, shipping it back to their own country, they’re building up their own. More importantly they’re using our own scrap metal to further their military might.

Do you see something wrong here?
My cure is plain and simple: Congress should pass a law that stops the removal of any raw as well as scrap metal materials from this country. None of this material should be perimitted to leave this country. The only way it’s coming back is through the further loss of American manufacturing jobs and by way of projectiles in the air.
I, Albert, want you to understand the far reaching issue here. Once it’s gone, it won’t come back in the same manner by which it left. Same with our manufacturing jobs.
Once this material leaves our shores, it’s going to be used to further China, not America. We’ll have to dig it all back out of the ground, which is much harder and more costly. Not only that, with all the environmental laws on the books, as well as those yet to come, we may never be able to recoup enough metal to fight a self contained war!
Think about it!
Yours in truth and justice, Albert