It’s amazing when you see someone in a position where you would think some brains were required, engaging in an act of compound stupidity. It’s even more amazing when that person is a law enforcement officer, who is making stupid social media posts in support of a group that has only on Monday been designated as a domestic terrorist organization.

Case in point: An Orange County, North Carolina, detention officer has been fired after the discovery of his pro-Antifa stance in several social media posts. That’s as it should be. 

An employee of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office has been terminated from his position as Detention Corporal after a right-wing meme account on Twitter/X exposed social media posts in which Brian D. Edwards identified himself as “antifa” and called for right-wingers to be “thrown in prison” or even sent to the “guillotine.”

He thinks right-wingers should be “thrown in prison?” A prison where, in his fevered imagination, he would be in charge of those prisoners’ care and feeding, presumably.

We should extend our thanks to Sheriff Charles Blackwood for taking this immediate and warranted action.

According to the OCSO, Edwards was suspended on Saturday when the post by Mostly Peaceful Memes went viral and the extremist statements were brought to their attention, and was terminated this morning after the ensuing investigation “confirmed violations of both the Standards of Conduct and the Speech, Expression, and Social Networking sections of the policy manual.”

“We must maintain the public trust as we go about our mission to protect, serve, and treat everyone with dignity and respect,” said Orange County Sheriff Charles Blackwood, a 45-year veteran of the department who was first elected sheriff in 2014.

The next logical step would be to send this guy’s name and photograph to every law enforcement office and agency in the land. Nobody who expresses sympathy for a domestic terror group, a group that has arguably fomented an insurrection against the lawful government of the United States, should ever work in law enforcement again.