BOLO for truant "students"

Michelle Malkin, last evening, posted the pictures of the Egyptian "students"who had run off after having debarked their planes in New York, instead of going on to their official destination in Montana(pix many of us requested Tuesday).

Malkin, like many others, seems to think Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff took this truancy too cavalierly, when he said, in essence, they were just a bunch of kids cutting class, and that we shouldn't worry. Well, my folks used to worry about me when I cut class. There's too much potential for mischief... by and against the truant. Especially these days. I think Chertoff may have been trying to downplay this out of fear that somebody would see the "students" and do something to them before the cops could get there. It's nice to hear, "Everybody keep calm" when it's needed.

Well, I'm sorry, but, like Malkin, I don't think it was needed. I'm thinking that most of us plain old Americans are better than that, and that we're, by and large, good citizens who take care of each other, rather than go off half-cocked (except when it comes to issues against Christians or Jews). When, pray tell, was the last time some Christian or Jew or Hindu or agnostic walked into a Muslim place of worship or work and started shooting indiscriminately? We believe that the law, the system were built for us for a reason. We work with reason. We frown upon assault and murder for any reason, but especially if the excuse for violence is a difference in faith or culture.

Can we say the same thing about the Muslim communities? Are they standing up and doing their best to demonstrate they are not as lethal as the people who were arrested in London, today? Are they standing up and saying that what was planned is wrong wrong wrong? Or are the majority of Muslims in the free countries coming out in support of murder and oppression of infidels, a la Sharia, a la Osama?

How do we not take seriously a group of young Muslim men from an historically vehemently radical Muslim country all going missing in our country at the same time, from the same place, while our country is at war against Muslim fanatics their fellow countrymen label as heroes?

Taking this seriously doesn't mean beating the crap out of anybody who resembles one from the other side in this war. Not here, anyway. We take our laws seriously, even when people from other countries and from our own government don't.


But I digress. Look at the pictures at Malkin's site. If anybody in those pics looks like somebody who just came into your neighborhood, call the authorities. Better safe than sorry. For all of us.