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Since he didn’t make a direct threat against anyone I wouldn't make a report, but that's just my opinion. His comment was probably nothing more than a statement made in anger without any intention to follow through. Plus, no crime was committed.

Unfortunately, the media has done a great disservice by planting the seed that every statement or “strange� conduct must be reported to the police, or we’re not doing our civic duty. This started with second-guessing everyone imaginable after each school shooting. It spread to on-the-job shooting, alleged child abuse cases, kidnaped children and run away brides. Added to this is the federal government’s instructions to “report strange behavior� in an attempt to thwart terrorism in the U.S.

While we all want to prevent child-abuse, terrorism, school shootings, etc. the growing trend to report any and all suspicions to the authorities strikes far too close to the instructions given by Hitler’s Gestapo and the East German Stazi. Freedom loving people must remember that the ends do not justify the means! Innocent people’s lives can be destroyed by the suspicion created by unfounded reports and/or accusations; just ask the poor security guard who was suspected in the Atlanta Olympic bombing in 1996.

Sorry for the soap box speech; it wasn’t directed at you Paladin. It’s just that I’ve lived long enough to have a good idea where all of this is going and it scares me more than a little. Who would have thought that the vast majority of freedom loving Americans would have so blindly supported the Patriot Act, merely in the name of security?

Regards,
Chas.