Neurosurgeon pulled off cruise after fake bioterrorism tweet

Um...what?

Someone called in and said the doctor had a vial of stuff that could potentially make every passenger on the boat sick, or even dead, and you think the authorities over-reacted?

How do you think they should have handled it? "Sir, someone says you've got a vial of stuff that could kill people. . .No? Okay, sorry to have bothered you."

Now imagine that same kind of response if the individual had been muslim.

Your logic says that whenever we receive a notification that a kid has said he/she has planted a bomb in a school, we're being neo-nazis if we clear out the school, search for a bomb, and question potential suspects.

Yeesh.

 

You're not thinking this through. Take a moment and give it some serious thought. While you're checking out the source, which requires search warrants to check the computer servers, do you really want to run the risk of the report being true?

And what happens if the report had turned out to be true? All the time you just lost checking out the source allowed the suspect to unleash whatever it was they were trying to do. So now you'd be seeing the media crucify the cops because they had a notification that it was going to happen, but they sat on their backsides while they checked out the source, and now 1, 2, dozens, or even hundreds of people are dead.

So no matter what, the cops can't do anything right. Either they're nazis for "kicking down doors" to prevent a possible catastrophe; or they're criminally negligent for not taking action to prevent a possible catastrophe.

Which course of action would you actually prefer?
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And, as Mr. Cassidy pointed out, the only real "nazi" in this story is the cruise captain, who wouldn't let the guy get back on board after it was proven he was no threat.
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Free, let me add this: If someone told me that there was a bomb in your house, I'd break down the door and get you out of the house. I wouldn't wait to find out if it was a hoax; I'd consider the threat real and do what it took to save your life. If it turned out to be a hoax, I'd apologize and offer to fix your door. Of course, if it was real, then you've probably got more than the door to fix.

Your choice: Would you thank me for considering your life important enough to be worth saving, even if it turned out it was a hoax? Or would you simply deride me for "over-reacting"?