[Old Student]

"Are you saying that we should back off, in our attempts to get at the truth about this situation in Norman, OK, because the police may or may not have been mean?"

No, I'm saying that jumping to conclusions seems to be the major source of exercise for some people. I don't normally disagree with most of the posters here on FR, but I'm getting really tired of people who automatically suspect that someone is a terrorist because they're from the Middle East, especially here in Central Oklahoma, where our last two bombers have been Americans.

In other words, anyone who is here should get the same treatment, under the law. You noted, perhaps, that Cheema took a lie-detector test? I expect if they had anything that they found questionable, he'd not be back in his apartment right now. Law is Law. We need to obey our own laws, or we have no business telling anyone else to obey their own laws.

[RegulatorCountry]

"I expect if they had anything that they found questionable, he'd not be back in his apartment right now"

Back in his (and Hinrich's) apartment, right now?

[LibertyRocks]

I see no-one jumping to conclusions. I do however see people reading what is being reported and noticing how vociferously OU and Boren, and now Cole are responding to these reports.

I see major discrepancies in the reports themselves. I hear that OU is ignoring their own student investigative journalists in insisting there is "no connection". I personally have exposed at least one POSSIBLE reason for OU's student opinion writers wanting to participate in shooting down those investigating further.

That IMHO does not add up to "jumping to conclusions". There is more than enough circumstantial evidence in this case that points to a coverup on the part of Boren and OU. You can choose not to believe this, but saying we are all jumping to conclusions is pushing it. As I said, there are no "conclusions" being reached at this point. Just serious questioning and examination of all that's been reported and the motivations of those speaking out.