SYAG – First of all, I very much appreciate your polite response to my post. I deliberately refrained from getting too involved in that thread because I am trying to avoid getting into fights with other posters and I was rather unhappy with the way that discussion was going.
I also appreciate your explaining where the other posters were coming from and why they responded as they did.
It is possible that they understood the situation that way and that was the reason for their responses, and I happy to hear your limud zchus for them so that I can view them more favorably.
If that really were the case, you are right that it would in fact be the correct thing to do to immediately call the police and not a Rav.
However, that is not what was happening there. It is very possible that it was an innocent mistake on the part of some of the posters, but unfortunately, it was a mistake that could cause a lot of damage.
(I will continue in another post because I am afraid of exceeding my word limit and getting modded).