The John Does who last January saw a video showing the Fort Dix Six firing automatic weapons took Rosie O’Donnell’s advice. When they could not find the number to the Department of Homeland Security, they Googled it. The New York Post had the story yesterday:

The tape, Sierer said, “starts with a bunch of guys driving down an icy, snowy road in a pickup truck.” “After a while, they get out, and that’s when you can see where they are,” he said. “There’s woods all around, and then a clearing in the middle. They grab their guns out of the back of the truck, and they walk into the open field.” When they began shooting and yelling, Sierer “was definitely afraid.”
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Unable to find a phone-book listing, they Googled Homeland Security, found a number and called. Federal agents arrived within an hour, Sierer said. “One of the guys says, ‘Make me a copy of that tape, will ya?’ ” he recalled. The agents also took the work-order form, which included a cellphone number, for the men who had dropped off the tape.
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Since word of Circuit City’s role in the bust came out, employees have rallied around Sierer and the two clerks, and complained that they got no reward – not even a day off – for their heroism. Sierer said that doesn’t matter. “I don’t want to live scared,” he said. “And it felt good to be able to do something like that for my country.”

Earlier reports said the John Does at the Circuit City in Mount Laurel, NJ, initially worried some would perceive them to be bigots for then thinking as they did. It light of 9/11, that strikes me as amazing. Yet Nate Sierer’s greater fear, back then, was the men in the video might be terrorists planning an attack so he reported what he saw. That took courage.