You may have heard about the young girls in Nigeria who were recently kidnapped. Yesterday I wrote a commentary for MinnPost which begins,

Bryan:  “I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.”

It was a memorable line by a fictional dad in the movie Taken. Language like that virtually always should be reserved for the cinema. But this is that rare time where the world community needs to join together and speak for the parents and daughters who have been abducted in Nigeria:  “If you let the girls go, that will be the end of it. But if you do not, we will find you and we will kill you.”

On April 16th, 234 Nigerian schoolgirls were kidnapped.

That is not a misprint:  234 daughters never came home to their parents. These children remain missing.  I hope that you will join with me in doing something to help these children.

The complete article can be found here.