Please tell me the wingers aren't going to respond to this with their usual righteous indignation:
The two men arrested last night in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings drive a car with the licence plate that reads: 'Terrorista #1'
The students, named be neighbours by their first names Azmat and Diaz, drive a black BMW 330XI with the personalised plate....
They are thought to be from Kazakhstan and had not been seen since the bombings until last night when their ground floor apartment in New Bedford, MA, was raided by a dozen FBI agents at gunpoint....
Yes, because if you actually were a terrorist, you'd want to advertise it, right? Please, wingers, try to restrain yourselves. This is a joke that's now turned out not to be a joke. Refrain from your usual harrumphing.
And no, I don't want to hear that it's in bad taste. I'm Italian-American, and an Italian-American friend had a "MAFIA STAFF CAR" bumper sticker when we were in high school. Isn't that equally in bad taste? Doesn't the Mafia have a history of killing people? But we don't think twice about that. It's a joke. You can still buy the bumper stickers today. You can slap them on your car and drive to Godfather's Pizza.
Are your knickers in a twist because someone would use the phrase "Terrorista #1" in a lighthearted way? Tell it to this teenage girl from Argentina whose Twitter name is Terrorista #1. And here's a photographer who gave the title "Terrorista Numero 1" to a photo of a cat in a tree.
Oh, and you do recall that "Con los terroristas" are the first words of the song every idiot in America has danced to on YouTube, Baauer's "Harlem Shake," courtesy of a sample from reggaeton artist Hector "El Father" Delgado, right?
Oh, and let's not forget that the car also had "a sticker on the back which reads: 'F*** you, you f****** f****'." I'm pretty sure that's not from the collected writing of Sayyid Qutb.
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AND: Charles Johnson reminds us that the two men (and one woman) were questioned, not arrested. It's been reported elsewhere that they "are believed to be fellow students or roommates of [Dzhokar] Tsarnaev."
