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What is this world coming to? Huh?

What’s on the FBI’s big list of things to do this summer in preparation for the Republican National Convention? They’re going to go to vegan potlucks.

What they were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant—someone to show up at “vegan potlucks” throughout the Twin Cities and rub shoulders with RNC protestors, schmoozing his way into their inner circles, then reporting back to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, a partnership between multiple federal agencies and state and local law enforcement. The effort’s primary mission, according to the Minneapolis division’s website, is to “investigate terrorist acts carried out by groups or organizations which fall within the definition of terrorist groups as set forth in the current United States Attorney General Guidelines.” Read the story

Sigh. This is ridiculous.

But I guess it makes sense… I mean, George W Bush did choke on a pretzel… which is… gasp… vegan.

Maybe “Send Bush a Pretzel” should be the terrorists’ motto.

Sigh. 245 more days, and counting…

~Dan, your friendly neighborhood vegeterrorist?