Well, it turns out Canada Day wasn’t so boring after all. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police just announced the arrest of a couple of Tsarnaev copycats who tried to blow up some people yesterday. And you’ll never guess why those naughty scamps did it!
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation:
Two B.C. residents have been charged in an al-Qaeda-inspired Canada Day terror plot that involved pressure cooker bombs similar to the ones used in the Boston Marathon bombings.
Amanda Marie Korody, 30, and John Stewart Nuttall, 39, both of Surrey, B.C., have each been charged with conspiracy to commit an indictable offence, knowingly facilitating a terrorist activity and possession of an explosive substance.
They were arrested Monday and are accused of building explosive devices with the “purpose of causing death or serious bodily injuries,” which were placed outside the B.C. legislature in Victoria on Canada Day…
Police said Korody and Nuttall, both Canadian-born citizens, were “inspired by al-Qaeda ideology” but added the incident has no international links.
“Inspired by al-Qaeda ideology.” Gee. What’s that? Oh wait, is that the ideology with all those gun nuts who don’t like taxes? The dummies who wave those yellow flags with the snakes on them? It’s that ideology, right?
RCMP guy is really contorting himself to explain how "motivated by Al Qaeda ideology" doesn't necessarily mean "motivated by radical Islam"
— J.J. McCullough (@JJ_McCullough) July 2, 2013
And we’re supposed to be comforted by the thought that this has no international links. That’s supposed to make it somehow better. Could somebody please explain how that’s supposed to work?
Just kidding. That would be racist.
Gotta give the RCMP a lot of credit, though. They stopped these two terrorists before they hurt anybody. That’s kind of the whole idea.
(Hat tip: Faith Goldy)