Does listening to Petula Clark before blowing shit up mean that you're not a terrorist?
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I think the current angle is suicide bomber. This supports that theory. I have no opinion on that.
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No that's an automatic disqualifier, bc English. It only counts if the music is at least vaguely "Arabic."
"Rock the Casbah" would be a marginal case.
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My assumption is it was either his favorite song, or he marinated too long in the hack movie cliche of laying a well-known nostalgic/innocent song track over ultra-violent visuals.
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I thought terrorism was supposed to have a political intent. The obliteration of the ATT facility feels more like a diversion or disruption of services to cover some other crime.
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I prefer Mark Doty’s vision of Downtown. Someday, in the after times, when we meet, I shall tell you my Downtown story starring my 12 year old son in a limo in Manhattan.
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