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November 18, 2006
Now I feel better
I was walking into a Borders earlier this morning when I saw a car with this bumper sticker:
I wasn't entirely sure what the thing said, but I knew I had heard of the Baader Meinhof group somewhere. And sure enough, my suspicions were confirmed: the Baader Meinhof group is the same thing as the Red Army Faction, who happened to be the leading terrorist organization in 1970's West Germany.
So my next question was, why does this guy have a terrorism bumper sticker on his car? The answer to my question once again proves how f'ing amazing the internet is, because you can find just about anything on it. According to this website, the bumper sticker means this:
"I do not belong to the Baader-Meinhof Group." Thousands of young Germans put these stickers on their cars (especially BMWs) in the early 1970s in an effort to dissuade overeager police from pulling them over. The stickers were as much a political statement as a practical one; they told the conservative German population that despite being young and having long hair, not everyone was in the Baader-Meinhof Gang. Now available for the first time in three decades, an exact reproduction of the famous bumper sticker.
Thank you very much, internet! I now know the answer, and I will completely forget about this episode in, oh, 5 minutes from now.
Side note: in the wake of Wal-Mart putting the Death's Head logo on a t-shirt, I wonder if anyone has ever tried to make a Red Army Faction t-shirt? It's a pretty cool logo, after all:
Why do the damn terrorists have the best logos?
entry no. 654
Posted at November 18, 2006 02:15 PM