With the relevation that Homer was the real terrorist, the FBI called off the wiretapping of Apu

First, read this CP piece with a straight face. Alright, alright, get all the chuckles out. There we go.

To recap, Fisheries Minister Gail Shea got pied by the notorious terrorist group Al-Pieda, a group with possible ties to the Talibanana-cream. Honestly, I could just sit here all day and think of puns involving pie and terrorism. But then, the pie-terrorists would have won.

Wait, one more. Tamil Piegers. No? Hezbollemon-meringue? Too much? Alright, just watch the video:

Liberal MP Gerry Byrne (bipartisanship!) wants to know if this brazen act of piessault by PETA constitutes an act of terrorism. Now, on the surface this seems ridiculous, because TV has taught us that getting a pie in the face is an act of light-hearted clownish pranking, while TV also taught us that only brown people can be terrorists.

Alright, let’s figure it out: IS PIEING A POLITICIAN AN ACT OF TERRORISM?

CRITERIA #1: Terrorism is a show of force meant to intimidate and humiliate. It relies on shock appeal and sudden violence to bring about a political message of bullying and fear. Match: Well, yeah, that’s a match. Maclean’s even agrees. And they take pies seriously. TERRORISM!

CRITERIA #2: Terrorism is serious. Match: Eh, not so much. I mean, I wouldn’t enjoy getting a pie in the face, but it’s something of a tradition in Canadian politics. You really haven’t made it as a politician in this country unless you’ve appeared on your local news wiping whipped cream out of your eyes in a confused daze. See also: the Entartistes. NOT TERRORISM!

CRITERIA #3: Terrorism involves horrible cruelty. Match: It was a tofu pie. Eeewwww, good Lord. Give me seal flipper any day, pushing tofu into someone’s open mouth should be defined as cruel and unusual under the Geneva Conventions. TERRORISM!

CRITERIA #4: Terrorists are dicks. Match: Oh, here we go. PETA’s currently $100-million in debt, the only thing that keeps them alive is attention. They’re like real-world internet trolls. PETA Founder Ingrid Newkirk, quoted in the CP piece up top, is batshit crazy. She claims that chicken farming is a worse crime than the Holocaust. They had a campaign where they advocated that college students binge-drink beer rather than milk, claiming beer’s healthier. They’ve distributed pamphlets to kids about fishing called “Your Daddy Kills Animals.” They proposed renaming fish to seakittens, so they’d seem cuter. They’re also massive hypocrites: they end up putting down over 90% of the animals they’ve taken in. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have killed over 20,000 pets as of 2008. They liken the very act of pet ownership to slavery. Honestly, am I done? Can I stop now? Yes, PETA are huge dicks. TERRORISM!

CRITERIA #5: It’s generally inappropriate to make puns about terrorism. Match: Even the real news outlets can’t resist a good pie pun. The Maclean’s article was called “No mere question of taste”. I mean, it’s no Al-Pieda, but it’s not the kind of wordplay you’d generally invoke for “30 dead in car bombing.” NOT TERRORISM!

CRITERIA #6: And this is perhaps the most important criteria of all, the real litmus test of whether or not terrorism is involved: Terrorism generally does not involve pie. Match: Pieing generally involves pie. NOT TERRORISM!

So, the panel’s split. Will we ever find out if some starving hippie squishing creamy tofu into a Member of Parliament’s face constitutes an act of terrorism against our nation?

(SPOILER ALERT: Yes we will, it’s not terrorism, what are you an idiot?)

Next time if they come with quiches to the face, I’m ready with a Hamas-and-cheese quip.