There have been a series of Get Out the Vote videos for today's Tunisian elections, the first after the fall of long-time ruler Zine El Abedine Ben Ali in January. This clip offers a warning to Tunisians what could happen if they do not participate --- the return of Ben Ali:
Yesterday, in one of the more surreal moments of the fall of Muammar Qaddafi's compound, insurgents "liberated" the former leader's tok tok --- the combination of vehicle, similar to a golf cart, and setting for one of his speeches in the days after the start of the uprising:
And then we remembered a more recent and pertinent example. In January, we reported on the another Arab Spring vehicle liberation --- former Tunisian President Ben Ali's car had been freed by a forklift:
So let's do this: Tok Tok v. Ferrari in a Great Ex-Dictators Drag Race. And maybe we don't have stop there: what about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's celebrated Peugeot 504? Maybe Bashar al-Assad would like to enter his car, unimpeded by the woman protester who tried to ruin his post-speech party at the end of March?