I like the fact that the bus in the illustration is the 75. I used to take that route to Ballard from Greenwood...

Callan's got skillz.

I saw this ad for the first time two weeks ago and rolled my eyes at its overt racism. I had just assumed it was a racist right wing ad, and since it was appearing in Seattle I thought, "fuck 'em, let them waste their money." Finding out that it's paid for with tax dollars to fund a public service is both infuriating in their lack of common sense (e.g. these terrorists live overseas, we won't EVER see them here, so it's a waste of money and missing its target audience), and baffling as we could have just saved a step and took the tax money and put it into transit to begin with instead of putting it into the FBI's advertising budget. If this is what they're spending money on, then they are clearly receiving too much funding.

Well it would make more sense to put up pictures of terrorists who might actually be in Seattle. Cascadian Bacon might want to spruce up a bit before his next separatist movement yearbook photo.

I think the dumbest thing about the ads is that they assume that these wanted terrorists are going to be walking around a city bare-faced. WTF FBI.

I want to run an ad of people who cashed out stock options after it sunk below IPO or historic peak.

Unfortunately, terrorists and would-be terrorists are not distributed equally among all races and genders. Real photos of real terrorists are not going to mirror American society.

Yeah! How dare they put pictures of a bunch of terrorists under the heading "Terrorists."

(rolls eyes)

Calling that racist cheapens actual racism.

Hey smart guy, how about you tell us when the last time any of those terrorists were spotted in the U.S. Or the likelihood that any rando Joe Citizen is going to be in an area in which these terrorists were last spotted. These ads are pointless and a waste of funds.

I'm not arguing that the ads aren't pointless or a waste of funds. They are.

I'm arguing that they're not racist, since racism is the subject of this post.