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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:
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 10:17 | Scott Lucas in Africa, EA Global, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran 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:
That got us thinking: how fast could a liberated tok tok go? Could it take on Hitler's radio car, for example? Or Stalin's ZIS-115?
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?
