Jake Lang showed up to the New York City mayor’s house on March 7 with a dead pig, a live goat, a bulletproof vest, and a camera crew of twenty. He was there to save America from Islam, he said. He screamed the n-word at teenagers. He waved bacon in people’s faces. He called Muslims “violent, disgusting people” and told them they were “chimping out.”
Then somebody threw a bomb at him.
Two somebodies, actually. Two teenagers from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, one from Langhorne and one from Newtown, who drove up that morning with mason jars packed with TATP explosive, nuts, bolts, and screws. The first device sailed through the air, hit a barricade, and fizzled out. The second was dropped near a cluster of NYPD officers. Also a dud. Nobody was hurt. Nobody was killed. And the two kids…