Now that
Hillary Clinton can stop exploiting the deaths of 9/11 for her city’s idiotic
Olympic bid, she can put that time and energy into real issues – like video
games. The devastation in Iraq worsens each day, the Karl Rove scandal is
being swept away now that John Roberts has our attention, and the Democratic
Party looks as weak and sick as it ever has, yet Clinton is launching
diatribes against a video game. Her opportunism feeds into the flagrant
hypocrisy of this amoral nation while squashing free speech and ignoring
vital, pressing issues.
Clinton’s
objection, as has been widely publicized, is that a gamer can unlock a code
(or whatever) that shows the main character in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
having sex, much to the delight of nerds and pixilated woman fetishists
everywhere. Hillary's shrill whining is reminiscent of her buddy Tipper Gore,
whose self-righteous ignorance threatened free speech in music a decade ago.
Now, the game, which already had a Mature rating meaning it is appropriate for
17 and older, is being hit with an Adults Only rating, causing it to be banned
from many retailers. This is de facto censorship and it is wrong on every
level.
It has long
been understood in this country that extreme, graphic violence is fine, but
sex isn’t. It’s fine by me if people want to flock to "The Passion of the
Christ" and label that violence as “acceptable,” but when they then decide to
campaign against other types of speech, they appear laughably ignorant and
backward. The truth is, sex in video games is FAR from being the most harmful
element. Many video games are racist, hateful, and indoctrinating. The
latter part being the most dangerous.
In 2003,
the Pentagon spent $4 billion on recruitment targeting impoverished kids. One
way that they did that was through video games. According to Wired.com, the
military spent $12 million making “America’s Army,” a propaganda ploy that has
such sophisticated technology that it can be used as a training device. This
game that effectively teaches kids how to slaughter little brown people far
away has a Teen rating.
Now that
recruitment is becoming a bigger problem, expect to see more propaganda thrown
at young children through video games and other forms of manipulated
entertainment. And expect hypocrites like Hillary to not care.