Blago 4 Kids
1:42 am, 12/28/04
Blago 4 KidsGovernor Blagojevich, writing in the Chicago Sun-Times, once again reminds us that
he can spell.
A gang member drives through a city, shooting police officers, stealing cars, soliciting prostitutes and then having sex with them. He's awarded extra points for beating them up, urinating on them, and throwing them from his car. As a parent, it's one of the last things I'd want my 8-year-old exposed to. Yet, every day, millions of young children spend their afternoons at the controls of video games like this one, simulating acts of murder, dismemberment, decapitation and sexual seduction.
Well, no they don't. The only current game I'm aware of that's quite like
that is the latest Grand Theft Auto, which, like almost all such violent games, is far more popular
with 20 somethings. The 8-year-olds I know are far more interested in
Shrek 2.
When I grew up, my parents used to worry if I was hanging out with the wrong kid in the neighborhood. Now, our children are spending their free time practicing the same acts that if committed in real life would send them to prison. Touch football and street hockey have been replaced by the Xbox and the joystick.
Well this begs the question, Rod: Why not buy your kid a football instead of
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas? She's 8. She doesn't have a job. You do. You have to buy her everything she's got. Comes with the territory. Frankly, if it concerns you so much, why not try to figure out what's going on in your kid's head that he/she prefers simulated acts of rape and mutilation to, say, legos?
Games like Grand Theft Auto and Halo 2 use many of the same techniques that the United States military uses to train soldiers before they depart for Afghanistan or Iraq -- to help prepare them for hunting and killing the enemy.
I had no idea Rod was even the author of this column until I got to this line, when I decided to scroll back and see what idiot wrote this. Blagojevich would be horrified to learn that downstate, lots of people
actually hunt
well before they are 18. The first day of deer season is practically a school holiday.
Hunting
eeevil. Guns
eeevil. Soldiers
eeevil. Games
eeevil. Children
eee, er, wait.
It more or less continues downhill from here:
Harley W. Daugherty at 07:46 AM, 12/28/04
?If he really wants to go apeshit, have him watch a few rounds of Counterstrike online.........
NOW there is violance...
Brian J. at 08:52 AM, 12/28/04
Come on, the joystick died with the Atari 2600 20+ years ago.
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