Liam Fox and his silly”Gaming Patriotism”
Categories: Lighter side Tags: FPS games, Heritage Foundation, Liam Fox
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As a fellow gamer myself, I couldn’t agree more with you. What’s sadder is that Liam Fox doesn’t seem to be just one loonie with all this rantings and ravings regarding video games. I think that you should know also about Jack Thompson in the US, and even here in Australia, where i’m living, censors have effectively banned R rated video games from entering our stores. I know that it’s not as relevant to your issue with the honestly more ludicrous argument to ban games letting you play a fictional enemy. But I think that Liam Fox would fit quite well with that clique.As a person who loved Counter Strike, Liam Fox can just suck it for all I care.
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First of all, I’m not a fan of the Afghanistan stuff, it’s not my cup of tea. I also don’t play multi-player, but I know that one could be asked to play the enemy. Personal liberty means that we have the right to chose, especially in our own homes and on own computers.We should be aware that when this game is played on multi-player, cops and security agents maybe monitoring the servers, seeing who plays the Taliban, noting their ISP addresses – and perhaps placing the users on a watchlist. Modern day, “jihad”-obsessed, Western security services look for “jihad” where there is no “jihad.” No kidding – this is the paranoid extent to which un-controlled security services with NO oversight and NO protections for “persons of interest” operate today.If you don’t show your “gaming patriotism” by refusing to play an enemy, like the Taliban, you must also be a threat and a danger to society. This is much like the Nazis, where not joining the Hitler Youth must surly mean that you are a communist.The real threats today come from the radicalized right, which is funding Geert Wilders, cheers on the EDL – and believes that bombing mosques and attacking Muslims (or anybody that looks like one) is “fighting Islamification.” The security threats are NOT to be found on game servers-but at an EDL rally. These right-wing radicals are ripping apart the fabric of our societies, from New Amsterdam to old Amsterdam, and everyplace in between, by dividing and fragmenting where once there was peace, tolerance and freedom for all. People like Dr. Fox appear to be aiding and abetting these destructions of our freedoms in the obsession over “jihad” and enforcement of authoritarian “patriotism” in the name of “security.”
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