Kotaku, “Peacemongers Protest Ubisoft HQ Over War Games Claims”
San Franciscans who had an open afternoon took to the streets today to protest the work of Ubisoft and the United States Army, claiming that the America’s Army line of video games “has been developed by the United States Army to recruit children under the age of 17 in violation of the U.N. Optional Protocol and international law.” Fortunately, Wired’s Game|Life was on hand to capture the action, beat by beat.
In short, the protest group Bay Area Direct Action feels that, due to the ‘Teen’ rating of the America’s Army series, Ubisoft is in violation of “international law” by making joining the Army seem totally rad — just like sitting on your ass playing video games all day, instead of focusing on how you could be maimed or killed or mentally scarred for life.
Wired points out how wrong this is in between bouts of dissecting how ill-prepared the group was with clever signs, pun-laden chants and logic. Since it went down in San Francisco, so a genuinely crazy guy shows up. It’s worth a read.
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Wow…I am amazed a little more everyday about how DUMB people can be. Seriously… I WON a copy of America’s Army and played it A LOT, but I am NOT in the military. And you know what? I WON the game while I was in JROTC!! Yes…I did BOTH things the libtards say are “recruiting children”, and “making war/the military seem fun.” It was BECAUSE of JROTC that I learned I DIDN’T WANT to go in the military. But oh…WRATH upon me for, you know, making a logical argument. And most definitely wrath upon me because I actually speak FROM EXPERIENCE about a subject I know something about from somewhere other than CNN or Michael Moore, or Barack Obama, or the hell ever else these kinds of simpletons listen to.