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Video Game Casts Tea Party and Patriot Groups as Enemy Terrorists

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Glock32:
http://www.infowars.com/video-game-casts-tea-party-and-patriot-groups-as-enemy-terrorists



--- Quote ---The latest installment of the popular Rainbow Six video game franchise casts Americans fed up with government corruption and banker domination as domestic terrorists intent on carrying out killings and bombings, yet another startling indication of how media is influencing the public to accept protesters and people generally upset with the way their government is being run as the new terrorist threat.

“In Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Patriots, Team Rainbow faces a new and very real threat called the ‘True Patriots,’ a highly-trained, well-organized revolutionary group that claim the American government is irrevocably corrupted by greedy politicians and corporate special interests. The True Patriots will do whatever it takes to reclaim their country,” Ubisoft’s description of the game states.

The description goes on to label members of the fictitious movement as the “new breed of terrorists,” stating, “…players will face critical scenarios that will require them to make tough ethical decisions in order to stop this new breed of terrorists.”

Game Informer Magazine, national retail video game chain Game Stop’s exclusive magazine, claimed a tumultuous political atmosphere was the motivation for Ubisoft to pit American citizens against federal agents.

From the December 2011 issue of Game Informer:

    “Americans are angry and why shouldn’t they be? With an exponentially expanding national debt, crippling foreclosures, corporate bailouts, degrading infrastructure, dwindling job market and widening income gap between the haves and have-nots, it’s getting harder to believe politicians when they speak of American exceptionalism as if it were a fundamental truth.

    “In response to gradual erosion of our beloved nation, resentful citizens of all kinds of political backgrounds are rising up in the form of new political movements like the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street.”

Reading further in the magazine’s short intro for the game, we find the real motivation behind the game’s inception.

    “In 2009, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported a massive resurgence in anti-government paramilitary groups, which have jumped from 43 militias in 2007 to nearly 300 in 2010. The sudden surge has captured the attention of the Department of Homeland Security, NSA, CIA, and FBI, who all view these groups as a real threat to the stability of the nation. Moreover, many of these disenfranchised groups frequently put their members through intense military training exercises – for what, no one knows.”

In their final introductory paragraph, the Game Informer writers ask, “Do you have what it takes to pull the trigger on a fellow citizen?”

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Pandora:
I see.  ".... a massive resurgence in anti-government paramilitary groups".  As reported by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Because we should all just be good little sheep and acCEPT the erosion of our beloved nation.

f**k them.  All.

Glock32:
Not massive enough, apparently.

trapeze:
It would be okay if one of the game options allowed for a Team member to defect, join the patriots and then go hunt down the real problem.

Or if it allowed you to play as a patriot and kill off the Rainbow team.

I wonder if you ever get to hunt down Tom Clancy? That guy deserves to be hunted. He hasn't done an original thing in decades now...just whore out his name for games and ghost written crap books.

Glock32:
I think you do have the option to play as the "terrorists", at least in multiplayer mode. Of course, you can also play as the Nazis in other similar games.

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