Although it is not due to be released until 2015, conservatives are up in arms about the latest version of a first person shooter video game which will include anti-government Gadsden flag-waving Tea Partiers as bad guys.
Battlefield Hardline, developed by Visceral Games and video game publisher Electronic Arts, was recently premiered at Gamescom gaming convention in Cologne, Germany last week, and word has gotten out that the storyline is built around the player character attempting to shoot his way out after being kidnapped by a crime boss who describes himself as a ““one man island of armed sovereignty,” according to Big Hollywood.
The crime boss, named Tony Alpert, is heard speaking about “these once-united states” and the “denigration, the humbling, the tearing down of everything that made this country great.”
Speaking of Alpert, one character is heard to say. “One black president and Tony completely lost his shit.”
According to game reviewers, the ‘Don’t Tread On Me’ Gadsden flags–normally associated with Tea Party protests — can be seen on walls and on the back of jackets of several characters throughout the game.
Conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck expressed dismay at what he called “American constitutionalists and Tea Party people” being made the bad guys in the game.
“Let’s go to the game that has just come out that makes American constitutionalists and Tea Party people the enemy. And you can go and shoot them,” Beck said on his radio show.“Anybody have a problem with this?”
Actually no. Especially since the sovereign citizens have been identified as the number one terrorist threat in this country, and the gem is focused on police responses to terrorist groups.
Besides past Battlefield games used Iranians, Russians, Palestinians, and even the French police as protagonists, and nobody seemed to bat an eye.
It seems to me that these conservatives have no problem with the way minority groups are portrayed in the real world or the virtual, but when THEY get scrutiny, suddenly everybody is a reverse racist, or un-American out to denigrate their good name.
I don't play first person shooters anymore, but if I did I have to admit I would be much more comfortable aiming a virtual grenade launcher at a group as clearly dangerous as the sovereign citizen movement than I would at some stereotypical Arab bad guy who was supposedly trying to take over down town LA.
But hey, that's just me.
They're not Americans anyway.
ReplyDeleteAnd how many of these Tea Party/sovereign citizens have used a picture of Obama for target practice. But I guess that must be different since Obama is a real guy and this is just an imaginary universe in a video game. Yeah, right.
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ReplyDelete"Conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck expressed dismay at what he called “American constitutionalists and Tea Party people” being made the bad guys in the game."
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Tough shit, Beck. They are the bad guys, in part because they don't know or understand the constitution that they profess to revere so much any better than they know or understand the theory of relativity.
And why is this wrong?
ReplyDeleteI have no real interest in computer games but I'm going to buy that one.
ReplyDeleteIf the shoe fits, play the game I say. These sovereign citizens are a dangerous bunch and it is only fitting that they should have a game in their honor.
ReplyDeleteI do not play video games, but my grandson loves them and Christmas is coming. Now I don't have to wonder what to get him this year.
To become a "sovereign citizen" is a definition of "traitor".
ReplyDeleteYes Cynthia, the Gandsden flag originated with the Navy and the Continental Marines during the Revolutionary War. It is a symbol of the fighting power of this great Country.
ReplyDeleteThat is before the Tea Party hijacked it for its' own dubious purpose. But the Tea Party sprang from the Republican Party who hijacked Jesus as their own and made him someone I don't recognize as the R Jesus doesn't give a damn about the poor, the sick, the down trodden, those in prison and dare I say immigrants, be they legal or not.
EA makes some really great games, spore and the sims are two of my favorites, but this one sounds like a re make of Grand Theft Auto. I hope Glenn Beck is successful in buying a lot of them and shooting them with real guns, add those to the gaming enthusiasts who'll celebrate carjacking, killing, rape, and blood for blood's sake, and it'll get great ratings. Not in my house, but I hope it does better than expected and gets these idiots laughed out of towns everywhere.
ReplyDeleteGee, you'd think the ammosexuals would be over the moon over a new shoot em up game!