Milwaukee Libtards Dislike The Army...

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Quote:
Army shuts down war game
Officials defend exhibit at festival
By RAQUEL RUTLEDGE

Posted: July 1, 2008
At the request of Summerfest officials, the U.S. Army on Tuesday removed a virtual urban warfare game that allowed fest-goers as young as 13 to hop into a Humvee simulator and fire machine guns at life-size people on a computer screen.

“We’re determining it’s probably not something that we want to have shown at Summerfest,” John Boler, vice president of sales and marketing, said before the decision was made to request removal of the game, called Virtual Army Experience.

The game drew criticism from Peace Action Wisconsin, which called it “totally inappropriate and offensive.”

“War games should NOT be presented as entertainment,” the group wrote in a press release. “War is NOT a game. Summerfest is meant to bring people together for a good time in peace, not to present opportunities to practice shooting people.”

Summerfest officials received a handful of complaints and first requested the Army raise the minimum age of the players to 18 and to stop giving out a DVD of a similar virtual experience. But officials later reconsidered the whole game.

 

More at link.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=768169

Of course the ARCADES at the festival where kids as young as ten can go pump quarters into machines and shoot things up to their hearts content are being left alone.

[Rebel]

These morons in the North, Northeast, and West are quickly moving this country to a secession. Sorry, we didn't like Yankees before (You conservative Yankees are still cool, and if the South did secede, you'd probably be packing your bags coming here anyway as the rest of the nation would almost certainly turn Socialist.  ), and this is really getting on our ****ing nerves. We down South love our military.

[jinxmchue]

Of course the ARCADES at the festival where kids as young as ten can go pump quarters into machines and shoot things up to their hearts content are being left alone.

Or they can just go home and play war games on their computer or video game system.  How long until these f'ing peaceniks start targeting retail stores?

[Red October]

“War games should NOT be presented as entertainment”

However, it IS permissable to present war as entertainment if a liberal Hollywood producer stands to profit. 

[jinxmchue]

“War games should NOT be presented as entertainment”

However, it IS permissable to present war as entertainment if a liberal Hollywood producer stands to profit. 

It's permissible when the film portrays war as evil and unjust and soldiers as homicidal maniacs.

[Red October]

“War games should NOT be presented as entertainment”

However, it IS permissable to present war as entertainment if a liberal Hollywood producer stands to profit. 

It's permissible when the film portrays war as evil and unjust and soldiers as homicidal maniacs.

Particularly Americans. 

[TheSarge]

“War games should NOT be presented as entertainment,” the group wrote in a press release. “War is NOT a game.

Metal Gear Solid...HALO...Command and Conquer...Medal of Honor....Delta Force....Soldier of Fortune




Just sayin....

[TheSarge]

Just gave my commanders a heads up on this since the Drill Team is going to Milwaukee on Saturday.

[Duke Nukum]

Madison's Very Own Vicki McKenna talked about this yesterday and also talked about wanting to bring the simulator back to Madison.

You can download the podcast from here: Vicki McKenna's WIBA Podcast page

It is in the second half of second hour of the July 2, 2008 show but be warned the first half contains a sad and outraging animal cruelty and rescue story so start at about 18:18 to miss it.

The first hour from yesterday has a story on Afghanistan war vets too.