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"War On Terror" Board Game Confiscated In UK

Posted by kdawson on from the security-theater-as-low-comedy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The board game The War On Terror is a satirical game in which George Bush's 'Axis of Evil' is reduced to a spinner in the middle of the board, which determines which player is designated a terrorist state. That person then has to wear a balaclava (included in the box set) with the word 'Evil' stitched onto it. Kent police said they had confiscated the game because the balaclava 'could be used to conceal someone's identity or could be used in the course of a criminal act.' Balaclavas are freely sold all over the place in the area." Schneier has blogged this stupidity, of course.

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  1. Re:Police thugs by Atheil · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Exactly!

  2. Re:Police thugs by genmax · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Seeing a one word reply saying "Exactly" modded Redundant sure brightened up my day.

  3. Re:Police thugs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Seeing your comment about another comment being modded Redundant being modded Redundant brightened up my day too.

  4. Re:Police thugs by spun · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Everyone consents to be governed by staying in the country. It is not our duty to find a place for you with a government to your liking. We have the right, based on property rights of the individual and contract law, to govern our country how we like, whether you give your explicit consent or not.

    I assume that you would not go into a restaurant, order food, eat it, and then refuse to pay on the grounds that you did not explicitly consent to pay when ordering. Why would you assume that you can benefit from our social order and then refuse to be governed? By your continued presence here you give your consent.

    Those who reap the benefit of our social system and do not want to pay the cost are parasites who do not accept responsibility for themselves and their actions. They deserve nothing but scorn.

    --
    - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
  5. Re:Police thugs by courseofhumanevents · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Seeing your comment about another comment being modded Redundant being modded Redundant being modded Redundant brightened up my day, too.

  6. Re:They need another card. by T.E.D. · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If you think that GWB is stupid and incompetent...He's neither. He's corrupt and power-hungry.

    I think we are both right here. :-)

    However, I could forgive the latter. The former is the real problem.

    And yes, almost any politician would have taken advantage of that situation

    That's just flat out wrong. History tells us it is wrong, because there have been much better excuses to do what he's done in the last 200 years.

    I know a lot of Reps like to spread this story these days. I think the alternative, that people should have voted for someone w/o the magic "(R)" after his name, is just too horrible for them to contemplate.

  7. Re:Police thugs by tubapro12 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Seeing your comment about ano*** CARRIER LOST ***

  8. Re:Police thugs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    seeing your comment, commenting on another comment being redundant, for commenting on a reduntant comment brightended up my day. Its a happy little thread we have here.

    Fuck i'm drunk and its hard to write in H t mL