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Seven Arrested After Protesting Army Video Game Recruiting Center

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-mean-there's-more-to-the-army-than-halo? dept.

GamePolitics writes "Seven anti-war protesters were arrested in Philadelphia on Saturday during a protest rally and march which targeted the Army Experience Center, a high-tech recruitment center which uses PC and Xbox games and simulations to attract potential recruits. GamePolitics was on hand to cover the protest, and took video of the arrests. A local news station also reported on the rally, and the Peace Action Network released a statement saying, "In its desperate approach to meet recruiting numbers, the military is teaching the wrong values to teenagers. Sugarcoating combat experience with virtual war is a dishonor to those with real war experience."

11 of 433 comments (clear)

  1. Re:At least they are protesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where were all these protesters during the last 8 years when Bush was acting like an idiot?

    Acting?! He most certainly was not acting!

  2. Join the Army! by markbark · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's just like XBox -- only you die.

    1. Re:Join the Army! by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 2, Funny

      unless your Buddhist, but then you get an instant respawn!

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      IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
  3. Re:Shutup you commie by Opportunist · · Score: 2, Funny

    What now, Bibles or no porn? Or did they censor the parts where the people in the Bible fucked like rabbits (or was it with them?)?

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  4. Re:Just like real life by Veggiesama · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know, they really ought to have specified "camping" in the Geneva Conventions.

  5. Re:At least they are protesting by Kymermosst · · Score: 2, Funny

    is possible for people to believe Bush did not do enough and did too little at the same time

    You are saying it is possible to believe in A ("did not do enough") and again in A ("did too little") simultaneously?

    Yeah, right. Put the crack pipe down.

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    "Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
  6. Re:Shutup you commie by Schemat1c · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, but nobody likes old porn

    Mmm.. senior porn.

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  7. Re:Can it be that he was all so simple... by fafaforza · · Score: 1, Funny

    Pfft, you go to the White House. I'm'a gonna go fly a Blackhawk! Afterall, my taxes paid for it!

  8. Re:Recruitment tool probably steps over the line by everynerd · · Score: 2, Funny

    Eventually though, you will come to love The Leader.

  9. Re:Shutup you commie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's times like these I wish there was a "creepy" mod. Funny works, just not as well.

  10. Re:This is America by lennier · · Score: 2, Funny

    "... is in itself a conceptual tyranny."

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    "And let me guess, you don't have any actual legions of doom either."

    "I'm a CONCEPTUAL tyrant! I don't expect the likes of you to understand."

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    You are not a brain: http://books.google.com/books?id=2oV61CeDx-YC