DHS Tries to Safeguard Against Giant Monster Attack

KnightShift writes "Earlier this month the Department of Homeland Security halted the publication of the Monsterpocalypse Series 3: All Your Base Strategy Guide due to 'national security concerns.' In a statement on its website Privateer Press, which publishes the popular kaiju-inspired collectible miniatures game, reported that 'Homeland Security pulled the shipment for an intensive examination last week when it arrived in the United States. While no comment was made to the nature of the investigation, several crew members within Privateer Press believe the government became concerned over some of the more radical ideals espoused by several factions within the Monsterpocalypse game.' Privateer Press Chief Creative Officer Matt Wilson added that 'I am confident that the investigation's outcome will reaffirm the rights of free speech and protest of the radical environmental group Green Fury at the perceived devastation man is having on our planet as well as the freedom of people to practice religion without governmental oversight — even those religions which may very well bring forth the minions of the ancient Lords of Cthul.'"

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DHS put Quaker senior cntrs on terrorist watchlist

[leftie]

Some born again right wingers putting Lords of Cthulhu on a terrorist watch list actually makes more sense than the Quaker Senior Centers Homeland Security put on the TSA watch lists.

Born again right wingers have been "fighting" what they define as "Spiritual warfare" against Dungeons and Dragons for more than 2 decades now.

Re:Reagan's Rolling Over In His Grave

[Jawn98685]

Your point is valid, even if your assertion that Reagan was responsible for the fall of the Soviet Empire is badly off the mark.
I believe that all the arm flapping and orange-alerting about "the terrorists" was much more about cover for political maneuvering (raiding the national treasury for one's cronies) than "keeping us safe".
And Lech Walesa and Charlie Wilson had a hell of a lot more to do with when the inevitable fall of the Soviet Union actually took place than Reagan ever did. Read your history.

Re:Reagan's Rolling Over In His Grave

[Mr. Slippery]

Does anyone find it odd that Reagan managed to somehow thwart the Soviet Empire, with its vast and genuine spy networks, enormous weapons apparatus, all without either firing a shot or compromising the Constitution?

What a strange and imaginative world you live in.

The Soviet "Empire" fell over because it had too much central economic planning and because the people of Russia and the other Soviet states chafed under authoritarian rule. The U.S. didn't "win" the Cold War; in so far as anyone won (and really, it was and remains "meet the new boss, same as the old boss"), it was the soldiers and ordinary people who denied the coup attempt against Gorbachev who did.

As for Reagan, perhaps you forget Grenada? Beirut? Iran-Contra? Support for death squads in Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras? Support for Saddam Hussein? Support for the Muhjadeen -- support for Osama bin Laden, for cryin' out loud? Reagan (or at least, the powers behind the figurehead of Reagan) caused many shots to be fired, and used the Constitution as toilet paper. And it was his "borrow and spend" policies and his fetish for deregulation that started us on the path to the economic ruin we now enjoy.