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• Sunday, September 17, 2006 02:23 PM

  Harmless is as Harmless Does

  I think this is nothing but another sad example of just how cluelessly harmless the 'Left' has become. The mere fact that what the 'media artist' does with this video game is completely legal indicates that the Powers That Be ain't losing much sleep over it. And if they ain't losing sleep over it, that's a pretty good indication that he ain't making much headway in the paradigm shift department. Also, newsflash: you could show the actual DEATHS of these soldiers whose names he memorializes, IN the game, and not only would that not make these gamers see things his way---they'd think it was COOL. Know your target demo, dude. We are now several product-generations down the road from Columbine.

  I believe these virtual column inches should have gone to some Protester or Heretic or Gadfly or Radical Pain in the Ass or whatever who is such a threat to the system that you have to use a pseudonym to report on her/him. Know what I mean? Are you telling me that dissent in America is now so effing toothless that you can't scrape up ONE 'radical' whose image you can only show in silhouette, or with a pixilated face, or with a black bar across the eyes?

  There really IS no dissent worth reporting in this country nowadays, probably. You've either got your types who go along with the program on roller skates, or you've got the ones who mope along with the program kinda grumbling all the way, like suburban kids pissed that Dad has grounded 'em on the eve of a wild party. And the latter group is what's left of what we used to call The Left, I guess.

  —Natural Lee
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