'sMitt is screwing the pooch on this one. Jailing folks for game playing is not defending the constitution.
“Enforce Our Nation’s Obscenity Laws.”
“To protect our children, Governor Romney will require the Department of Justice to enforce our existing federal obscenity laws. Even though the interstate trafficking of obscenity is illegal, federal obscenity laws have not been adequately enforced.”
http://www.mittromney.com/Issues/american-culture
He just lost the college-age vote.
In the video game world, there are various types of games that are rated “Mature.” My 16-year-old son explains them to me and shows me reviews, and if there is only violence that makes “sense” in a War Games kind of way, I allow him to purchase those games. Like the Halo games. I have watched him play them and have even occasionally let my younger son have a turn. I understand the character of my teen and he is not glued to these games, or violent and surly the rest of the time. He even loves to “hack” the games to find out how they are developed, and like many bright 16-year-olds he would love to be a part of the gaming industry one day.
He and his older, voter-age, gaming compatriots are VERY MILITANT against ANY candidate who wants to make video games with violence in them harder to purchase or use. They get on bandwagons faster than we do against Hillary. This is no joke.
Another great move by Mitt!!!!! (/sarcasm)
I will definitely vote against this clown. I still remember him trying to out liberal Ted Kennedy in 1994.
I’m not a Romney supporter by any means... but...
Look folks, we see all manor of violence and way too much sex delivered to young children. We see their innocense stolen through enticement. What the result of that is, we have no way of fully knowing, but we see evidence of it.
We do see a corser society. Today body mutilation has become the rage. We see the body turned into a canvas of art sometimes craftily executed, and more often than not, it’s ghastly.
It’s become a right of passage to pierce yourself. If it’s not your nose it’s your face. If not your face your tongue. If not your tongue, the mutilation heads south. The perpetuators of this kind of activity is turning our society into a third world African tribal hovel.
While some of you kind of wink and nod at the presentation of sexual inendo and far worse to our children, it’s become commonplace to hear of mere children gratifying each other orally on our grade school campuses and even buses. Is this the brave new world we desire for our progeny?
Groups of kids now prey on other kids. Sexual perversions and violence rack our society. We lament the lowering of the ages of these perpetrators, then slam a public figure who has stepped up to address the issue.
Whether in song or video or video game, by radio wave or advertising hook, as a society we are corrupting our children.
We see what takes place in the news every day and we collectively say something to the effect, “Where do these kids come up with these ideas?” When I was a child, I would never have thought to do some of the stuff that takes place today. If I had, I would never have carried it out. I would have blocked that vile thought out of my mind in moments, but today’s youth have been conditioned to see those acts as something that can be accepted, if only the circumstances are warranted. And those circumstances are then evaluated by mere children, totally without the tools to judge correctly, and totally vulnerable because there were folks who valued fun more than righteousness.
Folks, advertisers pay billions of dollars each year just to get their name before the public. Advertising is a very powerful form of propaganda. It can be a very powerful propaganda for good, and I obviously support that. What I cannot support is that we recognize the effects of propaganda for good, then dismiss the fact that presenting foul disgusting demonic materials to children, has no effect. It has an effect. It has a vile effect and we all know it.
Today we live in a society where a corporation like Disney feels compelled to introduce off color and even adult situations into the most innocent of stories, simply because they think adults and even children can’t sit through something purely crafted for children.
Somewhere along the line we flattered ourselves that enlightenment meant just about all limits would be lifed as it applied to our youth. No folks, that is not the case. Enlightenment would be understanding that it is not necessary to corrupt our youth, and that adults could find plenty to entertain them if children were left to be children.
How we go about that at this point is up to discussion, but the need for it isn’t.
That is “nanny politics”, Mitt. Let all parents and all legal guardians of children be fully responsible for discouraging the buying, renting, and use of the most violent of video games if it’s truly unsuitable for them. It depends upon each individual child for parents to determine what’s truly O.K. for them and what’s truly not O.K. for them. The government at every level should never, ever be in a parenting role at any time!
Does he mean going after retailers who sell these games to UNDERAGE folks, or to just anyone?
HA! HA! HA! HA!
Gaming has led to some fine soldiering. So, that’s all I have to say.
I guess Mitt never watched an old Tom & Jerry cartoon or an old black and white western film. He’s just another gun grabber.
'sI don’t want the government to tell me what and when to feed my kids. I don’t want the government to tell me how to raise them. I don’t want the government to decide for my kids what level of maturity they should be at.
I want the government out of MY house.
I will take the responsibility myself. After all this is a free nation...or is it?