I've been reading a number of posts about this topic and it dawned on me. The posts and blogs are right. These old fogies never play games that they are criticizing! They probably don't play games at all.

 It's interesting that when movies are under scrutiny, political forces tend to ignore that PG-13 movies tend to sell more than R-Rated ones. Similar things occur in games... granted GTA and Halo are like the biggest selling games at the moment, but over all, more E and T rated games are sold in a year than M rated ones. Really most games are completely family friendly. I mean anyone who’d be offended with Sly, Mario, Zelda, and Final Fantasy is not only an idiot, but a complete fanatic like Jack Thompson.

 It's also amusing to me that they seem to ignore that a good 40%+ of gamers are over the age of 40, and according to Introduction to Game Development by Jeanie Novak, our age group is significantly less violent than their generation was, the youth crime rate has dropped significantly since 1980!

 One has to ask, why are these issues not being addressed? Well the answer is quite clear. the Dem's liberal stance on issues of abortion and gay rights aren't winning over an overly conservative nation (Not necessarily a criticism), therefore the Dems are desperately trying to change their liberal image by forcing a moral authoritarian agenda on media. Will this approach work? No. All they are doing is changing thier image from overly liberal to totalitarian, and who wants a totalitarian government? Not I... I may not agree with the Reps on everything, but at least only one Rep has gotten any press for his totalitarian stance against games, and incidentally he's the same man responsible for some of the most violent movies out there.... Kinda funny if you think about it...