Milwaukee Moonbats Don't Like The Army...

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Army shuts down war game
Officials defend exhibit at festival
By RAQUEL RUTLEDGE

Posted: July 1, 2008
At the request of Summerfest officials, the U.S. Army on Tuesday removed a virtual urban warfare game that allowed fest-goers as young as 13 to hop into a Humvee simulator and fire machine guns at life-size people on a computer screen.

“We’re determining it’s probably not something that we want to have shown at Summerfest,” John Boler, vice president of sales and marketing, said before the decision was made to request removal of the game, called Virtual Army Experience.

The game drew criticism from Peace Action Wisconsin, which called it “totally inappropriate and offensive.”

“War games should NOT be presented as entertainment,” the group wrote in a press release. “War is NOT a game. Summerfest is meant to bring people together for a good time in peace, not to present opportunities to practice shooting people.”

Summerfest officials received a handful of complaints and first requested the Army raise the minimum age of the players to 18 and to stop giving out a DVD of a similar virtual experience. But officials later reconsidered the whole game.

More at link.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=768169

Of course the ARCADES at the festival where kids as young as ten can go pump quarters into machines and shoot things up to their hearts content are being left alone.

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This is absurd. The military primarily blows things up and shoots people. This isn't "bad", it's what they do.

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This is absurd. The military primarily blows things up and shoots people. This isn't "bad", it's what they do.

"Peace Action Wisconsin" is one of those retard groups that still thinks it was cool when they bombed the Math building at the University Of Wisconsin in the 60's and killed a graduate student in the name of "Ending the war in Nam".

Buncha patchoulie stink washed up self loathing wrinkly hippies educating a new generation of anti war retards.

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"Peace Action Wisconsin" is one of those retard groups that still thinks it was cool when they bombed the Math building at the University Of Wisconsin in the 60's and killed a graduate student in the name of "Ending the war in Nam".

Buncha patchoulie stink washed up self loathing wrinkly hippies educating a new generation of anti war retards.

Take those people to a good range and we could solve this problem in 15 minutes. Shooting is fun! Small boys know this instinctively and teenage girls learn it a few years later.

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Summerfest is Milwaukee's version of Woodstock. Very hippy event. To have the military even there is tempting those freaks. If all they did is force the military to just shut down their simulator, then they are lucky. Could have been worse and ended up with some thing similar to what happened at Berkley.