From: Alan <alano@teleport.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 01:47:30 +0800
To: Michael Stutz <stutz@dsl.org>
Subject: The McVeigh Video Game
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On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Michael Stutz wrote:

> I went out with a nabor last Friday night to get a beer at a local townie
> bar. 

Jim Nabor?

> They had a small dance floor with the typical bad music. When the
> deejay put on the Village People's "YMCA" he turned down the volume during
> the "Y - M - C - A" chorus and led the redneck crowd through his own
> version: "Fry Tim McVeigh," which they sang.

I am expecting Tim McVeigh to show up in a video game any day now.  Check
out some of the games at the local arcade.  See who the villians in the
"shoot-em-up" games are...  Used to be "drug dealers".  Now it is
"terrorists".  And you get to be the one to "blow the badguys away".  (In
my more paranoid moments I equate it to a plot to get people to side with
the government on the next televised shoot-the-bad-guys
spectacle/stand-off.)  In one, you get to go after them in a hellicopter!
(Painted black, no doubt...)

And you don't see any mothers protesting what this will do to their
kids...

Will the next video game target be evil cryptographers?

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