Morality Group Calls Constitution ‘Suicide Pact’

Posted by Stropp on April 16, 2008

Don’t ya just love the expression ‘Watchdog Group?’

It has the connotation of a group that looks out for the community, to protect it from invading nasty things. In reality, most of the time these days, it’s referring to a group of busybodies who want to control their own environment by exercising power over others who don’t think the same way they do. 

Morality in Media is just such a Watchdog Group. It’s their mission to watch media and make sure it’s all nice and clean for the rest of us. But there’s this pesky thing called a Constitution that is making it hard for them to keep all that nasty media out of our innocent and naive hands.

Game Politics is reporting that Morality in Media is using the first anniversary of the Virginia Tech tragedy to blame the massacre on the perpetrator’s use of violent media — btw, didn’t the violent game link get disproved mere days after the event?

The press release from MiM essentially blamed modern media’s (as opposed to medieval media I guess) blind adherence to modernistic (as opposed to anachronistic) Supreme Court decisions that have made it impossible to hold entertainment companies responsible for the effects of their violent media.

I guess these are the same decisions that refuse to hold gun manufacturers responsible for the misuse of their products as well.

Personally, I hold the person who does the crime responsible for his actions, not the guy who made the gun, or the alcohol, or the video game.

I like the US Constitution. It’s one of those great little documents that limits the governments power over the individual. The government can’t tell you what you can or cannot say or think, as long as it’s truthful. If the government can’t stop you thinking or speaking for yourself, neither can any other group like Morality in Media.

And they don’t like that.

I reckon it’s great that Morality in Media can use the same provisions in the constitution that protect the free expression of game developers and other media producers to say what they like. The First Amendment allows game developers to express themselves through their games. Fortunately for Morality in Media, the First Amendment exists, or they might not be allowed to have their say either.

Fortunately for us, the First Amendment exists, or watchdog groups like Morality in Media would be free to censor us as much as they’d like.

Someone, anyone, please save us from watchdog groups.

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