September 23, 2006

• Swell New Video Game!

  If you're not a member of the Liberal Media or part of the Bash America First crowd, this post is not for you.

  There's a swell new video game on the market that every normal red-blooded patriotic American will soon be playing, or buying for his/her kids.  It's in the finest traditions of American history and culture, and will prove to be an excellent educational tool.  Here's a description of the game, and a way that you can try it out for free:

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  SEEING IS BELIEVING.   CLICK ON THE BORDER PATROL GAME AND CHECK IT OUT FOR YOURSELF.  YOUR MOUSE IS
  THE TRIGGER.

  Video Game
  Genocide

  by
  Xiuhcoatl
  AztlanRising.com
  May 14, 2006

  The recent debate over immigration and the
  inevitable backlash from the brown community have made headline news throughout
  the nation. Despite the broad coverage of the anti-H.R. 4437 movement by the
  mainstream media, they have failed to address the real issues concerning
  immigration reform. They do not dare venture into the root of the problem, for
  they know that it has nothing to do with terrorism or border security. In
  reality, immigration reform in America is driven by widespread
  xenophobia, the colonizer’s mentality, and yes, plain old racism.
  

  Now, with Minutemen on the border and the
  President promising National Guard deployment there, the anti-Mexican sentiment
  and reactionary xenophobia in this country has been manifested in a video game.
  “Border
  Patrol,” which is credited to the bigoted neo-Nazi Tom Metzger, puts you in
  the role of a hunter/murderer who patrols the southern border with Mexico.
  Your objective: “Keep them out…at any cost!” “Them,” by the game’s definition,
  are the “wetbacks” trying to cross the border from Mexico.
  

  As if the mere concept of a game that requires
  you to shoot indigenous migrants were not insulting enough, Metzger identified
  each character with a common stereotype of Mexican people.
  

  The “Mexican nationalist” holds a Mexican flag
  and totes two guns as he runs across the river. The “drug smuggler” carries a
  bag of marijuana on his back. The most offensive target is the “breeder,” a
  pregnant Mexican woman who lugs two children behind her. In true neo-Nazi
  fashion, the author exhibits an obvious lack of respect for all women,
  identifying those who give us life with the label of an animal. The game credits
  you with four kills if you shoot her – one for the mother, one for each child,
  and one for the unborn baby.

  This “kill them all” mentality isn’t mere
  fantasy – it’s Western history relived on a video screen. No mainstream video
  game better illustrates the point than “Gun,” set in the American Old West.
  Colton White, a hunter turned gunslinger, must kill Apache Indians in order to
  “advance.” As White, you slaughter the Apache people, scalping as many as you
  can with your “scalping knife.” The message of these games is clear – genocide
  against indigenous people is still accepted and encouraged in the US.
  

  Since the introduction of television in the
  US, indigenous people have been
  portrayed as villains, savages, rivals of righteous white cowboys against whom
  anything goes. In modern times one can see the same relationship in the struggle
  between the “upright” white police officer and brown skinned gang members.
  Racism against Indians has always been commonplace, but these “games” take it to
  new proportions.

  The purpose of the games is threefold: as a
  recruitment tool for hate groups; they portray people of color as sub-human;
  they serve to desensitize the public and potential recruits to very real crimes
  against humanity, like mass deportations, hate crimes, and mass incarceration.
  If the people can be numbed to this brutality and convinced that the targets are
  sub-human, the next step will be one we have seen before – genocide.
  

  Europeans colonists engaged in the wholesale
  slaughter and enslavement of Indians and Africans with no remorse. 100 million
  Native Americans – our ancestors – and 100 million Africans were ultimately
  killed at the hands of white colonialists and slavers. European culture was
  desensitized to these atrocities by the dehumanization of non-whites. This
  condition is known as the colonizer’s mentality, and it is recreated, and meant
  to be recreated, in the mind of everyone playing these “games.”
  

  The neo-Nazi “National Alliance,” creators of
  the video game Ethnic Cleansing, knows this all too well. Released on Resistance
  Records, a low-budget white nationalist label, Ethnic Cleansing encourages you
  to play as a skinhead or a noose-wielding Klan member. You patrol the streets of
  a city which has been devastated by gangs of “sub-humans.” From the words of the
  creators, you “run through the ghetto blasting away various blacks and spics.”
  

  Ethnic cleansing in the US is
  not an implausible course. The government is already building concentration
  camps for migrants. Soon, the law will allow them to stop anybody on the streets
  with brown skin to ask for proof of citizenship. We have been stripped of our
  rights by the Patriot Act. The American Indian holocaust is very real; it has
  endured the test of time, and it continues, both in the real world and in the
  media. These “games” are nothing but video genocide.

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  This article was originally
  written for Mexica Tlahtolli, the voice of
  the Aztlan Mexica Nation / Harmony Circle.
  Xiuhcoatl is an independent
  writer from South Modesto,
  CA. For more info visit Aztlan Rising

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  The Racist "Border
  Patrol" Game

  
  

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