July 29th, 2005 by POMP

I’ve written so much shit over the years, that I’ve forgotten all about most of it. Such was the case with this letter I wrote in June of 2002 to the National Organization for Women. At the time Grand Theft Auto III was all the rage and this lesbian-filled, Nazi Organization for Women was trying to get GTA pulled from store shelves because they said it glorified violence and degraded women – like that’s a bad thing.

Three years later this letter seems kind of relevant again, given the recent “Hot Coffee” controversy – so I figured I would repost it. WARNING: There’s a lot of words and stuff, so if you don’t like that kind of thing you may want to leave now…

Although “GTA 3″ is rated for “mature” players only (17 and up), it has been widely reported that younger kids are getting their hands on it. This is EXCELLENT, as I believe it will help deter the youth of the nation from engaging in real-life physical acts of violence, either at home or in school.

We defenders of “GTA 3″ have suggested that critics of the game lighten up. Here’s what they SHOULD lighten up about: The game player works for the mafia, which involves killing people, including police officers and innocent bystanders, stealing cars and doing drugs. When the player begins to lose his health, he can pick up a prostitute on the street and have sex with her to make his health go back up. If he wants his money back, the player can run after the prostitute, beat her to death and recover his cash. People who have played the game say that the beating is bloody and done with a baseball bat that you can feel in your hands through the controller. Is that GREAT or what!? Technology sure has come a long way.

As video games get more real looking and feeling, and the players gain more control over the situations, one has to ask whether we aren’t “training” kids in violence, as has been suggested by moronic medical professionals, (who have undoubtedly been bought and paid for by fascist organizations such as N.O.W.) and the military, who must love the idea of “training” kids for violence. This will rapidly increase the rate at which they can send your kids off to die on foreign soil, so we can all save a nickel on gas. Video games are much different than TV or movies where the characters are independent from the viewers. In video games the players themselves are the ones committing the violent acts. Thus, alleviating the everyday anguish they are subjected to by the likes of liberal organizations such as N.O.W. and the media, with its never-ending, graphic depictions of the “War on Terrorism.” Why is it that seeing the WTC collapse 1000 times isn’t bad for our children (or even the crucifixion of Jesus Christ), but violence in video games must be stopped? What video games was Hitler playing as a youth?

The game is just a fantasy some say. But N.O.W. asks how many young men fantasized about picking up and beating to death a hooker before this game suggested the idea? I say, probably many, that’s why banning this game is as stupid as suggesting that a group of lesbians, such as the one’s in N.O.W. should be advocating censorship and trying to limit my freedom of speech.

Even if violent games like “GTA 3″ do have a direct effect on our behavior, companies such as Take Two Interactive and Sony Computer Entertainment should NOT be ashamed to be making money off of this entertaining form of “play”.

N.O.W. asks you to immediately withdraw this product from store shelves and discontinue selling and marketing this “game” which they alledge encourages violence toward and the degradation of women. That is their fascist decree. I ask that you deport any treasonous individuals that would dare limit the rights of others, simply because of their own personal beliefs. That is my democratic decree.