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2006-02-24

Help Stop the Violence

Please go to this link and sign the petition against the game.
Patricia Downing

NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND PROTESTS 25 to LIFE© VIDEO GAME
Parents, Caregivers Urged to Boycott Violent Game
The Public has spoken! In just over two weeks, more than 35,000 of you have joined our boycott petition of the violent video game, "25 to Life©". Our NEW goal is to achieve 50,000 signatures! Add your voice TODAY to our vigorous campaign discouraging parents and caregivers from purchasing or allowing children access to the 25-to-Life video game.

Click here to sign our online petition to protest "25 to Life"©.

Dennis Doti sent this to the manufacturer:
To whom this may concern,

I am writing to express my disappointment with your company's video game "25 To Life". I am disgusted that your company would allow young adults to "kill police officers" in this "so called" game. Since when it is a game to murder police officers? It will never be okay to pretend to murder police officers via vi! deo games or anything else. If this game is sold in stores, I will no longer purchase merchandise made by your company. I will also influence friends and family members who routinely purchase your products.

You may feel that its "just a game" and it's only pretend, but we both know that kids and young adults take things to far. They are influenced by video games, etc. Your "25 to life" does not help the problem, it promotes the problem of violence. Violence is everywhere in the media and in video games. But when it includes hurting police officers, I will never feel that's alright.

Please re-evaluate your position of this video game. We all know that you've spent quite a bit of money of this project. However, it seems that you've failed to realize the serious consequences of your project. Do you know how many police officers have been&nbs! p;killed in the line of duty? Do you know how many police officers are murdered each year in this country? The sad truth is too many, which makes this a very serious matter. Please do not dismiss this letter as just a complaint.

Police officers face adversity each and every day in this country, most times without proper resources. They work through tough times on a daily basis and see the unimaginable. I would ask that you do not further complicate their situations or disrespect this admirable profession by allowing a video game like "25 to Life" to sell in stores.

Thank you for your time,

Posted at 03:21:25 PM | Post Comment | Read Comments (5)

Comment posted by PrairieMade at 2006-02-24 15:24:27

As an added comment, I'm sure it would be greatly appreciated if we all added this to our blogs or at least email it to our
friends and family. Patricia

Comment posted by Rustus at 2006-02-28 09:10:47

Ok, from one gamer to an anti: GAMES DO NOT AFFECT THINKING! It's a tendency in those woh buy those kind of games. I recently did a report on this in my Current events class. I did the research.

I do not play shoot-em-ups of this style. (Only games with the 007 logo or Goldeneye in its name.) I feel them wrong. However, there are those who do. I agree that you dislike this game, I understand that, however I'd bet that when Grand Theft Auto (Bleh) Came out, the manufacturers got the same thing.

I'm not saying it's wrong, only that it DOES NOT AFFECT THE PERSON PLAYING IT! IT's simply an impulse in the person's mind to do violent things.

Comment posted by kkylara at 2006-02-28 12:41:15

I'm afraid that I have to disagree with Rustus. I feel that when a person accepts something as ok, as in killing people in video games, the brain records this and it enhances the possiblity that the person might do something violent. Our brains do not know if our thoughts are real or imagined. this is something that has been taught for a long time in motivational training. So, if we "see" ourselves killing and we are happy when we get a high score, then our brain interprets this as ok. Yes, it may be true that most people will not go out and shoot a cop or anyone else, but there are some who will be influenced enough by this game, and others like it, to accept that it's ok to do so. Many of our movies and tv shows influence our minds in the same way. I see these games as psychological training for young people to get them used to killing so that when they are engaged in war activities, they will not feel that it is wrong to kill. Look at the problems we are already having with regard to the attitudes of some of our soldiers and their treatment of captives.
Fran

Comment posted by PrairieMade at 2006-02-28 20:03:28

Thank you both for your opinions, I like to hear both sides.
I was thinking if anyone disagreed with me that I would love to do a test. I don't know how for sure but it would be neat
if a person could.

As a Christian I follow what Christ said ( now don't space out on me lol )He says that our thoughts can be sins not just our actions. So anything to do with killing someone I don't want to have anything to do with.

Now if you aren't a Christian I can see where you wouldn't
think that. That's why I would love to do a test. I feel that we get so desensitized with what we see continuosly
that if we were going to react to it, whatever it was, we
would be too late.

Now you take the sex and nudity on TV and in music. Twenty years ago, if even that, people would be scandalized by what is on now. The reason it is on now as far as I am concerned
is because it has been insidiouly inserted over the years.
I feel that the powers that be will insert something that
people may not like , watch what the reaction is, then remove it if there is an outcry. Then after a certain length
of time they try again. If there isn't as much outcry then they leave it in.

To me the fact that very few people think that it is wrong
for people who aren't married to live together is proof of
the insidious removal of morals. I would suggest that most
young people now a days don't even know what morals are. Prove me wrong.

But back to the games. I'm interested in what kind of research you did. Did you just read some statistics or
did you do your own experiment? Did you read the 'experts'
results? If that, did they put the children (becausse they would have to be the subjects, you couldn't use adults)
in a situation where they may get angry or
maybe violent? Look at all the teens, if not younger, who
are criminals now. Not that that necessarily proves anything.

When I think of how children can be affected by what they
see and hear I think of a test I read about. Some teachers
did an experiment. It had to do with bullys in school or how
unpopular children were treated. There was a role reversal. One of the more popular kids became the picked on
kid. I don't remember how long it went on but for a few weeks I think. The kid was told he was stupid, was treated
very badly and you know at the end he began to believe he
was stupid even though he knew it was an experiment.

Anyway, after that long ramble, I hope will take the time
to answer. Thank You
Patricia

Comment posted by Rustus at 2006-03-01 07:51:57

Actually, I waws a test dummy for the thing. I played a lot of (BLEH) Grand Theft Auto games and to be honest, I had been a violent person in the past. That's why I played it. But then Dad died, and, to be honest, shooting anything became soooo taboo. (dad was a hunter) So I gave it up.