Keith Vaz: Trident Replacement Acceptable; Computer Game Unacceptable

Posted on | November 14, 2009 | No Comments

According to theyworkforyou.com, Keith Vaz MP, a man who has never knowingly passed up a chance to jump on a bandwagon:

Voted very strongly for the Iraq war: [votes - speeches]
Voted strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war: [votes - speeches]
Voted very strongly for replacing Trident: [votes - speeches]

Of the recently launched Call to Duty: Modern Warfare 2, he said, “I am absolutely shocked by the level of violence in this game and am particularly concerned about how realistic the game itself looks.”

And I am absolutely shocked at the moral vacuum at the core of a logic that would allow support for:

an illegal war that killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians
the continued possession by the UK of weapons that can kill millions;

and yet which can generate froth and bubble and Daily Mail moralizing because of a game, one that has rightly been classified for use only by those over the age of 18.

Tom Watson MP deserves every support we can give him for pointing up the absurdity and the hypocrisy of this particular bandwagon – we can start by joining his Gamers’ Voice group on Facebook, and following him on Twitter.

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