Gde naći teroristu kad prigusti?

Pre par dana konačno se pojavio dugo očekivani četvrti nastavak Grand Theft Auto franšize. Doduše, samo u konzolnoj varijanti, ali držim palčeve da se Rockstar i dalje pridržava stare prakse, te da će se PC verzija pojaviti nekih 5-6 meseci kasnije. Elem, nisam hteo da pišem o GTA, niti o tome zašto volim da ga igram (možda neki drugi put o ovome), već o jednom pismu koje je, već nam dobro poznati igromrzac Jack Thompson, uputio majci CEO-a Take-Two Interactive-a koji je izdavač GTA4. Za one koji možda nisu čuli ili pročitali ovo pismo, prenosim ga u celini:

Dear Mrs. Zelnick:

Your son, as you may know (or maybe you don’t know), is Chairman of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., whose most popular video games are the Grand Theft Auto murder simulator games banned in some countries but sold to children here.

Your son last week was reported to have said the following about Grand Theft Auto IV, due to be released Tuesday, April 29:
“We’ve already received numerous [GTA IV] reviews, and to a one, they are perfect scores. My mom couldn’t write better reviews…”
Taking your son’s thought, I would encourage you either to play this game or have an adroit video gamer play it for you. Some of the latter gamers are on death row, so try to find one out in the civilian population who hasn’t killed someone yet.

What you will see in your son’s game, if this iteration of GTA is anything like its predecessors, is incredible interactive violence aimed at police officers (whom you can shoot in the head and see the blood spray), innocent bystanders (whom you can run over with your car just for the heck of it), and of course the plentiful female prostitutes you can have sex with and then filet with a knife or stomp with your feet in order to get your money back. Experts note that the recent plethora of cop killings is caused in part by your darling son’s entrepreneurial energy. There are three policemen dead in Alabama because of Grand Theft Auto. I was on 60 Minutes about it. I hope Strauss has provided you with a flat screen tv to see the grief of the bereaved families that fills the screen.

The pornography and violence that your son trafficks in is the kind of stuff that most mothers would be ashamed to see their son putting into the hands of other mothers’ children, but, hey, your son Strauss has recently assured the world that he is “a Boy Scout, everybody knows that.” I’d love to see the merit badges that Scout Troop handed out. Is there a Ted Bundy merit badge? If so, your loving son deserves one now. It should be red and green, for obvious reasons.

With Passover having just come and gone, it is appropriate to note the following from the Old Testament, Proverbs 22:6:

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

Mrs. Zelnick, did you train up your son, Strauss, to make millions of dollars by pushing Mature-rated video games to children? Any kid can go right to little Strauss’ corporate web site and buy GTA IV with no age verification. Strauss is even marketing the new Grand Theft Auto IV on World Wrestling Entertainment tv shows seen by millions of kids. If you trained up Strauss to do this, then shame on you.

But maybe the explanation for your son’s corporate sociopathy is to be found in Old Testament Proverb 29:15:

“The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.”

Maybe you, Mrs. Zelnick, were so taken by your handsome son that you spared the rod and spoiled the child. That would explain why he has brought you, by the way he presently acts, “to shame.”

There’s another mother you would do well to talk to. Mrs. Crump in Alabama had a son who was a police officer. He’s now dead because a teenaged boy unwittingly trained himself to kill him on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. She has a grief she carries every day that only a mother can know.There are other such mothers in the heartland of America whose inhabitants your son simply sees as commercial targets.

Your son, this very moment, is doing everything he possibly can to sell as many copies of GTA IV to teen boys in the United States, a country in which your son claims you raised him to be “a Boy Scout.” More like the Hitler Youth, I would say.
Happy Mother’s day, Mrs. Zelnick, which this year is May 11, two weeks after your son unleashes porn and violence upon other mothers’ boys. I’m sure you’re very proud.

Sincerely, Jack Thompson

VS

Zašto bi ovo "pismo", koje nije ništa drugo do još jedan pokušaj privlačenja medijske pažnje, trebalo da me iznervira. Ne, ne nervira me to što neko uopšteno pljuje po kompjuterskim igrama, jer znam da je potrebno mnogo više od par nastupa matorog lobiste da bi se tu nešto promenilo, ipak su ogrome pare u igri. Osim toga, sve igre na tržištu su žigosane ESRB oznakama, koje bi zabrinutim roditeljima trebalo da pomognu pri izboru igre koja od njihovog mladunca neće napraviti manijakalnog ubicu. Mene više nervira licemerje u stavovima dotičnog gospodina, ali i svih onih koji pojedine video igre apostrofiraju kao ključne razloge pucnjava po američkim školama i šoping centrima. Koja je razlika između GTA igre i recimo America`s Army, igre koja se besplatno skida sa neta, i koju koristi američka vojska za vrbovanje potencijalnih regruta među omladinom. Dobro, u GTA možeš da ubijaš policajce, gaziš slučajne prolaznike, dok se u AA ubijaju legitimne mete, arapski ekstemisti i ostali teroristi koji spremaju paklene planove za napad na ustavni poredak US of A. Nasilje je nasilje, ubistvo je ubistvo, bilo ono "opravdano" ili ne! U redu je ubijati horde bradatih likova sa čalmama na glavi, ali čikicu u plavoj uniformi i sa značkom - NE, nikako. Jer zaboga, kada taj isti tinejdžer sutra na ulici ugleda uniformisano lice poučen iskustvom iz GTA igre, on će potegnuti pištolj i razneti mu glavu. Ako je već neko dovoljno lud da inspirisan nekom igrom krene u ubilački pohod, on sigurno neće imati vremena da čeka da napuni dovoljno godina da stupi u vojsku, prođe obuku i konačno dođe na ratište da bi mogao da zadovolji svoje porive. Taj neko će izaći na svoju ulicu, otići u svoju školu, prodavnicu i tu doživeti katarzu ubijajući nedužne civile, next best thing kada teroristi nisu u restoranu brze hrane iza ugla. Ali očigledno je da gdin Thompson ne misli tako, jer kada se neko sranje poput Columbine-a dogodi, mnogo je lakše upirati prst u tamo neke kompanije koje misle samo na profit, nego u američku vladu i vojsku. Cela poenta je: ako već smatraš da su video igre razlog za sve češće pucnjave na javnim mestima (a nisu), onda nemoj pljuvati samo po jednoj igri, a prećutkivati da igre koje mogu proizvesti potpuno isti efekat tvoja vlada svesno potura tinejdžerima.

E da, izgleda da je Niko Belić ipak Srbin. Srbija do Liberty City-ja!!!