Mexican governor orders seizure of GRAW2

[Bond]

The governor of the Mexican state of Chihuahua has ordered that copies of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 be confiscated, according to a report on Spanish-language site El Diario.

Set in Juárez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas, GRAW2 follows an elite combat unit battling Mexican rebels in the year 2014. Earlier this month, the mayor of Juárez, a city in Chihuahua on the Mexican-American border, criticized the game sharply, saying it instilled poor values and portrayed his town's people as violent.

According to the report, Chihuahua Governor José Reyes Baeza Terrazas considers the game an insult not only to the city of Juárez, but to the entire country. Currently, authorities are gathering information on where the game is being sold, reproduced, and distributed in preparation for a seizure campaign, El Diario reported.

Source: Gamespot

And people think our freedom of speech is limited...

[Dylflon]

They can take their games, but their fighting spirit will live on.

Viva la revolucion!

[Typhoid]

The governor of the Mexican state of Chihuahua

That's as far as I read.
Any state that shares the name with a tiny, non-threatening dog is a.o.k in my books.

[Bond]

The dog is actually named after the state.

[Typhoid]

I never said "Took the name from" I said "shares it's name with".


Also, really?
I totally thought Mexico loved the popularity of the tiny animal they put it in the anals of history and time by naming land after it.

/sarcasm.

[Bond]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

I never said "Took the name from" I said "shares its name with."

I wasn't refuting your claim, simply stating a fact.

[manasecret]

...........jjrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrbbbbss.........

[Dylflon]

It would be sweet if someone made a game where Americans were an invading force and you had to fight them.

Then America would be like "That's anti-American and also fascist and probably communist! These colors don't run!"

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Dylflon

It would be sweet if someone made a game where Americans were an invading force and you had to fight them.

Then America would be like "That's anti-American and also fascist and probably communist! These colors don't run!"

Once again, I'm sure we backward, unsophisticated Americans would be upset, yet we seem to have enough couth to not create legislation from those feelings, unlike the Mexican governor. The ability to exchange differing opinions is the backbone of a free society. Come spend some time in the US sometime if you can't wrap your mind around that concept. (Yes, that was petty and insulting, but so were the majority of your posts in this thread. Tit for tat.)

The funny part is its not the conservative Americans that are leaders in censorship these days, its the leftists ( I refuse to call them liberals). Al Gore has decided he will not even entertain any opinion opposing his global warming alarmism, even though both NASA and The New York Times have released data that refutes his claims. US Colleges and Universities consistently have expelled students who dare to express a differing opinion to that of "War is bad" and "Immigration laws are for meanies". Recently a proposed US ambassador was voted down, and the main reason given for this was that he dared to contribute $ to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (they campaigned against Kerry in 2004), which sets a horrific example.

Conservatism is no longer considered a political philosophy by the left, its considered evil and racist. Its not something that they consider for debate, its just wrong for the reason that it differs from their opinion (and it doesn't put "nice" before "pragmatic"). Leftists HATE conservatism and view it as rich people trying to become richer while exploiting the poor. Conservatives may think that leftists are wrong, but most still believe that they have the best intentions, even the radio talk show hosts admit that. This is a dangerous contrast for a democratic republic.

What were we talking about again? Oh yeah...

Once again, free speech goes both ways. If you criticize America, expect americans to return the favor. Its your right to criticize and its others right to criticize that criticism if they disaggree with you. Now if America then banned your criticism or made it illegal, then maybe you'd have something to really bitch about. Its kind of like how Sean Penn babbles about how dissenting opinion is censored in the US... yet he is babbling his dissenting opinion... in the US... while he's saying he can't actually do it...

Gotta love that kind of logic.

And this time please try and reply to my posts with ideas and not some silly quote from our national anthem. That kind of behavior just supports my view that those on the left have contempt for conservative ideas, or just have nothing real to refute them with. Plus, you sound a bit retarded doing it in all Caps. Your fellow Canadians deserve better representation, and you are fully capable of giving them just that.

[Typhoid]

What were we talking about again?

That seems to be a mainstay in 90% of everything you post.

[Teuthida]

Poutine puzzles me more than any foreign policy.

[Fox 6]

Originally Posted by Professor S

Plus, you sound a bit retarded doing it in all Caps.

Text has sound? Just a bit of creative criticism, a better word would have worked. How about seem, or look or how about we stop making 75% of all threads, in a video game forum no less, into something political?

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Fox 6

how about we stop making 75% of all threads, in a video game forum no less, into something political?

I dont think those self-proclaimed backwards, unsophisticated Americans could handle it.