Rainbow Six ‘Inspires’ F.E.A.R. Idiots
We need to talk about those Forever Enduring Always Ready clowns down at Fort Stewart, GA, the ones who formed their own militia to fight back against the government. Instead, F.E.A.R. got paranoid about one of their own members and then killed him and his girlfriend. They got busted and Army Pfc. Michael Burnett has decided to cooperate with prosecutors to nail the rest of his crew.
Why do we care? It turns out that F.E.A.R. leader Pvt. Isaac Aguigui used a magazine article about the upcoming Ubisoft game Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Patriots as his primary recruiting tool. Or at least, that’s what the prosecutors say. We’re not talking about the actual game, which won’t be released until sometime next year. Not the game itself. An article describing the premise of the game. An article Aguigui believed could start a recruitment process he called “the awakening.”
All of this raises some complicated questions. How are we supposed to buy into the premise of a video game that wants to exploit fear of domestic terrorism when actual domestic terrorists almost always turn out to be so incredibly dense? Did Aguigui’s pitch make it sound like Tom Clancy was secretly revealing some high-quality intelligence hidden inside a video game?
This local news station’s breathless report about Burnett’s testimony and the group’s connection to the game is worth watching just for the quotes from the guy who teaches video game programming at the local college:
WMBFNews.com, Myrtle Beach/Florence SC, Weather
And here’s the game’s concept video that was floating around earlier this year:
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I’m surprised they didn’t just blame the videogame Doom. Linking that game to every kind of violence used to be all the rage.
so.… what’s that to do with the game? Whackoes just just use anything to base their screwed up views on.
yes, and the spoon made me fat
The judge in this case need to order that Burnett’s uniform be taken off and dress him in an orange jumpsuit instead of further discracing the army uniform by making him do a perp walk in shackles in it.
#1 individuals need to be informed/counciled as to the fact that while on contract, either federal,or state(Nat’l Gaurd)
you are violating the contract with state or federal organizations,by membership/affiliation with “para military organizations“
most well informed individuals are aware of state gaurds,state militia service since 9/11 and they were all over new york cross leveling the ny & nj nat’l gaurd units.
for more information, search STATE DEFENSE FORCES.