with our lives....

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""Frosty" is also an apt description for the attitude several politicians and courts had toward "mature" games. Just because the Hot Coffee incident was covered up with a fresh coat of paint, that didn't mean all was forgiven. Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rod Blagojevich signed bills to outlaw game sales to minors in California and Illinois, respectively. But their efforts were one-upped by US Senators Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman, who literally made a federal case out of the issue. The pair submitted the Family Entertainment Protection Act to congress, a measure that, if made law, would levy fines for M-rated game sales to minors, create an annual congressional review of ESRB ratings, and authorize audits of retailers by the Federal Trade Commission."

joy, more crap for them to bicker about while pork barreling tax money and overall not really accomplishing anything significantly good for the average american.

YOU CAN'T FIX THINGS BY MAKING MORE LAWS

12/23/2005 7:41:53 PM

wait. hillary clinton created a law which restricts freedom? that doesn't make any sense! I thought democrats wanted to preserve civil liberties! so, it must be the republicans then, right? Nope, the governator did the same thing!

OMFG SALISBURYBOY IS RIGHT! DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS ARE THE SAME DAMNED THING!!!

12/23/2005 7:45:02 PM

mmmk this is pretty much not party oriented... more like, stop making dumbass laws, all of you

12/23/2005 7:57:34 PM

Two words: social engineering.

12/23/2005 9:43:41 PM

lovely stuff ain't it? next there will be laws about which way we sleep at night...

12/23/2005 10:15:58 PM

Out of curiosity, under what pretense are they going to levy such federal fines against merchants since given last I checked, the feds only have the right to regulate interstate commerce, and it's going to be damn tough for them to convince me or anyone who thinks about it that something like that would fall under interstate commerce.

12/23/2005 10:29:45 PM

didnt you read raich?

Everything is interstate commerce.

If growing a plant in your closet for your own personal use is insterstate commerce then you better believe a video game sale counts.

12/23/2005 10:55:54 PM

Yep. Raich eviscerated the entire commerce clause, it doesn't restrict anything.

12/23/2005 11:32:26 PM

wait. the constitution DOESN'T say that? even though it literally does? now THERE is some good shit!

12/23/2005 11:38:16 PM

our government continues to be infiltrated by the socialists. they are a threat to the constitution and our freedom.

12/28/2005 3:54:22 PM

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"Liberals are claiming that President Bush has violated constitutional restrictions on torture and spying on Americans. Don’t they understand that the constitution is a living document that must be reinterpreted in light of new events and understandings? An originalist reading of the constitution would throw us back into the primitive past when the minimum wage was unconstitutional. Fortunately, conservatives know that constitutional interpretation must change with the times and never more so than now. We live in a different world. The Founding Fathers may have been great in their time but they did not face the problems that we face today and we should not be bound by their 18th century ideas of liberty and executive tyranny."

12/29/2005 12:15:24 AM

fortunately this video game should fail on first amendment grounds

but lately who knows

maybe this will be another fine moment for the court to push for more of Justice Breyer's "active liberty" (in the old days it was called tyranny of the majority)

12/29/2005 12:25:01 AM