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Conservatives up in arms over video game with sovereign citizen Tea Partiers as the bad guys
I have a few EA games and while I hate Origin as the interface, I fully intend to purchase this one. And to think I'd never have known about it without the uproar from the Baggers:
Conservatives up in arms over video game with sovereign citizen Tea Partiers as the bad guys
By Tom Boggioni
Monday, August 18, 2014 11:50 EDT
Although it is not due to be released until 2015, conservatives are up in arms about the latest version of a first person shooter video game which will include anti-government Gadsden flag-waving Tea Partiers as bad guys.
Battlefield Hardline, developed by Visceral Games and video game publisher Electronic Arts, was recently premiered at Gamescom gaming convention in Cologne, Germany last week, and word has gotten out that the storyline is built around the player character attempting to shoot his way out after being kidnapped by a crime boss who describes himself as a “one man island of armed sovereignty,” according to Big Hollywood.
The crime boss, named Tony Alpert, is heard speaking about “these once-united states” and the “denigration, the humbling, the tearing down of everything that made this country great.”
Speaking of Alpert, one character is heard to say, “One black president and Tony completely lost his shit.”
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By Tom Boggioni
Monday, August 18, 2014 11:50 EDT
Although it is not due to be released until 2015, conservatives are up in arms about the latest version of a first person shooter video game which will include anti-government Gadsden flag-waving Tea Partiers as bad guys.
Battlefield Hardline, developed by Visceral Games and video game publisher Electronic Arts, was recently premiered at Gamescom gaming convention in Cologne, Germany last week, and word has gotten out that the storyline is built around the player character attempting to shoot his way out after being kidnapped by a crime boss who describes himself as a “one man island of armed sovereignty,” according to Big Hollywood.
The crime boss, named Tony Alpert, is heard speaking about “these once-united states” and the “denigration, the humbling, the tearing down of everything that made this country great.”
Speaking of Alpert, one character is heard to say, “One black president and Tony completely lost his shit.”
...
RawStory link.
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That would be so sweet. She can be ringing her bells, and shooting her guns and waving her flag.
