RIOT VIDEOGAME HAS ANARCHISTS UP IN ARMS

RIOT VIDEOGAME HAS ANARCHISTS UP IN ARMS

LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) – A soon-to-be released video game which mimics Seattle’s 1999 World Trade Organization riots has anarchists up in arms. The game – called State of Emergency – lets players throw bricks through store windows and punch police in order to disrupt a fictional group known as the “American Trade Organization.” It may sound like fun, but self-proclaimed philosophical anarchist Robert Sterling says the game unfairly portrays trade protestors as violent criminals who need to be controlled by the police. He claims the police were the only ones who attacked other people at the Seattle riots and says the new game “...rewrites history to justify repressive police actions.” Sterling also points out that the game is being released just one month before the next World Trade Organization meeting in November.

Wed 06-13-01