I'm not entirely sure that this was actually meant as an attack on video games. More likely it was some old man who doesn't understand today's youth culture or video games who thought to himself:

these kids these days, they place the racing games where you drive as fast as you can. That might have something to do with it.

Of course, this does not justify him, but it does alleviate him from the position that all games are evil. I just think that he doesn't know enough to know otherwise and just assumes that all kids play games. I definitely don't think he specifically hates games, just that they aren't to his particular taste but it's ok for the kids to play.

::sigh:: Yeah what all of you just said. Anger at stupid stuff being said rawr. u.u it seems like every day it is the same story but different names...

Such ignorance. Just another issue of the game blame game.


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- Warren Lewis

That's hogwash, that was just an accident and has nothing to do with video games in any shape or form.

To politicians, if you are going to start to pick on video games, why not pick on automobiles instead?

Arh ! I made a mistake in the second paragraph. It's not : "Not that he has been", but "NOTE that he has been..." Sorry.

Back to Maurice Williamson, his webpage is here : http://www.national.org.nz/MP.aspx?Id=55

And he's got an email where you can contact him. Not that he has been Minister of Science & Technology, Communication and Information Technology before being spokesman for Transport. He seems to know about computers too.

Also, I'd like to warn you all : the New Zealand Herald may have badly reported what Mr. Williamson said. After all, there's no quote in the whole article. It's just the author who said "Maurice Williamson says", so they may have misinterpreted what he REALLY said.

So, for those who want to contact Mr. Williamson, the first thing to ask could be : did he REALLY blame PS2 and Xbox like NZ Herald said he did ?

That, my friends, oy, is what you call predjudice, oy. That, and being conservative oy.

I'm suprised that more car crashes aren't blamed on games. They are more common, and are an easy way to generalize hatred toward games & gamers.

Playstation and XBox are also responsible for World War II, gang violence, and all ninja attacks.

the insurance industry is in bad need of regulation.

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Thank you. It looks like that did it.

- Warren Lewis

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Damnit. You're kidding me. I thought NZ was immune to this anti-gamer approach.

Wow. Another Ill informed piece. The XBOX and Playstation are automaticly blamed. This time they skip the step they discover that they are gamers. But hey, they are teenagers. So they MUST be gamers! I'm sure there are plenty of teenagers who dont play videogames, or play at the rate the person making this statement says. Who knows these teenagers might have been part of that demographic. It isn't likley but it makes one think.

I tend to agree with Dennis. "When didn’t teenagers think they were indestructible?" kids do tend to get into all kinds of accidents becuase they think they are indestructible. I'm not talking car wrecks here either. I'm talking about the minor accidents (compared to the car wreck) the injuries kids get while growing up. Falling off bikes. off skateboards. I had my own share of injuries. jumping from the back of a parked pickup didnt have one of my feet high enough to clear the side. So I ended up tripping falling off and hurting myself.

A friend (cousin? I can't remember. I know I cant be spelling her name right)Story were playing krokay (can't spell it. pronounce it how I have spelled.) She hits the ball like she was playing golf. It hit me in the mouth. I thought my front teeth fell out. They had not. My mouth hurt for quite a while.

Can't blame any of those injuries on..say playing Super Mario Bros.

Also There was more violence in kids and teens during the NES and SNES's time than the PS2 or XBOX's

- Warren Lewis

Also Dennis, if this posts Then either re-whitelisting worked or logging to wordPress worked. I cant tell since I logged in first.

i hate how people claim that when theres an accident there must be a guy involved. now i dont dispute that boys get into more accidents, girls tend to be more likely to be the ones reponsible for them. its a fact.
sorry about the rant, anyway, stupid people dont they understand kids do stupid shit? always have and allways will. with or without videogames.

Naw, alcohol was involved? You don't say!

Dumbass politicians. Doesn't suprise me Williamson is blaming games - he's too goddamn stupid to go for the easy explanaition: drunk teenagers do stupid stuff.

And here I was thinking we had relatively informed politicians. Guess not.

Meh, you can't deny that video games had a part in this, but all it was is fueling their moronic behaviour that would have resulted in something like this eventually.

Idiots are idiots. Three less stupid people in the wide world - video games aside.

Rest in Peace, dumbasses.

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