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Lieberman Interview

by Maarten Goldstein, Nov 03, 2000 4:13pm PST
Related Topics – Interview, ESRB, Games: PC

Stomped managed to get an interview with Joe Lieberman, Senator and Democratic vp candidate. Lieberman answers questions about his views on videogames, the enforcement of the ESRB rating system, studies regarding videogames and more. Here's one of the Senator's answers about the claims that playing videogames increases aggressive tendencies in children.

Lieberman: Let me try to clear up this misunderstanding. I have not, nor has any other reasonable critic I know, ever suggested that video game violence or media violence in general is the sole or even primary cause of youth violence in this country. We have been careful to say that media violence is one of many contributing influences, including family breakdown, mental illness, domestic abuse, and the easy access to guns. It is one risk factor, as most major medical organizations have concluded. To somehow deny that by pointing to the drop in crime is to engage in the same kind of gross oversimplication that the gaming community has accused its critics of engaging in.


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  • #222
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    By: Phil x
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    How To Be A Good Democrat: Gotta keep this one going ;)

    1. You have to believe the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of funding.
    2. You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach 4th graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.
    3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than nuclear weapons in the hands of the Red Chinese.
    4. You have to believe that there was no art before Federal funding.
    5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical, documented changes in the brilliance of the Sun, and more affected by yuppies driving SUVs.
    6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial but being homosexual is natural.
    7. You have to be against capital punishment but pro abortion on demand; in short, you support protecting the guilty and killing the innocent.
    8. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity.
    9. You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but pasty, loony activists who've never been outside Seattle do.
    10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.
    11. You have to believe the military, not corrupt politicians, start wars.
    12. You have to believe the NRA is bad, because they stand up for certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good, because they stand up for certain parts of the Constitution.
    13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.
    14. You have to believe that Harriet Tubman, Cesar Chavez and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, General Robert E. Lee or Thomas Edison.
    15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides aren't.
    16. You have to believe Hillary Clinton is really a lady, and Rosie O'Donnell is not really a man.
    17. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried, is because the right people haven't been in charge.
    18. You have to believe conservatives telling the truth should be jailed but a liar and rapist belongs in the White House.

    Dedicated to my tree-hugging friend, ease_one and mr. in denial, TargetBoy.

    subliminal message -- Vote BUSH!
    Nov 04, 2000 2:37pm PST

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    By: Gareth Bryne x
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    My 'sabatical' ends next tuesday. On election nite... I will rant on like a man posessed....

    btw- if a forum on CNN consists of a communist talking to a socialist about American politics... is that a balanced forum? lol

    CNN = Communist News Network
    Time/Warner = Nazi Look up the defn of NAZI in the WW2 German sence and u will understand.

    China is no longer communist... it went strait from communist to nazi... skipping democracy entirely.

    *still on his sabatical... but needs to post every now and then

    Yeah... the PRC is now a NAZI state.... not hard to make that statement....

    Any Political Science majors feel free to argue... otherwise dont post
    Nov 04, 2000 1:16am PST
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    By: Torgo x
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    Some excerpts from the Green Party Platform:

    Jobs for All: A guaranteed right to job. Full employment through community-based public works and community service jobs programs, federally financed and community controlled.

    Living Wages: A family-supporting minimum wage. Start at $12.50 per hour in 2000 and index to the cost of living.

    30-Hour Work Week: A 6-hour day with no cut in pay for the bottom 80% of the pay scale.

    Social Dividends: A "second paycheck" for workers enabling them to receive 40 hours pay for 30 hours work. Paid by the government out of progressive taxes so that social productivity gains are shared equitably

    Strengthen Anti-Trust Enforcement: Require breakup of any firm with more than 10% market share unless it makes a compelling case every five years in a public regulatory proceeding that it serves the public interest to keep the firm intact.

    Workplace Democracy: Establish the right of workers at every enterprise over 10 employees to elect supervisors and managers and to determine how to organize work

    Democratic Banking: Mandatory conversion of the 200 largest banks with 80% of all bank assets into democratic publicly-owned community banks. Financial and technical incentives and assistance for voluntary conversion of other privately-owned banks into publicly-owned community banks or consumer-owned credit unions.

    Maximum Income: Build into the progressive income tax a 100% tax on all income over ten times the minimum wage.
    Nov 03, 2000 9:26pm PST

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