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Helga Zepp-LaRouche's Campaign April 18 (LPAC)Since 1999, Helga Zepp LaRouche has been a leading voice in the campaign to expose the menace of violent video games. She has addressed international conferences, interviewed leading experts in the field, and spoke before the City Council of Sao Paulo, Brazil on the subject. Below are links to some of her major speeches and writings. The Erfrut, Germany Tragedy-April 2002 Sao Paulo, Brazil Speech in June 2002 Helga LaRouche Speech to the Court in Brazil President's Day Conference Speech, February 2000 Helga Zepp LaRouche interviews Lt. Col. David Grossman Stop the New Violence! (Numerous other articles and links) Scroll Down to the Bottom of the Page for More Articles * * * Killer Video Games Must be Outlawed! In the volumes upon volumes of coverage of the Virginia Tech mass killing that have appeared in the U.S. print and electronic media this week, there is a systematic cover-up under way of what actually happened. Not the gruesome details of the incident; not the personal tragedies; not the endless droning of "experts." There's plenty of that. There is a cover-up of the role of killer video-games, marketed by Microsoft and other companies, in intentionally producing stone-killers out of otherwise healthy youth. The Washington Post, for example, has been caught red-handed in perpetrating the fraud and cover-up. In response to attorney Jack Thompson's inquiry as to why the Post pulled their own reporters' reference to the video game angle, the Post replied: "It wasn't important enough in the whole thing to include." This policy is intentional, LaRouche emphasized, and it's a crime against the citizens. The continued promotion of these kinds of "entertainment" is a crime against the citizens. And it is a crime in which many of the mass media are implicitly accomplices. The issue is that Microsoft is heavily involved in this program, which is designed to turn young people into killers, and it happens to be a very profitable venture for some people. There's money in this, LaRouche said, more money than in Hollywood movies. * * * Time To Deal With the Violent Videogame Lobby by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Leesburg, Va., April 18--The risk, if not the date, of the Virginia Tech shooter's actions was foreseeable, if he was, as reported, both a veteran of training by means of relevant types of video games and with correlated types of personal habits. As early as 1999-2000, this was a clearly foreseen risk, as emphasized, in public reports delivered by Germany's Helga Zepp-LaRouche in Germany, the U.S.A., and Brazil, in 2000. Relevant forms of aberrant behavior associated with habitual use of relevant types of video games, is a sign of such a risk. The capabilities exhibited by the shooter show that exactly such a foreseeable risk was present, waiting for the set of circumstances to set off the relevant type of event, as at Columbine earlier. Unfortunately, there has been a lobby for the types of video games which either promote such aberrant mental states through video shooting games, or sociological morbid other forms of children's and adolescent's video-based play-habits. These types of well-heeled lobbies have promoted the preconditions for a foreseeable increase of this type of behavior among adolescents and young adults. Despite Mrs. LaRouche's investigations and reports, there was little effort to deal with what had already been demonstrated, by 2000, to be a serious threat of outbreaks of this sort of terrorist activity. Now, at last, the problem must be treated seriously. * * *
Gates Made Plan To Hook Millions on Videogames, Including Violent Killer-Trainers April 27, 2007 (EIRNS)--Microsoft's founder, the richest man in the world, Bill Gates, planned for years to hook millions of young people on video games such as the one played by Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung Hui. "Counterstrike," the point-and-shoot video game to which Cho was reportedly addicted, is an Internet game that can be played on a PC or through Microsoft's X-Box console. Gates debuted the XBox 360 in 2005 after spending three and a half years and $1 billion in its development. Microsoft's website reported at a press conference in Los Angeles, May 9, 2006, "that Gates went on to outline the company's bold new vision to connect millions of Xbox 360 gamers with hundreds of millions of Microsoft Windows-based PC and mobile gamers from around the world through the Xbox Live online entertainment network." In an interview on CNN on March 1, 2002, Gates gushingly praised a member of Microsoft's research group that helped devise the graphics of its video games. "If you use Xbox and you look at the grass and trees, you know how incredibly realistic it is. That's a neat little technique that one of these people came up with.... Microsoft wouldn't be anything like what it is today if it wasn't for our research group," said Gates. Melinda Gates, wife of Bill Gates was, on September 9, 2004, elected to the 10-member Board of Directors of the Washington Post. This possibly explains why the Post withdrew any reference to the Virginia Tech killer playing of Microsoft's video game Counterstrike. * * * |
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What Children Are Watching (Anton Chaitkin, M. Steinberg, March 2000) Overcoming Romanticism with Classical Art (Mrs. LaRouche June 2000) Wake Up to the Danger of the 'New Violence (LaRouche, May 2000) From Cybernetics to Littleton: Techniques in Mind Control (Jeffrey Steinberg April 2000) Memorandum on the New Violence (LaRouche April 2000) We Have Created a Chemistry of Violence (LaRouche, April 2000) Santee, California shootings, March 2001 Cyberporn and the New Roman Empire (Lance Rosen, November 2000) What is the Schiller Institute? Fidelio Table of Contents from 1992-1996 Fidelio Table of Contents from 1997-2001 Fidelio Table of Contents from 2002-present Beautiful Front Covers of Fidelio Magazine Writings of Other Great Thinkers Biography of Friedrich Schiller |
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