The ACLU has taken exception with the recruiting tactics of the United States Army, especially the use of the game America's Army, saying that the game encourages kids below the age of 18 to want to join the military before they reach an age of reasonable consent.
The game, they feel, violates the U.N. protocol which requires countries to shield those under 18 from military recruitment, encouraging young kids to want to go to war, the way they play it in the game. Now, we think that, just as always, any kid who has a difficult time discerning what they see on a game from reality deserves what they can get, even if that means a trip to Iraq.
GamePolitics.com: ACLU Criticizes Military Recruitment, including America's Army Game
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But in all seriousness. Either you're gonna join when you hit 18 or your not. And the chances are greater if you have family who served in the first place. No game is gonna influence that. Shame on the ACLU to think that children are so impressionable.
and don't think if you join the military..especially the Army of Marines when your country is at war that you will not think you have a chance of going to combat and dying...
if you don't know that then DON'T JOIN and screw the chances of someone else coming back home alive up
Really I agree with you guys so far, I decided I wanted to join back when I was 16.
Is good that someone is complaining about it.
Kids are too expose to the war and are being brainwashed by the Bush regime, they are too young to really understand what is going on and they develop a false sense of patriotism that make them do things that they later regret.
If they want to join the Army, the Marines, etc fine, but they have to do it with a complete understanding of what they are doing if not then we ended up with Marines raping a teenager overseas, or killing one of they own comrades, or throwing puppies off a cliff, etc. You get the idea.
There has to be some decency in the recruitment tactics, some basic ethic. It can’t be recruitment for just sake of recruitment.
What you trying to say, everyone in the Army is dumb.
Oh I'm going to college and consisdering joining but only after I finished my degree.
My dad served 22 years(enlisted) and he got his degree, masters, and just finished his Phd.
he couldn't afford school when he was young and now he's about to become a college professor. thanks to the Army.
@cortomaltesse
you need to stfu. its crap like that wants me to find you.
you only hear about the bad things soldiers do. that doesn't mean all of them are like that!!!
the majority are the best people i have ever met.
the army only lowered its standards of recruitment because fewer people are joining.
we inherited our way of life because of willing volunteers to put their lives on the lines.
And then have some dumb@ss like you and insult them because you think you're better then them.
Why don't you join... and bring your class to the military.
And the ACLU, having been trying to limit people's rights for a long time and they need to stfu as well.
The ACLU may be trying to make a statement (they do that a lot)about recruitment practices in general. If so, I'm all for it. If they are strictly going after the AA game, they are wasting as much time as AA wasted taxpayer dollars.
My dad was in the army, and the only thing I remember him telling me was about a guy who wanted out so bad that he bit into one of his own turds to be declared insane so he could leave with a dishonerable discharge.
I never got to join the forces because of a heart murmer and my horrible horrible eye sight. But with my technical skills, I probably wouldn't have been allowed to fly anyway.
That's what I have my video games. I can do it all. :-)
"the aclu just needs to shut up, theyve done nothing but limit ppls freedoms"
do you know what the ACLU does?
they fight for the rights of the individual.
And if they want to fight for the rights of individuals, ask them about the 2nd Amendment.
And they hate Ron Paul, who to me is the only good politician we have and wants to actually fight for our rights...
Traitors one and all who should be recruited as mine finders at best.
Moreover, the ACLU's anti-military bias is really shining through here. When scumbag Neo-Nazis wanted to march in Skokie, IL, a city with a large Jewish population still reeling from the horrors of the Holocaust, the ACLU assisted the Neo-Nazis under the banner of the First Amendment. Now, by contrast, US citizens want to enjoy their free speech rights to voluntarily play a military game (which is, constitutionally, akin to reading a book, going to a speech or going to see a movie), but the ACLU wants the game to be banned? How can the ACLU support Neo-Nazi hate speech, but attack this game? Pathetic.
Personally I think the kids should wait until they have a little more life experience. They need to realize that its the government that decides when they go to war. Given the governments record with lying to the public they can't be trusted.