I've sat by and done nothing while Venezuelan Marxist leader Hugo Chávez wrecked the economy of his country, shut down critical Venezuelan media outlets and callously provided free heating oil to the poorest of Americans, but the newest news out of Venezuela has me booking a flight to South America in order to join a counter-revolutionary insurgency holed up in the Andes Mountains: Venezuela is considering a total, country-wide ban on violent video games and toys shaped like guns.
The Bill for the Prohibition of Video Games and Toy Weapons was presented to the Venezuelan National Assembly yesterday, and was approved after its first debate. It's heading toward a second debate. If it gets by debate 2, it will be sent to be signed by Chavez. The idea is that games will warp your mind and toy guns can be used in real crimes. Which is sort of similar to a lot of people's opinion here in this country. Perhaps the right-wing religious people in our nation can find some common ground with the left wing government of Venezuela and lead us all into peace and harmony... of course, in my imaginary scenario, there wouldn't be any video games, so let's not do that.
In an unrelated note, Chávez used to host a live talk show in Venezuela called Aló Presidente ("Hello, President!"). I think that's pretty rad.
What do you think of Chavez?
