Why the supreme court got it WRONG!!!

In case you are not familiar with the latest Supreme Court case concerning violent video games. Here it is in a Nutshell.  California ( yes that liberal state) passed a law that basically said,  minors were not allowed to purchase certain video games due the amount of graphic violence and sex that were contained in the game.  Obviously, since this affected profit margins, video game companies took the law to court and it made its way to the Supreme Court.   In a 7-2 decision the justices declared the ban on video games unconstitutional because it violated the minor’s first amendment rights.  ( On a separate note:  The world is coming to an end because I agree with Clarence Thomas )

With respect to the highest court in the land…I feel that unless they actually sampled and played a series of these games they made an uninformed decision, at the cost of our youth.   Justice Breyer and Thomas were DEAD ON in there decent saying that  the “California's law imposes no more than a modest restriction on expression. The statute prevents no one from playing a video game, it prevents no adult from buying a video game, and it prevents no child or adolescent from obtaining a game provided a parent is willing to help."  With good ole Clarence saying that the children have no rights to speech without the consent of their parents (yeah… that would be the black response “WHAT!?! RIGHTS!… not in my damn house you don’t….shhhhhiiiiit…raising my blood pressure because you THINK you have rights…sit down and open a book… play that!” :: insert old Mario brother sound effect::).  So in my own personal way I am going to take a few of the majority opinions and explain how they have NO basis in reality.

Let’s start with the Fairy tales… So for those of you that don’t know… fairy tales are rather gorey.  However, they have a point… TO TEACH.  Little Red Riding Hood… DON’T TALK TO STRANGERS! Cinderella… Identity theft is a crime, for which you will be blinded and maimed. Snow White… It’s not good to poison people because they are prettier than you. Little Mermaid… women sacrifice yourself for the man you love… (Yeah I always crack up when my students say little mermaid is their fav… I’m like umm you know she kills herself right).  There is NO POINT to graphic video games… SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME the value of a 13 year old going on a cop shooting spree and sleeping with virtual whores… NOT THE SAME THING JUSTICE SCALIA NOT THE SAME THING!!!! Side note: parents read the Disney version not the original ones to their children.

Now let’s move to what we teach in the literary cannon, for his next point was that we teach gorey things in school.  Umm… there is little pesky thing called LITERARY MERIT !!! What lesson are the students learning in teaching Animal Farm, Native Son, and A Clockwork Orange, ALL MASTERPIECES all speak to a part and time in society that we are to learn from.  AGAIN,  we’re  going to put learning our collective history in the same category as learning GRAND THEFT AUTO!!!  For the Love of GOD our judges are supposed to have the sense God gave a prairie dog (which by the way, are smart and cute animals).

As far as the influence of violent games on the psyche of children I am going to read this new study… but 1.5 million dollars and you ONLY had 1,200 students!!! I am sorry we have more than that in my high school; and if they are all in New England where the CULUTRE is different than that of LA, Detroit, D.C., or Atlanta.  The study is already biased and incapable of making such an all encompassing statement. 

The implications of this is far reaching, there are video games as pornographic as NC-17 and XXX movies what is to stop them from suing next.  I find it ironic that all the family organizations have been spending their time and energy on gay marriage because that was going to be detrimental to society…. But when REAL issues come up… they turn a blind eye.  America needs to learn discernment.