This is my first blog post here!

How many years have Jack Thompson and other ill informed politicians, anti violence groups, and other been slandering the video game industry? Sure every time Wacky Jacky opens his mouth about Grand Theft Auto right as its being released, the game in question manages to sell millions of copies due in small part to the hatred of that man. That's one way of viewing the situation, and I think that's the route that the industry has been taking for all of these years. Here's my view of it though:

If you're walking down the street one day and you see someone with a similar stature and facial features as you rob a bank, and the cops arrest you and the real culprit is still at large, what are you going to do? YOU know you didn't rob the bank right? Are you going to remain silent about the ordeal and just hope that things work themselves out eventually, or stand up for yourself and say "That's not true!" I feel like the video game industry has been remaining silent, and for far too long. Sure, we've got the ESA and ECA, but where the hell were they when that dumb broad Cooper Lawrence was trashing Mass Effect? The only reason she ended up retracting her statments were because gamers flocked to Amaon to trash her book that she'd released. ANd she'd been quoted in saying that after she'd actually SEEN the "sex scenes" in Mass Effect, she didn't think they were that big of a deal. She went into the interview with an Agenda but ultimately we gamers and Geoff had to pick up the slack and do what the ESA and ECA  did not. Video game compainies need to take a stand and say that if you are going to slander our product without takking the time to find out more information about it, there will be reprocussions.