The Patriot Act Game - A Takeoff on Monopoly

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/lifestyle/20040202patriotact0202p2.asp



Whether you're liberal, conservative, libertarian or apolitical, now you too can go to jail without a lawyer, snitch on a colleague or censor your own work.

The Patriot Act Game, designed by Pittsburghers Lisa Freeland, a public defender, and Steffi Domike, an artist, is intended to make learning about a complicated series of laws and their widespread implications fun.

But remember, it's only a game.

The Patriot Act Game, to be exact.

One of its creators, Chatham College art professor Steffi Domike, called it "the most politically correct gift of the holiday season," but she'd like to see the new board game sell all year round -- or at least, she hopes, until the Patriot Act is repealed.

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The brightly colored game is a takeoff on Monopoly -- but instead of "No Visitors Allowed" on the Jail square, it's "No Lawyers or Visitors Allowed." Instead of play money, there are "freedom fries." Players who have game tokens that are colored red, white and blue are at a greater advantage than those with tokens colored black, brown or yellow. "Community Chest" and "Chance" cards have been replaced by cards named "Justice," "Surveillance," "Protest" and "History."

[ixion]

1. while I think that I understand the creator's intent here

it still seems to me that this is validating the single worst Act in US history, albeit it's validating via a negative.

It is similar to the spam bill passed recently, which actually validates spam.

The unPATRIOTic Act is unconstitutional. Period. It is a shameful, atavistic piece of legislation that should never have seen the light of day, even after the (LIHOP) WTC event.

If we truly were in the land of the free and the brave, this thing would not have made it out of the gate.