[Newspoetry] newsdream

[Mike Lehman]

Just think of the marketing and price point implications. "Patiotic"
Americans might only be charged $10 to off a regular Taliban soldier in
this game, while the bidding could really run up to do OBL (with all
profits going to charity of course, after "expenses" were deducted.) It
would naturally only be avialable for the new Micro$oft X-Box game
system.
Mike

Joe Futrelle wrote:
> 
> I dreamed that the military was allowing ordinary citizens to shoot
> Taliban soldiers using their home video game machines.  You would
> simply point some crosshairs at the soldier and pull a trigger, and a
> remote-controlled machine gun halfway around the world would fire at
> them.
> 
> I was doing this, but I accidentally fired at a famous CNN reporter,
> not realizing that my controller was "armed", and killed him.  It was
> immediately a major international news story.  I struggled to come to
> terms simultaneously with the fact that I had just killed someone and
> that the means of killing was so horrifyingly dehumanized.  I
> immediately called the police to let them know what happened and tried
> to cooperate, all the time in shock that by playing a video game set
> up by someone else I had killed someone, and fearful of the wrath of
> the us public and the international community.