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[Nonfiction] [Review] Dangerous Games by Joseph P. Laycock AKA The Satanic Panic or Arguing with Morons
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<blockquote data-quote="Charles Phipps" data-source="post: 8608713" data-attributes="member: 70298"><p>Not just the Bible Belt. Al Gore's wife took it national as part of her activism and there were also police groups across the country taking it more seriously than everyone else.</p><p></p><p>I'm old enough to have been caught in the tail end of it but it was already Vampire: The Masquerade picking up where D&D had panicked and excised a lot of their "adult" content. It wasn't limited to the Bible Belt too because there were some genuinely insidious and insane attempts to make roleplaying games illegal.</p><p></p><p>BADD wasn't just a harmless bunch of cranks but created tens of thousands of packets for police officers around the country describing how the game led to suicide, depression, and violence before distributing them.</p><p></p><p><em>The first of B.A.D.D.’s attempts to control the police was Law Enforcement Primer on Fantasy Role-Playing Games. This was available free to anyone writing on a police department letterhead, but is terribly secret from the rest of society. I had considerable difficulty getting this document because my local police chief feigned cooperation, then notified B.A.D.D. what I was trying to do. He seemed really proud of that deception. I finally located a copy through CAR-PGa, which has police among its members and shortly thereafter from several gaming sources. It is no longer very secret as most serious game researchers already have a copy. However, it is still a secret from most of the general public, who have no idea their police are involved in organized attacks on innocent citizens.</em></p><p></p><p>I honestly should raise the score to four because everyone should know how naughty word up that. it. These people running an actual smear campaign to people with authority to kill or imprison you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Charles Phipps, post: 8608713, member: 70298"] Not just the Bible Belt. Al Gore's wife took it national as part of her activism and there were also police groups across the country taking it more seriously than everyone else. I'm old enough to have been caught in the tail end of it but it was already Vampire: The Masquerade picking up where D&D had panicked and excised a lot of their "adult" content. It wasn't limited to the Bible Belt too because there were some genuinely insidious and insane attempts to make roleplaying games illegal. BADD wasn't just a harmless bunch of cranks but created tens of thousands of packets for police officers around the country describing how the game led to suicide, depression, and violence before distributing them. [I]The first of B.A.D.D.’s attempts to control the police was Law Enforcement Primer on Fantasy Role-Playing Games. This was available free to anyone writing on a police department letterhead, but is terribly secret from the rest of society. I had considerable difficulty getting this document because my local police chief feigned cooperation, then notified B.A.D.D. what I was trying to do. He seemed really proud of that deception. I finally located a copy through CAR-PGa, which has police among its members and shortly thereafter from several gaming sources. It is no longer very secret as most serious game researchers already have a copy. However, it is still a secret from most of the general public, who have no idea their police are involved in organized attacks on innocent citizens.[/I] I honestly should raise the score to four because everyone should know how naughty word up that. it. These people running an actual smear campaign to people with authority to kill or imprison you. [/QUOTE]
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