North American Union conspiracy hits the big time
User Wake up People pointed us to this story:"'Obama's Coup' video game plays on the paranoia of the right wingnuts".
Here’s the scenario:
Now interestingly, this is not necessarily part of the right-wing backlash against President Obama. The game’s creators are libertarians based in New York who claim to hate both parties equally (their next game will feature hunting former President Bush).
Current.com users are no strangers to the theories behind the game. The North America Union theory has been around for a while and is often discussed on Current News. In it, the US dissolves into a Union with Mexico and Canada and starts a new currency called the Amero (here's the long list of Current posts tagged with Amero).
Here's a clip posted by current_spider from a site called UFO-Blogger showing off what's purported to be one of these Ameros.
So surprisingly - not a Glenn Beck-inspired videogame.
What do you think? Is this 2011 scenario likely? As likely as Roland Emmerlich's 2012 scenario? Has anyone played the game? Is it fun?
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Here’s the scenario:
It's January 2011. The GOP is about to assume control of both houses of Congress—having been voted in by a public deeply suspicious of Democrats after President Barack Obama conducted clandestine talks with President Felipe Calderon of Mexico and Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada. But two days before the new conservative majority is to be sworn in, Obama announces that this Congress will not be seated, that the United States (a creation of "racists and warmongers") will be replaced by a North American Union, that the US Constitution will be dissolved, and that private ownership of firearms will be outlawed (as part of a United Nations treaty banning firearms globally). In response, millions rise up, and the Revolution begins.
Now interestingly, this is not necessarily part of the right-wing backlash against President Obama. The game’s creators are libertarians based in New York who claim to hate both parties equally (their next game will feature hunting former President Bush).
Current.com users are no strangers to the theories behind the game. The North America Union theory has been around for a while and is often discussed on Current News. In it, the US dissolves into a Union with Mexico and Canada and starts a new currency called the Amero (here's the long list of Current posts tagged with Amero).
Here's a clip posted by current_spider from a site called UFO-Blogger showing off what's purported to be one of these Ameros.
So surprisingly - not a Glenn Beck-inspired videogame.
What do you think? Is this 2011 scenario likely? As likely as Roland Emmerlich's 2012 scenario? Has anyone played the game? Is it fun?
Recently on the Current News Blog:
- Housing market: More foreclosure trouble to come?
- Meet the Uighurs - Laura Ling's interview with China's western dissidents
- Captured by Somali pirates - A journalist's first hand story
- Rio's drug violence: How Brazil's 2016 Olympics presage troubles for megacities
- Taliban trying to addict US soldiers to heroin?
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