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2007-03-27 Caribbean-Latin America

Mexican governor orders seizure of video game

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-03-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 When you're lost in the rain in Juarez
An' it's easter time too
An' your gravity fails
An' negativity don't pull you thru
Don't put on any airs
When you're down on rue morgue avenue
They got some hungry women there
An' they really make a mess outta you.

Now if you see saint Annie
Please tell her thanks a lot
I cannot move
My fingers are all in a knot
I don't have the strength
To get up an' take another shot
An' my best friend, my doctor
Won't even say what it is i have got.

Sweet Melinda
The peasants call her the goddess of gloom
She speaks good english
An' she invites you up into her room
An' you're so kind
An' careful not to go to her too soon
An' she takes your voice
An' leaves you howlin' at the moon.

Up on housin' project hill
It's either fortune or fame
You must pick one or the other
Tho neither of them are to be what they claim
If you're lookin' to get silly
You better go back to from where you came
Because the cops don't need you
An' man they expect the same.

Now all the authorities
They just stand around an' boast
How they blackmailed the sergeant at arms
Into leavin' his post
An' pickin' up Angel who
Just arrived here from the coast
Who looked so fine at first
But left lookin' just a ghost.

I started out on burgundy
But soon hit the harder stuff
Everybody said they'd stand behind me
When the game got rough
But the joke was on me
There was nobody even there to bluff
I'm goin' back to New York city
I do believe i've had enough.
[/channeling Bob Dylan and Juarez]

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-03-27 01:50|| 2007-03-27 01:50|| Front Page Top

#2 I just beat the game! It involved rebels all over latin american who plant a nuke in El Paso. It had nothing to do with Mexican citizens. If anything it shows how American special forces are the most violent ass kickers in the world.

Posted by Jesing Ebbease3087 2007-03-27 08:32|| 2007-03-27 08:32|| Front Page Top

#3 According to the report, Chihuahua Governor José Reyes Baeza Terrazas considers the game an insult not only to the city of Juárez, but to the entire country.

Of course, he doesn't think its an insult that his 'governing class' dumps millions of their people upon their neighbor because their utterly corrupt system of government and economics are focused upon maintaining power rather than improving the lot of the citizens. You've got to have some honor first before you can be 'insulted' El Jefe.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-03-27 09:14|| 2007-03-27 09:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Go viral.

1)Limited version of game given away free on internet.
2)Governor Baeza shits little blue bricks.
3)Game company rolls in cash, laughing their way to the bank.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-03-27 13:56|| 2007-03-27 13:56|| Front Page Top

#5 That settles it: I don't usually buy this kind of game, but I'm buying this one when it comes out!

If my action, in any way, shape, or form, is construed as poking my extended middle finger into Jose Terrazas' eye, I'll do it.

Posted by ptah">ptah 2007-03-27 14:46|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2007-03-27 14:46|| Front Page Top

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