VGVN Call to Action

[JUMBO PALACE]

The VGVN (Video games voters network) is the organization Yahtzee detailed a couple episodes back. It's entire existence is dedicated to the survival of video games as a medium and an art form.

I joined the website after watching Yahtzee's clip and I just got an email from them. It asks gamers everywhere to take any old or broken video game controllers and write on them "I believe in the First Amendment" and mail them to Senator Leland Yee in California whom attempted to pass a law which would restrict game sales. His law was found unconstitutional. Now, Yee is urging the Supreme Court to reconsider his misguided law, with oral arguments beginning on November 2.

For all American gamers, it's time to get off of our asses and defend the medium we claim to love so much. Send your controllers with the inscription on them to:

455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 14200
San Francisco, CA 94102

Here's a link to the website in case any of you want to poke around. http://videogamevoters.org/

And here are instructions for the actual inscribing and mailing. http://www.videogamevoters.org/FirstAmendment

TLDR: Leland Yee is a California Senator who's original law requiring the restriction of video game sales was declared unconstitutional. Now he is lobbying to the Supreme Court to reconsider. Send him your old or broken game controllers with "I believe in the First Amendment" written on them and mail them to:
455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 14200
San Francisco, CA 94102

For discussion value, after reading this, do you think it's something you will participate in?
Do you think it is an effective method?

 

[zfactor]

No, I won't give some freedom crushing senator my NES controlers. I still use all my controlers and attempt to repair my broken ones.

It would be strange, I don't know about effective... He's already lobbying the supreme court, so it won't change his mind, but might freak him out a little.

 

[nintendoeats]

I'm Canadian. I support this cause and encourage Americans to take part, but I feel that it would be inappropriate for me to mess with another countries ideological progress.

Unlike the Bush administration.

 

[Vrach]

Wouldn't it be a better idea to send them to the supreme court guys? I mean, they're the ones who are deciding on the issue, they might be impressed with such an action, the senator on the other hand won't give a toss about it.

 

[Imp Poster]

I would like to send Senator Yee some monopoly money and thank him for wasting tax payer's money that the state does not have on the matter.

 

[Nevyrmoore]

Wouldn't it be a better idea to send them to the supreme court guys? I mean, they're the ones who are deciding on the issue, they might be impressed with such an action, the senator on the other hand won't give a toss about it.

This. A bunch on controllers isn't going to change the mind of someone who already has his mind set on the issue. Who you want to influence are the guys who will have the final say.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

It would be strange, I don't know about effective... He's already lobbying the supreme court, so it won't change his mind, but might freak him out a little.

I think sending a Senator a couple dozen to, a couple hundred boxes of about the same size, which rattle around and contain cords may freak him out a bit and could very well just strengthen his resolve against video games.

I am not participating in this stunt and, if asked to protest in person in DC I likely won't do that either despite living close enough to hear when Lewis Black comes back to town (so long as the window is open). I'm just not the kind of person who is into the whole protesting thing.

 

[Super Toast]

I think severed heads would be far more effective. In all seriousness, I don't think this is going to change his mind.

 

[AstylahAthrys]

I have a broken Gamecube controller lying around so, why not? Anything to help our rights. The more people to do it the better. It might not change his opinion, but it will show him that we are people who will fight for a cause.