Lyndon LaRouche Sees Microsoft Conspiracy in NIU Shooting

Lyndon LaRouche Sees Microsoft Conspiracy in NIU Shooting

February 19, 2008
Miami anti-game violence activist Jack Thompson isn't the only one connecting last week's shooting rampage at NIU to the popular online FPS Counter-Strike.

Fringe political figure Lyndon LaRouche has also linked the game to the NIU tragedy. In a news release bearing the headline International Fascism: Microsoft Will Kill More Youth than Hitler, LaRouche's political action committee writes:
Another young killer, Stephen Kazmierczak, who killed five people and wounded 16 others at Northern Illinois University, was allegedly addicted to Microsoft's Counterstrike killer video-game. "He played a lot of video games, especially Counter-Strike, really loud," said one of his dorm mates...

The intended effect, to foster an environment of mass suicide terrorism in the U.S.A., is a by-product of the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' policy... organized by [financier] Felix Rohatyn and [former Secretary of State] George P. Shultz; the same individuals... are the prime backers of a fascist [NYC Mayor Michael] Bloomberg Presidency.

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I think he may have been into Nintendo's Splinter Cell game where you are Mario Fisher and have to kill people and snap their necks in order to interrogate them.

What all of you are forgetting is the Microsoft owns Sony and Nintendo, through shadow corporations in the underworld. The console wars are all a lie. Also, Microsoft is behind both Blu-Ray AND HD-DVD... and FLORIDE!
Microsoft made the OS the game plays on, not the game. Thats about as stupid as saying we should blame the Department of the Interior because drunk drivers die because they were driving on the interstate.

Someone needs to apply 2x4On directly to Lyndon's head.
Lerouche says,

"Another young killer, Stephen Kazmierczak..."

Funny, the guy is 30!!! He is trying to spin this to make people think the person who did the shooting was probably 17 or 18. I love how he says young killer instead of cites and age...oh boy!
When is he going to realize that Microsoft did not make Counter Strike or that Blomberg is not running for president anymore?

I now dub Lyndon LaRouche King of the Godwins. The man cannot go a single sentence without enacting the law.
Seriously, wtf!?
As long as they don't demand to be allowed to speak at NIU like John Bruce did, let them prattle on about whatever stupidity they want.

Nightwng2000
NW2K Software
Hooray for the lunatic fringe!
OMG when will these nut jobs give it a rest. GAAAH GAMES ARE NOT THE PROBLEM!!!!!!!
hahahha.. Ya just gotta love this guy. What a nutjob. He's always good for a laugh in the morning.
love the hat
Microsoft's Counterstrike killer videogame? Are you kidding me? Microsoft doesn't even know where to begin in making a decent FPS game...where does he come up with the fact that CS was developed my Microsoft?
Wait...what...nya... My brain hurts... Like I took to much ice cream in at once...but it was the worest tasting ice cream ever...and it's name was "Words contained in this article" punch. >.>
Well, at least he's such a lazy idiot that he can't even bother to get the right developer. Rather he bash Microsoft than Valve, since i bet MS has more lawyers than Valve has employees.
^Agreed. If MS buys Epic and get their hands on the UT engine, I predict mass geek sepukus.

Halo's okay, but badly overrated. And the fanbase is ridiculously juvenile.
@catboy_j

That’s because you haven’t adorned the proper LaRouche reading head gear. Reading this drivel without protection is ill advised.
umm so who is this guy mad at? he doesnt even know who makes what. damn if he gets pissed at cars he is gonna blame firestone instead of ford.
I'm still laughing at the Hitler comparison.
BTW, I know Counterstrike uses the Source engine. Just to clarify. I wasn't implying Epic did Counterstrike. Just that MS does mediocre FPSs.
I absolutely love the way the 'research' leaps across the intellectual equivalent of the Grand Canyon by implying a link between two totally unrelated points of view and then simply making a 'leap of Faith' in connecting the two without any evidence.

But then, not only am I British, I'm also of Jewish descent, so I'd better be careful no LaRouchites try to throw me in front of a car or anything....
@nightwng2000: No offense but thats just about equivalent to saying "ignore him and he'll go away".
idiot dont even know that cs is not microsoft game.
I'm still laughing at his hat
(havent gotten around to the artile yet)
I can't tell if this guy is trolling or if he's really an idiot.

And Microsoft has nothing to do with Counter-Strike.
Wow, it's pretty sad when even JT sounds more credible compared to Lyndon larouche.

Heck, at least JT doesn't blame the Jews and British.
Wow... just... wow.

The article picture doesn't even come close.
was he also into Valve's Halo?
Counter-Strike initially was a mod devlopped by Half-Life community how is MS involved... let's try the conspiracy theory... the fans weren't truly fans they were Microsoft employees paid to make a game with subliminal messages in it that would corrupt the mind and then take over the world... doesn't make sense since they alreasy took over the world... but I can't find a single motive for Microsoft to do this and I'm trying hard.
Hitler is rolling in his grave right about now. He could have just given video games to the Jews in Germany. -.-
Papa Midnight,
No, it wasn't meant that way.

The WBC could have gone on various blogs and websites and blathered their nonsense and been yelled at, debated with, and counter blathered.

But, instead, they showed up to protest a vigil. Disrespecting the students and staff trying to deal with their grief.

John Bruce wants to do more than chatter on on news programs, websites, and so on. He wants to GO there and dictate to them his personal, religious, and/or political agendas. He wants to directly use them for the purpose of his agenda. The same would be true if the NRA or some anti-gun group or Scientologists wanted to go to NIU and start doing the same thing.

And so to is true of the LaRouches.

I don't want them ignored.

I just don't want these individuals and/or groups to go there and get in the faces of the students, staff, families, communites, etc and start using them directly for their agendas.

Yeah, their chatterings in blogs and such do seem to be also using those who suffered the tragedy for their agendas. But it's not the same as getting in their faces and directly using them.

Nightwng2000
NW2K Software
Really, comparing games with the genocide comitted by Adolf Hitler?
That's just plain disgusting and I am seriously appalled.
Eases the pain, don't it?
So here's my idea: Since all these idiots that go on killing-sprees through campuses wind up offing themselves or getting killed by police, we need something to keep them alive long enough to at least explain why they did it, be it games, or because they were off their meds and it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Proposal: Train school teachers and professors as marksmen, teach them to shoot kneecaps and elbows as necessary to neutralize a threat in a non-lethal manner (elbows to disable the arm holding the gun). Also teach them First Aid (some places this is already standard) so that the fellow doesn't bleed out before he can explain himself.

And let the teachers pack heat with a round chambered. See if these folks even act out like this anymore.
Look everybody, more fools.
Never mind the fact that the shoot is a grown man...
(gah I meant "shooter")
lol the hat... the fact he cant get the developer right.... seriously...

i mean the ONLY EVIDENCE HE HAS is the fact that the dorm mate said ' he played CS real loud'

umm im sure some of his dorm mates would say ' oh he really liked cheese whizz and bagels' if asked what he liked to eat. Does that have ANYTHING to do with the killing spree? well using the same logic apparently so. Ban cheese whizz now.
" International Fascism: Microsoft Will Kill More Youth than Hitler"

It's at times like this I wish they'd make Godwins law a real law.
Man.... and I thought I didn't like M$. Gotta love the crazy
a...wha?

head hurts...

we need gulags....

get rid of the loonies
See, even Jack Thompson has his Michael Jordan to look up to.
im guessing the hat is to stop microsoft from beaming thoughs into his head...
but but but but but but but..

What about Dick Cheney? Wasn't he the big mastermind, or has the crazy fuckwit gotten so senile that he can't remember who is trying to destroy America for more than a week at at time?
Guys the main connection between valve and MS is that some of the oribinal core employees at valve were former MS.


There was also a counterstrike on the xbox.

Thats the connection.
MS Counter Strike? Oh noes!!11 Brace yourselves for Counter Strike Vista!
Anybody ever notice that nobody blames the parents for anything?

Oh sensitive America. If you want to get things done, you've got to aim at the right targets.
Is that sarcasm? Is it meant to make more people think about how idiot JT, and the like, are?[\reality]
Does anyone think it's funny they WILL NOT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT HIM BEING IN THE ARMY?!?!?! Don't people train with weapons in the army? Wasn't he discharged?
In equally relevant and vitally important news, that Time Cube guy is totally crazy.
This is even more proof that anti-video game activist don't do their research. Saying
Counter-strike was developed by Microsoft is like saying that Pixar made Shrek.
Killer is mentioned thrice in the first full sentence.

Ergo, Agenda.
Another "young" killer? So they purposefully left out his age...
AHAHAHAHAHAHA
@Mike

He was discharged because of his mental illness, right? If he killed 5 and wounded 15, obviously his "training" in the army didn't do jack.
It does not matter if LaRouche wants to go to NIU or not, his followers always show up in DeKalb every few weeks to harass and misinform.
What....the....fuck? So does having run a popular CS server make me a contributor to the mass brainwashing conspiracy or what? I've always wanted to be a part of something like that.
LaRouche would cream his pants if he sees this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIqU0SJPcIg
@ jdecamp

It's sort of ironic that all these brainwashing cults like the LaRouchites do naught but warn that every OTHER sentient being on the face of the earth is attempting to do the brainwashing...
Wow, for a moment there I thought I was actually reading a Thompson quote. I had to do a double take on the story header.

ps- I always love that LaRouche photo. Priceless.












.....Oh yeah and LaRouche is a total nutball.....
"Microsoft’s Counterstrike killer video-game"...lmao more like Valves killer videogame...geeze at least get the facts right LaRouche
Well wholey crap. Godwin's Law was enacted BEFORE the comments EVEN BEGAN!

Nice work there, Lyndon.
The picture for this article was most appropriate. That's all that really needs to be said.

Godwin'ed before the discussion even started.
@bildo:
If Lerouche got his facts right, then he wouldn't be blaming video games in the first place.
Can I just say WTFROFLBBQBURGERCOPTER?

What asylum did this guy escape from?
Arkham Asylum?
Funny. According yo my VG history, Counter Strike was NOT developed by Microsoft and the US military DID NOT drop a single cent into it's production. It was made as an addon for Half Life by a couple college guys and Valve was so impressed they wanted to add it.
If I ever go to a video convention and cosplay is going on, I'm going as the tin hat man. LaRouche is one crazy monkey.
Interesting how LaRouche rhymes with douche...
The nutjobs and Thompson always harp on people "training their skillz" on games like Counter-Strike. To put it bluntly, shooting unarmed people at point blank range is EASY. Its not something that needs training. These shooters aren't tapping into some esoteric skill, they are using basic manual dexterity.
Is it really news that LaRouche sees a conspiracy in something?
man what a tool.
[...] International Fascism: Microsoft Will Kill More Youth than Hitler [LaRouche Website via Game Politics] [...]
Ok I take that back, these are the kinds of nuts who really believe in bad scifi movies involving computers/the internet/VR/etc being completely real.

And the only part they really added to that was that last kooky bit GP pointed out.
Seeing that picture means I can't take him seriously.
The number of dingbats, crackpots and nincompoops in America is amazing. Freedom of speech has its price. Kind of pity you guys at the same time.
lol :)

What an idiot. Has already been said, but it probably is better that he takes on MS since their lawyers will take him to town :)
COUNTERSTRIKE WAS PUBLISHED BY VALVe DIPWAD!
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[...] Lyndon LaRouche Sees Microsoft Conspiracy in NIU Shooting “International Fascism: Microsoft Will Kill More Youth than Hitler” omg !! (tags: videogames politics violence counterstrike) [...]
Code Cheapass: LaRouche of the Rebellion?
I honestly don't think it has anything to do with games. I think he wants to take an attempted cheap shot at Microsoft.
Imagine what people would be saying about this on 4chan's /v/ imageboard. LOL.

@gs68: OH, GOOD BUM GRAVY, oY! You made a reference to Code Geass, oy! I find that anime to be Sunrise at their best. Plus a little CLAMP for polish. I can't wait for it to come to Adult Swim so moar people can see how awesome it is; Then, the more people who see it, the more people will get into anime, thus affecting their taste for favoring superior and sophisticated entertainment! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
I ask ONCE AGAIN: why are you giving this nutbag LaRouche free press?

He doesn't even have the media profile of Jack Thompson. He is the very picture of irrelevance itself. In fact, his only notable trait is being complete poison to every cause and organization he endorses.

Seriously. In his case, he really DOES go away when ignored.
Hahahahahahaha....

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAH...

Wait... He's serious... Amazing. People never cease to amaze me. Please note that this is not a good thing.
After reading more on this guy, umm I can safely assume this guy wheres more than tin hates.
Love his hat. It totally adds to his credibility.
How is Counter Strike at all associated with Microsoft? Because it's played on computers?

I suppose this means Nvidia, AMD, and Intel are all to blame as counter strike is played on a microsoft software, and their hardware. Thus, by proxy, anything that uses computers is to blame. Computers are used at hopsitals.

Essentially, hospitals are worse than hitler.

Nice logic.
This made me laugh. One of THE most pathetic attempts at game conspiracies I have EVER read. Wow. Microsoft didn't even MAKE CS...god....
WOW! Talking about pulling stuff from your arse! A simple check as to who made CS would have been nice. This guy obviously has a hang up about MS, saw this one guy played CS (as did/does how many millions of people?) and tried to connect two dots.

As long as idiots like these are spouting trash, you know there are going to be a few people to believe them. THATS the scary part.
“He played a lot of video games, especially Counter-Strike, really loud,” said one of his dorm mates…

What the hell is wrong with that dorm mate? Is he the biggest moron in the world, or was he just looking for some payback because of the "really loud" gaming he had to endure?
I heard this dope get interviewed on MSNBC. It's funny, the anchor who interviewed him was done with him after he mentioned Counter-Strike.
I guess she got her violent video game angle (didn't challenge it) and decided to move on.
Damn, "journalism" is sad these days.
How I see it, there are morons out there that are not willing to accept that usually the causes might be something else besides video gaming (i.e. bad parenting, mental illness, childhood trauma). People are just looking for a scapegoat to pin the blame onto. Scapegoating is just another method to try and avoid the blame themselves. How I see it, it would be best to BE AN ADULT, STOP MAKING BLAND, POINTLESS EXCUSES, AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THESE THINGS!!!

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