Larouche  followers are claiming there is a cover-up involved in the Virginia Tech Report issued to the President. As we reported last week, there was no mention of video games in the report despite the efforts of Jack Thompson and Lyndon Larouche followers to convince the panel that violent video games were the cause of Cho’s murderous rampage.

The Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee has issued a statement on their website, accusing the video game industry of engineering a cover-up in the report. They claim the Game industry lobby sites are Games Industry and “Gammer Life”.

The irony here being that we’re the source they quote as being Video Game Lobbyists.. they go so far as to quote my report word for word without proper attribution (of course – is it too much to ask that professional demagogues properly cite their sources or is it too much to expect them to be ethical in their moral crusade?). Here is the statement verbatum from the PAC’s website:

Bush Administration Issues Cover-Up Report on the VA Tech Massacre

June 22, 2007 (LPAC)–The Bush Administration issued a report entitled “Report to the President on Issues Raised by the Virginia Tech Tragedy” on June 13. The video game lobby is praising the report for its cover-up of LPAC exposure of the Va Tech massacres. On June 21, on the lobby’s websites and magazines, Games Industry and Gammer Life, write: “Despite the efforts of video game critics Jack Thompson and Lyndon LaRouche, the V-Tech report is out with no mention of video games at all… According to GamePolitics, the video game issue was brought up at the V-Tech Review Panel hearings no less than three times by supporters of Lyndon LaRouche PAC.” The Administration report was prepared by Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and given to Bush. The VA Tech Review Panel, however, is still meeting and has not yet issued its final report.

This is interesting since the “report” was not finalized when I wrote that news item. Nice to know Gaming Today is now considered a lobby by LaRouche and his supporters. Perhaps we can try and inject some reality back into the overzealous political campaign to limit the rights of American consumers – ADULT American consumers.

Nice to see we sometimes get noticed. Too bad the link is tenuous and completely unrelated to the administration, the attorney general or any form of the government. It irks me to cover the news when we are the news I’m covering… albeit indirectly.