December 27, 2007 (LPAC)--On Dec 26, 2007 attorney Jack Thompson issued a press release: "Activist Declares War on Unholy Alliance between Department of Defense and Video Game Industry". The press release highlights the "collaboration" between video game makers and some spooks of the Defense Department, which is more fully developed in the LPAC pamphlet "Is the Devil in Your Laptop?"

Thompson's press release reads in part: "...One of the consequences of this collaboration is the increasing number of commando-style assaults by young video gamers, such as the recent mall massacre in Omaha, Nebraska. Virginia Tech's Cho was an obsessive high school player of the military-themed CounterStrike, according to the Washington Post. Researchers have proven the long-term effect of immersion in interactive violence. The author of the worst school massacre in European history trained on the same military killing simulator.

"The list of mass killings tied to such games is long, including, of course, Columbine.

"What is increasingly clear is that the unholy alliance between the game industry and the DOD is teaching an entire generation of kids that war is glamorous, cool, desirable, and consequence-free.

"Believe it or not, there is actually a formal working relationship between the Department of Defense and the game industry at the Institute for Creative Technologies on the campus of the University of Southern California...."

Thompson has won numerous law suits in state courts against the video game industry's Entertainment Software Association, for marketing violent games, only to have those lawsuits overturned in Federal Court.