Yes, there is a video game that simulates the overthrow of governments through protests and propaganda (see story in Wired, on the news page this morning) but to bill this as “resistance,” or even “non-violent” is misdirection at the very least.
There is a mountain of evidence that the “democratic revolutions” of the aught-years, from the October 2000 events in Serbia to last year’s “Orange Revolution” in the Ukraine were not popular movements, but coups, instigated and funded by the Empire. Groups like Otpor, Pora, Kmara, etc. may have been student movements on the surface, but their funding, training and purpose came from outside intelligence agencies. That’s not a conspiracy theory, but a statement of fact.
Most of the Otpor membership is now sharing the fate of ordinary Serbians, trapped in a debased, besieged country under a rapacious and sycophantic government beholden to the Empire. But the organization’s founders have become highly-paid “revolutionary consultants” to the sponsors of the original coup, and now peddle their “skills” from Belarus to cyberspace.
“So what?” one might ask; isn’t overthrowing a tyrannical government, by non-violent means no less, something a libertarian would support? Certainly. Except, the governments these faux homegrown revolutionaries have overthrown were then replaced by equally tyrannical governments, only now more palatable to the Empire (which was behind the “revolutions” to begin with). And while these movements wear the costume of Mohandas Ghandi’s “passive resistance,” they are actually a weapon of aggression: a way for the Empire to take over a country through abuses of the electoral process, rather than having to expend men and bullets in a war. Fewer people die, yes, and that is a blessing; but liberty and independence have been usurped just the same.
One clue should be the name of the organization that collaborated with the designers to make the video-game: Center for Non-Violent Conflict. It’s war under a different name, but it should reeks just as vile.
Adding insult to injury, the US gamers will have to fork over some cash for the privilege of playing at virtual coups; designated agents of the Empire overseas will get their copies for free. Well, in a manner of speaking; the price they will be paying is their freedom. Suddenly $49.95 seems cheap in comparison.