Beyond Newsgaming

I am still doing research in case today happens to be a sort of secret April Fools day or something like that. The New York Times reports that Senator Ted Kennedy was blocked from boarding airplanes while in the US, supposedly because his name was similar to an alias used by a supposed terrorist. Ted Kennedy! Probably the most famous US Senator in the last decades. From the Kennedys!! The richest political aristocracy in the States. If a Kennedy, a US freakin Senator, is denied boarding an airplane without explanation, imagine what could happen to a regular US citizen. Of course, just imagine the ordeal for non-US citizens, let alone Arabs or suspiciously dark-skinned folks.
rThings like this make really hard for people in the whole world not to laugh their asses off and call Americans the richest, dumbest people in the planet. Of course, such judgment is not only unfair but also wrong. There is another name for this and it is not a pretty one. It is called fascism, a well-documented decease that affect people who are afraid.
rThis story is so troubling –even more troubling that the tortures and killings in Iraq, which were expected- that I am speechless. I wish I could make a newsgame about this but, sincerely, I don’t know where to start.