freedom bunker???

it's been said before, it will be said again, i'm (reluctantly and resignedly) going to say it now: the grand state of pennsylvania has moments in which it fits the description of pittsburgh at the west end, philadelphia at the east end, with arkansas/alabama/insert-your-fave-southern-state-here in between.

out with friends tonight, we got into a heated debate over a story my good friend andrew told about a new attraction at the county fair in his home lycoming county. for a few dollars, you, too, can participate in "freedom bunker", a game in which you get a paintball gun and are encouraged to shoot the terrorists, consisting of some stationary targets, including a representation of osama bin laden, and a man in typical arab dress. wha? nay, WTF?

this to me and to andrew and to several of our friends smells rather foully of racism and should be ceased forthwith. other friends felt that, while conceding that freedom bunker is racist, there is no way to stop how people are going to think and act and so it's not worth getting upset about.

why can't everyone just see things the way i do? this world would be, in a word, perfect.