Techotic

Police arrested some climate protesters during a series of raids in Kent, UK and confiscated their “criminal” equipments” [knives, chisels and bolt cutters] as well a War On Terror board game, because they said the balaclava included in the set could be used in a criminal act.

“Surely no member of the public is going to believe that a board game could be used as a weapon?”

War on Terror, similar to games like Risk, revolves around creating empires that compete and wage war.

But there is a twist - players can poke fun at the rhetoric of world leaders like George Bush and Tony Blair.

The game was born from the frustration of its creators as they sat watching the news in the run up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Each player starts as an empire filled with good intentions and a determination to liberate the world from terrorists and from each other.

In their cardboard version of realpolitik George Bush’s “Axis of Evil” is reduced to a spinner in the middle of the board, which determines which player is designated a terrorist state.

That person then has to wear a balaclava (included in the box set) with the word “Evil” stitched on to it.

[via cambridge news]