From our Department Of Unsurprising Things…  Via The Register…did you know that the Tribulation Forces are monitoring your keystrokes…?

Watchers of right-wing Christian groups in the States say a new apocalyptic videogame released by cultish Revelations-based fiction series Left Behind is riddled with spyware.

Developers have incorporated software from an Israeli firm called Double Fusion. It incorporates video advertising and product placement into the game, and reportedly records players’ behaviour, location, and other data to be uploaded to Left Behind’s Bible-powered marketing machine.

Nice.  But the righteous have nothing to fear.  If this sort of thing bothers you, you’re probably an agent of Satan anyway.  Or a UN Peacekeeper.

In an interview on the series’ website Greg Bauman of Left Behind Games explains: "Left Behind: Eternal Forces will help readers get a sense of the conflict and chaos of the time period portrayed in Left Behind and live out how they would defend themselves and their faith from the Antichrist and his Global Peace Keeping Forces." The United Nations, already organ of satanic machinations for many on the Christian far-right, features strongly in the game. Goat-footed demons reportedly emerge from UN peacekeeping humvees.

Which reminds me of something I was watching unfold in tired resignation the other day…(via Steve Gilliard)

Gun owners accuse UN of July 4 conspiracy

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Americans mistakenly worried the United Nations is plotting to take away their guns on July 4 — U.S. Independence Day — are flooding the world body with angry letters and postcards, the chairman of a U.N. conference on the illegal small arms trade said on Wednesday.

"I myself have received over 100,000 letters from the U.S. public, criticizing me personally, saying, ‘You are having this conference on the 4th of July, you are not going to get our guns on that day,"’ said Prasad Kariyawasam, Sri Lanka’s U.N. ambassador.

"That is a total misconception as far as we are concerned," Kariyawasam told reporters ahead of the two-week meeting opening on Monday.

For one, July 4 is a holiday at U.N. headquarters and the world body’s staff will be watching a fireworks display from the U.N. lawn rather than attending any meetings, he said.

For another, the U.N. conference will look only at illegal arms and "does not in any way address legal possession," a matter left to national governments to regulate rather than the United Nations, he added.

The campaign is largely the work of the U.S. National Rifle Association, whose executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre, warns on an NRA Web site (http://www.stopungunban.org/) of a July 4 plot "to finalize a U.N. treaty that would strip all citizens of all nations of their right to self-protection."

Notice how the rank and file just ate it up.  Lookout!  Lookout!  The UN is coming to take your guns away on the forth of July…!  And you wonder why some people reflexively associate guns with mentally unstable lunatics.  This is exactly why I am not a member of the NRA.  That, and their knee jerk support for any gutter crawling bigot running for office who happens to have the right position on gun ownership.  And you know what…I’ll bet at least two-thirds of the membership of Pink Pistols bought into this crap too.