another article that tries to make something out of nothing, if it's not family friendly: IT'S EVIL!!

That's pretty good, since I'd estimate that ~20% of the general population can't tell fantasy from reality.

“This is a question of a small number of very zealous gamers trying to impose their will on society, and I think harm society. It’s the public interest versus the small vested interest,”

that's pretty rich coming from him.
change "gamers" to Attorney General and you get one of Australia's biggest hypocrites.

In theory, following his line of reasoning, he should be trying to protect society from himself.

1-2 percent is about the amount of mentally unstable people who reach that point anyway... it just so happens that a proportional amount play video games

what a lamer australia doesn't even have any freedom for video games
poor dudes.

society will always try and blame the problems on something other than simple man's shortcomings.
it takes a really messed up person to think it is ok to do what they do in games, in real life.

I'd like to know how his research was conducted...

I'm surprised it took so many posts for someone to finally say it. My first thought to reply was "On what basis?".

The only other thought was what Spankey said.

Gaming is no longer just a vested interest from a minority either. This guy really has no clue what he's talking about. Here's a simple Google search to get him up to date: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=gaming+industry+bigger+than+movies&aq=0&oq=gaming+industry+bigger+than+&aqi=g1

Aliens are real

I saw them

He's just made he got PWNED at MW2!