01.07.2015 - 00:19 [ Common Dreams ]

Calling All 16-Year-Old Recruits: Get Your Battlefield Casualties Action Man – P.T.S.D., Paralyzed and Dead – Now!

Calling the recruiting of eminently pliable, barely in puberty, usually poor 16-year-olds „sick“ and „a sinister thing,“ Veterans For Peace created the Action Man Battlefield Casualties films and dolls with artist Darren Cullen and filmmaker Price James. They are modelled on official Armed Forces toy soldiers launched in 2009 by the Ministry of Defense; aimed at four to nine-year-olds, they include a Predator drone playset. The veterans‘ versions are a tad more realistic. PTSD Action Man comes with „thousand-yard stare action,“ as well as anti-depressants, booze, drugs and noose. Paralyzed Action Man („legs really don‘t work“) comes with wheelchair, colostomy bag and „Benefits Cancelled“ letter. Dead Action Man comes with his own body bag; „coffin sold separately.“