I find it funny he's in so much trouble for doing what any 12 year old on Xbox Live would do.

Now if he was looking for sexual encounters online I could understand the need to report him, but profanity, even in the heaviest of uses, should only warrant a slap on the wrist, and maybe across the face.

Unless he's the guy who said he'd "$%^# my mom in her #)$ while $(%*ing my dog"

Then he deserved it

Why is this even an issue? "Profanity and graphic language"? So the guy's not impeccably well mannered in all possible social contexts - what does that have to do with his ability to fullfil his job? And why is it even being mentioned in the same article as him reporting another judge for watching child porn? Child porn is not only a whole lot more despicable than graphic language - it also happens to be, y'know, illegal. Breaking the law is definitely relevant to being able to work as a judge. Having a dirty mouth isn't (as long as you keep it out of the courtroom, of course).

I want to go on record and say that I have honestly never heard of the game in this article.

I object to gay porn, but only on a astetic value. That is I'm not gay and I find it...er...disgusting. I have no problem with people who do it, I just really don't want to watch it. But it dosn't sound like a good reason to fire a judge...

And it definitely sounds a little overblow to say: "He was looking up GAY Pr0n!" and then later have him commit suicide...I mean suicide is pretty damn serious...looking at gay porn, not so much serious.

a vasectomy from what i hear involves an injection to the........ shaft, who wouldn't swear when talking about it?

Crap, is their a way to edit these?

This is a pretty wierd case, but I'm not seeing the major issue here. If the man has been doing this off-duty then it's nobody's business but his own. He's not responsible for being a judge when he's off-hours and given the amount of hours a typical judge works he should be granted some slack, here.

According to the weblogs, he's not been doing it from a court computer. The traps they set months ago showed nothing, so I really don't see how this is an issue.

Jes: I guess that when you've offed yourself, that retroactively makes you a good person regardless of what you might have actually done. So in that light, swearing on a series of tubes from your own home is better than looking at porn through a series of tubes while on the job.

The only thing he might have been out of line about is talking smack about the lawyers because that MIGHT raise issues about his ability to stay neutral. Then again, he might be saying that because it's true... and since I'm no no position to know how good or bad those lawyers are, I'm reserving judgement on that count.

ack, that should have read: "So in that light, swearing on a series of tubes from your own home is WORSE than looking at porn through a series of tubes while on the job."

Did anyone else find it ironic that a "Justice of the Peace" judge was playing a game called "Gore"?

Jabrwock beat me to it. The issue in both these cases isn't -what- they were doing. It's whether they were doing it from their government offices. The man who committed suicide was, while this judge was not, and since the judge has not lied about it (meaning there is no question of his integrity) this frankly has nothing to do with his position as judge, and I see no hypocrisy in his conduct, only a certain amount of intolerance.

As for the former's suicide, It seems unreasonable to me to lay it all at Harris' feet. Braindead1, you were surprised by someone going that far over what -seems- like a minor incident, but you forget that Montana is on the whole a fairly conservative state, and there are some communities whose "community standards" make Rick Santorum look like a flaming, hippie commie-sympathizer. In other words, if it was revealed to the world at large that he was looking at gay porn the social consequences might have been hard to deal with.

OMG! Someone who has something to do with the law gets punished for using obscene and offensive language on te Internet....

Though I feel sorry for the Judge, I REALLY hope this spreads to the lawyer profession soon.

What's the big deal? He's not accused of doing anything remotely unethical or illegal. He used swear words in private when off the job. I've hung out in enough lawyer bars to know this is fairly universal.

Profanity is without a doubt the worst thing to hit the internet. It was evil and hypocritical of him to reveal a workroom browswe of gay porn when he himself was a profanisexual. The internet is a clean safe haven for children and men like him screw this up for everyone, he must be persecuted, regardless of the fact that he wrote evil words on his own time. Evil words are like sodomy, but worse.

@ Daniel


Currently people associate deviant sexuality with high level fetish, effectively making "gay porn" a more extreme version of porn. Thus somewhat justifying the distinction. In contrast, Oscar Wilde believed that it is the social stigma and produced guilt that causes deviant sexualities to persue extremes.

I'm not saying that I agree with either of these sentiments, but secks is generally a somewhat tender topic anyway, so I can at least understamd the reasoning behind many more extreme conservitive factions in regards to strapped on controversies. That is, the ones that ride on the back of the already controversial materials.

@ ZippyDSMlee

ewww, the I deserve it psycho-extension. By saying they've done enough good to satify their conscionce they indulge in what they perceive is evil and destroy themeselves through the process. I say ew because this is the most external and active ethical loophole people utilise to hurt themeselves and especially others. Serial Killers have a tendency to adopt this behavior.

But all focuses aside, I'm not sure Harris in peticular fits that perticular tendency. He might have done the same if it had been normal porn, or in general might be a little overly legalistic as far as computer use goes. I mean he never used the court computer for games in the "three months" they were monitoring him. I would've had that shit clogged the hell up.

So I simply amuse myself with the circumstance of it all.
I'll sumarize the article by the way: Gamer uses naughty word.
Next up:

"Thirteen-Year Olds Have Discovered the F-Word"
Special report at eleven.

And please, oh please,

"Eighteen-Year Old Hispanic Male Discharges Shotgun at Ten-Year Old Child Durring Halo Two Game"
Will it be in real life next time?


Stat tuned for my next post where I will reveal a moment in history where a German man was being Anti-Semetic. And maybe, if I dug deep enough... an Austrian too.

I wonder if Harris would have tattled on the other judge about the gay porn if he knew he was going to commit suicide. Because there are very few things worth a man's life, and their sexual orientation is not one of them.

The Double Entendres...they are killing me :P

"Screen shot at left." That's a screenshot of Gore? I gotta admit, it looks really boring. You play a guy sitting at a computer? C'mon, I can already do that on The Sims!

I did something most of you folks apparently did not do. I read the postings about "Judge Harris."

If you would go and read them, you would see that the "bitter lawyer" said he really could care less about the Judge's GORE habits. The problem, according to this lawyer, was that Harris testified as a Judge under oath that he had all these mental problems from seeing three gay porn images, while he was typing all kinds of this stuff himself.

It also appears that while Harris didn't use the government computer for the 3 months he was 'trapped' (he posted online for 4 years) he was typing messages all during the day when he either was at work or definitely should have been.

Also, while one of you said he didn't do anything unethical that's probably wrong too. According to the judge rules in Montana, Judge Harris is supposed to keep even his personal life "above reproach." Talking about his stiffy in a public chatroom is pretty unbecoming for a judge.

I really don't care what he did, but I think you guys who are painting him as an innocent victim should go read the whole article.