January 23, 2007 -
In yesterday's GamePolitics coverage of the increasingly ugly situation surrounding Utah's pending video game legislation, we mentioned in passing that controversial Miami attorney Jack Thompson had issued a call for the impeachment of Attorney General Mark Shurtleff.Several readers wondered about the content of Thompson's letter, which we chose not to include in yesterday's GP. But you asked, so here it is (MS Word format).
In regard to Thompson's dust-up with Shurtleff, GP posed three questions to the anti-game attorney last evening. Those questions, along with his answer, follow:
GP: What has (bill sponsor) Rep. Wyatt had to say about your attacks on A.G. Shurtleff?
GP: How do you see demonizing the state’s A.G. as an effective strategy?
GP: Do you fear that the ugliness (surrounding your legislative efforts) in Louisiana and now Utah will dissuade people in other jurisdictions from working with you, going forward?
JT: Listen, goofball. Wyatt today endorsed everything I said. Secondly, morons like Shurtleff need to be called out as morons. The bill has no chance of surviving as a law if Shurtleff scuttles it. Finally, if you weren't such a coward and would allow me access to your site, you'd know even more of what is going on. You are absurd.
Comments
I propose disection... for SCIENCE!! ~Sora, VGCats, KH2 Parody
More than at any moment, I realised just how little concern Jack had for anyone's wellbeing except his own at that point, he'd happily put people at risk of all sorts of things if it meant he could get his own way. Especially when he tried to claim it was a 'legal requirement' to do so if you were responding to him.
Basically Jack will lie, cheat and put other peoples lives at risk to obtain his own selfish goals. Even if I did agree that regulation was required (and remember I live in the UK, where regulation has been in place since before I was born 34 years ago) I most certainly would not allow someone like Jack Thompson to be involved with that regulation, he is nothing more than a greedy, self-serving coward who doesn't give a damn about the wellbeing of gameplayers as long as his bank account benefits.
It would be great if GP could post them, sort of a ‘Jack’s Greatest Hits’ to remind everyone why he’s banned. "
That, and maybe a few of Jack's venomous bile-spewing tirades, so that we'd have something to point people towards to show a side of Jack that get's edited out of Dateline NBC (though, frankly, if they got Jack to go completely off the wall on one of his rants, it'd get better ratings then subdued Jack.)
Jack Thompson, he can't help speaking from a holier-than-thou position. Not to mention that most people are holier than him.
Jacky T can't help himself, he's not only delusional, but seems distraught and extremely tired. He obviously is not in his right mind, or else he wouldn't call someone saying "trust the esrb" and commenting that the bill doesn't have much chance and he would rather not have to defend it.
Dennis: don't you just love how JT can't really use any proper insults, so he has to result to calling someone an insult that's easily 20 years old?
you just have to love the blanket statement that "wyatt endorsed everything I said" and yet there's no proof in either the positive or the negative.
and as much as he has said he doesn't care if he gets back on GP, it's obvious he does, or else he wouldn't include the "Finally, if you weren’t such a coward and would allow me access to your site, you’d know even more of what is going on. You are absurd." line.
So according to his logic: it's absurd to block JT so that JT cannot get onto the messaging system and thus fling ad hominems like a monkey throwing feces.
I'd say it's the exact opposite.
Try the wikiquote site (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson)
And he calls US immature.
Apparently in politics, this is "heated discussion". Resorting to childish name-calling I mean... Remember Louisiana.
Pot, meet kettle.
Wow. Not only does he start off his reply by insulting the interviewer, GP, but then he starts insulting other people too. I guess no one ever taught him that he shouldn't toss stones while living in his glass house.
But since Jack said I should do it, ok moron, err I mean Jack Thompson, I will call you a moron from now on. :)
Attacking an interviewer is pathetic and just shows how weak his position is. It's like swearing in a debate-the instant you start swearing is when you've lost your side of the argument.
But really, this is getting tiresome. There's an awful big world out there, much bigger than JT. I think GP has beat this dead horse for all its worth. He's completely irrelevent, he's just here for comedic/shock value to pump GP's hits. It's getting real old. Isn't it time GP started blocking Jack's email?
JT has a history of bad spelling, typos, poor grammar, etc. He still expects to be taken serious even with his virtolic comments to gamers and about the gaming industry in general. Jack and Reality are mutually exclusive.
On a good note even with the bill going to committee, Utah still is a first where a leading politician has come out against the bill and stating that the bill has severe constitutional issues. Despite Jack's claims it's Federal Judges who decide constitutionality and this law has already been ruled Unconstitutional in Louisiana. (the Utah bill is virtually identical.)
Of course Jack is still playing his normal game. He is setting it up so he can blame the Utah Attorney General when the Law fails to pass constitutional muster. He did the same thing in Louisiana.
How professional. Jack is still Jack, it seems.
It would be great if GP could post them, sort of a 'Jack's Greatest Hits' to remind everyone why he's banned.
"Hey, your parents seem really nice. I like them."
"They beat me."
"Well, they're still nice to me."
*eyeroll*
Jack has no respect for the press, the courts, the rule of law, the constitution, the electoral process, intelligent thought, himself, his religion, and the people.
Wow, I don't think he ever read that book "winning friends and influencing people".
Listen Jack, You were banned from this website because the site administrator, along with most people who post here, found you to be immature, and abusive. Ergo, you were banned. That is how the internet works. Contrary to what you may think, you being forbidden from posting on a website is neither Illegal or unconstitutional. unlike your laws. Which are Illegal/unconstitutional. My e-mail address is mastergamer38@yahoo.com if you want to contact me and whine some more.
OH ZE IRONY!
I still think that would have been a bad idea. In my opinion, that tactic was sort of a "Let me sue you for harassment, or I'll sue you for anonymous harassment" moment for Jack
Nothing good can come of Jack, so lets keep him at arms distance and call him a Ninny.
The bill has no chance of survival anyway, as it's still a violation of the First Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment.
I would want your explaination please.
The fact that he apparently can't understand why he was banned here is proof enough he's going crazy.
For somebody who complains about tgamers being stupid all the time, he sure is stupid when it comes to technology. I mark that up to the typical old goat being scared of technology and that his way of life might change.
At one point he was demanding the IP addresses of every person that said bad things about him in the comments section! If that doesn't merit a ban then I don't know what does. I also remember him being given "an extra chance to be good" about a dozen times. He worked hard for that ban.
There is a silver lining though, at least the whole things been funny. Also, it's probably a good thing he can't read the site any more. He'd go into a tirade overly virtually every article. I honestly think he's gotten crazier than ever lately. It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion with this guy, it never ends.
"Finally, if you weren’t such a coward and would allow me access to your site, you’d know even more of what is going on."
Maybe he doesn't know how to get around it? I saw him make a post a week or two ago, so I think he was travelling and in a motel room at the time.
It has no chance of surviving anyway, Jack. Every bill like it that has passed has been struck down as unconstitutional. This one, if it gets through, will be no different. What part of that don't you understand?
Dennis, you give Jack three sound, thought-provoking questions and THAT'S how he starts off his answer?
And about his getting banned.... I think he has no right to complain about it. He did bring it upon himself after all. It's like getting fired for grossly insulting your boss, and then complaining about getting fired. (Maybe I should've said that sooner.)
As for that e-mail...
Comparing the possible case involving this bill to a rape case... I see no point in that...
Using the term "trash-the-client"... Actually saying "knock it off" in this letter... Neither screams of professionalism, I think.
And the mentioning of a comedian and a sitcom character. I'm not even going to comment on that. Oh, but someone tell Crybaby Jack that he forgot to put "Professor" in quotation marks.
I'd give this letter a big thumbs-down.
Oh, and Jotun, you say Jack makes you ashamed to be part of humanity? I say he makes me want to believe in parallel universes and hope to visit one.
(Then again if parallel universes do exist, I'd figure Jack would be a total douchebag in every single one of them anyway. ^_^)
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I've deleted several comments in this thread already.
Thx,
GP
You see, Jack? As I said before: You are truly changing the lives of gamers for the better. Thanks, buddy!
~~All Knowledge is Worth Having~~
Thompson was banned for being abusive.
Thompson challenges ban...with abuse.
Now children, what have we learned in todays lesson?
Has Thompsons IP been blocked at GP then?