Right so after reading what jack describes as the vital information that makes posting gay pornography rational (it doesnt).

it seems the entire crux of his defence against the judge is that this other lawyer who operates a private gay website that has links to gay pornography is worse than him and thus jack should get away with being an asshole.

COME ON JACK! youre a lawyer, admittedly a bad one but even you should realise how terrible a defence that is, the judge is right to ask for relevance because even if this gay business was criminal (which it isnt) it absolutely does nothing to diminish your misconduct in any way.

Really jack, at first I was annoyed by you, then I laughed at your antics (i still do) but now I'm just pissed off and I want you gone, not just because you mock the legal system and even the human race with your despicable behaviour but imply because its not fair for the anti-videogame side to have you. i may disagree with the stance but I'm all for rational debate and resolution, and it does them a disservice to be associated with a self obsessed ranting moron like you.

Your hatred and your despicable behaviour and attempts to stifle freedom have earnt you a place in hell, I pray that you can find a way to undo your hate jack, I really do.

@DarkTetsuya:

He even gets a footnote?

Disclaimer: If I piss any of you who are religious off, please understand that I'm just making an analogue from my perspective, and that I do respect that you believe what you believe even though I don't actually respect what you believe.

JT reminds me of every Christian I have ever had the displeasure of arguing anything with. He believes what he says is true, and factual, simply because he believes it so. Like his believing in something to be detrimental, is the reason for it being detrimental. I get the same sort of reaction from Fundy Christians when discussing the Bible, "The Bible is the word of God, and I believe it to be truth." "Really here's 50 examples of how and why the bible has factual errors in it." *Fingers in ears* "BLAH BLAH IT"S THE WORD OF GOD!!!!!! IT"S TRUE YOUR WRONG AND GOING TO HELL!!!!" Jackie's the same way. He's so certain that he's in the right, that he's the persecuted one, and that everyone is just stupid and blind, even though we're the rational ones saying that there's no proof to his asinine claims and that he's really coming off as a complete nutter.

I've come to the point where I simply feel sorry for him. I pity his poor kid, and I really hope Jr's got himself a good therapist and goes by an alias at school.

As a Florida tax payer, and since there's no income tax in this state, any of you that have visited and bought anything are Florida tax payers, I'm disgusted by his wasting of tax money and court time on his crusades against obscenity and video games. Sadly, there doesn't seem to be any chance of him ever stopping. His disbarment won't prevent him from filing as a private citizen, and contempt charges will only vindicate him and make him a martyr in his own mind. I doubt any sanctions would even prevent him from being on TV claiming to be an expert on video game violence. Jacko, newsflash, using tragedies to defend a position that only ignorant people with no knowledge or experience with gaming hold doesn't make you an expert. It makes you a pig and a sicko. You prey on victims to further your cause and promote yourself. You should be ashamed. It seems though that we're stuck with you until you die of natural causes. Which sadly will probably be a long time, since I figure you're so oblivious to the world around you that you don't suffer from job related stress. "Ooh, the Federal court system wants to send me to jail for introducing gay porn into the public record, JT FTW!!! HOOAH!!!" Ponce.

@ Nobody

You're just realizing this NOW?

If it wasn't established before, this reinforces the fact that Jack is the laughing stock of the legal community.

@RaZor
November 1st? I dont know where your shopping but I already see stores with entire areas devoted to christmas.

From the stupid letter he wants us to read:
"The obscenity trafficking lawyer’s lawyer has now written me and told me that I should
be “ashamed” of myself for “trafficking in obscenity.” I am receiving death threats at
my home because this judge decided to handle this this way. I received a packet at my
home, through the mail yesterday, from a gay sex advocacy organization on how to
“come out of the closet.”"

ROFL

So Jack thompson has added gay news sites to sites he trolls. Heh.....

Jack is srewed

I have to agree Chuma, Quiz Law said it best.

Wow, is Thompson's boat sinking fast or is it just me?

I've been wondering for a while, can the comments JT has made here and elsewhere come into play at all in a professional misconduct suit? The comments he made a few weeks back about Gamerdad (In the initial post about the heart attack) disgusted me so much, I get a sick feeling in my stomach every time I hear JT's name now. That act alone is concrete proof to me that there is something deeply wrong with JT.

Now we have this which is something that no rational person would do, especially if they are on the verge of losing their legal license. The only conclusions I can draw are that he either thinks he is invincible, or wants to lose his license. If the later, he must either think it will make him some kind of a martyr or it will give him an excuse to bow out without looking bad.

Of course, I am trying to rationalize this. Meh.

No James. This is the internet. Where people can be fucktards in anonymity.

THen again, JT posts like an anonymous fucktard WITHOUT the anonymity.

The score so far: Dennis - 1, JT - -6.

@nightwng2000

I doubt it. The internet isn't big with oxymorons.

Well Darrel, i don't blame him for asking, seeing as Jack has brought up the site numerous times in his court filings, giving the judge and whoever else all the reason in the world to check the site and find his posts.

But yeah, for someone who continually bragged "Ha, i'm using my real name instead of anonymous avatars, you cowardly pissants!" he's sure not making himself look much better.

Proposition, I mean. My appologies - just one of those mornings!

Is anyone really surprised that his "peers" find him a raving lunatic as well?

I dunno, I kind of felt like we were the only people who saw Jack's crazy this whole time and It feels good to know that his own peers feel the same way about him that we do.

BTW, I hope we are all proved wrong about the violent video game --> real world violence link when Jack's kid goes on a shooting spree from playing all of the M rated games he bought.

@ *sigh*

Yeah, but even then there's the fact that he has JT as a father... I'm sure that'd drive anyone to kill.

Once again, Dennis Mc"Smelly" gets it wrong!
i am a famous law-talky man who has watched Night Court and once i wroted down my words for people to say it was bad and i shouldn't writed them down no more!
Judges get mad at gay people because they are gay, not because i sended the pictures from the magic box to them. Jesus knows gayism is against the constitution of the God and he fights Bhudda all night long to make sure the sun rises in the morning.
of course, everyone who disagrees with me is now and was previously a member of the Communist party and prevents childrens from doing learnings, and possibly gayist retardeds too.

Here is my question: Who pays for all these legal shenanigans?

"I certainly am enjoying the fact that you all are enjoying yourselves with this amazing misreportage."

Oh, Jackie, there's no misreportage here, you just did something stupid and everyone knows it except for you. Enjoy your disbarment and possible legal action since after all, you did just distribute gay porn for all the world, including minors, to see.

@BaronJuJU

I suspected as much.

I also read some of the letter (about seven pages) and I have to say that he throws the word "proof" and "proving" around a lot. Also, he seems to think that many of the things he says are self evident. And philosophy undergrad could tell you that isn't the way to go about making a solid argument.

GP, thanks for posting the ad hoc yada-yada.

As a teenaged “Student Mayor for a Day” in my 3,000 student high school in my all-white Ohio town

Out of curiosity, were you ever Hall Monitor?

Many people think that “gay adult porn” is naked men holding hands or kissing.

Really? I would have assumed that "gay adult porn" were like any other porn, except involving gay adults.

It is a miracle that I am now a lawyer and that I have survived

Wow, I really couldn't put it any better myself.

Well after trawling through the heap of s*** that was the letter Jack is claiming was withheld from us (notice he always blame Dennis for not posting it rather than posting a link himself because he so desperately wants the attention), it reads like he pasted together every single "urgent press release" he ever wrote all rolled into one.

It also contains numerous spelling and grammatical errors, constant over emphasis of lines with italics and changes of fonts... I think my niece could have written it better. He quotes in bold a line by Howard Stern *twice* just to get peoples attention and the whole of the last two pages go on and on about god and Martin Luther King and at one stage even references Alice in Wonderland...

One of the amusing quotes is that he justifies sending in gay porn because, and I quote;

"Many people think 'gay adult porn' is naked men holding hands and kissing"

Just how stupid does he think the people he is talking to are? Not only that but he lies and claims that the material is directly on the site from his rival lawyer rather than a link stating "I got this obscenity off a Florida lawyer's web site where it was accessible, free of charge, to children". This is slander, plain and simple and I hope Norm Kent gets wind of that letter.

@Jack:

I realise that understanding the world around you can be a difficult thing, but how difficult is it to read this blog post?

"Here’s a quick survey of what some popular legal blogs are saying[...]" followed by links to five other blogs which Dennis did not write. Are these five other sites also misreporting? Are they in on the conspiracy? Are they secretly actually Dennis McCauley too?

Who is doing the misreporting here?

Wait, Jack actually said that a credit card system would keep kids out of the docket system? What a hypocritical sleaze.

A few things I noticed in his Ad Hoc rantings:

"I sent a letter on September 19 to
several law enforcement officials proving that this lawyer was criminally distributing obscenity through his official law firm web site."

Can anyone tell me if the National Gay News website that Norm Kent runs is an "official law firm" web site?

"Many people think that “gay adult porn” is naked men holding hands or kissing. It is not. The best evidence of that is, uh, the evidence."

How can you put such childish language in a letter regarding law?

"The Bar won’t touch this guy. He is officially an “untouchable” because the enemy of The Bar’s enemy is its friend. This is not even debatable. I have the proof. "

Referring to my first question, if indeed Mr Kent's web site is not an official law web site (and I highly doubt it is), why would the bar seek to prosecute him over it in the first place?

"the selective non-prosecution of my SLAPP Bar complainant who is committing criminal acts and which The Bar knows is committing criminal acts."

Reiterating lack of reason for the Bar to prosecute someone for running a website with nothing to do with the Bar or practice of law. Furthermore, I realise that gay porn may not be everyone's cup of tea, but is it actually a criminal act to link to an adult site from a site such as National Gay News?

"The porn lawyer has frantically removed from his site this obscene material. "

And thus removed any reason for Thompson to try and drag Mr. Kent into this silly lawsuit.

"I screwed up, like Flounder in Animal House."

A pretty bizarre reference for a legal document...

"When I went to law school, I dreamed of one day maybe even being a public official."

But when you didn't achieve that you tried in an incredibly ingracious manner to tarnish the reputation of the person who soundly defeated you, Janet Reno.

"tried to follow the path that God game me."

A freudian slip perhaps Jack?

" I have a right to be a fool, but I am a fool for Christ, and He has used
me because I know that my life is nothing but dirty rags. I am no better than the pornographer, but the difference is that I know it."

WTF? He has abused the right to be a fool and his life is "dirty rags" because he has made it that way. This is some of the strangest stuff I have ever seen written in a legal document.

"and about children who are being procured for sex through Internet sites."

Where did this come out of?

I suppose I shouldn't be too shocked, having seen some of the crazy religious talk that has filled some of his previous press releases/attempts at legal documents. I would hope that all of the people reading this, regardless of their religious beliefs see it for what it is: An attempt to shift blame by a desperate man at the bottom of a deep hole he has dug for himself through his own inexcusable behaviour.

If I were to insult people as he has, to flagrantly break so many rules of his profession, to ignore court mandates, and use the law as a club to try and push my morals onto others, I would like to think I could be man enough to own up to what I did. Still, that would involve being a man. As Jack himself has explained, he is merely a "fool for Christ". He sees himself as a passive tool being used by his God. How could you expect such a person to take responsibility for their actions? The people he tries to defend make me sick with their "video games made me do it" excuse. The only difference between him and they is that his excuse for his unlawful behaviour is "Christ made me do it."

Jack is an r-tard.

"Many people think that “gay adult porn” is naked men holding hands or kissing."

dot.

dot.

mother-fucking DOT.

'What has happened since I did what I did to prove The Bar’s duplicity and its outrageous protection of this assault upon the public square by a porn lawyer? The porn lawyer has frantically removed from his site this obscene material. Is that an admission of something? You bet it is.'

Uh... correct me if I'm wrong, but the images were NEVER ACTUALLY ON THE SITE YOU'RE BITCHING ABOUT. They were on sites that were *linked* to, and you willfully and deliberately travelled to those other sites, went through whatever verification process they may or may not have had, copied the images to your hard drive, and filed them.

'I inserted a huge warning on the second page of the letter that what followed were three sexually graphic images that this lawyer was disseminating to people of all ages by means of his law firm web site, which linked on its home page to his porn portal site. Anyone who turned the page had been warned with one-inch-high letters what was on the next page.'

Now, of course I never saw the site in question, or how the links were set up, or how the site the links went to was set up, so I don't know. But from what I heard they *were* marked as 'Adult'.

So, it's okay if *you* warn people there's porn afoot, but if anyone else tries it that's not good enough? It'd be nice if you toned down the whole double-standard thing, Jack...

@Austin Lewis

Oh, I think we already knew Jack knows precisely zero about the Constitution. If he did, he wouldn't have kept trying to make all those unconstitutional laws.

Thompson's career is over no doubt ;) .

@Jack Thompson

Get the fuck out of my state..

@GP. Yup. It's the usual bullshit letter alright. References to his work against the FCC, etc. He's even included a little picture of his book in it. Ain't it cute.

@ JT

Just because YOU wrote a letter in response does not make your problems go away. That would be like a convicted rapist writing a letter about how he didn't technically commit rape.


@ Dennis

I'm sure you're sick of hearing this now- but could you at least make a seperate JT section of the site and leave the main page for REAL topics where ADULTS are having MEANINGFUL discourse on said topics? JT topics are mostly about nothing or him defending himself.

Jack,

When will you get it through your thick skull? You're NOT being prosecuted by the Florida Bar for your beliefs. You are being prosecuted by the Florida Bar because you act like an outrageous asshat every time you file a court document by insulting and defaming fellow lawyers, judges, and other parties involved in the case.

LOL...plugging your book in a court filing! What a tool!

Who cares what he says now? He showed gay porn to a judge! He's become a punchline like Peewee Herman and Michael Jackson!

What I don't get is just how Jack thinks that possible wrong doing on Mr. Kent's part means that he is innocent for his own wrong doings. Doesn't Jack think its possible that perhaps they could BOTH get in trouble? The world is big enough for two lawyers to act unprofessionally at the same time.

Is it normal for lawyers to use the "I'm going to Heaven" defense?

Does anyone think Jack Thompson has lost his sanity?

OK, so I just finished reading the 11 page letter. In case you don't have enough time to go through it all, here is a summary. I'll try to be as nice as possible, even though it's getting harder and harder:

1). I’m really great and here is a list of reasons why.
2). Black people love me for getting Howard Stern off the air.
3). I wrote a book! Here’s a picture of it!
4). Everybody’s out to get me because I’m a Christian.
5). My opponent had links to gay porn (‘porn portal’) on his website and I was totally right to attach pictures of said gay porn to a court filing. But the judge is threatening ME.
6). My opponent should be the one going to jail, not me, but because the Bar is conspiring against me this is not the case.
7). The court asked me to show them this gay porn, but when I did they changed their minds. I am like Paul Revere, and I “screwed up” like Flounder from Animal House because I trusted the judge.
8). Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla. (The last three pages were so boring that I didn't read through them. It's typical Thompson rhetoric.)

This particular quote struck me as odd:

“The chances that children are paying for and logging onto the PACER system in order to surf federal court files, with no search engine to do so, looking for gay adult sex obscenity are between slim and none and Slim just left town.”

Did he… did he just paraphrase Ash from Army of Darkness?

John Bruce Thompson has *zero* effectiveness trying to be a lawyer...with a solid track record to prove it.

I'm happy to see that this thread doesn't already have 250 posts in it. Maybe people are finally starting to realize that we should just ignore this man (speaking for myself as well).

@Rachel:

I don't hate anyone. I love my friends and family, and everyone else is basically beyond all but the most basic respect that all people deserve. I am certainly no bigot.

I have a deep respect for anyone who has deeply held beliefs, especially ones that fly in the face of sanity, and promote bigotry and hatred, but I don't have any respect for those beliefs. It's similar to the Christian homophobic ideal of "Love the sinner, Hate the sin." I respect people, not dogmatic tripe from 2000+ years ago. Clear on that?

I think it's funny that on the internet it's the Christians that feel they're they ones that are constantly on the defense, when in the offline world it's those of us that are Atheists that are the ones persecuted. You call them ridiculous stereotypes, I call them accurate depictions of 90% of the zealots I've dealt with. The problem isn't with those of us that disagree with religious dogma, but those of you that can't take having your beliefs disagreed with.

"It is hard enough living in this world, always having to justify and explain something that is extremely personal to complete strangers. I don’t want to have to do it here."

Try being an Atheist or a Muslim. Christian beliefs for the most part aren't personal, they may be to you, but not to most. And those that don't find them to be privately held beliefs like to use them as a shield for every nasty action they commit, and as a spear to try and force everyone else to capitulate to their ideals.

The internet gives people a voice, one that they may not normally have elsewhere. I would suggest to you several options to your dislike of people criticisms of Christians:
1) Grow thicker skin. Just because you belong to a group being attacked doesn't mean you have to be a victim.
2) Ignore the post as ravings of a loon. I could be completely mental for all you know.
3) Change the stereotype. Show us that you're not the kind of person we're referring to, and that those bad experiences we've had aren't the norm.

And above all else. Unless you're aer being expressly referred to, assume that people aren't talking about you. You'll be a lot happier. Otherwise you'll be constantly upset at people like me, and there's a lot of use online.

@Black Manta:

There's no anger. Did my post seem that way? Many of my friends are or were Christian, and several of my family are devout Christians. They all understand that while I don't honor their beliefs doesn't mean that I hold any animosity to them as people.

I was simply using that statement as an analogy for Thompson. An irrational defense of an opinion, easily contradicted.

@kurisu7885

HL2 :)

@Rachel

I agree completely. I'm a Chirstian gamer myself and I've also noticed that there tends to be more than a few posts attacking Christians whenever a story like this comes out.

It does get hard to ignore it when it happens multiple times, in multiple posts. I like this site. I like the news here and I like keeping up with the things that get talked about here, I'm just tired of seeing my faith under attack by people who claim to be open minded but are, in reality, some of the biggest snobs arounds.

As to the story itself, Mr. Thompson doesn't really have a leg to stand on. He knew what he was doing had the potential to get him in trouble and he did it anyway. He wanted the drama this would bring, plain and simple.

Well, Jack, i have to admire your whole attitude towards this whole thing. You just can't accept defeat, can you? No, instead, you twist the truth and add your own lies to make it seem as if you somehow won. I guess, in your mind, we are all insane bags of shit who don't know what the hell we're talking about, and you're the knight in shining armor who's going to save the public from these TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE KILLER M RATED GAMES THAT MAKE OUR CHILDREN KILL PEOPLE AND DO TERRIBLE THINGS!!!! WE MUST STOP THEM MUHAHAHAHAHAAH!

Please. There is no "misinterpretation" going on here. Anyone who sees putting up gay porn on a court docket for everyone in the world to look at, including children, as a good thing is clearly not right in the head. I see the point you were trying to make, Jack, but you chose the COMPLETELY wrong way to go about making it. How you still have a license to practice law is beyond me. And I can't WAIT too see the day you lose it.

"1) Grow thicker skin. Just because you belong to a group being attacked doesn’t mean you have to be a victim.
2) Ignore the post as ravings of a loon. I could be completely mental for all you know.
3) Change the stereotype. Show us that you’re not the kind of person we’re referring to, and that those bad experiences we’ve had aren’t the"


4) Politely refer the person pushing the stereotype to the comments rules that come with posting in said site.

@HandofCrom

I take it that "this country" means The US? Not liable to comment if it does.

Quiz Law: He’ll Be Riding Six White Horses When He…

Best Line: Jack Thompson and Paul Revere: Two peas in a pod. American heroes. One warns that the British are coming, and the other distributes images of gay men c*****g. - Haha, thats easily the best one.

I'm heartened by the fact that the greater law community is well-aware of just how off his rocker Jack has fallen. I always worry that one of Jack's great strenghts is his obscurity, that his infantile antis are low enough under the radar of the rest of the world that they don't realize him for the basketcase he is. That prominent law industry sites are aware of and furthermore disdainful of his idiotic posturing ensures that when Jack finally does get disbarred, no one will be willing to represent him when he presses his attack as a private citizen and not as a lawyer.

Sit and spin, Jack. You're not going anywhere but down from here.

@ handofcrom

ok, you seem to generalize alot here. sure, there are some bad christains out there, just as there are bad everythings out there. but saying christians are treating people badly?.... ok there are tons of different types of christians, such as catholic, protastant, baptist and so on. you will always hear the worst, never the normal. why? because normal doesn't sell news papers or get hits on websites. but if it does I will be the first to start the:

www.people_who_do_nothing_to_people_who_are_different.com

it may seem long, but it may catch on.

@GP - nice rebuttal.

@JT - GPs right, your letter is crap. Chest beating, book plugging, and insulting to anyone who disagrees with you.

Also, men holding hands is gay porn? Put down the crack pipe, you've had enough.

Yep, I am pals with a few christians, and they are normal people (as oposed to me), as in: they don't expect me to become a warrior of god and they tend to call people who see themselves as warriors from god as a buch of money grabbing, belief abusing loonies.

@ HandofCrom:

I'll try to help out here a bit too. I for one don't necessarily think that our religion is any more under attack than other religions out there. The reason that some people probably think that (and it's reasonable from their point of view) is that there are several angry atheists who attack Christianity ad hominem over anything, generalizing a very diverse group of people with the mistakes of the past or of some of the more conservative groups. I think that ultimately what you're dealing with is such a diverse culture of Christianity that reacts differently depending on the group. And just to clarify, not all conservative Christian (read, fundamentalist) groups are bad. I'm sure there are many good ones. I, like you, apparently, have had bad experiences with some of the bad apples.

I'm speaking as a Christian who is choosing faith and ministry as a profession. My older sister, one of the greatest influences on me growing up, is an atheist. I'm not about to go over to her and ask her to repent and join my church or anything like that. I will, however, occasionally let her know she has an open invitation, as do anybody for my church (wherever that is. I'm still not sure where I belong yet). I have several friends who are agnostic or atheist. They respect where I'm coming from and I respect where they're coming from.

Unfortunately, there are cases of peer pressure where atheists will attack Christians on their beliefs and attempt to break them down. Christians do the same to atheists, I can guarantee that. I don't involve myself in such battles except to help build up the faith of believers. My denomination as an unspoken rule does not attack people of other faiths or belief structures, but instead calls them in to dialogue. We may not agree, but we'll talk and share ideas and hope to be enriched by the process, and that we are enriching the others in the discussion.

As for Christmas, I really don't give a damn about Christmas myself. It's an arbitrary date to celebrate the birth of Christ, when we have no idea when he was actually born. I personally choose to celebrate his birth through my life, not just in a once a year blowout. As it is, Christmas has been coopted from its original meeting by the extreme amount of commercialism that begins the moment we hit November 1st. Thanksgiving doesn't really exist in this culture except for a couple days of remembering that we have a really big meal to cook because it's overwhelmed by Christmas stuff. Is the "true meaning of Christmas" still hidden under all that? Sure, but it gives some of us Christians a sick stomach trying to sift through the holiday "bargains" to get to Christmas morning singing of the new hope of the world.

As far as taking the log out of our own eye, trust me. A lot of us are trying. We're committing to justice first, not to putting down others. Unfortunately, some groups and individuals think that their faith is another way of proving their superiority in the world rather than following Jesus' directive to serve one another.

"It’s almost impossible to get under Judge Jordan’s skin, but Jack Thompson has found out a way to do so — include graphic images of gay porn in his filings. This is no joke…"

If it's no joke, why do I find it hilarious.

Jack, your life is like a reality show without all the crying when people get send home, but with all the bitching and backstabbing. I'd rather see a documentary about you than watch the opening rounds of Idol.

@jadedcritic

Maybe it's not; but it makes a damn good vent.

I've been a reader of GamePolitics for some time, so I've become very familiar with this man. To be honest, it's really gotten to a point where I no longer find him offensive, so much as a ludicrous blowhard.

Advertising your book and claiming to have received divine salvation in a legal document? I suppose I should be baffled, possibly angered, but humor was all I found.

The worm has turned in the gay porn filing matter, kiddies. I provided the proof to Dennis McCauley. He refuses to share it.

GP:  yep, you've got the proof, alright. Totally brilliant work there...

If any documents in the case meet GP's editorial standard for significance worthy of publication, you'll see them on the front page, as always.

 

Y'know, I love that every time Jack comes on here posting about how 'Dennis won't release so-and-so document/link because it makes me look great!', he never actually posts it himself. Because every time it gives Dennis a chance to post the document/link, which makes Dennis look good and Jack look like a fool.

Yet he never learns, he never posts the links himself, he always leaves himself open to look foolish. It's like he sets himself up for it.

Every Jack Thompson story makes me wonder just a little bit more how it is that his wife ignores the fact that this man is out of his mind. I really hope that after his disbarment someone makes sure he receives the help that he obviously desperately needs.

The "backlash" to Christianity that surrounds many issues today is more about the "Culture Warriors" and less about the religion itself. These self-proclaimed "Warriors" are trying to re-create society, culture, science, art, etc. as they see fit, which is in-effect forcing their values (stemmed from faith) on EVERYONE.

While it is true that the vast majority of Christians aren't fighting this "Culture War", the few that are have been doing a good job at making the entire faith look bad.

I will be the first to agree that the anti-Culture Warriors should lay off lumping the entire faith in with these loonies. HOWEVER, Christians who do not like the backlash they are feeling perhaps should turn their ire to the Cultrue Warriors who are making the entire faith look bad.

@Mnementh2230

Jack Thomspon thinks that most people, like himself, have the first impression of what is "gay porn" is boy on boy kissing. Well at least "gay sex" his from what he sais was in the Bully game.

I was wondering, and if anyone has brought this up, forgive me, but if the court finds the pictures obscene, doesn't JT run the risk of prosecution for distributing obscene material?

The National Gay News reported the event with this article http://nationalgaynews.com/content/view/1742/

and here's what Jack Thompson wrote in the comments of said article

"This article is false and defamatory and thus libelous and actionable. I look forward to proving just that in a court of law.

Jack Thompson, Attorney"

Jack Thompson; the Paul Revere of the Gay Porn Industry.

"The Gays are coming, the Gays are coming!".

Wow, did anyone else think that Jack's explanation of the situation was a little stupid? I mean even for Jack it was pretty weak.

@ HandofCrom

Nice quote of Bluto from Animal House

@ Rich

Not only that, but one of the actresses in the movie, Martha Smith, is a Playboy Playmate(Miss July 1973).

@ Johnny

What's funny is Jack's comment is the only comment posted.

Black people do smell like watermelons.

bet hes banged a couple of nigger chicks in his time.

Jack Thompson: "Why did it have to be me?"
God: "What in my name are you doing here?"

Yes, that is REALLY uncalled for.

Using that kind of language here somewhat justifies some of what he says about us. Sure we sometimes swear in disbelief. Lord knows I've often thought, "Jesus Christ, just what the hell is he thinking?!" and wrote it in my comments on occasion.

But what you said is a definite racial slur, and I don't care what color of your skin is, a racial slur is never okay to use. We could go on about whether it's okay to use it when referring to yourself if you feel that it refers to yourself, but the fact of the matter is that we don't know the color of your skin and therefore we can't tell if you're being down right insulting, or just using your common everyday lingo.

So just like Imperialist Agenda said, "there's no need for that language."

Now moving on to John Bruce "DUUUUUURRRRRRRR MY NAME IS JACKY!" Thompson.

The guy has no supporters.

Flat out, he has no one on his side. The people he cites quotes from, the "research" he claims in his rants and tirades, even the people that have issues with the video game industry have all DISTANCED THEMSELVES from him!

And with good cause! He may be sane, but he's as dumb as a pile of bricks. And I say that not just because of his blatant ignorance of video games, the culture behind it, the history of video games...

...hell he knows JACK SQUAT about games period!

But the fact that he lacks knowledge of the practice of LAW, his bread and butter, and is willing to have his license taken away for him because he feels that will make him a martyr...

...THAT is sheer stupidity.

He doesn't listen to his peers, he doesn't listen to people who have tried talking sense with him, and he doesn't even listen to people who actually have agreed with him. He is on the way to ruin, and is oblivious to the fact that we are pretty much the only people who acknowledge him and recognize him.

Sure we recognize him to be an absolute tool, but even so, that's as far as he gets.

Discrediting MULTIPLE blogs about LAW, BY LAWYERS, that are read NATIONALLY just because they say things about him is not just idiotic...

...it's INCOMPETENT!

He NEVER learns from his mistakes. He NEVER EVER gets the point that what he is doing is trying to do things that are unconstitutional.

I have to imagine what his wife and son think about his behavior? Is he even still married? What does he family think about his single-minded campaign? Do they agree with him, or think that he's chasing windmills?

We know now that he's sane. But is he smart enough to realize the error of his ways and cease this lunacy? Personally, I think he has about as much of a chance as a snowball does in Hell.

He refuses to listen to judges, he refuses to listen to other lawyers, he refuses to listen to people that try and counter-point his arguments, he refuses to listen to people that are actually kind of sympathetic to his cause.

He has isolated himself in a dream world that he whole-heartedly believes. And as long as he continues down this path, he will be sad, pitiful, and lonely man.

When he loses his law license, I expect his wife to leave him and take their son with her (if she hasn't left him already). I expect him to be jailed for trying to sue the Florida and even Federal legal in what will be deemed a frivolous case. I expect David Walsh, Mr. Greenberg, Leland Yee, and everyone that he thinks are his friends to go "Jack who?". I expect that Jack will fall to lowest depths of humanity, clutching only his faith that he thinks he was right.


So a message to Jack:

Are you truly willing to cut all ties from everyone, lose your job, and sacrifice your livelihood all for the sake of a one-man crusade against video games?

Because if you are, I feel sorry for you. I truly do.

And when you are gone, we will forget you. Many who have no sympathy for you whatsoever will celebrate your fall. They will cheer and party, and relish your utter humiliation and defeat. Others will just shrug their shoulders and go, "Oh well... sucks to be him", and walk away.

In the end, everyone will forget about you. Maybe occasionally going, "Hey remember that one crazy lawyer that was against games? What's his name again?"

"I dunno."

That will become all you were ever be.

You are digging your own grave John Bruce Thompson. Digging it with a steamshovel.

~Otaku-Man

What I keep finding funny about this and so far most people have missed was that the oh so holy JT actually had to surf and look at these pics just to get them.

You know, if some of you think Christians are thin-skinned, I have to wonder what you think about the Muslims who blew their stacks over cartoons.

But hey, back on topic...

See, what I wonder about is that if JT is that seriously concerned about -- well, let's call it the 'coarsening of popular culture', that sounds good. If he's that worried, why not target:

1) Movies. They're releasing Saw IV this October. Gah. You'd think that franchise would be dead, but no...

2) Music: I don't care if some idiots declare it's their 'culture', gangsta rap is pretty damned offensive. I'm not asking for Fred Astaire here, but let's at LEAST shoot for not referring to your harem as 'ho's'.

And while we're at it, someone tell Britney Spears her 15 minutes are up. Kthxbai.

3) Television: There's a reason I don't watch a lot of TV (the only series I followed last year was Heroes). Same problem as movies, it's crap most of the time.

Why not tackle those mountains? Probably because JT lacks the intestinal fortitude to do so. Those are heavyweights, compared to video games, and could easily lean in and crush JT like an errant cockroach. So he hunts the easy target.

And yet this easy target refuses to lie down. Video game laws are 0 for 9 in the U.S. -- repeatedly struck down by judges who say 'Um, First Amendment says NO.' You'd think after 2-3 times he'd have gotten the hint.

It's funny, really. I lean libertarian/conservative (and it gets lonely in here sometimes. Cricket, cricket). And yet my view is the same as most posters here; you can't restrict games unless you plan to restrict all other creative media, and that's a violation of the First Amendment.

Now I just need to convert some of you to strict interpretation of the Second Amendment, and nobody will be taking ANYONE's games away. Heh heh heh.

--TR

hmmm... I have only partially read the letter linked to in Thompson's comment (he may have made another, but these Thompson comments get big quick so I mostly skim).

My thought on the matter, and this may change after reading the whole thing (but I doubt it) is that Thompson's defense in putting up those pictures goes something like this:

"All of the other lawyers hate me, and they do drugs. They also support gay people, which is evil. Since being gay is evil, gay pr0n is even worse. But you don't know what pr0n, see, so I have to show you that they actually found a way to engage in that sort of activity. See?"

My answer to this generalized summary is this: Yeah, nobody is that dumb. Everybody knows what goes on there. You don't need to display it. And especially, you don't need to put that in a public document so that EVERYBODY of EVERY AGE can see it. That's uncalled for.

I try as hard as I can to view JT as just another guy who believes strongly in his cause, but he just makes it so difficult. The closest I've come is with his interview on gT, but even there the only reason he was being semi-normal was (in my opinion) because he thought that they hated GP. Oh, and I love how everybody who agrees with him is "unbiased" and everybody with a diverging opinion is "against him". So, where are the people that are biased in his favor? I guess they don't exist... which I can't say I disagree with, actually, but not for the same reasons.

@OtakuMan:

I can't believe I'm quoting Doctor Who but when I saw the episode, the quote just fits him like a glove:

"You'll be just a footnote in the history books!"

... I don't remember the exact quote, but it fits quite aptly, don't you think?

you know when an atterny (spelling?) has gone bad:

1: He sends his son out to provoke people into doing illegal things not once but twice

2: He tries to re-write the law (The T2 parody thing)

3: When he gets mad at bloggers

4: when he deliberatly go's out to find "offensive" things in games just to be able to sue, like his statement that the SIMS was a murdering simulator and I believe that was also something about Sims 2 being an incest simulator... XD (maybe he's addicted to sueing people...)

5: When he sends GAY PORN to a judge... (yeh Jack... might have bitten off more than you can chew there.

Errrm, Hand of Crom, I always thought Pearl Harbour was bombed by the Japanese not the Germans........

You people are fools for even commenting on this idiot JT's rantings, He's a loony and would be best ignored until he goes away. You just encourage him.

Right, the Lazarus Experiment. That was a VERY good episode. I think I also read a line like that in the Doctor Who: Missing Adventures novel, "Evolution". It was a really good read, and had the 4th Doctor giving a similar line to a crooked Industrialist.

Still, if JT is Lazarus, does that make us the Doctor(s)?

:)

And no fears quoting Doctor Who. He's getting a lot more popular stateside these days! :) (thank you Sci-Fi channel and BBC America!)

~Otaku-Man

@OtakuMan - your rather long post was a good read. I commend you, good sir!

@ dav

HandofCrom was directly quoting a scene from the movie Animal House.

>shakes head

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Hah. Jack IS a "cold soul" who doesn't know victory or defeat. He wouldn't know defeat if it were staring him in the face!...Which it is.

Ya know, I was thinking - twice now, Jack has used his son to buy M-rated games to prove a point. Yet here, he acts differently. I only see two possibilities:

1) Jack make his son download the gay porn, to prove it's accessible to minors.

2) Jack knows the games aren't near as bad as he's saying, and didn't get his son involved in this one because of it.

#1 certainly seems more his style - screw the consequences, screw what damage he does to other people.

Ahahaha... so I read JTs letter. It's really sad to see how far he's deluded himself into believing his bullshit. I love how he credits himself for successfully removing the pornographic content, THAT WAS NEVER ON THE SITE IN THE FIRST PLACE! JT... you clicked an advertisement, likely a content based advertisement, that likely picked up the myriad of other porn sites you visit, and gave you advertisements relative to what they thought you'd like.

I really don't like Jack Thompson, that isn't a secret, especially to people who know me. He is constantly trying to destroy my favorite past time, and the career I have been steadily working toward for years now (video games). He tarnishes the reputation of my personal set of beliefs (Christianity) with very blatantly un-Christian worths and actions. He is one of the people which represents why the legal system is so convoluted and frustrating as it is. He also displays a very high level of what I'd guess could be megalomania and paranoia (mind you, without me having really any training to be able to give a real prognosis on that int he slightest). He's seemingly incredibly narcissistic. The man is mostly a source of humor for the gamer community, but also an annoyance which really just needs to learn to shut up. He gets far more publicity than he deserves, and unfortunately is quite adept at being able to get that publicity -- whether gaming sites like GamePolitics gives it to him, or the mass media does. He is actively seeking to get legislation written that puts a limit on everyone's freedoms in the USA, and believes he is completely justified to do so. The man just plain sickens me.

@JT

"The worm has turned in the gay porn filing matter, kiddies. I provided the proof to Dennis McCauley. He refuses to share it."

You mean like how you attached gay porn to a public document thereby distribution it to minors since they can have access to said public document? If Kent is guilty, then so are you. If Kent isn't guilty, you still are.

I just thought of this, even though I'm not sure how it'd apply XD "If the phallus doesn't fit, then you must acquit!"

Also, now that I've downloaded that letter, I have the address of (presumably) your office, email address, the email addresses of all those attorneys and judges, as well as your phone number?

Being a concerned citizen of a North American country, can I send you scores and scores and scores of all kinds of email about this issue and others?

Being that I'm a helpful kinda guy, perhaps I can go to all those gay porn sites and sign you up for their newsletters! Please let me know if this is something that you'd like me to do for you!

After reading that letter Dennis linked here I'm going to have to pull a page from high school when I would proof read and edit people's papers.

1) Point? Is there one? Language is unclear and subject matter is disjointed. Focus on one point and stick with it.

2) You strayed from the subject matter and started a monologue about your own life. Recommend full rewrite of letter with emphasis of staying on the subject at hand.

3) Total lack of professionalism or tack in the letter, and is more suited to an early writing project by a 5th grader. Recommend a refresher course in professional letter writing, or to dictate said letter to someone who can organize the structure and make it presentable.

Basically Jacko, if this was anything other than the 5th or 6th grade you'd have gotten a C- or worse had I graded it. Considering how expensive a legal degree is I'd suggest that you brush up on your basics first before you tackle retaking your whole college education.

Did JT just call the members of this site kiddies?
I'm positive the majority of posters here are of an age 25+
Grow up Jack, you are a grown man, act like one.

@Shoehorn's post


Gee, and I thought the rambling letters that Jack thought were such a sure shot to further his case that he chastised Dennis for being "too scared" to post them. Hey Jack, doesn't look like your plan worked. Well you have one more ace up you sleeve. Yes, the only answer is MORE GAY PORN!

Yeah, the worm did turn all right, but not in Jack's favor.

Jack's career is essentially on life support at this point.

@Coravin:

Or understand much of anything, for that matter...

@ shoehorn

he he he, karma's a bitch man, I'm telling you, he had this coming for a long time, and I'm pretty sure JT has officially sealed the deal for his disbarrment if he didn't do it already.

@shoehorn

nice find, I'm now rooting for jordan, the guy presiding over jacks future has realised what an asshole he is, very good news for everyone (except JT)

Threatening the Federal Courts? Check

Repeatedly violating procedures that are supposedly taught in Law School (or common sense)? Check.

I'm quite surprised that he hasn't got his license revoked yet.

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