The thing about Thompson is that he makes the 'The Video Game Industry is finished Mwahahahaha!!!' comments, and then it turns out that this 'massive' victory is, at best, inconsequential, at worst, non-existent, so I tend to ignore them.

@pix

As I said, Jack probably thinks this is all their doing. Everything against him is one big conspiracy in his mind.

I'll be sure to watch gamehead tonight. This will be interesting. I am getting pretty tired of the physco going nuts on everyone.
Check this link out: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/trueneutral/Blog/JTCtrlAltDel.jpg

@Erik

I doubt those eggs are even laid yet

@ GRU

"Don't confuse the issue with the facts." Yep, sounds like a JT mtethod of thinking. Goes along with the, "If you can't fight any evidence, create it." Methodology of Mark Furman.

@Saint13

Hi-larity. You get an intertubes.

As for my take, I think the reason he's been so tight-lipped about this since Wednesday is because shit's not going his way. He's usually shouting from the mountaintops when he thinks he's winning, and doing so incessantly, and seriously, do you think a gag order would really stop him completely from talking about it?

Anyways, I'm off, gonna go watch a half of the Raptors and munch on my pizza.

@fake-JT
YOU WILL NEVER GET AWAY WITH THIS!, JACK THOMPSON!!!!!!!!!!
J/k :P

@GoodRobotUs
Then he should just stop what he is doing!!

I bet some worthless piece of evidence got suppressed. What a blowhard. We'll all find out soon enough, anyway. I hope that, even if he doesn't get disbarred, some news outlets will think twice before taking his word due to all of the contant ethical stuff looming over his head.

I fail to see how JT's disbarrment trial has anything to do with destroying the videogame industry.

Considering there hasn't been any details, there may be a gag order on the case.

Considering Jack took time to mail you during the case, he may be in violation of said gag order, putting yet another count among his dozens, if not hundreds, to be considered for his disbarment.

Except.. This one doesn't make me laugh..

I really hope that the judge doesn't wait until the 21st to post the judgment. I really hope that it happens today or at the latest Monday.

Here's to hoping.

PS: John Bruce sure is desperate for attention if he is going on Spike TV.

I've been waiting for the:

Dennypoo Sweetykins, can't you see that this is all part of my master plan? Soon Norm Kent will be in jail and video games will be illegal as a result of my disbarment case being overturned!

@EZK

Indeed, the first time I visited the site there was some kind of header banner about 'Motion Capture Porn' or the like O_o

"Things took quite a turn against the video game industry at Miami attorney Jack Thompson’s lawyer “disciplinary” trial yesterday [Tuesday]. Wonderful details will be disclosed publicly shortly."

Bless. Somehow I doubt the judge said, "Case dismissed, and as a result of your exemplary attitude you've been appointed the position of chief justice of the supreme court. And we've all chipped in and got you a unicorn."

Isn't the absolute best result for Jack basically saying that he's OK to continue practicing law? This case can't result in anything happening to the game industry.

Jack still doesn't quite seem to understand that it's not the video game industry that's prosecuting him here. It's the Florida Bar based on complaints from numerous lawyers (some of whom represented the video game companies) and judges. Oooo...Jack might have really zinged the video game industry in one of his filings.

How many times did he come here and boast about how some random filing of his just brought him the greatest victory ever in his suit against the Florida Bar? And what happened again in that trial?

Denied
Denied
Denied
Denied
Denied with prejudice
Denied
Denied
Denied
Etc.

I hope that Jack Thompson would not be able to mess with video games like he has before with all of his nonsense.

The way I read it, it's not an appearance by Jack on Spike TV; it's a recording of an interview from those "few weeks back" being shown now.

If he really IS on TV, live, at 1 in the morning... eh. Who cares. It'll just be the usual garbage. I'll just wait for it to be posted here or on YouTube.

@Gray17

and as you have pointed out he thinks its a conspiracy that means you are in on the conspiracy as you are trying to dismiss the conspiracy as not been a conspiracy which automatically means you are in the conspiracy

my head hurts...

Well he is the JACK!! He can do not wrong, even his shit comes out sealed against odor. Sorry I am having trouble typing this without laughter messing with my already bad spelling.

You know maybe he acutally believes his own line that God with send an angel or empower Him to overcome all the evil and deliver him from under harm.

Its kind of sad in a way. He thinks himself equal to the gaming industry, superior to the Florida Bar, and the weight of all the people that stand against him (if only in his own mind) just gives credance to his "calling". The truth is a bit more bleak if he could only remove his self imposed blindess to and see it. The only people that much care about his fate are gamers, parental watch groups (as a talking head) and a few game companies... Yes there are alot of gamers but only a tiny percentage are rabid about his demise. At best he might make an ofter overlooked footnote in some rarely read history book.

History tends to roll over self-important, under-educated, bigoted twits like him without a hickup.

@GryphonOsiris

Good analogy bro :)

Has JT actually been banned from posting again? I think i might have missed when that hapened.

It happened a few JT threads back, Scott. Someone had posted something that JT took as a death threat while Dennis was AFK, and tried to use it as a reason to sue for a million bucks. Jack got the banhammer for that, but has come back three or more times to continue to harass Dennis, including calling the Secret Service on him when someone else posted something that if taken the wrong way could have been a death threat on Hillary Clinton.

In other words, more of the same idiocy as always.

You mean the agreement that he's violated about 100 times in the past two months alone?

@ Zerodash

You fail that to understand that in 'Jack Thompson World, the third planet from the sun,' everyone is in cahoots to bring him down like some sort of giant monster than couldn't make it into a Godzilla film.

The Video Game Industry, Consumer Groups, all retailers, all the courts and all the law firms out there, the president, they're all 'in on it' to him.

In his mind, the Florida Bar practically IS the video game industry.

I love you Jack!!!! I NEED YOU! I NEED YOU TO EAT MAH BABIES!! I LOVEZ YOU! YOU PULL OUT LIES OUT OF YOUR ASS LIKE I EAT BABIES!!! WE ARE THE SAME!!1 KEI HITLER!!

I wonder if this guy will ever figure out that the problem is not the game industry trying to 'get' him, it's the fact he acted like a complete unprofessional ass in front of 2 separate judges? He just seems to want his conspiracy theory to be true so badly that he's totally blind to his own actions in this.

Are there any links to the court docs outlining the case against JT? Its my understanding this is about more than just Blank Rome & Bully- but a slew of things going back 20 years.

@Saint13

Excellent. You win Brownie.

Oh, it's getting so much better for us gamers!

@ Saint13

ROFL

You have captured the essense of JBT. Quick, bottle it, seal it and launch it into the sun.

If (when) Jacky gets disbarred, we might want to un-ban him from the site, or at least give him some thread where he can post. I would love to watch his lunatic ravings and laugh until my ribs shatter.

Problem is, he keeps threatening the ECA, the site, and Dennis with more litigation... keeping Jack banned helps keep the contact between JT and Dennis to a minimum, and puts more of a case against JT for cyberstalking each time he violates the ban.

Something to keep in mind is that Jack really has a problem with confusing him writing a letter or filing a motion with something concretely bad happening for his opponents. Perhaps, even given his horrendous record of this, he is simply assuming that what he's doing is going to work completely in his favor and judging the consequences for his opponents on that basis.

The "things taking a turn against the industry" very well could have been referring to him filing a motion for Judge Jordan to recuse himself, and just assumed Judge Jordan would and that it'd be horrible for the industry.

In his mind, the only possible reason a judge could have found against him in the first place is because that judge was biased. And without biased judges, no one could *possibly* have a case against him, as what he's doing is automatically right and in line with God's will (remember that he already has planned that if he loses his Bar license here, he's going to sue the Bar for violating his Civil Rights by persecuting him for Christian Activism, and is fully sure he'd win that case.)

@Boffo,

Thompson's accusations of bias always strike me as not too dissimilar to someone in criminal court complaining that the evidence will bias the jury....

Saint13:

Congratulations. You win the fudging INTERTUBES for making such extreme lulz! :D

I really wonder what those "wonderful details" were. Perhaps tere was truly something to tell but it was probably along the lines of the "Judgje Jordan called those pictures obscene!" kind of thing.

@ chris

it will most likely be on Gametrailers.com since gamehead is a partnership they have with spike or something. but all gamehead episodes are usually up on their site within 24 hours of the shows airing.

One thing's for sure either way: Jack Thompson will be actively and aggressively litigating these issues of professional licensure with either or all of the Florida Bar, the Florida Supreme Court, the State of Florida, Judges Tunis, Jordan, Friedman, and Moore, the Alabama Bar, and Dennis McCauley for the next 5, maybe 10, years.

[...] Source: Jack Thompson Trial Update …and Tivo Alert Bookmark it: [...]

Wait, "wonderful" for him or for the gaming community?

@Vladmire Triskavanski

Not really.

Look out, kiddies. I filed 27 motions today for Judge Jordan to recuse himself. He ruled against me, which proves his bias. And once I get every other judge in the state to recuse themselves, the Florida Bar will be doomed. Hooah. After I eat the Florida Bar for breakfast, I will have Take-Two and Rockstar for lunch, and Dennis McCauley for dinner. And George Bush will be so impressed with me that he'll make me a Supreme Court justice. And I can finally make videogames unconstitutional once and for all.

(The preceding was not actually made by Jack Thompson (attorney) but were a parody of said person.)

You know, in the past few years Jack's gone from "annoying and misinformed" to "lying and bombastic" to"crazy as fried bat-guano". I remember when he was a credible nemesis, now he's just like a mild itch on the industry's backside.

@ ChopperLink

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/20050808.jpg

That'll explain it.

@Finite,

It was pretty much the same story as what happened with the Rap-Music incidents involving him. We don't really see all of Jack Thompsons activities here, but this certainly seems to be his modus operandi. I've been here for years, and the rhetoric waxes and wanes (remember how to kept calling us E-Tards during the whole embarassing Gay Porn incident). I think, in part, the more pressure Jack feels under, the more the mask slips.

@Matriculated and others
Yeah, that sounds about right. It sounds like that watchdog group call the Parents Television Council whose goal is to make television "SUPER KIDDIE FRIENDLY!!". They want to be remembered as the watchdog group that got rid of violence, cussing, and sex on television (If it happens first, which it won't). I wish these people could just stop, but it won't happen.

The problem is that people like Jack Thompson don't know that America is about believing in what you want to believe in and what you like to do. Jack Thompson and other crazy "moral conservatives" want to make America into their own America. They think that America is about shaping the country and people to their idea fit.

It just started, and I must say, Hal has better hair than Spencer.

Ah, the APA report. Geoff brought up studies that found no link, and Jack says something to the effect of, "Well, not finding evidence of something doesn't mean that something isn't true/didn't happen," which, and I'm sure I'm breaking some rule here, GP, but it needs to be said, is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard come out of the mouth of someone who claims to have enough knowledge of the legal system to be a lawyer. Top 5, easily.

@Zero Beat:

What? :P

@DarkTetsuya

Yeah, that was pretty confusingly worded. Watching a close game of basketball at the same time does that to me sometimes.

Anyway, Jack brought up the APA report and said that there was an increase in agression in teens, etc. Geoff, the reporter for Spike TV, asked him what he thought about all the other studies that found no evidence of a link between agression and violent media, and Jack basically said that just because there's no evidence of a link doesn't mean that a link exists.

That could be true, but so far there are very, VERY few minors getting aggressive over violent videogames. But it is not the videogames themselves. It is usually because of parents not teaching their children how to deal with anger or parents that don't pay attention at their kids at all.

I wonder if Jack's whole defense to the bar is that game's are obviously evil and should be banned instead of actually replying to the charges against him. That would be the most hilarious thing ever, as it could only result in a psychological exam mandated for him, from a reputable psychiatrist of the Bar's choosing.

Now, I'm not a lawyer, and I don't want to help with Jack's defense, but wouldn't his best method be to site precedence for his ethics violations from other courts/trials? The Bible would not be included in this, since it is not the direct basis for US law (despite what Jack wishes). Perhaps he can even give reasons why he did the things he did to violate ethics, court rulings, and the like, again without saying "God made me do it"?

Still, I find it hard to believe that there are any precedents for the kinds of stunts he has pulled lately. I don't doubt that the Bar will come down hard on him. The question will be whether it is hard enough.

PS - First post. Hi, all.

I was VERY surprised that Jack Thompson ordered a copy of Manhunt 2. o_0

@ Ryno
The Psyche-Exam card is something they're not going to play, since Jack is a good enough liar to pass off as "sane" when he's not in court, or not talking about religion or games.
Either way, there's really nothing that can get him off the hook for acting unethical, since he's already made it known to the BAR itself that he believes they're out to get him because his litigation is motivated by his Christian faith. The law is the law, no excuses, and it's one thing to break a law once out of reflex- it's another thing to do it after you've been told far too many times NOT to. He's already knee-deep in legal crap because he's raised the ire of far too many people (some of them not necessarily in the same state, even), he's well known for his circus acts and frivolous lawsuits, and they know he's yet to actually mount a credible censorship offense- more importantly, anybody working in the legal system can easily recognize that he's the kind of person who is trying to redefine/misinterpret the First Amendment for his own purposes, and we've already got a nice backlog of religious groups trying to do the same thing.

@ Deathnote
Yes and no on Jack being civil. He CAN appear civil, but once somebody strips down his argument and sees what it really is, he gets very defensive- once someone makes a comment on him having no clue on what he's talking about, and implying he's a scaremonger? Then you get that news report with him calling the dude a jackass on TV in front of those people.

Tony,
The quote was originally from my post. Neoelasticman was quoting something I said. Didn't want him to catch any flak and me not take responsibility for having said it myself. :)

I doubt that, statistical proabilities taken into consideration, the "drop" would actually be of a significant, or even noticeable, value.

Indeed, John Bruce didn't point out another important Fact: with legalized gay marriage comes certain other legalizations which may or may not have been in place before. Notably, the legalization of gay couples fostering/adopting children. While I don't have such statistics handy, and not sure if they exist, I'll put a significant wager that legalized gay marriage would INCREASE the number of children being placed into good homes versus the number of conceptions DECREASING due to... how shall we say it... "forced" marriages that produced children as you suggest.

No, it's not an exact comparison, but the number of couples "having" children (through conception OR placement) is fairly decent of a match.

So, I'd call that one a 1 quarter Truth at BEST.

Nightwng2000
NW2K Software

Well, that's what his son gets. If you're the kid of a lunatic like Jack Thompson, the gamers will whip your ass on a daily basis in order to send a message.

Jeez, haven't you guys ever tortured someone for information/complience? The kids are a great soft spot. All the electrified sponges in the world would add up to a good pop in the mouth to an only child. Heck it's rule #1 in the world domination handbook. "If you have enemies, hit em where it hurts." High school is hard for everyone. Who hasn't been embarassed of their parents once through out high school. Jack Thompson is the alchoholic step dad that comes to pick you up then rear ends a bus in the parking lot and throws up on your principal's shoes.

Regardless of my opinion of Jack, and I really don't have a good opinion of Jack, I don't hold any vehemence towards him or his family, I disagree strongly, and I find him offensive, but if I started hating him back, I'd have dropped to his level.

Agreed, GoodRobot.

Hey Jack, and others check this out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiT2cbyRtAI

Did anyone actually see the Gamehead video? I was on the road from 8-midnight, PCT, so I missed it; the show's site doesn't seem to have any footage of it, either.

@halofantasy1

About the only TV appearance he hasn't spoke of since is his G4 appearance.

I ment @Vansau

Aha... it's after the thing on motion-capture porn.

...

^ Like always, it doesn't exist.

^ Ongoing:
Jack: you can't fire me, I was sent here by God!!!!
Manager: Really?! God told me to fire you this morning!!
LOL :P

I am assuming the trial part is over and now the decision waits on that December 21st "deadline".

It seems curious "sweetie" isn't spamming out victory pronouncements. I bet he's pissed because the current big topic in the games community isn't about him...unless he wants to claim Jeff Gerstman is a fellow whistleblower on the industry. :)

Yeah, Zero, i kinda mentioned already that he was banned multiple times. However, seeing as this week he actually has to WORK (something he hasn't done in quite some time) he probably has little time to post here.

Not to mention that he probably heard about that hostage situation at a Hillary campaign HQ in New Hampshire on friday, and he'd probably baselessly link it to that 'threat' posted on this site several weeks ago that he got up in arms about.

Did you guys hear about that? Hillary wasn't even in the state at the time, btw, it was just a place where the campaign HQ was.

yeah but if he violates the gag order dennis can just forward what he says to the courts directly =]

Yay, I just learned that NZ has its very on JT (no shit: his name is John Terris). He even has a few similar tricks, like linking the VT shootings with video games.

Heres there site:
http://www.viewers.org.nz/index.html

Usual stuff (our precious kiddies brains are being eaten by evil tv etc.), the bit about the VT shootings was in a newspaper not the site.

That.
Video.
PWNS!!