What confuses me is, is he so stubborn that he simply refuses to admit fault, or is he really that stupid as to not understand how his (figurative) depictions of violence are no different than those he usually rails against?

Why don't we play a little turnaround here and forward this to the Florida State Police or the FBI? See how serious they take it, despite the "figuratively" warning?

@Questionmark

Well, it's stuff like this that make me think that Thompson will have a mental break down if disbarred, go on a shooting spree, shoot himself in the leg, then toss the gun to some teenage boy just so he can shout "That gamer did it!!! See he shot me and all these people, videogames make kids murder!!!"

While I admit that I may have a rather vivid imagination, reality is steadily catching up to it.

How can he possibly think any of this is a good idea?!?!

That's probably more of a rhetorical question because I just don't see anyway anybody, sane or no, can find a way to make JT's actions seem like a good idea. I imagine Brittney Spears would look at his antics and even she would quip "That dude is nuts!"

@ AUAJT member No. 2(aka MonkeyFace)

I hear you, opinion from a unbiased shrink is definitely needed!

I sent a message to the Florida Bureau of Investigations and the Florida Supreme court.
I seriously would not show up for work if I worked in the Florida Bar as long as he is around and that ispretty much what I told them. Just said I was worried for others saftey.



... but now that I think about it.. I'm a gamer and should have known better!
I don't care about other people! they are just fodder for me to shoot when I go on a shooting spree!

I didn't mean locked up as in prison. Criminals aren't the only ones locked up... believe me. I have visited a mental ward before.

@Jack Thompson:

Jack, I’m sure your parents deplore the nasty offspring which they’re responsible for, right?

...posted an Update (#4), new comment from JT...

Also - someone Dugg this story. Give it a Digg if you think it's worthy

@GoodRobotUs
You are right, I keep forgetting that.

He sure has the trolling "anything that happens or I do is a win" part down.

What about the "You have an hour to cease and desist" sue joke he made? Wasn't the contest creator just having a little "fun?"

Lol. Click on the Jack Thompson link and GB lists it in one of the articles. It's a hyperlink. That says "74-page monster".

@Chaplain99

Thanks, brother. (In Gamer Society VS Jack Thompson, we're all brothers/sisters.

Well, at least another news site printed the whole story
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/news/2008/03/12/wants_spitzer_suspend...

... um, ok? (and that was weird, when I first saw the story the bold tag hadn't been closed for some reason, and when I clicked on it I got a 404 not found... which while I wish all his stories would get 404'd, was kinda weird.)

Other than that I just don't know what to say anymore... well except "What's the f***ing holdup, Florida?!"

Aww... poor little wooden puppet lawyer can't handle the issues so he does them... how cute! Now someone go change his diapers.

Oh hey Jack, this is what you're going to look like when the bar's done with you: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/redbaerd/baloney.gif. Don't worry, it's 'figurative.'

Holy crap he's lost it for good now. I now hope someone federally presses charges against him for the threats. Even if they were made figuratively it c an still be construed as a threat like he construses everything critisizing him as a threat while everything from him according to him is not. Holy Hypocrisy Batman.

So essentially you back him into a cornor and prove he is an idiot, but the best he can do is go "LALALALALALA you're stupid LALALALALALALA" as he plugs his ears shut. This man begs to have an ironic end to his career, seriously. come on Karma, where are you?!

Hypocritical nutjob.

The image is of the "Atomic Bomb Dome", one of the few buildings to survive the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. See: http://www.richard-seaman.com/Travel/Japan/Hiroshima/AtomicDome/index.ht...

A quick google image search for "hiroshima" will garner you a copy of the image as the third hit via this site: http://students.umf.maine.edu/~donoghtp/Images.htm

The building jumped out at me because I just watched an episode of the History's Channel's "Cities of the Underworld" that showed it.

-b00ga

If his conversation with you is indicative of how he presents his cases in court, no wonder they don't want him back.

"If I had intended these people harm, I would have done that quite sometime ago."

I'm fairly certain that's a threat, indirectly.

I see Mr. Thompson subscribes to the "I reject your reality and substitute my own" theory.

Someone should CC Homeland Security. They LOVE investigating threats like that. Says you're "figuratively speaking" doesn't cut it until after they've done "processing" you...

Tonight on Dancing with the Stars, Jack Thompson and his tap dancing around GP's questions!

Poor JT. He just doesn't understand irony, or someone.

By the way, that's the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome.

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Travel/Japan/Hiroshima/AtomicDome/index.ht...

Thats right, JT thinks he's going to drop an atom bomb on the Florida Supreme Court and Bar. Yeah... very professional. Not.

He reminds me of the obnoxious schoolboy, but is "nice" around his parents.

This article (which I think really says a lot about Thompson's skewed mindset) made me sign up for Digg so I could submit it... >.O

i laughed at "That's not an answer to the question."

Nice one Dennis!

You played that one perfectly. Such a hypocrite that Jackhole, isn't he?

Looking at this mans past in the past articles about him at GP. It looks like he suffers from anti-social personality disorder. (It is also known as sociopathy.)

Can they take this as a threat?

So the gaming public can now threaten Jack Thompson in any manner we choose, so long as we include the the phrase "figuratively speaking" in the message. Awesome!!

"Below is what The Florida Bar will look like if [the Florida Supreme] court acts affirmatively on its show cause order, figuratively speaking, of course"

Yeah this statement figurative or not along with that picture can land Jack in more trouble seeing as how it can be considered a terrorist threat. Not saying JT is a terrorist mind you, I am just saying the remark along with the picture is a threat of terrorism.

If he gets disbarred, can we start to insult him freely?

@GP

They say turn about is fair play.

After all we are all speaking figuratively

and there isnt a threat because according to Jack Thompson

Uh, Dennis, I really think you have lost your mind. I’m not posting threats anonymously. If I had intended these people harm, I would have done that quite sometime ago. The notice to the court was sans the picture. Get a grip, Dennis. You’re so intent on destroying me that you have lost it. You understand what “figuratively” means, or don’t you? Stop bothering me.

using Figuratively does not imply a threat. so therefore Jack Thompson is not being threatened.

Any bets on how long it'll take Jack to get on Judge Lenard's bad side? Or how long 'til he files the inevitable motion to have her recused? Or how long before she tosses Jack and his lawsuit outta her court?

@Jack Thompson:

FYI, Jack, Judge Lenard was spotted entering the last monthly meeting of the National Association of People Out to Get Jack Thompson. You should just cut to the case and sue her, too. And, while your at it, demand her impeachment.

@JackDon'tKnowJack

I am betting he is already on Judge Lenard's Bad side. Recused? its comming tomorrow. Tosses Jack out of court? as soon as she finishes reading the motion, gets into the court room and sees Jacks face.

How would getting JT to need another (real) lawyer to sign his court docs result in the destruction of the bar?

To use images of Hiroshima, the sight of one of the worst atrocities in history, and a place where thousands and thousands of people died, in the context he just did while simultaneously supposedly trying to save the American public from the mass murderers in waiting (gamers) is just an incredible showing of hypocritical bullshit. Not to mention downright lack of civility, respect for the dead and basic human decency.

I swear to God this man has no shame. It's like there is nothing except anger flowing inside his minuscule brain.

Listen Jackhole. I KNOW you're reading. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

@ DarkTetsuya

"Other than that I just don’t know what to say anymore… well except “What’s the f***ing holdup, Florida?!“"

I ask myself that every time I click a JT article on GP the last two months and discover it's NOT the highly-anticipated "JT Disbarred, Claims Alien Conspiracy" article.

as much as i would love to make some "figurative" statements, it's still in our best interest to adhere to reality.

If Thompson's last few months were fiction, I'd just say it was stupid.

Knowing it's real, I have laughed out loud a few times lately while reading GP.

"You're boring, Dennis"... clearly the man just got owned.

Here's a threat for you:

I'm threatening my liver with a bottle of good Irish whiskey on the day JT gets disbarred.

:D

Wait, so when it's anonymous, it's not a threat, but since he attached his name to it, it's not a threat. What a wonder this guys logic is.

@~the1jeffy

Yes, we must all get roaringly drunk when said thing finally happens.

Dennis, it is your duty to commision a victory banner. And memorabilia.

You know for someone who loses constantly he sure makes some grandiose threats.

I sure hope you've forwarded all of this on to the Florida Bar. I think it's better to err on the side of caution. If Jack is planning to do harm to the occupants of that building we owe it to them and thier families to give them due warning.

Somehow I'm expecting a lot of photoshopped pictures of Jack Thompson's "figurative" demise in the near future.

Wow.

A couple things definitely need to happen:

1. Jack and someone else with a brain need to go on CNN, MSNBC, or any of the other news networks for a debate. The following painful hilarity will end up being Jack's "McCarthy Moment", after which no one in the media will listen to him.

2. He needs to be barred from practicing law. Disbarment is a good first step. Preferably, also a ban on filing in other states and Federal court should be enacted as well.

3. Using his filings as evidence, he should be ordered by the court into a state psychiatric facility. There, he can get the help he so obviously needs.

My $.02.

@Pixelantes Anonymous:

Jack can't stand annominity by those who disagree with him because it denies him the ability to employ his usual bag of dirty tricks against those he considers foes: calling your employer and making trouble for you at work, calling law enforcement and urging your arrest and prosecution, threatenting to sue or actually sueing you on some trumped-up, cockamamie theory, publicly maligning your character, etc., etc., etc. That's why Jack doesn't like it when folks have enough good sense not to identify themselves to him.

This is going to get intresting.

@JackDon'tKnowJack

Which is exactly why I never communicate with the douche with my real name.

I used to hunt down spammers up until a few years ago. Some of them are WAY nastier than Jackhole is, but employ much the same tactics he does. I learned how to protect myself then.

Not that Jackhole would ever actually win a suit against me, but I just don't need the distraction and trouble of defending myself against baseless crap from him or his ilk. And I definitely don't need him calling my employer, even if they laughed at his face (one spammer, from Russia no less, actually called my employer once...it was a lot of fun).

@Meleedragon27:

The answer to question has something to do with the Bar not wanting to invoke the kind of response from Jack which they're now seeing. They've know all along that any attempt to rid themselves of the embarrasment to the Bar that Jack's been for many years now was going to be a long and costly uphill battle. So, I suspect that all their cost-benefit analyses, until recently, have turned out the result that it's better to live with the cancer than to surgically excise it (figuratively speaking), the cost of suffering being less than the cost of surgery. But it now appears that the analysis isn't quite shaking out in Jack's favor anymore. Things done finally changed.

What a tit!

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y85/Tarnsyn/horsecrap.jpg

This is where he'll be squeezing himself out of, in the fetal position, naked and crying and screaming. Unfortunately, he's so bloated on ego, he might get stuck.

"Figuratively speaking."

Hahahaha! I know people are sick of this guy, but thanks for the updates anyway, as they're unfailingly entertaining. Man, what a 12-year-old.

Are there any repercussions to reporting this guy to homeland security? As in, will the "men in black" show up at my door to ask some followup questions?

I would love nothing more than to see this man "disappear" while in custody of the FBI and turn up 5 years later in a Serbian prison.

I would also like to mention that I am grateful for Jack Thompson's continued fight against video games. That's right, grateful! Jack Thompson is a jackass, he's largely incompetent, he doesn't check his facts (and doesn't care about facts anyway), and he's a media whore.

And he's the most recognized name in anti-gaming sentiment. Why am I grateful for Jack Thompson? Because with him in the spotlight, it's like the opposition is being represented by a drunken circus monkey. Gaming has never really been in much danger with Jack at the wheel.

What I said: HA! Ha ha ha, oh god... HA! HA! HA! ..I can't breathe, *snrk* HA! Ha ha ha ha!

What I thought: So, Dennis is insane now? How does he reach that conclusion? Jack is seriously flailing now. How does he expect to have any chance now? He is going to end up in a psyche ward, then lets see politicians and the media call him an expert. So long, Jack.

Don't you all see? He has to get himself disbarred, discredited, and disgraced by April so that he can reveal on time that the whole thing was just a two decade long April fools day prank. That's my leading theory on his increasingly wacky court filings, anyway.

I love how this man (and I use that term very loosey for JB) has an art for not answering questions that would prove his faulty logic and reasoning incorrect. Run around and around. Then insult the person who is trying to get a straight answer.

I'm beginning to suspect that Jack thinks Hollywood would pay dearly for the movie rights to his life story and all these recent shenanigans are nothing more than an attempt by Jack to increase the value of those rights by deliberating creating an extraordinary number of insanely comical and bewildering events in his life.

Who would play Jack? Michael Douglas did a remarkable job in Falling Down of capturing the essence of someone slowing devolving into insanity. Plus, there's a close resemblance. That's my first casting choice.

@JackDon'tKnowJack,

Jack Nicholson did a great impression of a lunatic as Joker in Batman. Besides they have the same name (except that Jackhole isn't really Jack, but John Bruce, but whatever).

My vote goes to Jack (N.)!

"of a streach" I ment to say, not "as a streach".

@MR.B:

You may have wanted to say "of a stretch." But it's all good. I knew what you meant and ain't got nothing but love for you.

It boggles my mind how JT can't see the similarities between a simplistic animated gif and his own threat.

Jack, if you're reading... take a hint:

The animated Gif file wasn't sent to you, and didn't explicitly threaten you... yet you took it as a threat.
The letter with the bombed out picture wasn't sent to the BAR, and says the threat is figurative... yet you don't see the similarities?

The hypocracy!

Yes Jack, saying 'figuratively' will stop the federal agents from breaking your door down, body slamming those inside to the floor as they are being cuffed, ripping apart everything while they look for explosives, and the charges of making a terrorist threat being levied against you. Best keep your front door open, otherwise they'll just blow the lock off... enjoy!

Very smart move JT. You just threatened a federal building with violence and terrorism. You essentially placed a bomb threat. No matter what you say around it. You just don't do that. It is the same thing as joking about having a bomb in the airport. It just is not done.

@mogbert

I have to agree with you. It's a shame that his rants and raves have gotten to this point.

You have to wonder what his family is doing about all of this. Are they supporting him? Do they feel that what he is doing is for the greater good? We know that he believes that, but this man seems to have no outside support with any of this.

It's so hard to take him at his word because everything that he tends to say about video games has been disproved. We laugh at him and find his rantings humorous, but something has to be seriously wrong in his head to keep digging this hole he's in deeper and deeper.

He previously said that by those sites taking down the animated gif of him being exploded, it was an admission of guilt.

If that is so, then his removal of the image from the document he actually sent to the Bar is an admission of his guilt of planning to blow up the florida bar.

Jack Thompson is a sick disgusting scumbag. A pathetic piece of shit. A worthless filth-ridden mound of feces in the shape of a person.

Figuratively, of course.

figuratively speaking, JT needs to check in to a mental health facility.

Jack is so pompous and full of himself, I'm expecting to wake up one day to hear that he has formed a new cult, proclaimed himself the next messiah, and is rallying people to his Christian-fascist banner.

Hmm, maybe we'll get lucky and JT will be disbarred and arrested for threatening the florida bar?

Anybody still have that Animated Gif? I'd like to see it edited to add in the words "Figuratively Speaking," at the end of the animation, and then see it start cropping up all over.

After all, it's not a threat if it says "Figuratively speaking," is it, Jack?

Here's that gif.

Now someone make the modification of this!
(I am to lazy to do it LOL)

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3082/1422/200/badassbuddy_com-jacktho...

I have neither the time or the know-how, but it would be great if the little guy at the end said, "Figuratively speaking."

@ squigs

That same shrink was handpicked by JT himself.
Then guess what, they belongs to same church as well (GASP!)

So it's no wonder he was declared as sane.

@Demontestament

That's at least the 2nd potential terrorist threat that Thompson's made. I remember him sending a letter to Take-Two on the 5th anniversary of 9/11 where he basically admitted that his attacks on Take-Two were helping the terrorists.

Test. My posts don't seem to be going through.

“If I had intended these people harm, I would have done that quite sometime ago.”

Yet trying to end people's careers and suing them onto the streets isn't harmful?

And his problem with anonymity, as has been stated, is that he hates it because he can't sue people into the poor house.

Remember when he demanded it be mandatory that anyone responding to him also post full real name, street address, phone number and email? It spoke volumes, basically showing he disregards anyone's safety but his own, so the bar should take this literally and likely will, knowing his unstable Thompson is.

I think when this pile of dung loses his license it should be made a national holiday.

"Anonymous United against JT member No. 1 Says:

March 7th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
@ squigs

That same shrink was handpicked by JT himself.
Then guess what, they belongs to same church as well (GASP!)"

Are you fricken kidding me? How about they get an unbiased shrink and run the test again!

Oh man figuratively speaking trolling season is open on JT's email.

Jack Thompson's been treating people like that for years, which is why he gets the same treatment in return by many. LURK MORE Devil's Advocate.

TL;DR DA is a troll.

From the Sup. Ct. docket for Jack's case:

03/03/2008 PETITION-PROHIBITION FILED AS RESPONDENT'S VERIFIED NONFRIVOLOUS PETITION FOR WRIT OF PROHIBITION, W/ATTACHMENT

03/03/2008 NOTICE FILED AS RESPONDENT'S NOTICE TO COURT, W/ATTACHMENTS

03/03/2008 NOTICE FILED AS RESPONDENT'S NOTICE TO COURT

03/03/2008 NOTICE FILED AS RESPONDENT'S NOTICE TO COURT

03/06/2008 NOTICE FILED AS RESPONDENT'S NOTICE TO COURT

@Jack Thompson:

How about instead of filing four documents in one day with the court, you save all your thoughts until the late afternoon and combine them in one document for filing? You may not have heard, but the Court is beginning to think that your numerous filing are excessive, frivolous, and abusive of the Court's time and resources.

And I'm not sure that simply including the word "nonfrivolous" in your document's title is enough to truly make it so.

All I have to say is the following, and to keep it short:

I'm not surprised at Jack's hypocrisy, nor his attempt to ignore the question/points.

Second, good work Dennis! His "it is ok for me, not you" attitude shines yet again...

Third, what we ALL have been saying for so long; Jack Thompson, you are the one that needs mental help. But that isn't going to happen until Jack admits to his destructive behavior, that it is hurting those he cares about, and wants to ACTUALLY fix it.

Forth, you're giving us lots of LOLS, Jack!

@ DA
Nice troll, if you don't consider that we treat other outspoken individuals and politicians with more respect because they don't do the kinds of things Jack says/does.

I sure don't remember State Sen. Leland Yee or Joe Lieberman acting the way Thompson has...

Ah, the Thompson-Double-Standard.

Threat against him, figurative from him.

I'm still trying to figure out how a bouquet of flowers and a letter is harassment though. Perhaps I'm not in tune with my inner egotistical lunatic.

@Pierre-Olivier:

Which is a strange response, considering that paperworking got him in trouble with the Supremes in the first place. But, to toot my own horn, I did predict that Thompson's response to a charge of filing too much rubbish with the court would be . . . yep, to file more rubbish with the court.

DA, I remember you from the LiveJournal days, and you know full well you are way over-simplifying the issue. You know as well as the rest of us older members the amount of times people asked Thompson a sensible, polite question and get a response along the lines of 'Because your frontal lobes are too fried to tell the difference, Duuuuhh! Are you on drugs or something?'.

Whilst yes, we are instantly dismissive of Jack now, please don't try and pretend that it wasn't a position he bought upon himself.

@Devil's Advocate:

Any response to Jack Thompson other than an instant dismissal calls the intelligence and sanity of the responder into question, as far as I'm concerned. See the EA's recent letter to Thompson for a good example of an appropriate response.

I don't know about you, but I make it a rule not to chitter-chat with folk who I'm certain are raving lunatics. I tried it before and found it to be a waste of my time. Trust me on this.

I emailed him.
I've been emailing for a bit.
Lemme share this last bit...
Here's what I sent him:

Here's your problem:
You immediately see gamers as basement dwellers who haven't seen the light
of day in many years. Idiots who crave for their next killing fix. I'm proud
to say I haven't played a game in the past month and I'm also proud that I
still consider myself a gamer. Perhaps if you acted a little more
open-minded and LISTENED to what we have to say, you'd see the light of
something you lost long ago? By that I speak of reason and logic.
What would your God say about such actions? I know you're a supposed
"religious" man, so I want an answer. Would He praise you? I seriously doubt
it. According to your beliefs, your God created man as equal. So what makes
you so much better than us? Absolutely nothing. In the long run, we're all
the exact same thing: human beings. While I agree that killing is indeed
wrong (as most would), gamers do not have this huge problem with society and
want to kill everyone. We want to be treated as equals in a society that is
unforgiving for being different.
If you want to rely on stereotypes to try and prove your nonexistent point,
go ahead. But just know that an entire subculture despises you and I hope
that helps you sleep at night.

P.S.
Smooth move with the bombing picture. The Bar DEFINITELY won't see that as a
threat.
Hahaha, sometimes I crack myself up.

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And his reply?


I have no earthly idea what you are talking about. You have no idea what
alleged stereotypes I adhere to. Sounds like you have swallowed a
stereotype of me by gamers.

How sad.


What the hell?
There is no "Jack Thompson" stereotype.
There is only a "Jack Thompson".

LOL*2, guess who showed up on the slate comments section?
http://fray.slate.com/discuss/members/jackthompson.aspx

http://fray.slate.com/discuss/forums/thread/948347.aspx?ArticleID=218596...
"It's fascinating that this reporter was allegedly with ABC News, which featured me on Nightline recently and did a wonderful job in doing so. I guess she forgot her journalistic skills when she left ABC."
Huh, "recent"? Their search engine sucks, and all results I see are fall of 2007 and older...

@Anon:

Thanks, LOL, too.

Sounds as if he's pulling a "I know you're there. Pick up. We need to talk. Call me back, then. We need to talk." on the Slate writer -- just like he did on Dennis McCauley. At least they're no man-love issues this time.

What a pathetic coward. I keep hoping JT will finally admit his various lies and hypocrisies and apologize for his childish behavior, but that's clearly a pipe dream. What a sniveling little waste of a man.

@Cattleprod:

Jack's pedals only go forward, never, ever backwards. Which, I think, explains why he so often pedals head-on into hard, immovable objects -- including more than his fair share of brick walls.

The funny part is that if some kid sent the same exact picture to someone else saying the same exact thing, Jack Thompson would probably use the violent video game card and claim it was a threat that was caused by the mind warping powers of video games.

Seriously....how sick of a person do you have to be to send a picture of a blown up building to someone, claim it as a threat pretty much, and then deny that its not a threat? If anything at all Jack Thompson proved that you don't have to play violent video games to be a genuine nutcase.

Crazydude lawsuits are more common than you expect. Here, an individual tried suing Google because it was constructed from his social security number:
http://news.justia.com/cases/featured/pennsylvania/pamdce/3:2007cv01677/...

9 Filings withn 1 day. Granted, about half of them were single page submissions, but in a very similar pattern to what you see in the Jack Thompson trial.

Apologies, but I feel the need to add this in.

Is it just me, or does this little "figurative" statement sounds like a TERRORIST threat. Of all the times he decides to say something offensive, and stupid as this. A time where terrorism is great.

Pure Genius, Jack.

I kinda have to disagree with the importance of this picture and what Thompson wrote. It is dark, tasteless, cynic, and utter nonsense. But then again, that's a lot like the humour in GTA we discussed on the same day.

However, what he does and the way he does it, it sure sort of disqualifies him as a lawyer in my book. It's simply not professional, but that I have come to expect of him by now. Chances are that it won't be very long, and will be a lawyer ... no more.

AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
that was priceless
what a twat
seriously he degredated his own image in that e-mail
AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Youre boring dennis

what a twat
>D

@Aliasalpha:

That, I think, is how the Jack Thompson story will ultimate end. He'll never go away. As long as there's a shred of attention out there to be had, you can count on Jack doing his level best to capture it in the most asinine of ways. That's just how Jack do Jack. He'll never change. What has and is and will change is his relevance. And once he becomes totally irrelevant -- which doesn't seem too far off in the future given the rate at which he's presently self-destructing -- who cares what he says and does? But don't think that ever he'll tire of being a laughing stock, tuck his tail between his legs, and slink off into obscurity, never to heard from again. That ain't gonna happen.

[...] figuratively speaking have we invented a cure for stupid yet? __________________ Alienware Aurora m9700 Notebook/Windows XP Media SP2/AMD Turion 64 Processor ML-44 2.4 GHz /Dual NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS 256MB in SLI/2GB RAM/Dual 160 GB 7200RPM Internal HDDs [...]

ok gp its time to admit that "jack thompson" is just a modern day take on moby dick . . . this whole thing has been a live action play and none of this is real (gp i presume is playing the role of ishmael) lol

JT has responded to the Slate article on their discussion board:

http://fray.slate.com/discuss/forums/2136967/ShowForum.aspx?ArticleID=21...

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How odd that this reporter can't pick up a phone and call me at 305-666-4366.

If she had, she would have learned that in fact the Florida Bar, which is the weirdest state bar ever, has been sued by me in US District Court, case no. 08-20565 for its wholesale violation of the speech rights no just of me but of other attorneys.

See, for example, what The Bar is doing to Broward Attorney Sean Conway at .

He's a liberal; I'm a conservative. The Bar is out to shut down anyone critical of any judge anywhere.

This violates the US Supreme Court ruling in Keller v. State Bar of California.

It's fascinating that this reporter was allegedly with ABC News, which featured me on Nightline recently and did a wonderful job in doing so. I guess she forgot her journalistic skills when she left ABC.

Jack Thompson

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One more thing

The US Supreme Court in Faretta guarantees the right of individuals to represent themselves. The Florida Supreme Court can't even figure THAT out.

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He figuratively took a huge, stanky, sh@t down his own throat. How are these "figurative" jokes thrillin' ya'?

JT:You’re so intent on destroying me that you have lost it

This made me LOL...It's not GamePolitics are gamers that are destroying you Mr. Thompson, it's your self.

JT:You’re so intent on destroying me that you have lost it

It can never be said enough times: EVERY SINGLE PERSON involved in the vast conspiracy against Jack Thompson wouldn't have given two shits about him if he hadn't gone out of his way to antagonize them. It's not the hornets' fault you threw rocks at their nest.

I'm just surprised that the proceedings against him haven't been moved up, given this new evidence of his instability.

I remember the days of GP's Livejournal. Given all of his insane antics since then, I suppose we should be thankful he never joined the police (or, God help us, the military).

Can someone please tell me how this man ever managed to pass any psych tests? I really cannot believe this man is sane. Before, I gave him the benefit of the doubt, however after seeing even more of the crazy shit he's pulling lately I just cannot not believe for a moment that this man is actually sane.

@Shadow Darkman

Thanks, I need constructive criticism for the sake of my night act.

Hmm.... I wonder if he would file a suit against you if you insulted him while he was insulting you...

If that happened, I feel the universe would collapse in on itself, and time would become purple.

At this point I can only see things ending one of three ways:

1) Jack gets disbarred and kills himself from the shock, or goes on a killing (or apparently bombing) spree that ends in his death one way or another.

2) He ends up in jail for attempting the above or for this not-threat threat.

3) He ends up in a sanitarium for attempting the above or for this not-threat threat (and others that may follow as he loses even more of his tenuous grip on reality).

This simply cannot end well for him anymore.

So wait, Jack never showed cause and now he's saying "You can't make me, I'll figuratively destroy you if you try"?

Damn. Jack should have just taken the censure and be done with it. Saying "Oh, YEAH?!" to the entire edifice of the legal system is just insanity.

@GetWellGamers

"Jack should have just taken the censure and be done with it."

True, he should've, but then if he did, he's not JT anymore.

"Check yourself into a mental health facility."

Hurray, professional maturity by Jack Thompson.

Wow... It's like he's daring them to revoke his license now. His actions since the Bar investigation have been like a petulant 14-year-old doing whatever he can to continue to garner attention.

@ DarkTetsuya

It's primarily for teh lulz.
I find his answers to ANYTHING up to par with anything Uwe Boll has churned out.
But I'd also like to actually get to know Jack Thompson: Attorney At Law.
If he's anything like Birdman, it'd be awesome.
Except Birdman kicks about 5000000x more ass than Jack can even hope to kick.
Mostly, lulz.

It's ironic that he picks this picture. The interpretation is that even after he bombs the florida bar, they will still be standing.

I know this is about 250 posts in, but I would like to thank you for Calling Jack out on this Dennis.

Ok, has the state of Florida become 'Land of the Idiots'?

In the most recent news I've heard from that state:

1) Legistators are trying to bring Creationism/Intelligent Design as part of curriculium of students. In addition, state that the Theory of Evolution, is just a theory (in layman's terms, not scientific, i.e. its a 'guess'). About few million have already be spent on this BS.

2) The democrats seem to have screwed up some sort of primary, mostly because some individuals did not learn how to vote from the 2000 and 2004 presidental elections.

3) No hurricanes of major note hit this last season. But I will take an educated guess, they have not learned from the past, when making new homes.

4) Jack Thompson, says he can make threats of destruction and terror, and should not be held accountable. BUT, if anyone threats even a hair on his head, he'll (insert legal function here).

So....maybe the citizens of florida could get 1/4 things correct, and disbar JT, THEN, place him in a court ordered mental hospital for a few years.

I'm speachless.

I know every time he does something crazy (that is, every time he does anything) we all say how he's lost it this time, but . . . he's lost it this time. He's a lunatic. He's a dangerous man (not in the way he thinks, though), and he's going to physically hurt somebody and soon. I hope the Florida Supreme Court sees this for what it is and takes the appropriate actions.

every time you think he hits the lowest point he manages to get even further down is he trying to dig all the way to h*** and/or the center of the planet he's on, since its not earth?
figuratively speaking, of course.

You know, I just read Jack's letter. The threat may not be of physical violence, but that letter IS A THREAT.

Jack,

Did it ever occur to you that making legal threats to members of a court is precisely why you're in such deep shit with the Florida Bar?

I thought Judge Tunis had until April 29th to render a verdict, meaning one could be made before then. So if he keeps with this he could get it taken sooner. Or am I just confused? I'm not up to snuff on all this legal mamma-jamma stuff.

@Ebonheart:
they have to 'patiently go “Hmm should we revoke his liceanse?”' unlike what JBT thinks. This is a serious and somber event they have to examin every legal and constitutional aspect of this. That means lots of thought, talking, research, and other work so that when he has his licence revoked or given some other punishment he has no reason to complain (aside from the obvious).
Im looking at it like this the longer it takes the more he screwed, because the longer it takes the more evedence against him piles up.

From now on, every game company should put a JT parody in and credit it as a "figurative representation".

@JackdontknowJack

I never knew his wife was on the commitee, that would explain a hell of a lot.

Though at some point someone has to go "Ok enough of the s***!"
The man is like that creepy, quiet kid you knew in HS that did something you could never imagine it would be. In fact can someone make a list of things he's done, or link to a list?

At the most recent update (3), just really hammers home his own total misunderstanding of personal responsibility.

"Someone apparently e-mailed Thompson with some rather disgusting “figurative” comments."

I didn't do it.

"Wait – it was you!"

This line is not needed. Without it, you have inflicted a Heroic Victory. With it, you have still won, but not as well.

It's pretty crazy that he always casts aspersions on people's mental health when they disagree with him..,

I mean, I guess I used to do that in primary school, as you get older/more educated I think most people come to realise it's in very bad taste, and just generally quite a lowest common denominator way to disagree/insult people.

Unless he actually thinks you're psychotic, and that's why you can't see sense. But if that's the case the way to raise the issue would be with tact... I mean you really shouldn't mock people for being mentally ill regardless of the situation.

What's next?

"You're just saying that because you're gay!"

Nuh-huh Jack!

"despite his string of historic legal firsts in this country"

correct me if i'm wrong here please, but what string? i know of one legal first, which was later overturned (thus making it somewhat void but i'll give it to him for the sake of argument)

really though, other then the first obscene ruling on an audio recording, what legal firsts did he ever have?

The following is copy & pasted from a note I made on my Facebook account:

..... seriously, I don't like JT Lawyerman, but in the past I've been loathe to call him insane. He has a very warped view of the Constitution and doesn't understand the difference between causation and correlation in statistics, but he's always done what he's believed to be right. No matter how much I (and every federal judge who's listened to him) may disagree with him, you can't deny he's doing what he thinks is right.

And then he does this, making me recant everything remotely nice I just said about him. "Figuratively speaking," of course, he directly said in a court document that the Florida Bar will look like the picture you see to the left. That's the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, one of the few buildings to survive the atomic bombing and still standing today as a reminder of the worthlessness of war.

His logic? "Figuratively speaking" automatically conveys that his statement was not a threat. This coming from a man who threatened to sue a couple of kids who had violent depictions of him in their AIM accounts. This coming from a man that believes that games like Grand Theft Auto and Postal are murder simulators. This coming from a man that threatened to sue the makers of Mortal Kombat for a fan mod (that is, a modification made by fans to the game's original programing) that included him as a playable character. This coming from a man who's verbally abused various news sources, rushed to the nearest news station to blame every recent school shooting on videogames, and who is routinely in trouble with various state bar associations and supreme courts for his actions in and out of court.

Now, he mentions that the Florida Bar Association should look like a bombed out building if the state supreme court acts on its show and cause order issued against him. By his logic, using the term "figuratively speaking" covers his ass. From his minimalistic understanding of the law, I can see how he could make that mistake. But from a sensible point of view, let me say this. What if a student said he was going to figuratively blow up his school? What if a disgruntled citizen said that he'd kill a major public official, just kidding lol!? What if some right-wing nut job called upon his friends to consider how much better the world would be if someone blew up abortion clinics, but winked immediately afterwards? What if a Klan grand wizard told a bunch of his associates that someone should really hang their problems out to dry, with air quotes?

I'll tell you what would happen. Each of those hypothetical people would more than likely be questioned, detained, and possibly arrested. This is not a matter of free speech, but of public safety. You won't find a bigger advocate of free speech than me, but there are limits to what can be said in society. Public safety trumps freedom of speech, which is why you can't yell fire in a public area or call on your associates to kill somebody without actually giving a direct order.

But, does JT really want to blow up the Florida Bar? Probably not, but common sense and fairness would dictate an investigation by state authorities into this matter. And, at the very least, the state bar association would look at this as an utterly inappropriate statement for an attorney to make. Lawyers have been disbarred before for saying much less than this, and I can honestly say that disbarment and possible prosecution would be the only appropriate courses of action here.

I'm not saying this as a bitter gamer, but as an American citizen. This type of crap has gone on too long. Now that JT's provided the final nail in his legal career, we should demand that Florida use the very tools that he's been so willing to provide. Disbar him already!

The irony in update 3 is just baffling.

Let's see if we get this straight:

Step 1) Jack isn't responsible for sending threats to the SCOFLA because he put "figuratively speaking" in the same sentence.
Step 2) Asshat e-mails Jack with threats using the same sentence.
Step 3) ??
Step 4) Dennis is responsible!

Being a cockbag is what that douchehole Jack Thompson does ; it doesn't make us look very good at all. It is kinda funny that he thinks Dennis did it though. What a spaz.

The thing that makes the videogames cause violence arguement so offensive to me is how it takes away personal responsibility, so don't try giving JT a free pass due to mental illness. The man (figuratively speaking) is a coward, plain and simple. He made a few mistakes starting well over a decade ago, and he could have gone on with his life and career by simply admitting to them.

However, as he's a coward lacking a single shred of integrity, he'd rather smear anyone who dares speak out against him, and turned what could've been a couple tiny missteps into a massive series of blunders that are now destroying his career.

Everything that's happening to JT now is his own fault. Looking back, I can understand why he's so opposed to the idea of personal responsibility.

I kinda hope this is the sentence the judge ends with at JT's disbarment, "Hypocrite, it's what's for dinner."

Dog Welder Says:

Step 3: Profit!

Jack, just stop it. You're hurting your image (if you ever had one).

i wouldnt be surprised if they sent him to jail (either for the threat or just plain old contempt of court)

I hope the BAR figuratively bends him over and does unspeakable figurative things to backside with a figurative pipe wrench.

Figuratively speaking, that is. All purely figurative.
Figuratively.

There, I've thrown so many "figurative"s in there he can't POSSIBLY take it as a threat, right?

"Dennis, I’m sure you deplore the [nasty e-mail], which you’re responsible, for, right?"

Does Jacko get paid by the comma or something?

Always trying to absolve himself of responsibility. No wonder he tried to get murderers off on the "games made me do it" defense.

Cat fight!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Benjamin

Nah, just do what he basically did when his modest proposal was met. make up a reason to not give it to him.

I've worked it out.

The amount of complaints against him by gamers has gotten so large that he realised he was in trouble, so he decided to destroy his own career first, so he can say "Ha! It wasn't you pixelantes that got me disbarred, it was ME!"

Jack's comments on Update 3.


Wow, Just...wow. I seriously want to E-mail him and give this guy a piece of my mind (In a mature, meaningful manner, of course) But that will just be a waste of time...

*coughs* http://aelon.net/2005/07/jack-thompson-straw-man/

Yeah, I don't know how you guys do that fancy stuff with hyper links (or italics, bold etc.) on GP comments. (10 bucks says I already know and I'm just not thinking)

*sigh* Jack, How can you blame him, eh? You're the one that started this. That nasty e-mail (Which I would love to see...) is all your doing.

@Repudiator:

it's just regular old html... just be sure to remember and close your tags, otherwise we'll have a dozen italic/bold entries and some trying to fix it.

@Repudiator

Thanks for the link. And, wow. I've never seen such a politely written letter to JT that offers useful advice which would have helped him with his goal.

Yet, because the writer is a gamer he wholeheartedly dismisses it. Not really surprising from what we know now, but if anyone else had received it they would have probably achieved their goal.

It really is just plain sad.

The man will never learn to just shut up. He just continues to dig himself a deeper hole.

@Dennis

Holy crap, dude. Good luck.

WTF is this guy on? Seriously, I think they make Puff's Magic Brownies* look like painkillers. That is, of course, if he's on any at all.

*Reference to "Bob And George" by Dave Anez (http://www.bobandgeorge.com)

Heh. This guy never answered the question. However, I think he needs some major help... He's never gonna learn it seems. Of course, if he did, he'd probably threaten himself with something stupid... Sheesh this guy is really gonna make a good lot of hell to raise... Sadly, i can see a riot starting up if Violence was taken from Video Games. Anyone else see that coming?