Hmmm.... Time for plan M, or maybe it's N now?

There's no way Jacko will be able to control himself and not file something with the court. Contempt of court charges here we come. Of course that will just give him more ammo to paint himself as a victim but it would still be nice to see.

@GoodRobotUs:

Depending on who his cellmates are, he may end up going down on something more than a martyr.

Not unexpected at all.

Too bad it only applies to the Florida Supreme Court, and not any sub-courts... Oh well. It's a start. ;)

@mogbert

"This pretty much shows the court doesn’t feel he is a qualified counsel. If he is not qulaified, how can they keep him on the bar?"

Because it's not up to the Florida Supreme Court. Disbarment is handled by the Bar, not the court. They are, however, allowed to be quoted as an "authority" when it comes to determining if he is qualified to be a lawyer.

"That means, about 2:30 PM, you can expect him to file a Rehearing Motion, stating that he can file it because this sanction wasn’t finalized yet."

He can file it. It's a "final chance" to state his case. However, they are free to reject the motion (see the determined catch), which would finalize the order...

@JackDon'tKnowJack

I suppose. The disbarment is essentially the Bar suing JT for "breach of contract" (breach of the rules he agreed to abide to when he got his license).

So the judges do have authority to "rule in favour of" the plaintiff (the Bar)...

Once again Thompson, make the courts job easier and just bend the fuck over!

OBJECTION!! Objection!! Judge, I object on the grounds that there is a conspira--

Overruled!! Sit down, Mr Thompson! And please stop sending me naked pictures of your boyfriend.

Jack, as predicted, has filed his motion for re-hearing:

http://jaablog.jaablaw.com/2008/03/20/supreme-court-sick-of-jack-thompso...

For his part, Thompson has sent out an e-mail describing the Supreme Court’s order as both “good news” and “idiotic.”

I'd like John Bruce to get comment privileges for this one topic as I'd like to know how the hell this is possibly "good news".

You know what is the absolute best part of all this? Jacko posted a few things over on JAABlog, and here's the jewel.

""And by the way, Jackdon'tknowjack, you stated in a post at Gamepolitics.com that I contact victims after school shootings. I never do that. I am going to find out who you are and sue you for that."

Oh ho ho, better watch out Jackdon'tknowjack! A guy who can't file anything to the court is going to sue you! What's next? He's going to shoot you with an unloaded gun?

Ah, Jack, you're too good. In a community so fractured and divided, only you could bring us all together, side by side.

He does not give me somehow so that IV the smallest chances to hold back to have the premiere Gta

Good move, Florida, good move.

Mr. Thompson, you cannot blame anyone else but yourself.

@x(wai)x, I think you mean a disturbance in the Farce! ;)

That's the most wonderful thing I've ever heard from the gaming press :D

the funny thing is this could hae been easily avoided by him, the reason he got sanctioned is not for the fact that his filing are asinine but for the reason that he sends 14 when 1 will do the trick, for example, he is given 14 days to show cause, and he sends them files on days 2,4,5,7,8,10, and 13, had he instead held off on filing until day 13 or 14, and filed them all as one huge file (not so huge as most of the filing all state the same thing) this wouldn't have happened to him he has nobody to blame for this but himself

JB wins this thread for clairvoyance.

@GoliathWins

"I’m assuming he sent out a press release to all known media to make sure everyone knows about this.

Right?"

And likely claim that this is what he wanted and the Florida Bar has shot themselves in the foot.

When you're delusional, you'll never bored.

I almost want him to be unbanned. What can he possibly say now?

*giggles*

crash and burn baby. crash and burn.

@x(Wai)x

Possibly the best play on that quote I've heard yet. Beautiful, just beautiful.

ohh...

I can see Thompson at the Clerk of the Courts office:

*waving fingers back and forth* I'm not the lawyer you think I am, I'm not the lawyer you think I am

Clerk: Sorry Mr. Thompson, I'm not accepting that

JT: !#$%!%!#

Finally, my prayers have been answered!

Ah, the first step towards the public neutering of Mr Thompson :)

@Rey

That's exactly what I was singing when I saw that.

But the Bar trial will probably continue, as this sanction was decided a month ago (though I don't know much about Florida laws, so I could be wrong).

This could be VERY interesting.

Obviously the Florida supreme court is conspiring with the Florida Bar Association and the video game industry.

HAHAHAHA!

Classic. Beautiful. I can't wait to see him flail impotently at this one.

I think my heart just stopped.......

(deep breath) AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA

The system works. I'm so pleased. Setting aside his agenda, the one thing I've never liked about the guy is he's a bully. Seemed to feel like the legal system was his own personal implement to bludgeon people with who don't share his belief. Maybe I'm not a lawyer, but I read that to basically say the legal version of "We warned you. SHUT UP."

The system works!

[...] I just read on the Game Politics blog that the Florida Supreme Court has implemented sanctions against notorious anti-games attorney Jack "Murder Simulator" Thompson : The Florida Supreme Court will no longer accept anything directly from controversial Miami attorney Jack Thompson. If Thompson wants to file with the Court, he’s going to need to hire another lawyer to do it on his behalf. [...]

I read the document, and here's what I took away from it: The Florida Supreme Court agrees that Jack is a shitty lawyer.

"The order issued by the Court may be found here"

“For his part, Thompson has sent out an e-mail describing the Supreme Court’s order as both “good news” and “idiotic.”


You know the more that Jack is losing the better he thinks he is doing. Just for once I'd like Jack to realize, "Oh hell, I'm boned."

This is great news. Not the best news (that of his disbarment), but good all the same. Now that they have told him in plain language why his filings were intolerable, maybe he will have the time to reflect on them and realise what an idiot he has been. In all seriousness, how could a grown man think that petty insults, accusations of conspiracy, pornographic material and the infamous "picture book for adults" were good ideas?

I think most, if not all people learn at some point in their lives that sometimes there are things that should not be said. Conversations where things said too hastily in anger or frustration cause the loss of friendship, respect, or even have repercussions on one's professional life. Things we say that we wish we could take back and this time, think before saying. That's in the spur of the moment however. This man rattled off his letters, "media alerts", "responses", motions, etc. without a single thought as to whether what he was saying was a good idea or not, and it has cost him dearly.

Abraham Lincoln was said to have wrote letters in anger. Mean, spiteful an insulting letters, but he never sent them. As he wrote, he mulled over his words and ultimately decided against sending them, perhaps instead, having "exorcised" the angry words and getting them out, he was able to reflect without the initial anger and compose more suitable messages. If only Jack had picked this historical figure to compare himself to (as opposed to Paul Revere, Jesus, Batman, Martin Luther King, etc.), he may not have ended up in his current pitiful state.

Grr, first sentence of last paragraph should say "written" instead of "wrote".

My kingdom for an edit function GP!

[...] Florida Supreme Court to Jack Thompson: "STFU" Filed under: Game Industry, Game Politics, Jack Thompson, off topic — Takuan Daikon @ 4:58 pm I just read on the Game Politics blog that the Florida Supreme Court has implemented sanctions against notorious anti-games attorney Jack “Murder Simulator” Thompson : The Florida Supreme Court will no longer accept anything directly from controversial Miami attorney Jack Thompson. If Thompson wants to file with the Court, he’s going to need to hire another lawyer to do it on his behalf. [...]

@Shadow Darkman,

We should keep base camp anyways, because JT could use other venues to be heard.

i am very interested in how this will turn out.

This is a victory for the Florida legal system, yes, but for JT it's only an obstacle. Remember his wife is a lawyer, and while we know she's sane and has good standing in the legal community, we don't know if she's also willing to throw it all away for him.

I doubt it because she's got a long list of honors and is part of a good firm, but you never know.

The beginning of the end for Jackie T?

I sure hope so.

Sweet sweet victory! Now maybe all the news shows will stop asking him to spew out piles of crap anytime there is something about video games worth reporting.

I wonder if this will cause him problems. While he knows other lawyers, I'm sure he is only on friendly terms with some of them. The court has already spoken out on this matter, so he will either need to stop sending them, or try and get someone to sign them for him. But that carries the danger that whoever signs for him will also face contempt charges unless they are reasonable filings. That would mean that just about anyone he approaches to sign it for him will likely turn him down. This could cause him to feel isolated or friendless.

What happens then depends on his reality distortion field. He will either feel as if everyone in the world is holding him dear in their heart, or he will possibly lash out at a world that has rejected him, likely in a long and rambling press release.

Note: I purposefully didn't name any relations in this post.

ON NO!!!

This is EXACTLY what Jack Thompson wanted!! Now the florida bar is his to destroy!!!

This is exactly the good news jack was looking for.

Meanwhile, on planet Earth, the rest us raise our glasses to the Florida Bar.

It kind of scares me that JT is shouting victory at this decision, but only until I think of him eventually divorced, alone and forgotten behind the base board of a soiled bathroom in a mental institution....

This is a beautiful day....*cry*....

@JDKJ

I think that's what he's aiming for, if he can't win, then he'll go down a 'martyr' to the evils of the gaming industry in his own eyes.

Is it sad that I can see Jack going as far as the supreme court to try to argue his case that the Florida Bar is conspiring against him?

@JB
Nicely put :D

This might be one small step to devastate JT, yet it's a step never the less.
Sooner or later, he will lose more, and the day will come when we all can celebrate his disbarment.

I'm wondering if his wife will "risk" her career for her beloved looney husband.
Honestly I'm quite surprised that she hasn't ditched him already...

brb, going to go put "Hit the Road Jack" on my iPod.

@E. Zachary Knight:

Jack'll have to search the pyschiatric wards of Jackson Memorial to find an attorney who'll sign one of those "picture books" at any price.

I can see it now... Thompson goading his wife into signing his filings. :D

@mogbert:

2:30? Could be in the Clerk's office already.

@JackDon'tKnowJack

That gives him enough time to file at least 5 motions

Jack Thompson's reign of terror is coming to a close, at last.

Jack's career is good as over. Nobody would risk their reputation helping him out by being his delivery boy.

@E. Zachary Knight

Even if they care more about money, the order still says that it's a FLORIDA BAR MEMBER who has to sign. After insulting every member and the bar itself for years, I doubt he'd be able to find anyone who will accept to sign everything from him.

He sees this as 'good news'? He MUST be trying to immitate Hubert Farnsworth to 'dumb his speech down to the retards in the cloacks' or something, otherwise, HOW COULD THIS BE GOOD NEWS AT ALL FOR HIM?

@ EZK

Mr. Kent should be able to clear up the chances of JT having someone else file for him. Maybe he'll post to clear up the confusion.

So, any running bets on how many lawyers ole John Bruce will go through by the time this whole ordeal is over with?

@ EZK

I'm going with zero.

If he gets another lawyer to file for him it will destroy his conspiracy agenda.

@EZK

I'm going with zero too. JT's pretty well known, I can't see anyone wanting to risk their careers (or sanity) dealing with him.

Plus he'd probably insist on Pro-Bono, seeing as how he hates handing out money (see the Junkin article about how JT thought a 10% cut for co-counsel was "outrageous").

Best he might get is a law-student, working the Pro Bono track, at most they'd give him one chance before getting tired of his constant nagging and harassment...

I'm not saying that Jack won't find an attorney to represent him before the Supremes. As EZK says, for the right price, that's an easy do. What he'll never find is an attorney stupid enough to rubber stamp the kind of pleadings he's been filing with the Supremes. Because any attorney with half a brain will realize that do so will only land them in same kind of hot water that Jack's in, and I can't see a sane attorney wanting to do that at any price.

@KpC:

Just the Florida Supreme Court. But give him time. He'll work his way around to the others.

@JackDon'tKnowJack:

Ah, thanks. And you're probably right about the other courts!

But did he compare himself to Paul Revere this time?

Someone should probably explain to him that the difference is, when Paul Revere was screaming drunkenly about an invading threat, that threat actually existed.

@KpC

Sounds like just the Florida Supreme Court, where his disbarment cases are currently in "review".

So he could presumably still flood the lower courts, and he could still file federally (although he has insisted he will, the last time he did the court denied him and said to let the Florida court finish first...)

And he can't file outside his jurisdiction without some other lawyer, or getting Pro Hac Vice (and I'm sure they wouldn't grant it if he was in the middle of a disbarment hearing...)

I was thinking about Jack this morning, before I saw this. More specifically, I was thinking about his wife. I find myself wondering what kind of person she is. From the little I know, she's a successful attorney, but I wonder about her personally. for instance, how involved is she in Jack's Crusade? We never see or her from her, so I would suspect she's busy with her own work. I wonder though, if she ever says, "Jack, you're on the verge of disbarment. Stop and think for a minute about what you are doing."
I have the good fortune to be married to a wonderful woman who is willing to support me, but who isn't afraid to call me out when I'm wrong. I was thinking about her this morning, and about what kind of woman is married to Jack Thompson, and how this affects her life.
Maybe she doesn't pay as much attention. Maybe she really believes in him and is pushing him on. Maybe she is telling him to stop, to try to save a sinking ship. Maybe he's been trying to hide all this from her, which, while unlikely, screams sitcom to me. Like I said, I know she's an attorney, and that's about it. It was just a thought I had this morning.

Personally, i think the only way he can grab media attention in the court room is when we hear:

JT: OBJECTION!
Judge: Overruled
JT: OBJECTION!
Judge: Overruled
JT: OBJECTION!
Judge: Overruled
JT: WELL YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT I SAY TO THAT!? *turns around and drops drawers and starts smacking bottom at the judge* KISS IT!

I can't speak for the next guy, but if I'm given a choice between a wife and a $1,000,000 a year income, I'm going for the bucks every time. And then buying me a new wife. But that's just me.

Did anyone else get the feeling that the world is a better place when they woke up this morning? After reading this I know why.

A Toast lads and lasses, to the beginning of the end!

Cheers mates!


Mind you, I'm saving my bottle of fine Irish Whiskey for his disbarment announcement.

Awwww, c'mon! "Thompson’s continued inability to maintain a minimum standard of decorum and respect for the judicial system" is the best thing about the man! Do we really want him to be replaced by a game-censorship advocate who DOESN'T alienate everybody he meets? Heavens!

And Jack's not flying completely solo, it appears. He's already got a co-counsel in the disciplinary proceedings. Isn't one of his smoke-screens that the Bar and Judge Tunis illegally stole his co-counsel's medical records? He tried to argue that point on behalf of his co-counsel at his hearing and Judge Tunis had to remind that he was his co-counsel's client, not his attorney.

So, any running bets on how many lawyers ole John Bruce will go through by the time this whole ordeal is over with?
-----------------------------------------------

Knowing him he already has attorneys lined up. Can't stop looking like a fool just because some "court" says he can't file any longer... Knowwhaddamean?

Jack = Epic Phail

@ Anonymous United against JT member No. 1 (aka Prometheus)

I'm going to stick with the averages and keep to my zero with his wife in mind when it comes to filing.

She's kept out of JT's business throughout all of his shinanagans and I don't see why that would change now. I'd be more inclined to believe that he'd get a buddy from church to help him out more than his wife. Not to mention she has a lucrative law career. How can she be the bread winner if she takes time away to file stuff for JT pro bono?

Maybe we should leave family out the discussion.

[...] Jack Thompson is OVERRULED! Florida Supreme Court lays down the sanction! March 20th, 2008 | Category: Gaming News GamePolitics has just released some breaking news about game hating attorney Jack Thompson. Following the Florida Supreme Court’s complaint about Jack’s frivolous and duration wasting suit filings, it has just come to pass that the silver-haired enemy of videogames got smacked down with sanctions effectively hampering his ability to waste court duration. [...]

Retro:

I don't really know anything about her either, but I imagine her a saint.

When you ask a wife to do something for you, she may smile and nod her head... but there is no such thing as 'pro bono.' :D

But seriously, speculation about Jack's family is nothing wrong, so long as we do not diss on her. I am frequently quite curious as to what her opinions are and how what her husband does by making himself such a public figure impacts her life.

It's not like the public scrutiny has yielded any results. Jack is akin to a politician, albeit a rather poor or unrealistic one. And a politician's family is under scrutiny almost as much.

Only thing I can really speculate is that it has not (yet) affected her career as a lawyer by association. Though I'm sure there are small sniggering groups at gatherings when she walks by, as they joke about JT. ;)

@mogbert

That $1,000,000,000 would sure help me cope with the loss though, heh.

I'm telling you guys, Jack has them right exactly where he wants them! Victory is at hand, HOOAH!

The only reason I feel JT had this coming is he brought it on himself.

JT was a worthy advesary up to the point he just started insulting every gamer in the world. Having a difference of opinion and voicing it is admirable. I, myself, have best friends who sometimes I'd love to just CLOCK for what I feel is stupidity they spew, but at the end of the discussion we shake hands and know that we are colleagues and no one is right or wrong we simply have different views and things we hold dear.

Jack Thompson has brought this on himself. I, for one, have never wished ill will against him. Oh yeah he's got my ire up, but he has a position and he's sticking to it. Unfortunately that turned into a vendetta and now it's become nothing more than a festering wound of hate for our favorite, game hating lawyer.

I hope he comes to his senses if not for his own sake, his family's.

Isnt his wife a lawyer?

@GoodRobotUs:

"I would not be surprised to see is an increase in the ‘Media-grabbing’ content of his Bar-hearing filings, since he’s only got one place from which to perform his own somewhat unique type of attention grabbing."

You raise an interesting point (although your prediction may not come true for the following reasons):

I suspect there's a simple explanation (in part) for why Jack kept ignoring the Supremes' instructions to stop filing papers with them and, instead, file his papers with Judge Tunis: the Supreme Court allows for electronic filing, while I'm not so sure the 11th Circuit does. If they don't, then there's your partial explanation: Jack didn't want to either (a) drive down to the courthouse every time he wanted to file a paper (i.e., two, three times a day) or (b) pay a courier to do it for him. So he kept on clicking the "Send" button.

And if the 11th Circuit doesn't have e-filing, then I wouldn't look for an uptick in crazy filings with Judge Tunis because he still won't want to do either (a) or (b).

@ Mattie

This stopped being about children and videogames LONG ago. Jack has made sure, every single time, that its all about HIM.

Exactly, it is about him now. Which actually makes me more angry than just baseless accusations. Had this still been truly about the children, I'd still roll my eyes, but I would be quite so, I don't want to say happy because you should never be happy to see anyone destroy themselves, but that's the best term for it. I'm really enjoying watching him destroy himself.

@ Zerodash

Yup.

JT has made it clear his crusade is only about getting himself in the limelight. The wreakage he leaves in his wake in the form of family members who really want closure and law makers who truly do want to do right by the people (that last statement is made with a grain of salt). If he TRULY wanted to address this issue he would have funded his own study with REAL psychology professionals.

@ Loudspeaker


I am intrigued by your idea and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Mad props.

Sig worthy.

After reading that, I can only say: I'm naming my secondborn after you.

etc, etc.

Jack don't care 'bout nothing but Jack.

"Isn’t one of his smoke-screens that the Bar and Judge Tunis illegally stole his co-counsel’s medical records?"

Seriously? Wow.

"He tried to argue that point on behalf of his co-counsel at his hearing and Judge Tunis had to remind that he was his co-counsel’s client, not his attorney."

Ha!

I doubt even Faux news will take him anymore. Looks like they will need to find another goto loon that can be shown as a expert in video games.

why don't they just disbar him and ostracize him from west civilization.

*takes a deep breath* Do you smell that? That wonderful scent wafting off of Miami? That would be justice. Sweet, Juicy Justice.

@AgnostoTheo:

Does it smell like law license burning? 'Cause that's all I smell.

With everything that's been going on the only thing I could think of that sums up JT now are these immortal words from Calvin...

"Reality continues to ruin my life."

After all, only someone not living in reality could take something like this and say it is "good news" and "idiotic".

--wait, I just remembered. Why doesn't the Florida Bar look like a bombed out building yet? Or was that another one of Jack's lies? I know he loves pulling everyone's chains, then complains when he gets whipped with them.

HAPPY DANCE TIME!

@Jabrwock:

Yep. And, perhaps, another show cause order. For contempt.

[...] BREAKING - Florida Supreme Court Sanctions Jack Thompson [GamePolitics] [...]

@ Papa Midnight

JT has called nearly defeat/setback "the single greatest gift" he has ever seen in his legal career. He called the TT settlement the final ammunition he needed to destroy the company.

Hopefully, this will be the beginning of the end for Jack.

@Papa Midnight: Not sure how it's good news for Jack, but it's definitely good news to the rest of us. ;)

From JDKJ's link:

"In that regard, since the Court is alleging that I have somehow encumbered access to the court for litigants by burdening these Justices, etc., I hereby make this formal Public Records Request pursuant to Chapter 119, Florida Statutes:

I should like copies of all documents that indicate the Justices’ public appearances and also their daily schedules doing the Court’s in-house business, from January 1, 2005, to present. In other words, I want to see how they have been spending their valuable time, in and out of the Court, over the past three years or more."

Wow. Just freaking WOW. I have nothing to say to this. What, is he trying to prove he's been on TV more than the judges have? Like that's going to prove anything other than the fact that... he's been on TV. Wow. Nobody gives a damn, Jacko. How is that supposed to be relevant to the case? That he's some sort of celebrity, and since EVERYTHING on TV is true to him, (since he seemed to be acting like somebody out of Law and Order during this trial of his) all celebrities walk, no matter what the charges are?

And even so, again, he's still mistaking his lisence as a secret service badge at this blatent request to peek into the private lives of the judges. Yeah. Real professional.

And i forgot to mention this, but maybe Jack actually DOES play Phoenix Wright in his closet. The amount of times he's objected is staggeringly similar. ;p

@davcube

It sounds like his argument is "I can't be burdening the court if the justices have any free time".

With arguments like that, no wonder Jackie can't win any court cases.

I had two sound-bytes run through my head at reading this. The first was an oldie - Daffy Duck cackling in a most evil manner. The second was more recent - the radio voice from CounterStrike saying "Ooowned!"

i feel sorry for the clerk!

ooo i bet by the end of the day (if not week) hes in prison for contempt

*Imagines E-mail exchange between JT and GP*

JT: None of you gamer idiots don't understand. This has been a victory for me! I have you all right where I want you! You will see me triumph! Hooah!

GP: Overruled

JT: What are you talking, you id-

GP: Overruled

JT: I see the games have corrupted your mind, Den-

GP: Overruled

JT: List-

GP: Overruled

JT: IF YOU DO NOT STOP THE HARASSMENT I WILL SU-

GP: Overruled...

JT: ...I am a moron

GP: Sustained

...Sorry I couldn't help it.

Ok so if the judges issue a contempt of court on JT what exactly would the outcome be?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_court

it can be a fine or jail time judges choice

ill pay a round of beers to everyone for this

this might finally get a glimpse into thompson's wife's opinion of him. Think his filings will continue unabated with her signature?

@jab49

only if she wants to get disbarred lol

Hooohaahh!!

(or whatever it is he says!)



lol so they ban him from filing motions... and threaten holding him in contempt if he does.. so he files 2 more motions..

HAHAHAHA great, we arent gonna have to get rid of him, hes gonan do it himself!

LOL!

Well all of us who said zero called it for motions filed by other lawyers on JT's behalf.

Everyone be careful, JT has been waiting for this position and now he's going to strike!

.......No ingenious plan? Just empty threats? Nothing but the rambling nonsense of a strange man? Really? NVM then...

This news is too good for words... Plus he decided to make more filings??? What is he thinking?

W-wait? He filed two more documents? I seriously think he really is trying to get disbarred.

...Then I suppose he'll become a "martyr" *rolls eyes*

[...] Florida Supreme Court orders Jack Thompson not speak directly to them March 20th, 2008 | Category: Gaming News The Florida Supreme Court has sent out an official STFU to controversial attorney Jack Thompson, who is not allowed to contact them directly ever again and will need to hire his own attorney to communicate with the Court on his behalf. that is an entirely separate matter from Thompson’s Florida Bar trial we’re currently awaiting a ruling on. [...]

@Repudiator -- he was allowed to file a response up to a 2:30 eastern deadline. It was filled with his usual bluster and the "you can't deny anyone their 6th Amendment access to the courts rights" bluster, which, if he'd read the sanction, he'd have seen they can. If you look, his response was "DENIED, SEE OPINION FILED 3/20/2008." In other words, there was NOTHING in Jack's filing that hadn't already been covered in the SCOFLA sanction against him.

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I figured those two new filing had actually originated before the court's decision somehow.

Craig R,
He actually did face a psychiatric evaluation previously several years ago. If I understand correctly, it was the same psychologist that he hired recently to perform another evaluation, Dr. Wunderman.

Of course, had I the legal Right to do so, I'd jump at the opportunity to move that there is a conflict of interest in the evaluation by Dr. Wunderman.

As I have ntoed before, while religion may be acceptable as a foundation for counseling in general (it should be a patient's choice whether to be counseled by someone who mixes religion in with their counseling), an evaluator who shares similar or equal religious beliefs cannot be viewed as being unbiased when evaluating a patient for another organization or legal body.

It would be like having a psychologist who believes repeated shock therapy will "cure" homosexuality evaluate Fred Phelps or having a psychologist who is a member of the Black Panthers evaluate Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson.

Dr. Wunderman and his wife (who is actually a religious leader in a church) actually share very similar fundamentalist religious beliefs with John Bruce. So, quite frankly, his evaluation cannot be viewed as unbiased.

Nightwng2000
NW2K Software

@ nightwing

If memory serves, Dr Wunderman is also a member of the same church as JT is and they are friends. I could be wrong, but I do remember there being evidience of such a dynamic.

"UPDATE: Thompson writes in to say that he mailed today’s motion prior to the Florida Supreme Court’s order and that, in any event, he is entitled to make an oral argument on the matter."

That may be, but it is also irrelevant because we already know what the answer will be. Until Jack can speak with something other than hate, insults, put-downs, and contempt, until he can STOP being so verbally abusive, he will never have a chance.

"It would be like having a psychologist who believes repeated shock therapy will “cure” homosexuality evaluate Fred Phelps or having a psychologist who is a member of the Black Panthers evaluate Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson."

The problem there is that people can be sane and biggoted.

[...] GamePolitics.com » Blog Archive » BREAKING - Florida Supreme Court Sanctions Jack Thompson [...]

@Mnementh

Hey, another Eve player. Care to tell who you are?

I'll show you mine, if you show me yours.

Dennis,

Regarding the update. The SCOFLA already denied his motion with nothing more than a "SEE ORIGINAL ORDER" next to it. Thompson offered nothing new in his motion and instead went back to "I'm entitled because of Faretta and you all suck and the world is against me" arguments. It didn't work the first 15 times, so I'm not surprised it didn't work this time.

Jack keeps using that word "entitled." I don't think it means what he thinks it means.

Ryno,
"If I may digest for a moment:"

Um.... EWWWWW!

Please! Digest in private, would ya?! That's so disgusting!

;D

Ok, I'll behave now. :)

Nightwng2000
NW2K Software

Nightwing -- I'm willing to give Jack the benefit of the doubt that he got that filing in previous to the deadline. He had it spammed on several blogs not too long after 2:30.

I'm wondering which he wrote first, though, the big press release declaring how great he is and how stupid the SCOFLA is, or his actual response to the court.

Who wants to bet that the Supreme Court will look at the document Tack sent, laugh, then run it though the paper shredder?

@Ryno

Mnementh2231 in game. :)

I'm ALWAYS Mnementh2230 or some derivative thereof.

Good!

Can't wait till he gets disbarred! This should have happened years ago.

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I wish You so that Your plans do not succeed and Gta IV was let go

Dear Lord Jesus,

Thank you for this delivery of hilarity and swift decision making.

In your name,
Amen.

Cant we start a petition to get him disbarred ?
Or better yet , to play GTA 24 hours a day for life ?

I kinda hope the media still runs stories on him. It'll give me something to laugh at.

I'm all for him not being able to take things to court though =D

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yo man bien je trouve ke florida et un mex super mai il est trop fort pour se creer des emmmerde