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Jack Thompson Faces Disciplinary Hearing

Posted by Zonk on from the disbarment-we-can-only-hope dept.

CoolC writes "Gamepolitics is reporting that attorney Jack Thompson is to face a disciplinary hearing before the Florida Supreme Court. The attorney faces five counts of professional misconduct, three of which are correlated with his ongoing campaign against violent video games. Thompson faces the possibility of disciplinary action up to and including disbarment."

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  1. i'm hoping... by macadamia_harold · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thompson faces the possibility of disciplinary action up to and including disbarment.

    I'm crossing my fingers in the hope that you misspelled dismemberment.

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    1. Re:i'm hoping... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      If wishing a gruesome death on someone with whom you disagree isn't insightful, I don't know what is.

    2. Re:i'm hoping... by rbochan · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm hoping he gets a cameo as a corpse in the next GTA release.

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    3. Re:i'm hoping... by aplusjimages · · Score: 3, Funny

      No he needs to be the boss you kill at the end. I'm betting that he will be the most killed big boss ever in the history of video games.

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    4. Re: I'm hoping... by LordEd · · Score: 2, Funny

      There's a violent solution. You must be a video game player.

    5. Re:i'm hoping... by oSand · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, 'disbarment'. When they remove the rod that is up your ass.

    6. Re:i'm hoping... by Alsee · · Score: 3, Funny

      it appears that his statements may well be the result of something other than his ideology.

      I guess it's possible he has a brain tumor, but I think his Invisible Friend is a far more likely explanation.

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    7. Re:i'm hoping... by tsm_sf · · Score: 2, Funny

      I've never understood the 'scotsman' analogy argument. There's a rule book set down for being a Christian, and it's pretty easy to see who plays by it and who doesn't. In fact, there's really just a take on the golden rule: "Love your neighbors as you love yourself". It's a pretty simple metric.

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    8. Re:i'm hoping... by mgabrys_sf · · Score: 1, Funny

      Naw. GTA mini-game. A roomfull of cloned Thompsons in a rogue genetic's lab. The twist - there's a door and entrance ramp large enough for a car to drive through and into.

      Wet sloppy gibby meat fountains ensue with 5.1 Dolby Digital sound of bone crushing sound effects. Instant 100 million seller. Rockstar finally shores up Take 2's horrible financials, Thompon bumps into a pitcher of water in Flordia and dies screaming "I'm melting - what a world what a world". Then I wake up. Damn. Someone do this already.

  2. Department by agent+dero · · Score: 4, Funny

    "disbarment-we-can-only-hope"

    Come on, let's try not to show such a bias here on slashd...oh, wha? That Jack Thompson?

    I wonder if tarring and featherings are allowed in the florida legal system... Seriously though, isn't this a textbook case of "people getting what they deserve?"

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    1. Re:Department by oSand · · Score: 2, Funny

      "If you ask me. Jack Thompson is a shining example of everything wrong with America these days (bigoted, sue-happy, uninformed but with LOUD AND STRONG OPINIONS)." These days? Just how long have you been alive?

  3. no, it's a good thing by artifex2004 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Too bad it's not happening in Texas.
    If we got him down here, the electorate would, without a doubt, try to put him into public office.
  4. Too Bad He Couldn't be Tried in Auburn, WA. by NeuroManson · · Score: 5, Funny

    Up here, there's a nice art deco building, started as a supermarket, then up until a couple of years ago, existed as a video game arcade. Now it's a courthouse. The irony would be mind boggling.

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  5. Re:Calm down... by Trendy.Ideology · · Score: 2, Funny

    "He's got a real pretty mouth on him, don't he?"

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  6. Repensum est Canicula by tomhudson · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... because we all know "payback is a bitch."

    Jack Thompson - this is your future!

  7. Are you sure? by mrchaotica · · Score: 2, Funny

    Effectively, they want society to regress to the Dark Ages. What could possibly be more conservative than that?

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