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Jack Thompson Faces Disciplinary Hearing
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."
First of all, its not gruesome death, just the loss of an unneeded appendage. Second, its not just that I don't agree with Jack Thompson - the man is disgusting in his conduct.
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http://www.g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/blog/post/629
At least actions like these will (hopefully) help to dissuade people from just blindly attacking and blaming videogames for everything that goes wrong in thier lives... Holding this person accountable for his gross misconduct is the first step towards really making progress against all these anti-videogame warmongering dimwits. It's about time someone put thier foot down and said "No." to all these figureheads shooting thier mouth off without knowing what the hell they're talking about.
In the end, the only thing that matters is how much fun you had.
Reading through the comments it appears that his statements may well be the result of something other than his ideology. Such things happen. Quite why Slashdot has to treat each one as if it were an existential threat is beyond me.
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I assume you're trying to make a pun, but I don't think dismemberment means what you think it does. While the definition doesn't call for it, the word certainly has (for me at least) connotations of a gruesome death.
It's official. Most of you are morons.
Personally, I think his sentence should include cross dressing in a hooker's outfit, getting picked up by someone in a sports car, getting fucked, dumped, gunned down, and then run over.
That'd be fantastic.
This guy didn't just wake up one morning and get hit by an Atari 2600 being thrown out of a window. What happened that made him such an ardent opponent of gaming?
John Walsh from "America's Most Wanted" is motivated by what happened to his son, what happened to Thompson?
It's true no man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a good raft.
What are you talking about? He pressed a button. There's nothing violent about pressing a button.
NOW, sending tens of thousands of troops to a foreign country in a war of aggression and occupation and subjugation which results in 40,000 civilian casualties. THAT is violent.
But I guess context is a silly thing. We don't need that.
It's been a long time.
You don't need a license in order to represent anyone, as anyone can be your lawyer, given enough knowledge of any situation and the related laws.
Only a fool represents himself. Jack Thompson will more than likely continue practicing, no matter where he is.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
He won't get disbarred unfortunately
:-D
The difference is that he's before the FL Supreme Court now, the same people that just two months ago fired a renegade district judge for egregious behavior when no one else would. They don't seem to tolerate such misbehavior very much, especially when presented with a record like Thompson's. Here's hoping he's forced to find an alternate career.
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