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Jack Thompson Responds to Take Two Suit
interactive_civilian writes "Jack Thompson has personally replied to ArsTechnica regarding their coverage of the lawsuit from TakeTwo. Really, it's best for Jack to speak for himself: 'I have been praying, literally, that Take-Two and its lawyers would do something so stupid, so arrogant, so dumb, even dumber than what they have to date done, that such a misstep would enable me to destroy Take-Two. With the filing of this SLAPP lawsuit last week, my prayers are finally answered. This lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, is, without a doubt, the single dumbest thing I have ever seen any lawyers do in my thirty years of practicing law--while in continuous good standing to do so with The Florida Bar, I might add, the shock radio and video game industry's efforts notwithstanding.'"
There is NO truth to the rumors that Jack will star in Saw IV.
Stupid? Well quite high up there is Jack, a lawyer, praying. The man should have a bit of faith in his lawyer skillz ;D.
I would ask if the man was mentally unhinged, but that's been obvious for a while. I wonder though, what he means by 'gone on March 23'?
It was a joke! When you give me that look it was a joke.
Didn't the Florida Bar Association try to get him disbarred for his conduct?
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At this point, I have to ask: Is Jack Thomson a real crazy person, or is he some cleverly created foil? The man acts like a fictional villain, trying to transparently conflate religion and his own fevered obsessions, and then trying to say that this gives him legal justification for his own insanity, insisting that the fact that he hasn't been completely stopped yet is proof.
I do understand that people really can be this crazy, and worse, but there just seems to be an air of even more blatant unreality at this point in his insanity.
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so stupid as he seems or is this a kind of joke? I mean, religion has nothing to do with laws. If it were so we would find ourselves still in the dark ages. So what's exactly Jack Thomson looking for? Publicity? I find pretty funny that this man uses the Bible as example because I remember that no man should judge his brother, only God can do it. So... yeah... Is Jack Thomson proclaiming he's God and has the right to judge? This is pretty absurd...
Everybody knows Jack is a nut and all, but this smells like a hoax to me. The language doesn't feel right for a lawyer (even a crazy one) and I don't see the point of him sending a letter like this. However, if it turns out to be true then Jack has really gone off of the deep end.
I read the internet for the articles.
How does having the Florida Bar investigate you for ethical violations and filing disbarment procedures constitute "good standing?"
This dude is of his rocker.... I mean completely insane.
The "nothing-good-can-come-from-this" department?
We've already gotten something good from it: twenty-four karat comedy gold!
If only Jack would join forces with Fred Phelps, we'd have the ultimate legal team for all that is moral and right in this world.
In all seriousness, I think Jack should move to Topeka with Fred. With the two of them together, I think we can justify the use of nuclear weapons on American citizens. Just two of them. It would so be worth it.
That has to be a hoax.
There's no way the guy could have written that. A lawyer wrote that? A vague bunch of threats and insults insinuating he's going to do something next week?
Huh?
Well, if it is him, he sure is losing a lot of credibility. We used to worry about the exposure he got, now I'm finding more and more non-gamers have heard of Jack Thompson - the far right looney toon who sues to stop them from making video games.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
"This lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, is, without a doubt, the single dumbest thing I have ever seen any lawyers do in my thirty years of practicing law."
Apparently he's never taken a good close look at the lawsuits he's filed against Take Two or the laws he's helped write - which, by the way, have all been subsequently rejected on constitutional grounds. Part of me hopes he gets disbarred but that might be the only thing that's helped keep him in check (well reasonably in check compared to what he could possibly do without the fear of being disbarred - run for office for instance).
Does JT think he is intimidating? He is like a thirteen year old with a brand new thesaurus. His response boils down to "No ur dum."
He ... he quotes the Bible. Why is he quoting the bible? I mean ... if the Almighty God has sent Jack down to save us from the heathens, personally I think we're fucked
I think the fact that jack seems to completely ignore games such as God of War (Which has the same rating as GTA, is MUCH more violent and has a much higher quality of nudity than the super secret unlockable) proves he doesnt really care about protecting the innocent children, take two was in the news a lot so going after them is big publicity. If theres no public outcry over god of war, theres no news coverage to be had from filing suit against them.
Guess we'll just have to wait until Friday. I'm not holding my breath.
They don't grade fathers, but if your daughter's a stripper, you fucked up. --Chris Rock
OMG, I'm like the most religious person ever with my raiding guild! Quick! To Blackwing Lair! For Justice! For Freedom! For Jesus!
Man, I couldn't even TYPE that with a straight face!
I me15ter on the ars discussion puts it best, so i quote his quote here:
In short, his wits being quite gone, he hit upon the strangest notion that ever madman in this world hit upon, and that was that he fancied it was right and requisite, as well for the support of his own honour as for the service of his country, that he should make a knight-errant of himself, roaming the world over in full armour and on horseback in quest of adventures, and putting in practice himself all that he had read of as being the usual practices of knights-errant; righting every kind of wrong, and exposing himself to peril and danger from which, in the issue, he was to reap eternal renown and fame. -Don QuixoteDidn't David write the psalms? You know...singing and praying to God? You'd think he could at least get that right...
Would that be the same Florida Bar that he has sued (unsuccessfully) twice, which he alleges is unconstitutional, engaged in a vendetta against him, and is made up of criminal racketeers? The Florida Bar that is in the process of disbarring him?
I guess his idea of "continuous good standing" and mine differ somewhat.
Bogtha Bogtha Bogtha
Thompson quotes the Bible in his letter:
7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit,
which without cause they have digged for my soul.
8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares;
and let his net that he hath hid catch himself:
into that very destruction let him fall.
9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD:
it shall rejoice in his salvation.
Seems to me ol' Jack actually found the place in the Bible that perfectly describes the situation, except he refuses to see that he's the one falling into the pit he dug himself.
Does anybody know the term for a "pseudo-lawyer" that's comparable to "quack" being used to describe a fake doctor?
And while I'm asking, if you're going to give him more media attention than he deserves, why not provide a link to one of his previous failures in the main article text? Sure, I could pull it up on a search, but there's at least some readers who aren't aware of previous blunders.
Actually you can look him up on the bar website, he's technically in good standing.
...by the fact that any reasonable person - an industry term - would bother giving any credence to this man's thoughts and opinions or any weight at all to anything thing that spews forth from his paranoid/schizophrenic gray matter. He's a loon and should be treated as such.
And He said to them, "Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." - Luke 20:25
It seems that some Wikivandalism was done, but has now been corrected - Sinbad the comic is alive and well. He had some unkind words for the vandal, but took it in good stride from their account.
Hmmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
"This lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, is, without a doubt, the single dumbest thing I have ever seen any lawyers do in my thirty years of practicing law..."
Listen to the man - if anyone knows stupid moves, it's Jack.
Is this letter genuine? I mean, seriously? He's claiming that he's praying for crap to happen to Take Two? Wow, what a devout christian. And the idiocy doesn't stop there:
First he writes:
and then he finishes with
Ignoring all the mistakes he makes, if Jack claims that something is brilliant because god wrote it, and then claims that god wrote all video games, doesn't that make all video games brilliant?
Personally, I think he's a heretic. We all know that god didn't make all video games. He only made some of the Mario games, the early Donkey Kong games, Zelda and Pikmin. I mean, Jack is talking about Miyamoto, isn't he?
I wonder if the whole 'Take Two's Board will be gone March 23rd' could be construed as Jack making a terrorist threat. ...religious lunatic? Check. ...vague threats, targets, dates? Check.
Ping: Homeland Security!
Of course the man has to pray...have you watched him talk before? He's certainly not going to win that case by being a good lawyer.
"Those who would sacrifice essential liberties for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - BenF
That God Mode is just a figure of speech?
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
The whole thing is so much more demented than the little snippet quoted here. Thompson is very clearly off his rocker, quoting scripture and praising god for this opportunity to destroy Take-Two. It's a must-read.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
*cough* We the Video Game owners have a prepared statement for Jack Thompson:
"Fuck You"
That is all.
I can program myself out of a Hello World Contest!!
Hamlet, the Gamer: "What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of l33t! And yet, for some, what is this quintessence of dust? Jack Thompson delights not me; no, nor his prattles, though by your smiling you seem to say so...." (Hamlet, Act 2. A modern interpretation).
B.T.W. The sanity test may be more indicative at second glance. After all, the rest of the world keeps listening to him. Where does that rank it on the sanity scale?
For castles made of sand must eventually return to the sea.
I'M praying he represents himself.
I think Ole Jacko is still in the closet about playing WOW and GTA. Bet he's just like that politician that was drawing up bills against child porn and then was doing it himself.... Remember when we were in kindergarden and if you liked a girl you would mess with her and piss her off and stuff... Same principal. JACK YOUR A DAMN FAGGOT
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