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Thompson Says Florida Bar Requested Psych Test
MBCook wrote with a link to a GamePolitics story about another chapter of the Jack Thompson saga. Sheila M. Tuma, a person associated with Thompson's Florida Bar evaluation, has requested that the colorful lawyer 'seek psychological testing and accept a 91-day suspension of his law license.'. Though they attempted to confirm this with the Bar, no one was inclined to give the site a comment. "The e-mail explaining the situation was sent to GamePolitics by Thompson himself. The recommendation comes following issues stemming from Thompson's Bully case last year where there were issues regarding his professional conduct."
The man is a complete nut; an attention-seeking media addict. Who really needs psychological testing are the media outlets that continue to give this lunatic a platform.
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.. a complete idiot he tends to jump the gun and blame gaming on everything. Example the Virgina Tech shooting.
They're just making it official he's crazy. Heck, I'm a "right-wing nutcase" and I think the guy is off his rocker.
Jack is such an attention whore... And we dig it just as much as the rest of the world digs Paris Hilton's everyday antics.
The two would make a good pair... Thompson and Hilton: The Publicity Whoring Masters
they want him to undergo psych evaluation and so to prove he's not crazy, he goes and tells the media about it?
yeah, that sounds like a real good way to prove your sanity there, asshole. For your next trick, i suggest a chicken costume while singing opera and walking around daytona beach. That'll teach 'em to think you're crazy.
Fuckwit.
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He's actually been ordered to take Psych test before and he managed to pass them. The guy is a moron, but unfortunatly he's not clinically insane. What will happen this time is probably the same thing that happened last time. He'll go do the test, pass it (although probably give the psychologist giving the test some interesting data to work on), and then make a huge PR event out of the fact that he's legally sane. He's got a few screws loose, but he's not missing any of them so they can't actually diagnose him with anything. They need to just disbar the guy and have done with it.
Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat.
Interested parties should produce a dossier detailing his antics and distribute it as a press pack.
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Psychological examination probably won't prove anything and his mental acuity isn't even really the thing that seems to cause problems. It is his professional demeanor or lack of therin. His conduct is unacceptable and his disbarment should be based on that. I'm sure that they're just hoping that he fails in order to give them "solid" justification to get rid of him.
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Someone thinks that Jack Thompson might not be playing with a full deck?
Dear God! Hell must have frozen over solid!
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And we dig it just as much as the rest of the world digs Paris Hilton's everyday antics.
Really? I thought that Paris Hilton got so much attention was because there were people who actually liked her.
That argument actually makes a lot more sense than the impression I had.
I don't know. I've never been able to understand celebrity worship.
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Just like a person who knows nothing about math or science can pass the test if they study hard enough, I believe he can pass those tests... if he gets his homework done and studies hard. As long as he's declared over 60% sane it'll be fine and he'll go on living the same...
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It really depends on the Board. I think its very possible, given his previous history of warnings in the Florida legal system, that Thompson is about to get slapped pretty hard. They aren't happy with him already. As I said, he's received a number of warnings, and has been removed from cases by judges for his behavior.
I think you're probably right. The broad umbrella of "antisocial tendencies" notwithstanding, being a complete, stubborn jerk isn't exactly a form of mental illness yet. Thompson's not a narcissist or a megalomaniac or a sociopath or anything like that -- he's just incredibly rude and disrespectful to people that don't see things his way, and he knows that his campaign to restrict access to violent games to minors requires a certain amount of grandstanding to rally supporters of the same goals.
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He was also asked to do this by the Bar in the past. The result of that one was Jack suing the bar and settling. I think the guy is off his rocker but until I see he is actually disbarred its just another attempt at keeping his name in the headlines.
If his behavior won't be somehow framed as some form of psychological disorder, how would a psychologist, based on everything he's said and done, describe Mr. Thompson?
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For a second, I thought this would be an article about a Law & Order episode.
Why the psychiatric angle at all? Can't he be barred for "Extremely unprofessional behavior not appropriate of a member of the bar" or something along those lines?
It does still say he's a "member in good standing" though, I wonder if you can be a member in poor standard or the alternative is to just be disbarred?
The recommendation comes following issues stemming from Thompson's Bully case last year where there were issues regarding his professional conduct.
Translation: "The recommendation comes following issues stemming from Thompson's Bully case last year where there were issues regarding his inability to refrain from ranting like a raving lunatic and exposing his genitalia to the courtroom while prancing around like a chicken with jock itch."
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Look, the Florida bar is just trying to cover its ass on this one. Think about it.
If Jack Thompson gets disbarred without any psych evaluation, and then he winds up being diagnosed with a real psychological disorder (don't know where "Jack Thompson crazy" would be in the DSM, but it might be in there somewhere), then Thompson could have a case for readmission to the bar-- once he has been treated. He might even be able to sue the bar for failing to recommend him to a psychologist before disbarring him: given the outrageous and outlandish nature of his actions, he could argue that it should have been OBVIOUS that he was, in layman's terms, a fucking lunatic.
Meanwhile, if he IS found to be nuts by a psychologist, then the Florida bar can simply suspend his license until such time as his doctor says that his problem is under control (and no doctor is likely to do that-- consider the liability issues!). Boom, the JT problem is solved.
Of course, one has to consider the possibility that his psych evaluation comes back indicating that there ISN'T anything clinically wrong with him. In that case, JT's actions, which are pretty frickin' crazy, are no longer ascribable to mental problems-- which means that he knew how wrong his actions were, and went through with them anyway. Boom, he's disbarred for his unprofessional behavior, and the clean psych evaluations will make it hard for him to come back later for readmission.
The military does a lot of this stuff, too. I know a few guys who have been kicked out for various reasons. Every one of them has been required to undergo a physical and psychological evaluation before they get booted-- that way, they can't come back and make claims under the ADA and similar laws. It's standard, cover-your-ass procedure for large organizations-- not an indication that the Florida bar thinks that Thompson is clinically nuts.
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