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Jack Thompson Sends Subpoena to Bush
Ariastis writes "Jack Thompson has filed documents with a federal court in Florida requesting to subpoena President George W. Bush for a deposition to retain Thompson's license to practice law. Ah, and Jeb Bush too, for good measure."
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The time is approaching when someone is going to have to put this guy in the nut house. I hope all those self-serving pandering politicians who like to align themselves with Thompson against the invented evils of video games start seriously considering the kind of delusional maniac they've decided is their ally.
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Ok, now that I've trolled in another post, I'm wondering if the folks trying to get him kicked out of the Bar could enter the subpoena ITSELF as evidence of JT's unfitness to practice law.
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Not yet, Microsoft and Gates need to also be in the mix.
Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
Wait until January 20, 2009, that's what.
Most likely, Bush will be able to claim executive privelege and force Thompson to wait until then.
All Thompson is trying to do is stick a monkey wrench in the works, delaying the end of his disbarrment hearing in front of the Florida Bar.
The guy's a whack job. Seriously, he needs to get a life. He's tried to sue the Florida Bar more than once, a clear violation of the 11th Amendment (which says you can't sue the court system).
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Get off your high horse. Jack Thompson is of interest around here, because of his links to the anti-gaming lobby. It's Friday, it's a hilarious story, and we're all enjoying it. You know who Thompson is, if you have been around for a while. That's like asking "Which Bill Gates? How should I know?"
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Rule 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy, no more, no less.
Just because you don't know the name Jack Thompson, doesn't mean that most geeks/nerds don't immediately know who he is. You'll also note that this story is tagged as "humor" not as "gaming", so to be perfectly honest, it could be *any* lunatic lawyer that's issued a subpoena for the President in defense for the deposition of his license to practice law. The fact that it's Jack Thompson just makes it better for those of us who know who he is (which, I'm sorry, I would bet that there are more of us who do than those who don't).
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he can claim that gaming has driven at least one person to raving lunacy... Himself! (at least in my personal opinion.)
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Fogive my ignorance of the US legal system but my understanding from TFA is that because they wont respond to his supeona that the disbarment is stuck in limbo for the time being at least? Could the bar board just ask relavence of these people and discount these supeonas? What would be next, him sending supeonas to dead people or the children of pregnant women?
Don't think you understand.
The guy is loony.
This is not the kind of person you want arguing for your side & case.
Seriously.
Can we get a "-1 Wrong" moderation option?
"News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." Anyone else remember when that was "News for Nerds ON THE Stuff that Matters?"
/. whipping-boy due to his long standing aggression against games, and we love to see stories where he makes himself look insane. Yeah, it's like replying to a bad troll, we're only giving him the attention he wants, but still it amuses me. Much like stories about every little decision and motion in SCO's ongoing slow death spiral isn't very important, but simply amusing for those of us who've been watching. The fact that SCO was a major Linux antagonist has given them a position of relevance. Similarly, because he's the "anti-gaming lawyer", JT and his legal antics are a relevant slashdot topic, like it or not. Like we used to say back when someone would complain about an article's appropriateness for slashdot: "It's Rob's site".
No, I don't remember that, and I remember the first day when Chips N' Dips was dead and Slashdot was live. Was it really different? Because I really don't remember it having "on the" in there, which really reduces the punchiness of the tag line and really I doubt would make any difference regarding the content. As if they said "whew, now that we got rid of 'on the' we can start posting irrelevant nerdy stuff, and non-nerdy relevant stuff!"
Anyway, this is a story about Jack Thompson being a nut job in trying to prove he isn't a nut job. JT is a
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But see you've reversed the implication. That's "My friend is an enemy of my enemy" and that's normally true. If you assumed the other guy was your "friend" for no reason other than that he was also my enemy, you'd be setting yourself up for an unpleasant surprise.
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I'll admit chance plays a significant role in Risk, but if you really believe that, try using the dice to decide where you place your armies and what countries to attack and I'd beat you 100% of the time.
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Depends on who you are. If you're the US, the enemy of your enemy is someone you arm and hope that he hates your enemy more than you.
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