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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."
Is the enemy of my enemy my friend, or is he still an asshole?
It's sorta like Alien vs. Predator, but backwards. Whoever loses, we win.
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Jack Thompson vs. George Bush - whatever are slashdotters to do?
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
I bet you Slashbots are just foaming at the mouth.
jack thompson: greatest troll who ever lived
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Considering that not even congress can get Bush, Rumsfield, Cheny et al to respond to subpoenas -or even off the record chats ire the Plame affair, the attorney firings etc (maybe they can get Gonzales now that he has stepped down) I don't think he's got a prayer.
And when he loses his license he can blame Bush -just like everyone else
-I'm just sayin'
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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Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
Funny that never came up before. If we'd all known this, he probably would have gotten a lot less attention.
What if he manages to persuade Bush that video games might be somehow related to terrorism, or non-Christians?
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If your uncle jack was on trial, would you help your uncle jack off?
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Bush is dead meat.
Alcoa must make a fortune off of Mr. Thompson since he must keep a giant roll of tin foil in his briefcase to constuct new headgear.
He has to be smoking something seriously. Either that or he's doing this as another publicity stunt.
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.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
Jack is currently suing the mediator, Judge Dava Tunis, along with the Florida Supreme Court and the Florida Bar.
like he's a lawyer, alright...
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
-Oscar Wilde
And a good chunk of the media as well.
It's no coincidence that companies like Disney and Rockstar gang up on the few people that dare to stand up for values that are so fundamental to the working of our society. They are in the business of making money through the spread of violence, hip hop and pedophelia to the lesser minded people.
I hope that Jack Thompson wins, not only this battle but the entire war. Else, it might be worth thinking about kicking out the democrats and their valued pedophile constituents back to New York and then going our own way.
Then he'll make elaborate laws that restrict our rights with promises that it will stop video game-ism, only to have video games become better at hiding, stockpiling weapons, and money laundering.
Resistance is futile. Your technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. You will become one with the morgue
Can't he be both, like the late Earl Warren?
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Anyone have a picture of this guy. You cannot make up some of the stuff this guy does and I am curious to see if you can see the crazy in his eye.
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As you can see from my user number, I've been around a while, and I've seen some really lame stories posted here. But this one is execptional in its worthlessness.
"News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." Anyone else remember when that was "News for Nerds ON THE Stuff that Matters?" A subtle change but taking out the "on the" would seem to allow the site to post stories that have nothing to do with geek interests anymore, as long as it's "stuff that matters" - basically opening the door for any story that the editor thinks "matters" regardless of how irrrelevent it is to nerd interests.
But I digress. This story is stupid and uninteresting. The editorial introduction to the story posted above is completely unhelpful in describing the relevent details of the story (who is this Jack Thompson person? Am I just supposed to know which of the thousands of Jack Thompsons in the world this person is or why I should care about them?).
To save you some time (although if you're still reading this post clearly your time isn't that important to you): the Jack Thompson in question was one of the lawyers involved in the case in which "an 18-year old in Alabama was allegedly under the influence of Grand Theft Auto when he murdered two police officers and a police dispatcher in 2004". I guess his relationship to a gaming-related trial is what makes this "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." Aside from that, the article is just an explanation about how he's trying to subpoena a bunch of seemingly ireelevent people to support his case against being disbarred for conduct in that case. Don't bother reading the story. It is pretty uninteresting.
One could try to say that this is relevent to gaming, but it really isn't. The case was relevent, its outcome was relevent. This dude going off the deep end after the trial in a way that has nothing to do with gaming, is certainly not.
Someone needs to write an ultra-violent video game where Jack Thompson goes on a hunting trip with Cheney... wait - on second thought, he shouldn't get off that easy.
Could he be calling Bush as a friendly witness? Since I would imagine that violence in video games is sinful, and W. sure loved the Jesus (Jeb, not so much), it might be for the President to excuse him from having to report to the bar. Maybe he wants to get on the short list for the open AG spot!
Jack Thompson for Attorney General!
Rule 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy, no more, no less.
Every time I see a story involving Jack Thompson, I wonder if it's some guy making stuff up - this guy is stranger than fiction...
he can claim that gaming has driven at least one person to raving lunacy... Himself! (at least in my personal opinion.)
More Caffeine. NOW
If Jack would've went to school to become a lawyer, instead of print out a document that says "I can sue people for stupid reasons", he would've known that he should've caused all these problems when Clinton was President.
Then he would've received a Presidential pardon for the heinous crimes he's committed against gamers everywhere.
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?
George Bush sends Jack Thompson to Guantanamo
Good luck getting the executive branch to respond to subpoenas. Congress tried to subpoena testimony from Karl Rove, and look how well that turned out for them.
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Someone asked me the other day about the difference between psychotic and psychopathic. Here it is laid out nicely.
The psychotic Jack Thompson is sending a subpoena to the psychopathic George Bush.
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Is Fred Thompson a Nerd? No. Is Bush? No. Nerds don't do Cocaine. This isn't Nerd News.
Wow, after reading this article I actually thought it was the first of April for a while. I kind of wish Jack Thompson sticks around, though. By the time he's caused enough chaos our legislative branch will finally push for more frivolous lawsuit and ethics reforms. He'd be the Bar Association's equivalent to Enron.
Jack better watch out. Some of out government officials have already been trained on violent video games. I hear Cheney is pretty good at Duck Hunt.
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Thompson is a raving nut. I think he needs to lower the stress in his life, do something to relax, like play video games. I've heard those are great for calming people down and making them act more rationally.
Nostalgia's not what it used to be.
Jack's one of the few who actually think a flashy Chewbacca Defense validates his position.
Loony doesn't NEARLY do him justice.
As to the topic.
The only side ANYONE is ever on is THEIR OWN.
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THANK GOD!!!
... a reason to sue IBM. Seriously, Microsoft, Judges, Bush... can't we please throw in the Nazgul for good measure?
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Crisis is the rule, not the exception.
I have a friend who is bipolar and paranoid schizophrenic. Every so often (6 months or so), he would go into his manic phase, decide that he didn't need to be on his medication, and stop taking it. The no-longer-controlled psychosis would inevitably emerge, and he'd do batshiat crazy things like trying to go to Scotland to get Excalibur from Lady of the Lake.
One time, when he was in court for calling 911 for fires that didn't exist, the judge asked him, "Is there anybody you'd like to call in your defense?" My friend stood up to say that he wanted to call "The President of the United States" and "The King of England" (the fact that England doesn't have a king wasn't really an important factor in his reasoning process). My friend's mother was elated; this was the best possible answer my friend could have given to demonstrate (beyond a shadow of a doubt), to the court, that he was indeed a few cans short of a six pack, (i.e. totally batshiat crazy).
I think Jack Thompson has aptly demonstrated exactly the same thing. His opinion is only worth a shot of Thorazine and a little time in the quiet room with the Mr. Friendly Hugs jacket.
It makes me wonder, though. Schizophrenia quite often starts mild, debatably sane, and progresses over time to padded-room calibre. Just because at some point you might look like just a bit eccentric or slightly bizarre or a bit of a bad case of cognitive dissonance, doesn't mean that 17 years later you can't be diagnosed with proper schizophrenia.
And this guy's delusions started from half-way between mildly annoying and mildly funny, and progressed to outright bizarre. I can't diagnose him anyway, but it makes me, you know, wonder. Maybe a second examination would find it a bit worse than the one almost 2 decades ago? It's a possibility.
Plus, to the best of my knowledge, a lot (most?) doctors tend to prefer to err on the conservative side, especially when it would bury someone's career. If slapping a "yup, he's schizophrenic" label on him would terminate his right to act as a lawyer, even temporarily, they'll give him a lot of benefit of the doubt. He'd pretty much have to be at the raving lunatic stage to get that. It's just a different standard. Even if you'd consider giving him neuroleptics in a private consultation, you'd have to be convinced that he's to deranged to do his job to actually slap that on his dossier.
Plus, in that kind of context, I figure it's hard to diagnose anyway. Noone will start telling you about the voices in his head, when he's sent there to determine whether he's fit to keep working and doing his crusade. Being insane carries a major stigma. So unless they're deranged past the point of hiding it, a lot of people _will_ try to hide it, if you just send them to a psychiatrist. They might admit stuff to their therapist if it was their idea to go there, and it's going to be kept secret. But not to the guy who has to determine whether they're fit to keep their job, and whose conclusion will probably be public record.
What I'm trying to say is that it's entirely possible that he just slipped through the cracks the first time. (_If_ he's indeed nuts.) There's no telling if he'd still pass after all this time.
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I, for once, welcome our Jack Thompson overlord.
Signature has left the building.
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Won't someone please give Jack Thompson a clue?
He's pleading for his license to practice law.
He thinks the president is going to give him a helping hand for "furthering" the agenda?
It doesn't work that way.
Jack Thompson, you are a lowlife scumbag.
They're using their grammar skills there.
Someone should print up some "Objection!" t-shirts and stand outside the courthouse that day :-)
jack thompson: greatest troll who ever lived
I just heard some great news on the radio - Jack Thompson, 57, was found dead in his Florida home this morning. There weren't any more details, but authorities think he was shot by a deranged, miserable wretch who wasn't allowed to play video games as a child. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will be happy to see the fucker burn in hell - even if you didn't enjoy his constant trolling of the legal system, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture by making GTA amazingly popular. Truly an American icon.
Attorney Lionel Hutz!
Mr. Thompson, you're in luck. Your suit against the President is just the thing I need to rebuild my shattered practice! Care to join me in a belt of scotch?
whooooooooosh
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Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
there is one major question that must be asked. I believe Peter Potamus said it best: "Did you get that thing I sent you?"
in a company I was at:
"Please contact me if you don't get this message."
Seriously. Yes, the guy was an idiot. I could go on with some of the winner statements this guy had said.
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, but she still said no.
ba-da-bing!
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The parent comment is comedy gold! What twit modded it troll?
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can't we just have him committed? Please?
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
If you want the original story, check out the Gamepolitics article The submitted link is practically word for word plagiarism of the gp article. At the end of the submitted link, they state "thanks gamepolitics", but that hardly makes up for ripping off the article.
In summary, if you want well written and interestering articles on politics and games with no advertisements, check out Gamepolitics.com. I'm not affiliated with the site in any way, I'm just a fan.
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George W. Bush was playing Civilization II when he got the idea to invade Iraq for the Oil and resources and gain a lot of gold. So Jack Thompson wants George W. Bush to testify under oath that he did play Civilization II on his PC before or after he held office. Jack Thompson will claim that this is the way the Civilization II game is played, to invade other nations for the gold.
//, before deciding to bundle MS-Office, Internet Explorer, and Media Player with Windows installed on each new PC sold by PC Vendors. The object in the Monopoly video game, claims Jack Thompson, is to own property and bundle them together to lock out competitors and raise the prices in order to become the richest person in the game.
He might as well subpoena Bill Gates, and accuse him of playing the Monopoly video game for DOS or the Apple
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They're just trying to avoid a classic blunder: forgetting Poland.
Ol' Jack-o wack-o is nuttier than squirrel poop. If he we'rn REALLY smart, he would have subpoena'd Miss South Carolina as a character witness. THAT would be a nifty.
Yet another pathetic attempt to be an attention whore. He knows (or, should know if he's competent), that he can't do this. The sitting President enjoys immunity from civil liability. See Jones v. Clinton.
Harvey Birdman: I'll take the case!
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I Am With The Penny Arcade; Thompson serves a useful purpose. Whenever the media need a quote about the latest case of a sociopath going disco 'because' he played Pong as a child, they go straight to Jack and get an absolutely barking mad, howling at the moon tirade that no sane person would take seriously. If Jack vanished from the public eye, then he might be replaced with someone actually credible.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Now I just wish the cowardly democrats would also suboena Bush for Lying USA into a WAR causing some 4000 US troops deaths.. !
I'll send Bush a DMCA takedown notice!
Anyone who pulls out Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law references deserves at least a 2.
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If Thompson disappears, it will be a sad day for gamers. Why? Because someone new will certainly come along to fight against video games. That new person might actually be reasonably intelligent and charismatic. That would be bad.
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