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Jack Thompson Sets His Sights On Halo 3
GamePolitics is reporting that anti-game advocate Jack Thompson is seeking to have Halo 3 declared a nuisance to the public in Florida. He tried the same stunt with Bully, and failed then too. "As with Bully, Thompson clearly hopes the court will grant him a hearing. Although after last year's well-publicized Bully performance, which earned Thompson a Bar complaint from presiding Judge Ronald Friedman, that seems unlikely. More troubling by far are the long term implications of this action. Thompson apparently feels emboldened to invoke Florida's public nuisance law against any video game he desires to target. That is the essence of censorship and the video game industry cannot allow it to continue on any number of grounds - legal, moral or creative."
Who cares ... he loses every court battle!
Why is he allowed to keep doing this? He should be punished for his endless series of nuisance lawsuits and then he should be held accountable for damaging reputations and businesses with his slanderous, ridiculous, attention-seeking, self-serving accusations. That he is given endless court and television time is highly offensive.
What? Halo 3 is just another FPS. What is so deplorable about Halo? Actually - it might be a good thing to get MSFT's legal department rolling on crushing this retard.
He minus well = Jack Thompson is a sick puppy.
He was funny a couple of years ago, but it's like an annoying joke that was funny at first and then starts driving you nuts. I wish he just shut up.
Why do we keep giving this guy air time? Enough with the Jack Thompson stories already.
"Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
... Goliath actually manages to kill David.
Jack Thompson is the greatest asset we have in our fight to keep video games from being villified and banned/censored.
The primary spokesperson of the anti-video game movement is clearly a psychopath. Completly batshit crazy. If he was not crazy, and used logical (sounding) conclusions and appealed to reasonable or religious sensibilities he would be MUCH more dangerous to free speech than he is.
So we MUST give him lipservice, we must work to keep his illegal, crazy shenanagins in the news, because as long is he is their front-man, we will always win.
He minus well get paid by Take two and Microsoft.
minus well? MINUS WELL? It's "might as well".
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He minus well ...
Brilliant. Truly brilliant. The best part is its not even close to the actual letters for the word(s) he meant to say. So I take that to mean he really believes thats what people are saying when they use that phrase. That cracked me up, seriously, that had me Latching Out Lard.
Similarly, he might have a case with GTA:Vice City, where people in Las Vegas might buy the game and then start randomly shooting people and stealing cars.
But Halo 3? What, the astronauts on the International Space Station might play the game, and then start shooting each other in real life?? And even if they do, how is that a public nuisance?
> I seem to recall him being thrown out of a courtroom in Alabama because he didn't even have the legal right to practice law there
You don't need to be licensed in a state to practice there. You get admitted pro hac vice (literally "for the occasion"), and it's usually a rubberstamp thing as long as you have a valid license in another state. Thompson's behavior in the Alabama case was so abominable that he had his pro hac vice status revoked for that case, plus a requirement to attach the order to any further applications in Alabama. In other words, he's effectively been disbarred in that state.
Keep in mind that if Wacko Jacko gets disbarred in Florida, it will almost certainly be a temporary suspension of his license. It's virtually unheard of for a lawyer to be permanently disbarred for misconduct that isn't a felony or blatant ethics violation. Jack may have committed the latter on occasion, but most of his pleadings these days aren't for any client but himself.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
Can we stop giving Jack Thompson coverage so he can slide back under his rock and disappear?
IMHO Jack Thompson is a nuisance to the public himself.
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
I took a look through it, and one thing struck me odd:
Jack says (in the lawsuit filing) that the release date for Halo 3 is: October 25th, 2007.
Real release date? Tomorrow.
FAIL, Jack. FAIL.
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Or he's using voice recognition software in Vista.
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Since I can't tell them apart, I treat all ACs as the same person.
The best argument against posting corrections on posters' spelling and grammar (and whatever the hell this was): Slashdot readers believe your comment was informative.
Jack Thompson is the real public nusiance.
I am not a lawyer. This post does not constitute any form of legal advice.
I read through Mr. Thomson's COMPLAINT FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AND FOR BREACH OF AGREEMENT to see what he was complaining about. Otherwise he is seeking legal action for Best Buy not obeying a settlement they agreed upon:
I'm not a lawyer, but I think this is the "Breach of Agreement" part of his complaint. I suspect he has a case for this portion of his complaint.
Below is the stuff about the game itself:
How about weaning yourself off that addiction? Seriously, it's bizarre how Americans can be so zealously anti-drug, and yet treat a caffeine addiction as 'just something that most people have'.
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It's been that way for decades. "Just say NO!" while gulping down an aspirin, antihistamine, Alka-Seltzer, Viagra, Prozac, amphetamine cocktail, and chasing it with a martini and a cigarette. Yeah, we hate drugs in this country.
Thompson: As you can see, this so-called "game" features underlying propoganda... ...where? ...Veiled commands of violence against others... ...and subliminal messages designed to turn our children into soulless killing machines.
Judge:
Thompson:
Judge: What?
Thompson:
Judge: I'm sorry, I don't see it. The court finds in favor of the defendent. Viva Pinata may remain on shelves.
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Its a doggy dog world out here. Theirs no room for bad grammar in todays business world.
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Someone should file a public nuisance claim on Jack Thompson. This guys is an idiot, and it might rub off on our kids. Think of the Children for crying out loud.
While I don't necessarily agree with the swipe at Florida (I don't disagree either, it's just irrelevant), I agree in spirit. While he has become as tiresome as a spoiled child that has yet to be disciplined (though the Bar is finally waking up to his antics), until he is unable to practice law, he is still a threat to freedom. We must not allow complacency to settle in, every time he rears his fool head, the public needs to be reminded as to what a self-serving, shallow, narcissistic, delusional danger he is, until no-one pays him heed again.
That being said: GO AWAY JACK! You're only making a greater fool of yourself!
For all intensive purposes your wright. Its to bad I don't have no mod point's but if I did I would of. Irregardless, you'r point is much more affective then the usual drivel around hear.
Good thing this guy keeps reminding me which games to buy. He's not paid by the game developers? Shucks.
As a parent, I'll decide what my kids can and cannot play/read/listen to. Not a corporation and certainly not a lunatic lawyer.
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