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Jack Thompson Includes Gay Porn With Court Filing

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the master-of-free-publicity dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Jack Thompson has done it again, now by making available gay porn for unlimited viewing on public records. Judge Jordan wrote on an issued order: 'The attached exhibit, which includes several graphic images of oral and genital sex between adult males, was filed electronically in the docket in this case, without prior permission from the court... To the extent that the other attorney's alleged conduct is in any way relevant... there was no need for Mr. Thompson to file these graphic images in the public record. A simple reference to the website and its alleged links would have sufficed...'" I'm usually not a fan of giving Thompson continued free publicity, but some of the things he does are just too outlandish not to share.

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  1. Gack! Fix the headline -- quick! by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's filling my mind with disgusting images!

    s/filling/filing

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  2. Brilliant! by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm usually not a fan of giving Thompson continued free publicity, but some of the things he does are just too outlandish not to share.

    So you made it a story on /.?

    Here's to you, Mister Hide It in Plain View Guy!

  3. I love this guy. by PlayItBogart · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You keep thinking he couldn't get any wackier and do anything more outlandish than subpoena the President, and then he goes and does this.

    How will you top this, Mr. Thompson? Are you gonna shoot the Pope?

    1. Re:I love this guy. by dmatos · · Score: 4, Informative
      Apparently, this is not something new for good ole JT. He's been cautioned before about including pornography in his filings. From the article:

      ... this isn't the first time Thompson has been warned by a court not to include suggestive photos in those case filings. An April 12th entry in the Florida Supreme Court docket covering the Florida Bar's case against Thompson includes this notation:

      ...the Court notes that [Thompson] has attached inappropriate and pornographic materials to his petitions that are irrelevant to his arguments. Respondent is warned that should he continue to submit such inappropriate filings, the Court will consider imposing sanctions which may include, but are not limited to, a limitation on Respondent's ability to submit further filings without the signature of an attorney other than himself.
      I'm kind of disappointed. I want him to come up with some new tricks to amuse me.
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    2. Re:I love this guy. by Mix+Master+Nixon · · Score: 4, Funny

      How will you top this, Mr. Thompson? Are you gonna shoot the Pope?

      Sounds like a win-win situation to me, though the pope could easily deflect the bullets by using the immense power of the Dark Side of the Force and then it's just a crazy-ass lawyer who's out of bullets up against an incredibly powerful Emperor who could crush all of his internal organs into sandwich paste with sheer will power. We'd still have Pope Palpatine but at least we'd be rid of Thompson.
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    3. Re:I love this guy. by Mikkeles · · Score: 5, Insightful

      While including materials irrelevant to the case in court documents may be worthy of censure, I am curious as to how the future review or study of a case will be done based on "A simple reference to the website and its alleged links" in place of hard documents (e.g.: paper or a CD) given the ephemeral nature of many web sites.

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  4. Sad part... by jythie · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The sad part really is... when doing this he honestly believes that he is discrediting Norm Kent rather then himself.

    He is over estimating how 'horrified' people are by homosexuality, believing that by bringing these images to the courts attention that he is somehow unmasking the horrors of Mr Kent's orientation.

    1. Re:Sad part... by Foobar+of+Borg · · Score: 4, Funny

      Why haven't they disbarred him yet?
      Why haven't they dismembered him yet?

      There, fixed.

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  5. "Court filling"? by Jeian · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't want to know... I don't want to know...

    1. Re:"Court filling"? by halcyon1234 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Pound the gavel.

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  6. I Motion To... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Throw him in the slammer. That'll learn him gay porn first hand!

    1. Re:I Motion To... by techpawn · · Score: 5, Funny

      That'll learn him gay porn first hand!
      I believe you mean FIST hand...
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  7. Just Jack! by Mysticweed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just be grateful he's spending long hours, night after night protecting us from the gays. Maybe he should move to Iran I hear they don't have gay people there.

    1. Re:Just Jack! by Khaed · · Score: 4, Informative

      Of course they do, that's not the point OP was making. Recently, the president of Iran claimed "we have no homosexuals in Iran." He said it three times in a row at Columbia U. At first, the students laughed at him, then started booing (lightly) the ridiculous statement.

      The reality is, they probably don't have anyone who will admit to being gay since it carries the death penalty.

  8. Re:Honesty... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Thompson becomes a little more like Ann Coulter every day. So sad and crazy that you feel pity, but then they open their yap and you remember why you despise them more than pity them.

  9. Re:Uh, thanks, Jack. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This thread is useless without pics

  10. Re:Honesty... by Applekid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    . . . they think it's amusing to kick around a mentally incompetent person. Don't be tricked: mentally incompetent or not he's still dangerous as long as he is consulted for interviews in which he can spew ignorance and has the ear of lawmakers to which he can spew FUD.
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  11. Re:Uh, thanks, Jack. by geekboy642 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, I'm pretty sure pics would lower the value of this thread into the sub-prime-mortgage-loan category.

    They were, after all, self-portrait.

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  12. Re:Uh, thanks, Jack. by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm glad the case wasn't about NAMBLA.

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  13. Does he have a "Wide Stance"? by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 4, Funny

    He is obsessed with gay sex.

    Against it or for it - you know that when he's obsessed - he's a Homo.

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    1. Re:Does he have a "Wide Stance"? by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Insightful

      While I sometimes think accusing political homophobes of being closet homosexuals, I often wonder whether some of these individuals are or not. I remember the first time someone told me about fisting, it was a rather venemous Fundementalist Christian on Usenet laying out in detail the "disgusting" practices of homosexuals. The guy's attention to detail was such that I read his post and thought "Who but a homosexual would be that interested in the explicit sexual activities of homosexuals?" I get that feeling from a few of the more vocal homophobes out there, they're just too in tune with the gay sex.

      In Thompson's case, I doubt it. The guy is just an attention whore. He'd do anything providing it got him attention.

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    2. Re:Does he have a "Wide Stance"? by Svartalf · · Score: 4, Funny

      Couldn't be because of this incident?

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    3. Re:Does he have a "Wide Stance"? by Zeinfeld · · Score: 5, Interesting
      it's hard to say. osama bin laden has an obsessive hatred and knowledge of the united states it's scary. do you think deep down he wishes he was american? I don't think so. it's all for shock value.

      The fact that X is the likely cause of outcome Y in situation Z does not mean that X must be the likely cause of outcome Y in all situations. That is a false generalization. This morning my telephone rang because I had placed a wake up call the night before. That does not mean that this is always the reason that a telphone rings or even the most likely reason for a telephone to ring, it is however the most likely reason in a hotel.

      Bin Laden has a deep seated hatred of all the inconvenient obstacles that lie between him and control of Saudi Arabia. He was quite happy to co-operate with the US when it suited him. When he fell out with the Saudi monarchy he resented the fact that it would be difficult to replace them with so many US bases on Saudi soil.

      Bin Laden has since fallen in with Zawahiri who has provided him with a means of rationalizing his hatred. Zawahiri in turn is obsessed with the idea of replacing the government of Egypt. He was instrumental in the assasination of Sadat in 1981 and took over the leadership of Islamic Jihad. Zawahiri's proximate complaint was the peace treaty with Israel.

      It is difficult to discuss Bin Laden rationally due to the propensity of wingnuts to deliberately take statements out of context for their own purposes. Bill Moyer was quite right to point out that the epithet 'coward' is thrown arround as if it were a purely normative ethical statement. It is necessary to proceed in small steps. Understanding the enemy in their true light is always important. The flaw in Bin Laden's ideology is the fact that he starts from utterly false premises, not a mere flaw in his logic or an inability to apply logic (aka irrational). He is not irrational in the sense of being entirely unpredictable or acting from entirely arbitrary impulses. Nor is his behaviour is self-defeating, on the contrary he has been allowed to achieve many of his political goals, in particular the demand that every terrorist makes and almost none achivies: to be treated as a political actor rather than a common criminal.

      Thompson's bizare actions on the other hand...

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    4. Re:Does he have a "Wide Stance"? by ozmanjusri · · Score: 5, Interesting
      While I sometimes think accusing political homophobes of being closet homosexuals, I often wonder whether some of these individuals are or not.

      Most likely they are.

      There was a study performed in the '90s where both normal and homophobic men were shown heterosexual and gay porn. They found;

      Both groups exhibited increases in penile circumference to the heterosexual and female homosexual videos. Only the homophobic men showed an increase in penile erection to male homosexual stimuli. The groups did not differ in aggression. Homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic individual is either unaware of or denies. http://www.oogachaga.com/downloads/homophobia_and_homosexual_arousal.pdf
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  14. It all makes sense now. by Devir · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Jack Thompson's "moral crusade" against video games, obscenity, rap and well anything morally devient is due wholely to his own immoral desires. Jack cannot control his porn cravings and his lust for violence. So he goes on a holy crusade to eliminate the corruption of the world as a cover. In reality he is fighting his own internal demons.

    Jack Thompson feels that by cleaning the world, his internal struggle will diminish and he will become a normal and productive human in the near future. The fool crusade he runs is selfish and in no way there to benefit humanity as a whole.

    There is possibly quite a bit more 100 million video game systems out there. Yet if video games turned people violent, then there's be at least 1-20 million murders a year related to video games, providing that is 1-20% conversion rate. yet the fact is that quite possibly 0.00004% video gamers turn criminally violent.

    There are over 17,000,000 registered gun users in the USA alone, yet we dont have murder numbers that even come close to that. 99.99901% of gun crime is done by Illegaly obtained fire arms. I've known many gamers who play violent games and own real guns. Yet somehow they have failed to kill anyone.

    Jack plays a numbers game formatted to his own crusade. He wants to win for once, since pretty much every other crusade he has taken up failed in some way.

    Jack needs a psychiatrist to help him, not an end to the worlds deviance. Any lawyer who sends his photo ID with batman pasted over it, has some sort of mental ailment that needs professional help.

    To JAck, I hope you get well. Just dont bring down the rest of the world because of your war with your inner demons. Just fight youw own internal battle and let us govern ourselves.

    1. Re:It all makes sense now. by Foobar+of+Borg · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Jack Thompson's "moral crusade" against video games, obscenity, rap and well anything morally devient is due wholely to his own immoral desires. Jack cannot control his porn cravings and his lust for violence.
      The sad thing is that you are probably right. From my experience, the most adamant moral crusaders are usually those who have trouble leading a life according to their own sense of morality. So, they try to force others to live morally while applying a form of psychological violence to themselves. Developing as a moral human being requires growth and maturity, not (for example) flogging yourself whenever you have naughty thoughts about women you are not married to.


      Jack is clearly an overly aggressive person (I know, "No shit!"). It wouldn't surprise me in the least if he were a closet homosexual, or at least a latent homosexual who tries violently to deny it to himself.

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    2. Re:It all makes sense now. by darkmeridian · · Score: 4, Interesting

      It's kind of like David Hager, a gynecologist who worked for the FDA. Hager stopped the emergency contraception pill Plan B from being sold over-the-counter despite the science advisory committee suggesting that it should be. For the second time in fifty years, the suggestion of the committee was ignored. The objection was that it would encourage unprotected sex. Eventually, Plan B was sold OTC but the fact that the FDA was politicalized made news.

      During a divorce, Hager's wife alleged that he had raped and sodomized her while she was asleep under the influence of prescription medication. His defense was that he had gotten lost and hadn't meant to sodomize her. (I forget how he got around the whole unwanted sex part of the charges.) Yes, a gynecologist couldn't find his wife's personal parts.

      Sigh.

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  15. How can you not love this guy? by klenwell · · Score: 4, Funny

    He's like the Andy Kaufman of the US legal system.

    Someday REM will sing a song about him.

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    1. Re:How can you not love this guy? by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

      He's like the Andy Kaufman of the US legal system.

      Someday REM will sing a song about him.


      And Jim Carrey will star as Thompson in a bio, and will give a stirring speech at the end talking about how filing explicit pictures of gay sex and trying to censor anything that makes him angry is the American way. Carey will go on to win his first Oscar, and Thompson will file suit against him for character assassination, and will include pictures of beastiality.
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  16. Re:Next... by squiggleslash · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No, I'm talking about Janet Reno. The incident is actually one of the great celebrated examples of Jack's kookiness. Quoth Wikipedia (which, alas, cites paper sources):

    Thompson gave Reno a letter at a campaign event requesting that she check a box to indicate whether she was homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual. Thompson said that Reno then put her hand on his shoulder and responded, "I'm only interested in virile men. That's why I'm not attracted to you."[10][11] He filed a police report accusing her of battery for touching him. In response, Reno asked Florida governor Bob Martinez to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate.[12] The special prosecutor rejected the charge, concluding that it was "a political ploy." Reno was ultimately re-elected with 69% of the vote. Thompson repeated allegations that Reno was a lesbian when she was nominated as U.S. Attorney General, leading one of her supporters, lieutenant governor Buddy MacKay, to dismiss him as a "kook."[10]

    Heh.

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  17. Re:Honesty... by genner · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thompson could never hope to half the man Ann Coulter is.

  18. Re:Maybe the judge is closeted? by Jabrwock · · Score: 4, Interesting

    On what basis? Gay porn is not illegal to view. Actually, it is, in a public venue. JT was in violation of Florida obscenity laws by doing what he did. Just as much as if he had posted straight porn to a court docket.

    Had he presented this in a court-room, it likely would have been a different story.
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  19. Re:Honesty... by Rew190 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You give Thompson a lot of credit... Ann Coulter is a very smart woman. She's made a career from shock politics - talking about her like she's insane or something only plays into the image that she's selling. It keeps her in the limelight, sells books, and gets her column space. Don't play her game by buying it.