Jack Thompson's Letter To Take-Two Exec's Mother

debatem1 writes "Apparently, anti-violent-video-games crusader Jack Thompson is at it again, this time writing a letter to the mother of Strauss Zelnick, Chairman of Take-Two, the company that produces the GTA series of video games. In it he compares Zelnick to a member of the Hitler Youth, advocates beating the young Zelnick, and contemplates the existence of a Ted Bundy merit badge for boy scouts."

Comments

rasing "mental health" is going too far.

[acidrain]

I have to seriously wonder, is this man mentally ill?

And seriously, the kinds of attacks against him here are no less one sided than the man himself. This forum is out of control on this topic. And I say this as a senior engineer in the games industry eagerly awaiting my copy of GTA which is in the mail.

In large part this is simply a matter of perspective, and a case of impassioned arguments that are untempered by a close look at the facts. For example take a look at this high-ranking youtube video of an interview with them man after a school shooting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weG7A4lTGtg Clearly he is quite emotional about the chronic youth violence in the USA. And again, being less aware of the facts and thinking you were trying to save lives you might just email some "evil" CEO's mother yourself. If we sided with the man we would be applauding him, not questioning his mental health.

Re:Jack's utter lack of a sense of irony

[geminidomino]

[The Hitler Youth] was the best propoganda machine Hitler had because it recruited complete loyalty and subscription to Nazism from a very young age. And you think that makes it different from the BSA? That's so cute.

Replace "Nazism" with "Neo-conservatism" and watch the shit stick.

Re:call jacks kids/family

[elrous0]

I'm pretty sure that his wife left with the kids shortly after he started walking around the house naked all night, smearing himself with his own feces and mumbling to himself about videogames monitoring his brainwaves.