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Judge Recommends Guilty Verdict for Jack Thompson
GamePolitics is reporting that a Florida Judge has recommended that Jack Thompson be found guilty on 27 of 31 counts of misconduct and is awaiting a Florida Supreme Court verdict to back him up. Thompson is striking back with allegations against the Judge and others, complaining that loyalty oaths were never signed. "Tunis made 21 recommendations of guilt in relation to Thompson's participation in Strickland vs. Sony, an Alabama case in which the anti-game attorney represented the families of two police officers and a police dispatcher slain by 18-year-old Grand Theft Auto player Devin Moore. Tunis also recommended that Thompson be found guilty on four out of five counts relating to his 2006 attempt to have Rockstar's Bully declared a public nuisance in a case before Miami Judge Ronald Friedman. An additional two guilty counts stemmed from a non-video game matter."
Who is Jack Thompson?
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
He's done nothing constructive to date that I know of, he has caused nothing but trouble for everyone. Throw him in guantanamo bay! (the facility, not the actual bay itself.. I wouldn't want him to pollute that pristine caribean water)
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We could keep him around for entertainment value alone, but best of all he's so freaking useful in totally discrediting the antigamers who don't froth at the mouth, chew carpets, and fling feces at the judge.
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
Up in ur base, killin all ur d00dz, JT!
Please stop submitting Jack Thompson stories. His only point to his shenanigans is to gain press via controversy. Please don't give it to him by crossposting stories about him to Slashdot, Fark, etc. etc.
...you sue Jack Thompson!
Slashdotted 10 min after greenlit? I recommend we find their hosting service guilty of impersonating a server...
But man are they throwing the book against him. I have no love for the frivolous nature of the lawsuits and ridiculous manner he presents his arguments but it sounds like they're really going over the top. I mean, that list of charges against him reads like every lawyer's trial strategy.
GTA4 has sold over 3.6 million copies. Even if lawyers didn't like to brutally advance their careers through any means necessary, I would expect at least some of these sales to be to lawyers.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
If the gay porn submitted for judicial review doesn't fit, you must acquit!
If he's disbarred I'm sure there is a place for him next to Tipper Gore and Hillary Rosen (RIAA) in the Democrat party.
If you have the facts on your side, then argue the facts. If the facts aren't on your side, then argue the law. If neither the facts nor the law is on your side, then argue procedure.
Methinks that challenging the Oaths of Office of the Judge falls under the "procedure" category...
I just get a "Temporarily Closed" page when loading GamePolitics...great timing to move your host.
Ars has a writeup that's a summary of GP's: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080520-judges-report-in-jack-thompson-case-guilty-on-27-charges.html
I *KNEW* I bought that bottle of champagne for a reason!
Seriously, I hope this does more than take this man out of the courtroom for a while. And I hope no one else decides to step into his place.
In case someone does, I'm saving the champagne bottle. They make great Molotov cocktails. I saw it done in a game once.
I'm waiting for the next sequel.
GTA5:JT Needs Soap-On-A-Rope
What is the law, if not semantics? While I don't agree with Thompson, I do agree that until a loyalty oath is signed, no judge can ever issue a binding ruling.
We as citizens must demand that our government dot it's 'i's and cross its 't's. Without these oaths, the judges are unaccountable. How hard is it to get a signature? How hard is it to take an oath? These oaths are required by the people and in them, the person taking the oath states they will follow whatever constitutions are relevant to the position.
See http://www.jail4judges.org/
Slashdot's rate-of-post filter: Preventing you from posting too many great ideas at once.
A man who stood up on Fox news the day of the Virginia Tech shootings (when the bodies of slain students were still warm) and told the nation that he was certain we would find video games in the shooter's bedroom. He then later turned one of the funerals into a media circus and photo op.
A man who has overstepped laws designed to give Americans freedom and the right to enjoy entertainment in their homes. He has taken the The Bill of Rights into the restroom and wiped his ass with it.
A man who, after overstepping his bounds an pushing extreme values of the political Right, asked for members of the Bush family (which he erroneously thought would be allies) to remove his disbarment from the Florida courts. Name Jeb & George
You have a man who has tried to undo the separation of church and state. This same man has been operating in a court of law and using false correlations while pushing his own moral and religious beliefs. He is completely divorced from the sense of Justice and the American People. This same man will soon suffer under The Justice of The United States of America or my faith in it will soon falter
My work here is dung.
On the bright side: no job means more time to play GTAIV!
You could have also phrased that as, "..police dispatcher slain by 18-year-old fluoridated-water drinker Devin Moore."
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Actually, none of them are videogame-related. He is being reprimanded for misbehavior regarding his role as an agent of the court. They arose in the context of a lawsuit which featured games as part of its subject matter, but none of this actually has anything to do with games.
But hey, someone who disagrees with "the viewpoint" is being punished. That the malfeasance and reprimand has nothing to do with that viewpoint is irrelevant, so long as everyone gets their blood.
So I'd like to thank GamePolitics, Scuttlemonkey, and especially the Florida judge for brightening up this bad bad Wednesday!
Oh yea, and I want to thank Jack Thompson too, since if he wasn't such a stupid, obnoxious, self-serving buffoon this story would have never made it to slashdot!
My life is SO filled with coincidences. Last night at Felber's one of the ladies there called me a "fuckmonkey" (in regards to my bringing Amy there half an hour before taking Tami there), I just got back fro Top Cat's, where today's drink special is the "Drunk Monkey", and now the Jack Thompson story brought to us by Scuttlemonkey!
Weird. But not as weird as Jack Thompson.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
If he gets locked up, someone might emerge who can actually argument and make the public belive that the cause might be worth fighting. Somebody who has only stayed in the shadows because Jack Thomson has made all video game opponents look like a big bag of crazy. Someone who is actually mentally stable and sees, that such lamenting has only made the public side up with the game makers.
Beware!
While I love what the judge has done to this asshat, I think first (if it is not) that all judges should sign these oaths, and second, that if he was supposed to, and didn't, the judge should get fined for leaving an open door for a "not guilty by technicality" to occur over something so minor. I'm a programmer for the County Schools and I had to sign the loyalty oath to the US and California consitution when I got my parking pass just to program, I'd hope they'd hold a judge to this rather simplistic requirement (its not like having to take a physical or anything, and if it is a problem for him, he shouldn't be on the bench.)
Forgive my spelling from time to time. I'm often posting during short breaks.
... Some Hot Coffee to keep him calm.
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
You can read a good summary at law.com:
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202421556225
Rockstar should give this guy a percentage for all the free marketing. Without the controversy and media attention would GTA sales be as tremendous as they are? I mean the guy invented the term "Pixelante".
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
So what videogame was he playing that turned him into a criminal?
Leben Sie jetzt die Fragen.
Cool! It's like mad libs.
I'm going to fill in the blanks here with "Person's Name:" Obama
Obama used to work as a rodeo clown
Obama is part of a secret organization that wants to eliminate zippers in pant flys
Obama doesn't like vanilla ice cream
Obama will support the right of ducks to cross roads before geese
Under an Obama Presidency, use of Netscape Navigator 3.0 will increase 40934%
Within the first 100 days of his presidency, Obama will send in for sea monkeys off the back of a cereal box, but will still be waiting for them
Obama likes big butts and he cannot lie
Within the first 150 days of his presidency, Obama will be sorely dissapointed, because the sea monkeys weren't like in the picture
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
....but, he is a tool.
Fascism: An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. See also: NAZI's
You are about to get what you finally deserve. Enjoy your permanent vacation.
If he is found guilty then how about a fitting punishment?
I'd lock him in a room with some Cacodaemons. Or slap him with a chainsaw. (How can you tell I haven't played any video games for 10 years????)
Having painfully(1) read GamePolitics' coverage of the trial, I find myself concluding that the real victims of Thompson are not gamers but the lawyers and judges of Alabama and Florida. As gamers, we can ignore him and go back to playing our games while occasionally enjoying schadenfreude at his expense.
The lawyers and judges that had to deal with him endured harassment, patently false accusations, completely incoherent arguments, abuse of law and process, and threats at every turn. It made me glad to be on the receiving end of only the news stories about him.
(1) Both because Thompson's rants are difficult to parse and because GamePolitics.com's servers were awful.
"In sending documents to opponents, Thompson would frequently attach a photocopy of his driver's license, with a photo of Batman pasted over his own, just to make sure they knew who they were dealing with. Thompson said, "I have sent my opponents pictures of Batman to remind them I'm playing the role of Batman. Just like Bruce Wayne helped the police in the movie, I have had to assist the sheriff of Broward County." He also wore a Batman wristwatch."
LOL
Word is that he's planning to serve the local McDonalds with a cease-and-desist order and a job application.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
It looks like he has four out of five stars.
lol, I like this game....
Obama will outlaw "Soviet russia" and "imagine a cluster of...." jokes
Obama will outlaw all otehr comunication than ip over pidgin.
Obama will then send lazer sharks to iran.
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...his whole argument has been null and void since the beginning anyways, due to the very fact that he's still alive.
If gamers were so influenced by violent games, someone would have surely shot him.
He's the lowest of the low, he uses terrible events like shootings to push his agenda on people.
I hope he does some time so he can find out what REAL violence is all about.
If I were the head of Take-Two, I'd have fun in my next edition of Grand Theft Auto.....
I'd immortalize Jack Thompson, and that other idiot Devin Moore, in my video game by making them the most useless, idiotic, and retarded babbling simps in the entire game.....
Personally, I'd try to be as insulting as possible:
1) Avatars are monkeys wearing diapers.
2) Babble incoherently, with coherent excerpts of their statements mixed in among the babble.
3) If naked, give them *VERY* small johnsons.
4) Make them "bosses" in the game, ones that like to hump parking meters and small animals.
5) Refer to them by their actual, real-life names.
and last but not least.....
Include a copy of the letter, with pictures of both morons, in all game cases. Maybe even include a coupon for flagrantly insulting anti-Thompson and anti-Moore merchandise.
Revenge is a bitch. Especially when it's legal.
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
Prison Rape
Wow! I just clicked that link and was sucked through some sort of dimensional vortex, like in Poltergeist! Luckily, I was able to rescue myself using "the back button".
God is not just almighty and truthful, he is also just. Even though God does not like to kill people, being just he has to mete out due punishment on people who violate the Commandments. Soon there will be another school massacre or someone running amok serial killing cops or so, because America has abused its principles and deserves punishment and reflection for turning itself into a death-cult society.
God will hand the souls of one or two of those GTA game addicts to the Satan and the utmost devil will make them commit heinous crimes in real life, crimes that will shock the nation. If those game addicts were morally good people, they could resist the Satan and stay innocent, but their souls have already rottent due to exposure to excessive violance and pronography, making them easy puppets of the devil for the purposes of capital crime.
If the american nation is as christian as it claims to be, it shall return to the way of God and repel the masonist media and political machinery which is turning the whole world and especially the USA into a death-cult society as preparation for a cabal-based global regime's rule.
It is truly saddening how much young generations have been indoctrinated with the desire for more violance, loveless and unnatural sex or drug use via all-powerful media imagery. Even though many of those young people are guilty only in their lack of will to stand up for moral good, they cannot excuse themselves from the consequences. Remember, God is just!
Made me guffaw, titter, and rofl all at once! One less source of corruption in the world!
I can't belive he's still breathing.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!! Too long has Jack sat atop his high horse
Just hope we never hear from him again!