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Jack Thompson Disbarred

Posted by timothy on from the it-burns-it-burns dept.

Sockatume writes "The Florida Supreme Court has approved Judge Dava Tunis' recommendations for the permanent disbarment of John B. "Jack" Thompson, with no leave to reapply and $43,675.35 in disciplinary costs. The ruling is a step up from the enhanced disbarment that had been suggested by the prosecution, which would have forbidden him from reapplying for ten years. Thompson has 30 days to appeal the ruling before the disbarment is permanent. Thompson responds to the ruling."

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  1. Hallelujah! by tergvelo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's about damn time this poor excuse for a human being was disbarred.
    Maybe now we won't have to hear about him all the damn time.
    ~t

    1. Re:Hallelujah! by uberjack · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's about damn time this poor excuse for a human being was disbarred. Maybe now we won't have to hear about him all the damn time. ~t

      Fat chance. Now he'll have his own talk show on Fox

    2. Re:Hallelujah! by Foobar+of+Borg · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If what Fox News wasn't popular with Christians and therefore reflective of modern Christian belief they wouldn't be popular or influential. Jack Thompson and people like him represent modern Christianity even if a few fringe Christians disapprove.

      American fundamentalists != modern Christianity
      The rest of the Christian world != a few fringe Christians
      I guess by your type of assessment, Catholicism is a fringe Christian group and Eastern Orthodoxy doesn't even exist. There is a whole world outside of the U.S. In some parts of it, they even speak languages other than English.

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    3. Re:Hallelujah! by arth1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      American fundamentalists != modern Christianity

      That depends on your point of view. If you're an "American fundamentalist" or "modern Christian", I am sure you'll think you're miles apart, but seen from e.g. a pagan point of view, the two are as close as to be near indistinguishable.

      Or, to use the obligatory car analogy, you may think that your Honda Civic Hybrid is very different from a Ford Explorer, but for someone normally flying a plane, the difference is minor. And from the point of view of someone walking or using a bicycle, none of them are eco-friendly.

      A "modern Christian" walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and even floats, so what colour the feathers are is rather irrelevant. He's still a monotheist with a Judeo-Christian belief system that he claims also applies to those not sharing the faith. Show me one Christian that's open to believe that I won't be judged because I don't believe, and I'll be open to change my classification. Until then, I only see various Christian denominations as different flavors of ice cream, and I don't want ice cream, whether it's pistachio or rotten herring flavoured.

    4. Re:Hallelujah! by Endo13 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Precisely. You can't legislate true Christianity, it completely goes against the definition of what Christianity is. (For proof, you need look no further than the Catholic church in history to see what the result is of legislated Christianity.) Christianity is about choosing the right path (which is never the easy path). This is also why as a Christian I cannot support religious people (Christian or otherwise) as government officials. It puts a true Christian in a no-win situation. As a Christian, it is your duty to do everything you can to try to show others the way... but at the same time you have to let them choose their own way.

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  2. Re:Hrmmm.. I dont like this. by Hairy+Heron · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, it takes filing tons and tons of frivolous lawsuits and wasting countless hours of court time and taxpayer money to get where he is at.

  3. Sucks when actions have consequences by spun · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe you think everyone should be able to do whatever the hell they want whenever they want, and if people don't like it, they can piss off?

    Actions have consequences. When you screw up, you have to pay the price. I know, making people pay for their mistakes is taking away their freedom to be douchebags. Obviously these professional associations, by holding their members to certain standards, must hate our freedoms.

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  4. Same rule in health care by querist · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't know about law, but in various health care professions (I keep my chiropractic license for pro bono patients) and licensed engineers (I know a few), one of the first questions they ask on any application for a license is something along the lines of

    "Has your license to practice ever been suspended or revoked in this or any other jurisdiction, or has any [insert profession] board taken disciplinary action against you? If yes, please provide a detailed explaination."

    That usually means that if you were booted in one jurisdiction, your chances of being licensed in another jurisdiction are sufficiently close to zero to be indistinguishable from zero for all practical purposes.

    Oh, and if you are found out to have LIED on that question, your license is automatically revoked (at least in SC) and you're fined heavily. For some professions, that's even a felony and includes jail time.