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Title: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Odonadon on October 15, 2005, 11:17:42 PM I think everyone's gonna enjoy this article:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=12259 Quote Florida attorney and anti-videogame campaigner Jack Thompson has come under fire from America's National Institute on Media and the Family for claiming to have the support of the group in his regular open letters. The decision of the group to distance itself from the attorney and his headline-grabbing tactics comes despite the fact that like Thompson, the institute is a vocal critic of games such as Manhunt and 25 to Life for their violent content. The institute's founder, Dr David Walsh, wrote an open letter to Thompson, a copy of which was obtained by US website Game Politics. The letter was also sent to the likes of senator Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates and Doug Lowenstein of the ESA - the same Doug Lowenstein whom Thompson has previously compared to Hitler. It begins with Dr Walsh explaining that he established the institute ten years ago "to engage in research and education about the effects of media on children's health and development." Walsh writes that one of the areas of most concern to the institute is the effects of violent media. "I know that you share that common concern and I am well aware that you have frequently cited me and our organisation as a source of scientific information," Walsh continues. "However, over the past few months, I and members of my board have a growing concern that your use of our name, without our permission, has had a negative influence as we try to educate the public on this important issue. "Your commentary has included extreme hyperbole and your tactics have included personally attacking individuals for whom I have a great deal of respect... Some of the people that you have publicly criticised are not only people of integrity, but are people who have worked to improve the lives of children." Walsh goes on to note that Thompson has been using his name in correspondence even though they have no formal relationship, creating the impression "That we condone these tactics. We do not. "The result is that our position and reputation as a research based, non-partisan, solution-focused organisation has been jeopardised. "Consequently, I ask that you cease using the institute's or my name in any way that would give the impression that we support your efforts." Walsh also requests that Thompson remove the link to the institute's website from his own site. Walsh's letter comes just days after Thompson issued an open letter to the videogames industry in which he outlined his idea for a game where the CEO of fictional company Take This, Paula Eibel, is murdered along with her husband and children. Should any developer agree to make the game, Thompson will donate $10,000 to the charity of choice of Paul Eibeler, the CEO of Take Two. Mike Krahulik, the artist behind popular gaming culture comic Penny-Arcade and a founder of the hugely successful Child's Play charity, contacted Thompson after he made this offer to point out that Child's Play has raised over half a million dollars for children's hospitals around the USA since its inception. Commenting on Penny-Arcade.com, Krahulik reports that Thompson proceeded to call him directly - keen, no doubt, to congratulate such a successful fellow organiser of videogaming-related charity efforts. Or perhaps not. "Jack actually just called and screamed at me for a couple minutes," Krahulik said. "He said if I email him again I will 'regret it'. What a violent man." OD Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: den68 on October 16, 2005, 05:50:18 AM it would appear this Jack fellow is quite out of control and perhaps mad. nice article.
Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Izret101 on October 16, 2005, 01:33:41 PM Yea i don't think many people are going to continue listening to him if any have.
He does sound rather insane. I bet he played dungeons and dragons when he was growing up. Or read comics books. Or listened to rock and roll. Seeing as they both use to be sited for driving kids to commit murders, suicide, use drugs, etc. Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Izret101 on October 16, 2005, 05:15:14 PM http://www.thinkgeek.com/pennyarcade/gamer/7a15/
I am buying a shirt when i get a job. or so i hope Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: NDiddy on October 16, 2005, 05:59:46 PM Quote http://www.thinkgeek.com/pennyarcade/gamer/7a15/ I am buying a shirt when i get a job. or so i hope maybe we can get a bulk order deal lol. Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Lord Nepenthean on October 17, 2005, 08:18:37 AM This story gets even better. Check out Thompson's response. It is laughable (bolding added by yours truly to highlight my favorite parts):
_____________________________________________________________________ "Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 6:01 PM Subject: Dave Walsh and Jack Thompson Dave, I received your letter today. A couple of clarifications, if I'm allowed to do that. I have never given the impression that you are anything other than a remarkably talented and insightful professional who has been sounding the alarm for many years about the dangers of adult entertainment when consumed by kids. I started doing that in 1987. Not sure as to the precise date you started, but it has been a long time. I have never said to anyone that you and I are in league with one another. I did recommend that 60 Minutes and Reader's Digest talk to you about the Alabama wrongful death case. I think it is fair to say you would not have been on those programs if I had not recommended you. I was happen to do it. As you recall, I got you the video gamer to sit with in Tuscaloosa to show the violent content of GTA: Vice City. I was happy to do it. You will also recall that it was I that urged you to go forward on the "Hot Coffee mod" scandal. You repeatedly called me for legal advice and I freely gave it. As you know, I prepped Senator Clinton, per her staff's request, before she had her splendid "Hot Coffee" news conference. As you will recall, you called me to let me know you were on your way to Washington to do that press conference with her. I was happy for you. I certainly did, however, lose respect for Senator Clinton when she decided, after that, to attend a fundraiser thrown for her by the video game industry and by ESA's Doug Lowenstein. To me, that was a sell-out for campaign cash. It may be that because you raise money for your organization you understand the needs of fundraising, but to take money from the ESA is to take blood money. The parents I represented in Paducah would not understand, nor do I. I note you send Doug Lowenstein, your letter to me. That is quite odd, given the things you have said to me about him in the past. I am wondering just who, David, these people are whom I have criticized "who have worked to improve the lives of children." Do you have in mind the folks at Best Buy, one of whom you copied with your letter? I know you get money from people connected with these folks, David, but you do know that Best Buy is presently pre-selling, to adults and to children, the Columbine simulator game, Bully? You do know that, right, David? Of course you do. I told you Best Buy was doing that. So is the Target Corporation, whose Chairman Bob Ulrich you copy with your letter. I am wondering, David, what these men have to do to get on your bad side? Do they actually have to do the physical bullying of kids, as selling a bullying rehearsal trainer to kids is okay? Finally, Dave, I understand that your letter is more about protecting your funding sources than criticizing me, so I understand what you felt you had to do. But there is something else here. Your role in this fight is indispensable - or I should say has been, as you maybe have decided to go a different route now - and I applaud you for what you have done. But the thing that makes you feel uncomfortable with me is no so much that I have gone too far but that you have not gone far enough. The time for hand-wringing and trying to "persuade" the bad guys to stop being bad was over quite sometime ago. Now I understand the mindset of the upper Midwest, especially in the Twin Cities. Everybody likes to get along, assume that everyone "means well," and things will all just work out for the best in the end. I know, and you know, if you are being honest, that that is not how the world works. Evil people sometimes have to be stopped, or at least their evil has to be stopped. You can cite all the studies and all the findings and keep giving your video game report card to Congress, and it will not matter unless somebody gets into the trenches and stops these people. While you have been giving report cards on a bunch of sociopaths, the violent games have been getting more violent. Senator Lieberman, bless his heart, wants with Senator Clinton to fund a study with taxpayer dollars to find out if violence in entertainment really makes kids violent. That was decided years ago. It is a dodge from having to do something about the violence. The entire ESRB rating system is a joke. It is a tool for marketing violence to kids. It does not stop the sale of violence to kids. You know that. It would be better if we had no system, and then parents would not have been fooled for more than a decade into thinking that the system was actually protecting their kids. Liberals, like you, love to label things and then think that the labeling has accomplished something. If that had been the case, then Churchill's calling Hitler a Nazi would have ended the war. But no, people like me had to get into the trenches and stop the Nazis. And there were always those tut-tutting back home about what a nasty business it is to stop the bad people, and can't we all just "get along." Actually, Dave, and this is the point: We can't just all get along. You want to criticize retailers like Best Buy, while at the same time taking their money. That is what prompts your letter to me decrying my tactics and my hyperbole and so forth. I have been dismayed by your being on both sides of the fence, because it undercuts your credibility. Dave, it is laughable, it is absurd, that you have copied your email to Bill Gates, of all people. This is a guy whose Halo trained Malvo to kill in D.C. This is a guy who now has put all the Grand Theft Auto games on his XBox. This is a man who is going to release Bully when the coast is clear in the spring. Gates is a man who wants to be on both sides of a fence. Sound familiar? Regards, Jack Thompson" ______________________________________________ Thanks go to GAF: http://www.gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=5661 Thompson sent a second letter which can also be viewed at the above link. Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Lord Nepenthean on October 17, 2005, 08:56:36 AM But wait -- there's more!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thompson also wrote to former RF Generation mascot Joe Lieberman (bold once again added by me to emphasize favorite parts): _________________________________________________________ Dear Senator Lieberman: I received late last Thursday a remarkably false and hurtful letter from someone who is a friend of yours and who used to be a friend of mine, Dr. David Walsh of the National Institute on Media and the Family. Two people who got Walsh's letter are you and Doug Lowenstein of the ESA. Therein is the explanation of why it was really sent. I have over the years repeatedly told Dr. Walsh of my admiration for his knowledge as to the harm caused by mature video games sold to minors. I have done nothing for years but praise him to others, especially those in the media. Dr. Walsh has gotten himself on plenty of prominent news shows about this issue on his own, but I got him on 60 Minutes this year and in Reader's Digest. Dave indicated that he was pleased that I did. Neither of us seeks the publicity for its own sake. We both care about the message. It will save lives. The three of us, obviously, have shared this same concern about adult games sold to kids for a very long time. When you meet the bereaved families of these victims, they change your life forever, as did the families in Paducah whom I represented. Critics of the three of us don't understand our concern. They haven't met the victims. The very day I sent Dave a draft of an affidavit for him to sign for our wrongful death case in Alabama, Dave, instead of calling me wrote this letter saying that I needed to stop suggesting publicly and otherwise that he endorses what I do. I have NEVER suggested such a thing, ever. Dave and I have joked about how he is the "good cop" on this issue, and I am the "bad cop." But if Dave had a problem with my "tactics," I believe you and I both know, as people of faith, that the Biblical principle is that you go privately to the person with whom you have a disagreement and express the concern. Dave NEVER did that. Why? You see, Senator, I am presently suing Best Buy and Target over Take-Two's planned release of Bully, a Columbine simulator in which you can bludgeon your classmates and teachers. I was on ABC World News Tonight and CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight about Bully and my lawsuit against these retailers. The stakes here are very high. Dave's organization is funded by Target and Best Buy. Elliot Kaplan is a lawyer who defended Best Buy the last time I sued it successfully, and it is his foundation that, in Kaplan's words "has given millions of dollars to Dave Walsh." Kaplan is a director on the Board of Best Buy. You and I both learned to "follow the money" a long time ago. It can explain why friends write letters that have absolutely no basis in fact but which help those who fund them. Why else would Dave tell me publicly to stop doing something he could have asked me to do privately and which I have never done? Dave copied you with that letter. He did that because he knew of my relationship with your office, how I have sat with your people the day we were both interviewed for Spencer Halpin's Moral Kombat documentary that is coming out this fall. I am deeply appreciative of your Chief of Staff's tremendous concern and interest in this issue. I have a lovely letter from you thanking me for my abiding involvement in this issue. Nobody here is saying you endorse my methods. You appreciate my concern. Why did Dave Walsh send his letter to Doug Lowenstein - to make sure that it would be spread all over the world. That is precisely what has happened. You should hear the things Dave has said to me about Doug, about his prevarications. I think Doug is a liar. Dave is too nice a guy to say so publicly, but I am not. Doug Lowenstein, in my opinion, is personally responsible for a number of deaths. He is paid well to spin like the worst propagandists in history. I don't need to tell you the harm that propagandists can cause, the lives they can cost. The Third Reich was founded upon propaganda as surely as it was founded upon armaments. When Doug Lowenstein says the industry wants kids not to buy these games, he is lying. When he says there is no proof that these games hurt kids, he is lying. Dave would not say so. I say so. I'm not nice, and I don't pretend to be. The reason Dave sent that letter is the same reason the Philadelphia law firm of Blank Rome has embarked on character assassination of me in our case in Alabama arising out of Take-Two's GTA games. Blank Rome has as one of its partners Barbara Comstock, the head of "opposition research" at the RNC. Blank Rome has unethically used her RNC techniques on me because they know they can't win this case, covered on 60 Minutes and in Reader's Digest on the merits, so they have cranked up their Swift Boat Vets approach and used it on me, with no facts to back them up. As Twain said, "A lie is half way around the world before the truth puts on its shoes." Dave Walsh's money people took a page out of the Blank Rome/RNC playbook. I am getting used to it. All it has accomplished is make me more determined to destroy the Take-Two's of the world, by God's grace. Dave Walsh is a very nice man who blew this one. I happen to think there is room in the world for Dave's approach on games, but I also think somebody has to be willing to get in the trenches and slug it out with sociopaths. Take-Two's Mr. Houser proves in today's New York Times he is just such a sociopath. With all respect, Dave's Annual Video Game Report Card has not slowed down Take-Two, has it? I have used lawsuits in the past to accomplish some very good things. I made enemies in the process. I am proud to count Doug Lowenstein as one of them. I wish you all of God's best. I wish people like Take-Two all of Satan's worst. Dave Walsh would not say that, and that is part of his charm. Some of us were not called to be charming. I want to win this thing, not for my sake, but because lives are at stake. That is what makes what Dave did so hurtful. Instead of calling me up and talking to me man to man, he wrote a letter to Doug Lowenstein. Blessings, Jack Thompson ____________________________________________ EDIT: I forgot to post the link to where I got this: http://www.gamepolitics.com/ Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Sauza12 on October 17, 2005, 10:44:19 AM This brought a smile to my face.
"WWWAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!! Dave doesn't want to be my friend anymore! WWWWWAAAAAHHHHH!!!! Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Tynstar on October 17, 2005, 01:54:33 PM I hope this guy dies soon.
Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: TraderJake on October 17, 2005, 02:26:20 PM Quote The Bible doesn't promote killing innocent people," Thompson said. "Grand Theft Auto does. Islam does. Islam promotes the killing of innocent people. The Quran requires the infidel, whether Jew or Christian, to be killed. … That's a core essence of the religion. … Muhammad was a pirate who killed infidels and who advocated the killing of infidels. Not a nice guy. Osama bin Laden is in keeping with his fine tradition. Wow, what a horrible person. And to think that he is from Ohio, and possibly even Cincinnati. I've said this many places before, and here I say it again: Games don't kill people. People kill people. Even if something is suggestive in nature, a sane individual still makes a conscious decision to point that gun or flaunt the knife, and is ultimately responsible for his actions. Could an architect blame the Sims for allowing him to design a structurally impossible building in the game, yet in real life the house collapses? I really doubt it. Would an urban planner blame his city's poor network on SimCity because that game modeled it perfectly? I think not. Games are Games, no matter how graphic the game may be. Game's aren't a viable scapegoat for professionals, so why should it be any different for violent offenders? Actions take personal responsibilty, and to try to state otherwise undermines the very fabric of civilization. Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Izret101 on October 17, 2005, 04:28:04 PM I like him now |D
If anythign he is detracting from his own point now. He might have had some sway over the last few years but lately it just seems like more and more people have been and will be distancing themselves from him because he is insane. Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Hydrobond on October 17, 2005, 06:25:40 PM Don't know if this was posted yet...
Taken from www.fark.com: Anti-violence video-game lawyer Jack Thompson offers $10,000 to charity if a game is made out of one of his ideas, rescinds offer when someone actually does it. But that's okay, because Penny Arcade donated the cash for him. In his name http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php?date=2005-10-17#2834 added: http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000743063662/ Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Zimbacca on October 17, 2005, 09:49:46 PM At least the charity got the money.
Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: yap on October 18, 2005, 09:20:23 AM http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/10/18/1516223.shtml?tid=153&tid=17
The title of that story is "Jack Thompson Calls the Cops on Penny Arcade". Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: The Metamorphosing Leon on October 18, 2005, 11:19:07 AM I think this is making me wnat to kill someone more than any game ever has.
Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Zimbacca on October 18, 2005, 11:54:01 AM (http://www.penny-arcade.com/docs/jackdocument.gif)
(http://www.penny-arcade.com/docs/check.jpg) Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Izret101 on October 18, 2005, 12:39:37 PM He got the website wrong |D
What a jack ass Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Zimbacca on October 18, 2005, 02:58:26 PM I didn't notice that.
Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: TraderJake on October 18, 2005, 03:08:34 PM Penny Arcade gets a thousand cool points.
Jack Thompson = Boy who cried wolf Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Mike Leon on October 18, 2005, 08:42:21 PM We've seen a very clear picture of Jack Thompson painted in the last week. He has confirmed what many of us suspected long ago. He has confirmed that he does not care about children. He does not care about police officers' lives. He most definitely does not care about the lives of people in the video game industry. He cares about one thing and one thing alone, money. Why else would he carry out these far-fetched and frivolous lawsuits against Maxis and EA? They didn't even create the objectionable content in the games! He doesn't even argue that they did. Somebody said "class action" and he saw $$$. That's all that's going on here.
Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Izret101 on October 19, 2005, 10:28:58 AM I think it is funny that he is suing them for not enforcing their own copyright laws.
Because that is what it bopils down too. I also love how EA and Maxis are working with the Porn Industry on these mods. Nevermind the fact that tons of people created things like pets furniture TVs etc. I liked the Hamster that carried a virus the most :) Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: yap on October 19, 2005, 10:48:51 AM Quote We've seen a very clear picture of Jack Thompson painted in the last week. He has confirmed what many of us suspected long ago. He has confirmed that he does not care about children. He does not care about police officers' lives. He most definitely does not care about the lives of people in the video game industry. He cares about one thing and one thing alone, money. Why else would he carry out these far-fetched and frivolous lawsuits against Maxis and EA? They didn't even create the objectionable content in the games! He doesn't even argue that they did. Somebody said "class action" and he saw $$$. That's all that's going on here. Well, I don't know. I think it's more than just money, I think Jack Thompson is looking to leverage all this free publicity (and he's gotten a lot) into getting him an elected position. Look at his track record, it's funny.
Why would he go through all the trouble of getting Clear Channel fined a measly $400k? He didn't get that fine. Each act on that list got Jack a lot of free publicity. And while videogame nuts might hate him, his ideas ring true with most soccer moms. He'll be on the ballot somewhere eventually. Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: NDiddy on October 19, 2005, 11:05:31 AM Quote Well, I don't know. I think it's more than just money, I think Jack Thompson is looking to leverage all this free publicity (and he's gotten a lot) into getting him an elected position. Look at his track record, it's funny.
Why would he go through all the trouble of getting Clear Channel fined a measly $400k? He didn't get that fine. Each act on that list got Jack a lot of free publicity. And while videogame nuts might hate him, his ideas ring true with most soccer moms. He'll be on the ballot somewhere eventually. Yeah I wrote A more condensed version of the same thing in the first oh jack thread anyway just saying I completely agree. Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: captain_nintendo on October 19, 2005, 12:30:37 PM Jack is like a forum troll on steriods ...
What a joke ::) Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Izret101 on October 19, 2005, 01:29:27 PM From www.ctrlaltdel-online.com
Quote Take this Jack Thompson quote for example: "God is in this battle, and I am privileged to be a foot soldier. You all should be concerned, not about me, but about Him." Now, I don't know about you guys, but the first thing I think of when I hear "foot soldier" is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Remember the ninjas? The foot clan? Hehe, I couldn't resist. (http://ctrlaltdel-online.com/images/jackt.jpg) Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Zimbacca on October 19, 2005, 02:45:12 PM I saw that too and was going to post it but you beat me to it.
Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Tynstar on October 19, 2005, 03:12:02 PM What ever happened to PARENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: yap on October 20, 2005, 06:39:45 AM http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051019-5458.html
"Anti-game activist Jack Thompson under investigation 10/19/2005 5:55:49 PM, by Jeremy Reimer At this point, the nerds swung into action. Penny Arcade forum members wrote, edited and sent letters and faxes to the Florida Bar Association detailing Thompson's activities and urging the review of his license to practice law. Jack Thompson has already received a reprimand by the FBA for his antics in 1998, and according to a spokesperson, the letters and faxes have been received and forwarded to the disciplinary committee." Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Izret101 on October 20, 2005, 11:22:33 AM YES I LOVE IT!
There was somethigs in there i have not read anywhere esle. Like he had previously been under investigtion and he called Janet Reno a lesbo. Well he shouldn't have gotten in trouble there the truth is the truth ;) Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Mike Leon on October 20, 2005, 12:00:09 PM Quote Filed, in 1999, a $33 million federal products liability lawsuit against several entertainment companies, including Time Warner Inc., Polygram Film Entertainment Distribution Inc., Palm Pictures, Island Pictures and New Line Cinema, Atari Corp., Nintendo of America, Sega of America Inc. and Sony Computer Entertainment on behalf of the parents of victims of the 1997 Paducah schoolhouse shootings. It may not make him money immediately, but in the long run it's all about Jack Thompson making a fortune, whether that be by achieving political office of just filing suits against a bunch of deep pockets. The only proof you need is that massive list of defendants from the 1999 lawsuit to see what kind of person Thompson is. He practically sued everybody that ever spoke to anyone related to the video game industry. Atari? WTF? I don't remember them making any violent video games in 1999, and I'm pretty damn sure the kid that shot up Paducah was too young to have played Death Race. Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Mike Leon on October 21, 2005, 05:11:59 PM Jack Thompson was in Orgrimmar this afternoon.
Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Hydrobond on October 22, 2005, 11:40:05 AM Ha! He's a lvl 1 rogue.
Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Lord Nepenthean on October 31, 2005, 06:20:22 AM MORE!!!!!!!!
http://www.gamepolitics.com/ _______________________________________________________________ Jack Thompson Claims Death Threat, Spreads Blame Around Miami attorney and self-described "anti-game crusader" Jack Thompson issued a press release a short while ago in which he claimed that his life was threatened by a 16-year old boy from Houston, TX. According to Thompson, "the specific, grotesque death threat was captured on tape, and the identity and location of the boy have been determined. Law enforcement is now involved and an arrest may be imminent. The boy's mother has confirmed that her son did this, and that he is a player of the hyperviolent game Doom 3. Her response has just been to 'ground him and take away his games for awhile.'" Thompson's release indicates that he sees the threat as "just the latest installment of the video game industry's intentional targeting of (him) for harm. In the past several days a video game Internet site criminally orchestrated harassment of Thompson, including the filing of dozens of baseless Bar complaints and even a person going door-to-door in his neighborhood illegally handing out pamphlets referencing that video game site to his neighbors lying about Thompson's activities." "Take-Two/Rockstar, the makers of the Grand Theft Auto games, which is the video game developer being sued by Thompson in Alabama for those games' training of a teenager to kill... have led the 'shoot the messenger' assault upon Thompson. Take-Two has posted on its Rockstar Games web site the false and defamatory assertion that Thompson is a bisexual pedophile." "Take-Two's law firm/lobbyist, Blank Rome of Philadelphia, which is the largest single lobbyist contributor to the Republican National Committee, has launched a personal attack on Thompson apparently because it cannot win the case on the merits. Blank Rome has a long history of such assaults on opponents..." "...the above is just a portion of the intentional, orchestrated assault by the video game industry, its lawyers, and its minions of teenaged terrorists to drive Thompson from the public square with illegal harassment and extortion violative of state and federal laws." "The criminal threats on the life of Thompson by video gamers, knowingly orchestrated by the industry and its Internet-based 'news' sites prove yet again that virtual violence can bleed over into real-life crime... Thompson will seek prosecution of those who knowingly incited this death threat as well." EDITOR'S NOTE: Thompson is clearly attempting to draw a linkage from this incident to his recent dust-up with Penny Arcade, as evidenced by the fact that he copied U.S. Attorney John McKay on the press release. McKay's turf is the Western District of Washington, where Penny Arcade is headquartered. Somewhat surprisingly, Thompson also copied Dr. David Walsh of the National Institute for Media and the Family on the message, with a subject line reading, "Dave, you helped start this with your LIE that I said you were endorsing my efforts." The story of Walsh's well-publicized disavowal of Thompson was broken here on GamePolitics. Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Lord Nepenthean on October 31, 2005, 06:31:12 AM Also, this is older than the above, but Thomson said this regarding Penny Arcade on October 25th, three days before the Seattle Police Department laughed his letter to them out of their office.
Quote "...it turns out that Penny Arcade is in quite a bit of trouble. Turns out that one of their operatives in my neighborhood went door to door with a Penny Arcade flyer, and that has gotten PA into a whole heap of trouble. Trust me. Also, a kid in Katy, Texas threatened to kill me because of the PA self-immolation, and that has been more than useful. Trust me on that as well." "I'm a Christian so, Joseph's having told his brothers "What you intended for harm, God used for good." So it is with the sociopaths at Penny Arcade. They lied about what I said about the donation to a charity. They set their pixelantes on me, and they got caught, bigtime. My, my, my what a wicked web we weave when first we practice to deceive. I would much rather be me than PA right now. Trust me on that, too." From GamePolitics.com Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Tynstar on October 31, 2005, 06:57:38 AM I was going to post some thing about this guy but I can't even think of anything to say. He is way to crazy.
I believe youth football leagues hurt more kids the video games maybe we should go after them. :-/ Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Sauza12 on October 31, 2005, 11:50:46 AM I think Scott Ramsoomair said it best when he called Jack Thompson a "creamy, blueberry muffin of fun"
Title: Re: Oh Jack - Part 2 Post by: Izret101 on October 31, 2005, 04:38:57 PM Its funny that handing out pamphlets door to door now are illegal.
I am going to have to let people know that next time an election comes around. I will have the cops arrsting that poor bastard so fast their head will spin. Thanks JT for the idea *cheeky thumbs up pose* |