Jack Thompson & Friends: Official Thread

Good ol Thompson, picking the targets that get the most publicity.

EDIT: Hey does this mean he just overstepped his agreement with Take Two? LOL!

This Best Buy girl sounds hot. Str lctn pls.

...Wacko Jacko has a kid? Damn, do I feel sorry for him.

Er, the kid I mean.

Poor kid probably tried to buy the game on his own and dad found out.

If that boy can't even play bioshock, then he's gotta be about the sorriest kid in the world aside from Jack being his daddy.

I hope he snaps and goes on a shooting spree, with Thompson left with no one to blame.

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Originally Posted by voltz

If that boy can't even play bioshock, then he's gotta be about the sorriest kid in the world aside from Jack being his daddy.

I would be shocked if Jack allows his kid to play any video games at all. Shocked.

Now this douche wants to prevent Halo 3 from being sold in Florida. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by GamePolitics

With the video game event of the year - the Halo 3 launch - just days away, game-hatin’ attorney Jack Thompson is apparently seeking to re-create one of his greatest non-triumphs. Although he failed miserably with a similar bid against Rockstar’s Bully in 2006, Thompson hopes to have a Florida court declare Halo 3 a public nuisance and block its sale in the Sunshine State. He promised as much late last year (see: Jack Thompson Vows More Public Nuisance Suits Against Games in 2007).

No surprise, really, that Halo 3 is in the media-hungry attorney’s crosshairs. Thompson seems to prefer rattling his saber against high-profile game releases. In his latest attention grab Thompson has released the text of what appears to be a court filing in the 11th Circuit, the same jurisdiction in which he failed embarrassingly during last year’s Bully case.

Once again, Thompson is basing his claim on a Florida statute which defines public nuisances as that which:
…tend[s] to annoy the community, injure the health of the citizens in general, or corrupt the public morals
To get an idea of what the law was really designed for, the types of places named in the statute include:
…any house or place of prostitution, assignation, lewdness or place or building where games of chance [i.e., gambling] are engaged in violation of law or any place where any law of the state is violated, shall be deemed guilty of maintaining a nuisance…
GP: Not a video game retailer in the bunch.

As with Bully, Thompson clearly hopes the court will grant him a hearing. Although after last year’s well-publicized Bully performance, which earned Thompson a Bar complaint from presiding Judge Ronald Friedman, that seems unlikely.

More troubling by far are the long term implications of this action. Thompson apparently feels emboldened to invoke this law against
any video game he desires to target. That is the essence of censorship and the video game industry cannot allow it to continue on any number of grounds - legal, moral or creative.

The full text of Thompson’s complaint is here (MS Word format)…

Source.

On that issue of picking targets, I imagine at some point he's going to lose his license entirely.

thompson should choose better targets at the very least. Halo's a pretty soft M with your basic space invader baddies. It's something anyone who's even vaguely familiar with what videogames are like is completely numb to.