He's been going batshit looney lately. Apparently, the 1st Amendment isn't absolute or important in his world:
http://gamepolitics.livejournal.com/356172.html
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He's been going batshit looney lately. Apparently, the 1st Amendment isn't absolute or important in his world:
http://gamepolitics.livejournal.com/356172.html
It doesn't surprise me that Jack sees the First Amendment as an obstacle to whatever he wants. Thank goodness he's not running the country. He'd probably jail anyone who criticized him. Could it be that he cares not a damn about the children, but is actually more of a control freak?
The good thing? His carrying on is making the anti-VG-violence movement look like a bunch of jackasses. :sneak: He will fail and continue to look like a fool.
JT's (and most of the anti-game crowd's) "smoking gun" has been snuffed:
http://gamepolitics.livejournal.com/365275.html
Apparently, JT is now a detective- just like Batman!
http://gamepolitics.com/2007/01/16/m...pson/#comments
JT is so willing and eager to put the blame on gaming that he'll take ANYTHING to make his view float. People who know the family should get in contact with them and do whatever it takes to turn them away from him.
I think JT kidnapped the kid.
If he's that desperate, he probably did.
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-imag...ustinkyle3.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
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Earlier this week, Utah's Jack Thompson-authored video game bill was pulled by Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff because he believed the bill would be found unconstitutional. This, of course, sent Thompson into a whirling tizzy and caused him to do the typical press release pimp-slap against Shurtleff.
Thompson writes, "This is a constitutional bill. I ought to know. I drafted one nearly identical to it for Louisiana, and we got it passed unanimously... The federal judge declared it unconstitutional because, he said, 'there is no evidence that these games are harmful. The Attorney General has provided me no evidence.' And the judge was right, because the Louisiana AG took what we call 'a dive.' ... because he wanted the law to fail."
Thompson is in Utah today giving a speech at the ultra-conservative Eagle Forum in Salt Lake City -- so we're sure some lovely barbs will be thrown at Shurtleff. AG Shurtleff probably wasn't too keen on having Utah suffer the same fate as Illinois, which was forced to pay back the gaming industry the half-million they spent fighting a similar bill that was deemed unconstitutional. Next stop on the Thompson anti-game express: Massachusetts. All aboard!
I'm all for an anti-Jack Thompson lobby.