October 27, 2006
You'll laugh, you'll cry...Destructoid's footage of controversial attorney Jack Thompson's recent dressing-down by Miami-Dade County Judge Ronald Friedman is a pretty amazing piece of video.
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You'll laugh, you'll cry...Destructoid's footage of controversial attorney Jack Thompson's recent dressing-down by Miami-Dade County Judge Ronald Friedman is a pretty amazing piece of video.
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Sleaker: @PHX Corp, I can't take a person seriously that is less frightened at the possibility of privacy issues, and more scared about controller feedback technology05/25/2013 - 11:35am
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PHX Corp: http://www.unwinnable.com/2013/05/24/trigger-warning/ Trigger Warning05/25/2013 - 6:37am
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beemoh: Unless that pic of a Kinect taped to the underside of a phone is a joke05/25/2013 - 1:58am
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beemoh: Kinect being used in prototype to stop people walking into people while texting: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-2263173105/25/2013 - 1:57am
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Cecil475: @hellfire7885 - Makes me want to support Nintendo even more.05/24/2013 - 4:49pm
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hellfire7885: Man, EA seems to be determined to destroy the Wii U ,and the evidently are so arrogant as to believe not making games for it will do that.05/24/2013 - 4:45pm
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DorthLous: Pwahahahha http://www.destructoid.com/wii-u-sales-drastically-spike-after-xbox-one-presentation-254449.phtml#LlG8HEYbQj2krql5.0105/24/2013 - 2:23pm
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james_fudge: she gets no credit until she employs some common sense. - 2 credits for her.05/24/2013 - 11:22am
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Andrew Eisen: To Stender's credit, she did unmoderate my most recent comment within a day's time. There's even a couple other replies. None from her though.05/24/2013 - 11:18am
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james_fudge: apparently gamers are all 14 - 21 years-olds living in basements according to her way of thinking...05/24/2013 - 11:11am
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ZippyDSMlee: EZK: 0_o thier video card chipset is at the very least 3 versions behind the top PC video card.......05/24/2013 - 7:38am
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MechaTama31: "You just wouldn't understand how my parenting preferences are more important than everybody else's freedoms."05/24/2013 - 7:37am
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DorthLous: I love how she plays the "I'm a parent, you're a gamer, you couldn't understand" card... I'm a parent and I find her position despicable...05/23/2013 - 4:16pm
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E. Zachary Knight: She didn't address your questions because she doesn't have any answers.05/23/2013 - 3:38pm
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Andrew Eisen: I replied to her comment. Maybe in a few weeks I'll get a reply.05/23/2013 - 3:24pm
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Thomas Riordan: @Andrew Eisen To what bowling alley does she go that puts sexual images in the faces of 6 year olds?05/23/2013 - 3:17pm
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Andrew Eisen: Well, it took a month but Linda Stender finally replied to me... and didn't address a single one of my questions. http://aswlindastender.com/2013/04/23/follow-up-video-games-and-their-effect-on-children/05/23/2013 - 3:13pm
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Imautobot: Also, from a tech perspective the PS4 is apparently already winning. http://bgr.com/2013/05/22/xbox-one-vs-playstation-4-specs/05/23/2013 - 3:12pm
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Imautobot: Sony's PS4 motto should be "We play games." Microsoft's should be "We play games, when we're not rewinding your tapes."05/23/2013 - 3:11pm
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Andrew Eisen: Oh look, Dying Light was just announced For Everything But Wii U. That's 73.05/23/2013 - 2:06pm
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Oh, and respect for the court & process my skinny white arse. He interrupted the judge several times, once to demand the bailiff hand the judge the bail order that wasn't needed.
Great Job Niero.
I believe he was mumbling to Niero, something to the effect of "Let's go have the real hearing out here." I guess we'll see when Niero posts Part Deux.
That's it? A parking violation? Sheesh, I would be embarassed to bring that up.
BUBBA: I'm in for triple homicide, how about you?
JT: Parking violation.
BUBBA: GUARD! GET ME OUT OF HERE! THIS GUY IS GONNA KILL ME!!!!
The judge I mean.
Andrew Eisen
Actually, I think Bostwick did a decent job in the Law & Order series. While Bostwick's voice makes him sound more.... uh, reasonable.... than John Bruce, the Bostwick character was pretty close doing the crazy ideas justice. But the voice made Bostwick sound more rational than John Bruce.
nightwng2000
NW2K Software
I still cannot believe someone would act that way in a courtroom. Look at the T2 lawyers and compare their level of professional behaviour to Jack's.
One thing by the way. Are you allowed by law to video courtroom scenes in the US then? In the UK you cannot and cant even take photos which is why we have the courtroom artists who go in, have a good look around at a scene and then leave so they can sketch the scene outside. Camera usage by the public would results in a contempt of court charge I believe.
(HELLO MOTO!!)
#@$*&%*^!!!!!!!!
Here (I think, audio fuzzy), Thompson says something to the effect of: I would never disrespect this/your office, but the way you handled this suit was something something. I doubt something something equaled 'best ever!!!'.
He should look at this and feel ashamed that he acted in such a childish way
In the US, Video is permitted unless there is a legal order prohibiting it. In Canada, recording devices are prohibited as well, with the exeption of the stenographer and sketch artist.
Pray that someone puts it on youtube
what a fucking douchenozzle. The kind of ignorant hate-mongering this man spouts has no place in this world.
What an immature, ignorant, bloated bag of hate. I really dont like that man.
"i have respect for the office that you hold." He says that after hes rolling his head around, fidgeting with papers and stuff while the judge is talking. I have ADD, and i could be more still than that.
jack thompson is a little man.
It IS on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT30Iwp2wNM&eurl=
(granted, there wasn't a whole lot niero could've done about noise+volume)
Still, Jack was a class act. Raising the sign, pouting like a child and "arranging his papers" when the judge talked him down... it was brilliant. We've seen him argue on so many "forums" and "debate shows" it was great to finally have him not interrupting and ranting until it was actually his turn.
Huh, he thought he was going to jail? I think that's how he wanted it to go. He imagines himself a martyr. He was bound and determined to start a scene.
That's what Niero said. I guess he figured it would turn out to be a big battle of wills, and he'd better have all his paperwork ready for when the judge "violates his civil rights".
Too bad for him the judge pre-empted him by reclusing, but with a parting shot of filing the complaint with the Bar. ;)
Url for people who didn't notice I linked it.
Well - that's all I got, thanks for having me!
Niero
Just can't resist twisting the blade can you? My goodness what a sore loser.
if he knew that Friedman was such a cad, why not mention it before the judge made his decision?
It just seems there's nothing Jack loves more than to twist things so that he's always right. What sort of worries me is that his arugments almost sound credible to those who aren't in the know about the trial or the game in question. As for that time he got arrested, I fail to see the need to bring that up. A parking violation is a perfectly honest mistake. Oh well, I shouldn't be suprised that Jack would say all that for Destructoid's interview, considering how self-absorbed he comes off as.
Also, while this has nothing to do with the trial, I love that Destructoid opened the video to the theme music of the Terminator films. That music always gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling. :)
“I did the bare light preparations; I have a great defense attorney. I’m just happy I can go home to my son and have dinner with my family instead of spend all night in a holding cell again with God knows who.”
Actually, I'm pretty sure even if they took a poll of the most hardened criminals, they'd probably all come back and ask not to be housed with a jerk like Thompson.
"And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W's
where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after
committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly
looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father
rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And
they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the
bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest
father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean 'n' ugly
'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me
and said, "Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay
$50 and pick up the garbage." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?"
And I said, "Littering." And they all moved away from me on the bench
there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I
said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand,
and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing,
father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the
bench."
/Love that song. =)
Um..why does he say this like it's a good thing? I have I missed something here or is this one of those thing where I don't really need an answer?