Thompson Reacts to Take Two Lawsuit

Thompson Reacts to Take Two Lawsuit

March 17, 2007
Confronted with a federal lawsuit filed by Grand Theft Auto publisher Take Two Interactive (see yesterday's GamePolitics scoop), controversial Miami attorney Jack Thompson told financial website TheStreet.com yesterday:
This shows the extent to which I have become a problem for (Take Two). Or maybe they are trying to show that I won't be a hindrance in the sales of their upcoming products.

The upcoming products, of course, are Grand Theft Auto IV and Manhunt 2, both scheduled for release later this year. Thompson said more about the Take Two lawsuit in a writ he filed yesterday with the Florida Supreme Court in relation to his numerous ongoing disciplinary issues with the Florida Bar:
(Take Two's law firm) Blank Rome... has, by this remarkable lawsuit, laid bare precisely what it is about - the silencing and destruction of Take-Two’s most abiding and most successful critic.

UPDATE: Thompson e-mailed GamePolitics and other media late Saturday afternoon with a promise to "strike back" in the coming days:
I have been praying, literally, that Take-Two and its lawyers would do something so stupid... that such a misstep would enable me to destroy Take-Two...

The pit Take-Two has dug for itself will be patently clear next week when I strike back.

Comments

Re: Andrew Riley

http://www.dispatch.com/dispatch/content/local_news/stories/2007/03/24/r...

Turns out it's 26 charges, not 128.
Jakc thompson is a rea l #@*! i mean he has a grudge against a game just so he can get publicity instead of trying to get publicity and stop trying to destroy good games for no reason he should be plowing his wife :D
Before I begin I might have "the wrong end of the stick" so dont leave loads of "OMG FUXOR NOOB" messages if I say something stupid or wrong.

I just cannot understand this man. The games are rated 18 (UK) for a reason. If these children end up playing what is strictly an "adult" game it is fundamentaly the fault of the parents or the retailers who do not care enough about to whom this product is being sold, not the developers. It is exactly the same scenario with the porn/beer/cigarette/gun industries.

To the people who suggest making a "child friendly GTA", what is the point? For a start it wouldn't sell because everyone would be thinking: "I bet the 18 rated one is better" and of course it wouldnt be the same game, it would be on a par with some Simpsons based rubbish of which there is already plenty. The very idea (perhaps even soul) of the game is based around (often violent) crime, the word "theft" is even in the title. It would be like Tekken where rather than fighting the two players had to compliment each other on their outfits and make polite conversation rather than knock each other unconcious.

If (I say "if" because I am not entirely sure) he is a religious man as some reports have mentioned, well thats bloody typical - they spend thousands of years killing innocents in REAL LIFE and stepping in the way of science where-ever possible (evolution, the telescope, just to name two examples) and NOW they have the gall to tell us not to kill people who don't even exist.

If part of his case is that violent games like "Manhunt" and "GTA" turn certain people into killers, then surely those people should have been locked up in the first place if a set of pixels is liable to turn them into a killing machine - again, not the publisher's/developer's responsibility.

I will admit now that I find it deeply satisfying to go on a computer generated killing spree after a hard day of work, it is the fact that I can just do this with a game and vent all my frustrations on NPCs who wander around saying "Ma mother is ma sister" that prevents me from getting unecessarily annoyed (homicidal, take your pick Mr Thompson) with REAL people.

To summarise:

1) Mr Thompson - do something really worhwhile like using your legal skills to investigate the blatant corruption in the US (and UK - I am English btw, so no "oi johnny forienger!" comments pls) governments.
2) Religion is bad - Common sense and decency are good. You just have to look at history to find that out. And no the two do not mix - just read a little bit of Martin Luther (NOT Dr King - the other one).
3) Parents - Open your fucking eyes and read the label next time little Timmy asks for a game rather than just dishing out the cash to shut him up, be a parent rather than a sap.
4) Nutjobs intent on going on killing sprees - stay away from computer games/beer/drugs/weapons/other people/vehicles/any combination of the aformentioned.

Peace out and long live the freedom of publication that allows GTA etc. to be produced.

bizley@felsted.org
jack thompson should really learn what he is dealing with a vary favorable company think the civil war north vs south south was sqaushed like a bug because of lack of resources and being unfavorable they also really didn't know what they were doing whenever i see grand theft auto on tv it is always the violent side someone beating the hell out of a girl in the street so has jt and hillary clinton ever played grand theft auto NO!!! they just complain about what they think it is if we have her in office this term we are for lack of a lesser word FUCKED
I hate Jack Thompson.....No really
I dispise Jack Thompson....Not kidding
I curse Jack Thomspon.....I hope he will lose the lawsuit pies his pant over it....
I'm not very original am I?
Godwilltriumph: That's all very nice, but what exactly does that have to do with Jack thompson being sued into oblivion by T2?
My question is: what exactly is Take Two doing that is illegal? What constitutional law are they breaking? I don't care about morals, I mean the porn industry is destroying more morals than games are, so what is Take Two doing that is illegal?
Or any game for that matter?
It seems that Thompson should go after porn: more young kids see porn than play games. Just look at the $ for each industry.
Just because i go on homicidal sprees on games, doesn't mean I don't care for my fellow man
That's good to know teedee, even if you are not Christian it's always great to know people who support good values and morals.
Rapture isn't in the Bible. It's some made up "nice and cuddly" idea that people use to get around the fact that the end days will be huge persecution against Christians as the beast has his reign. It's quite clear that Christians will suffer in the end times before the Second Coming.
The final battle. It's already all pre-determined since the beginning. God has already won. If you knew the bible you would know this.
God Bless you Jack. May you smite the heathen Take-Two and raise their heads upon high to show all of Gods enemies that we shall take no prisoners in the battle for souls.
This is the biggest load of horse piss I have ever heard

The problem is the slim minority that have problems spotting the line of reality and fantasy, the problem is they are so rare and far between that you can't ban it or else you just end up with a very pissed majority, every batch has its bad apples…

Take two sniggers at its evilness by selling adult games to kids? Could that be why we have age certificates? How about laying the blame at the inadequate clerks or parents who don't give a shit? The sooner we man up and shoulder some real responsibility, the better.

And the whole religious thing is bull shit! Anyone can spout a quote and twist its meaning. I have a quote for ya Jackie boy, it may not be from the bible but i assume that doesn't make it any less significant
"Religion is the only thing that makes bad men do good, but good men do bad" need proof? Crusades, witch burnings and persecution. All in the name of God, need we say more?

Anyone can assume god wants us to go one some trumped mission to save the world, call it a wild idea but maybe just maybe the solution is medication/sterilisation for these fucknuts? Or how about fix our own problems without bothering God?

But come on! All evil in the world and you pin it down to a video game?

OH NOES!!! THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL, PLUGGED INTO MY TV!!

Yeah, right... what ever you say Jack

Now if you'll excuse me, I’m going to play on my source of evil
*IT* Being video games
Does that mean we can call off Rapture then? Or was it rain stopped play and we have to book another Armageddon next tuesday?
lol probably, speaking of which i'll be supporting the winning side, I may not be christian but i agree with the principles
Win? What has God won?
God will win in the end no matter what happens here He has already won.
Mr. Jack Thompson. You do know there is an article called the Constitution and in that article are Bill of Rights. You are trying to violate the 1st amendment on the Bill of Rights.

Maybe you should go back to Law School and reread that article or do you really think you are ABOVE the law Mr. Thompson?
Jack, how are you Take-Two's most successful critic? You haven't won anything against them, you're facing more heat from the bar because of your court antics...how is any of that even close to success?

...I say to the blog he won't be posting in anytime soon...
JACK get over it u dick
What really scares me is the blind zealous behavior this guy shows. He is in his own fantasy world it seems, oblivious to facts, save for the facts he made up himself. Whats even worse, is that people are believing him, espically high ranking government offical types. I hope he loses his licence and gets his ass kicked in the law suit.
A quote:

"At Bible Camp we made a flow chart. Since God created man, and man created the Transformers, the Transformers are like a gift from God, Randal!" - Elias, Clerks II

So that must mean that GTA is like a gift from God.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH


Okay I'm done. :)


Finally good to see Jacky-boy getting what he so rightfully desreves for once.

Ty
@howdydowdy
If god made video games, and Satan uses them to pollute our mind or whatever the devil you call it, then doesn’t that mean god is making GTAIV? And if thats bad doesn’t that mean god is in the wrong. God isn’t wrong, god CANT be wrong, isn’t that what you bible junkies believe. You don’t “HATE’ god, do you? Thats it isn’t it, your not Christian. I bet you work long and hard to thwart gods efforts, your like a god hating American version of the Crimson King.

You are basing your entire argument off the idea that God created EVERYTHING. Hasn't man made video games (or ANYTHING for that matter). If God really creates GTAIV why do we need rockstar? Where is the contract where God gives exclusive rights to Rockstar to publish GTAIV and make money off it? Until you can show me that we must assume man made it.
"(Take Two’s law firm) Blank Rome… has, by this remarkable lawsuit, laid bare precisely what it is about - the silencing and destruction of Take-Two’s most abiding and most successful critic."

Wait a minute I thought Jack was trying to silence and destroy Take -two through excessive lawsuits, lies and half-truths.
@howdoyoudo

His house doesn't have stairs, he lives in Florida.
Jack Thompson is a dick.
I wish he would get his head out of his little ass hole.
If you want more proof of the man's delusions, I would like to refer you to this thread:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=2795...
RE: The new case that John Bruce wishes to use and abuse the tragedies of the family and community.

After the trivializing of the mental, verbal, physical, and nearly sexual abuse of Cody Posey so that he could push his "video games made him do it" agenda, it wouldn't surprise me that John Bruce would do everthing in his power not only to keep the general public from hearing about other influences in this new kid's life, but also a high probability of attempting (as noted in the publicized email as noted in a previous link) to influence investigators using false and misleading information. Merely so that he can use someone else and their tragedies to push his personal, religious, and/or political agendas.

Having heard so much else being described as "immoral" and "abominations" and "indecent" in various news stories, and then seeing acts such as John Bruce's use and abuse of other people and their tragedies just for his own twisted agendas, one has to truly wonder where human priorities really are.

nightwng2000
NW2K Software
... After reading the update im mostly convinced the man is delusional
Woah Jackie my boy, you got to give us time to catch our breaths from your last comic bonanza. I mean damn, its just joke after joke with you man.

Now i know using 'Logic' or 'reason' is considered cheating in your old and outdated book but you gotta maybe think before you speak.

If god made video games, and Satan uses them to pollute our mind or whatever the devil you call it, then doesn't that mean god is making GTAIV? And if thats bad doesn't that mean god is in the wrong. God isn't wrong, god CANT be wrong, isn't that what you bible junkies believe. You don't "HATE' god, do you? Thats it isn't it, your not Christian. I bet you work long and hard to thwart gods efforts, your like a god hating American version of the Crimson King. You toy with our beliefs with nonsensical Claims like "God wrote the psalm" and the classic "I WILL do something affective this time." (this I'm sure you pray to your heathen god)

Well know what i have to say about your unchristian...ness and marry attempts to surprise sex the video game industry? YOU SIR A RACIST. I say this with about as much evidence as you have for a connection between video games and violent teens. Using your TOOLogic i have grounds that you hate the black man, the white man, the Asians, the Hispanics, and the eugoogulites. for shame.

Now, as with your religious nut epidemic, there are indeed cures for what ales you. Might i suggest some form of a tolerance seminar? A word with god maybe? you could explain to him why you are so dead set against video games so he could translate it to us when he makes the Bible 2.0 vista. i hear its got free spyware protection so lots of people will buy it.

Also, do you have stairs in your house?
Dont be so sure of this legal terror you've created. The ability to pass the bar is insignificant, next to the power of human stupidity.
He's "successful" as long as he takes credit for things he had nothing to do with.

I'm surprised he hasn't jumped all over that senseless shooting spree in Greenwich Village last week.

Oh wait that's right, the shooter wasn't white. Carry on.
Too bad I gave up saying his name or ranting about him for lent. :D
128 felonies? Yeah, something tells me GTA is the least of this kid's problems. This sounds very much like the kid who beat up that homeless guy that was described by his stepmother in Penny Arcade. Let's face it, some kids are just bad seeds, and this is clearly one of them if any of this is to be true. Some of this stretches credibility. For example, how was he able to severely beat a witness? Hard to tell from that picture, but he looks like a twerp. Unless the kid is 6'4" and weighed 200 lbs., the witness thn must've been a 98 pound weakling. Unless there's any more substantiative claims to back this up, I'd be inclined to think JT made this up out of whole cloth.
Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back no more no more no more no more! Hit the road Jack, and don't you come back no moooorree.
JT threatening to strike back?! Oh my god, where will we all run?!

And what is with the "most successful" remark? Successful? How? He hasn't won a single suit against against them! Just trying to blow some hot air in his already over-inflated ego once again. The only success he has is in using the name of the supposedly evil GTA to get his face in public thanks to a lot of people who don't like him and make a royal ass out himself in other ways as well.
I heard a interesting proverb that applies especially well in relation to Thompson.

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions"

He will continue his work until he is damned to hell for it.
INTERNETS. SERIOUS BIZN-...

Oh wait. This is real life.

*facepalm*
I don't know. Andrew Riley didnt train on GTA Vice City very well. He didnt kill anyone or had see with a prostitute.
I saw this coming a long time ago when new management came in and pretty much said they aren't putting up with Jackos crap anymore.

That being said I own shares of Take Two and odds are I probably own more than Jacko. Jacko ain't speaking since Take Two doesn't have to let him. Though if he plans on showing up for the meeting I am tempted to go as well.

And yes shareholders (especially those at the meetings) care about profit not morality.
Surely this email claiming he is going to destroy Take Two is evidence that should be presented in court of his non stop harrassment. The guy needs some time in prison for his stalking ways.
For any of you paying attention to the Andrew Riley case, one of Thompson's press releases states that the Riley household contained no furniture, except for a large plasma TV. That sounds more like inadequate parenting than anything else. Sounds like the kid was just trying to make some money to get some furniture.
Yup, apparently they had almost no heating or furniture but did have a '54" Plasma TV to play GTA on'.

So, who bought the Plasma TV over furniture and heating, the 13 year old? I think not.
Who is Andrew Riley?
What should be happening is that Take Two can concentrate on making a child friendly version of GTA4 that features no violence lor adult content. You throw rotten eggs instead of using weapons etc, ask people for their car keys, not car jack them. This version plays on any console that has been locked by a concerned parent who wants to make sure their children don't play games or DVD's that are not appropriate for their kids ages. All consoles now have this feature.

This would cost games developers more money, but provide a very responsable form of entertainment and a even bigger market for games.

Games are not like films, there can be 10 different versions of a game on the same disk.

By working with educational specialists and the games industry "Jack" could help the games industry provide new revenue streams and entertainment for all ages.

Instead, he seems to have been shouting "I want to be famous, do as your told take two, or else" and not achieving anything.

I want to play the 18+, "let's car jack and shoot everyone version of GTA4" I would like my children to be able to play the "lets drive around throw rotten eggs and solve puzzles and be rewarded for being a good citizen version!" I'd play that version with them even on my own once I had finished the "adult" version just for the replay value alone. When they are 18 they can choose which version they want to play.

Should all entertainment be made only for children as adults can't be trusted to make sure children don't use use or view it? Because thats half the books, albums and films ever made straight in the bin! Is this what Jack wants? Is he asking me to burn books????

A logical case could be made using "Jacks" arguement of protecting children from adult content that the "Bible" is full of war, ethnic cleansing, murder, violence, infantcide, adultry, homosexual references, sexual references and gore etc. Should we ban anyone from under 18 being able to view it?

Take Two could stop their critics if they did some of the above. Console makes should provide "idiot proof" age related control on their consoles. If Jack really wants to help then that is what he should be concentrating on.
@BearDogg-X

Andrew Riley is the 13 year old that is charged with 128 felonies. Just do a search for the name and 128 and it should turn up the news stories.
@BearDogg-X...

http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/03/14/2007031...

You can thank Retard Jack himself for this one. Thanks to him, we learn of this one Andrew Riley, a 13-year-old boy with over 120(!!!) criminal charges.

And Retard Jack hears stuff to get him to blame GTA: Vice City. And earlier on this thread, someone posted this link:

http://kotaku.com/commenter/jackthompson/

Which pretty much shows Retard Jack's true nature. The kind of nature GamePolitics has had to live without. Oh well...
Aw jeeze, you beat me to it, Gray17... ~_~
Wow. Charged with 128 crimes at 13? I don't think having him in juvie until he's 21 will be enough "rehab".

Jack found yet another Lionel Tate to leech onto.
@BlueWolf72: "No one is standing up against jack on a gamers perspective. T2 is only doing this for money reasons first and for most."

Yeah, I agree, but it's something. Furthermore, I don't think any of us have a case, anyhow. Nah, you got to look at the law more and find something other than lawsuit.
What a bloody self righteous idiot.
I made a video about this, you can view it here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qahOSVgP-zI
Wouldn't some conflict of interest come up if you own stock in a company, and file a lawsuit against said company?
Man, first he loses the Bully case, then sends a cease-and-desist letter to Midway Games for because you create him in Mortal Kombat Armageddon, and now, he finally gets what he deserves: a lawsuit. You know, they say that sugar helps the medicine go down, but I don't think that it will help this poor excuse for a lawyer choke his own down.

Oh, and Jack, if you want to quote scripture, then two can play that game:
"Judge not, that ye be not judged."
Mat 7:1, King James Version, Holy Bible

Or, if you want to go for video game related scripture, then how about this?
"It's Official, YOU SUCK!"
Shao Kahn 3:16, Elder Gods Version, Holy MK Bible

I prefer the last one, quite frankly.

- Phil Harris
as much as i would enjoy seeing JT lose his license to practice law, watching him fail and unwittingly give hype to GTA4 and Manhunt 2 will be enough for me to sit back and enjoy a beer
Hm? Jackie saying that he will "destroy Take-two". How is this going to be any different from all the other times he said that he would destroy them. Nothing new here. Just our same old geriatric drama queen.
Coming to a courtroom somewhere in Florida sometime next week...

Legal Wars
The Idiot Strikes Back

Starring: John B. Thompson, Blank Rome, One Pissed Off Judge, and James Earl Jones as Narrator

What will Jack have under his sleeve? Half-truths? Blatant Lies? Surpise Witnesses; each more surprising than the last?


After taking in some of the words exchanged (primarily by Jack), it sounds like someone is about to get taken behind the woodshed.
Dear Jackass;

Your end is near. You'll probably blow yourself out with a 22 Derringer, when you finally realize your stupid charade is over and your house is REPO'd (I feel sorry for your family, not you.). Religion won't save you. Stop believing your own garbage for your own sake, and become a gamer. You won't, because you are a 3-year-old in a 58 year old's man body, going through your temper-tantrums.

Stop what you are doing Jack. Stop and run into your house, and send a formal letter of apology to all of the gamers and Take2 before they take your house, you idiot.
Sheesh. This guy's further proof why America needs to rely more on logic thinking rather than emotional thinking.
"I have been praying, literally, that Take-Two and its lawyers would do something so stupid… that such a misstep would enable me to destroy Take-Two…"

He's a super-villain!
No one is standing up against jack on a gamers perspective. T2 is only doing this for money reasons first and for most.

Id like to file a class action lawsuit against Jack for the gamers he has labeled so evil. RAWWWR who is with me
To: Jack Thompson
From: Everyone

Now I am sure as you look over the bible that you no doubt have in your hands, asking God to save you from the whupin' you are about to recive, I would like you to ask yourself where your legal career is to go. Now if you want to know and are looking to the bible for answers then I know just where you should look. In Revilations there is a passage that is just up your alley. When you have read it please do us all a favor and press your luck more. In fact, we would like you to go after EA sports. Their football games get mighty violent and if you think that TakeTwo had hardcore lawers you got to see the team they have over there.
"Dear Jackass,

People who really know how to “strike back” don’t talk about doing so beforehand, they just do it. "

It's likely an attempt to scare Take Two into backing down
You know...I didn't even care about Manhunt 2 or GTA4 but now I've got to get them just on principle. I'll play for a while then I'll trade them in.
"Take-Two’s most abiding and most successful critic."

Thus why Take-Two Interactive still exists today.
Oh, and for the record, almost all reports are placing the increase in violence on Gang membership and an increase in Drug trafficking, with it's inevitable confrontations.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6469336,00.html

U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has asked Congress to spend US$200 million next year to help cities and regions combat gangs, illicit drugs and gun offences.

And absolutely NOWHERE in any report I can find does it have the quote Jack mentioned. As far as I can tell, he made it up.
Maybe they want to get rid of Jack so he will stop advertising for them, here me out on this one, recent games released by said company far outsold what was expected to in preorders and what not hence the delay in releases. The company had to make more to meet the high demand and this meant over time for many employees, and thus severely over-working the employees. Yes of course it all makes sooo much sense now with Thompson out of the way they can all take a vacation without worrying about meeting a ridiculously high quota for the next upcoming games, those clever bastards...

/end sarcastic rant
If Jack Thompson had some kind of trump card up his sleeve that proved that computer games caused violence, he'd have played it ages ago. All he's really going on is a case of a multiple offender with what appears to be very dubious parenting, and an offhand comment by a Police officer made because the level of Violence in Metropolitan areas has apparently mushroomed. Allegedly the officer said 'It's like everyone started acting out a Video Game.'

Unfortunately, JT seems to have forgotten the meaning of the word 'Metaphor' or the fact that it's the prejudice that he spreads around that promotes comments like that from people, not the opposite.
Either Jack has a VERY large trump card up his sleeve, or he's trying to BS his way out of this. Either way, it should be an... interesting court battle. All we need is for T2 to have Phoenix Wright and all will be right in the universe.
I'm starting to wonder if Jack Thompson is actually Sacha Baron Cohen in disguise.
*cues the Theme of the Intergalactic Empire*

"Paul...*breathes* I am your father!"
The question is to Jack, lawsuits or not, Take-Two management shuffle or not, do you have a prayer in stopping Manhunt 2 and GTA? Will you have the same success you had stopping Bully?
Dear Jackass,

People who really know how to "strike back" don't talk about doing so beforehand, they just do it.
He's going to "strike back"?
Who does he think he is? Darth Vader?

Well... he is on the Dark Side of the Force, so it's plausible.

Darth Thompson, failed Lord of the Sith.

I can buy that.

nightwng2000
NW2K Software
The funny part about the counter-offensive is that he claims a 13 year old boy dictated the fact that the house had no heating and furniture, but did have a 54" TV and a console.
@kurisu7885

Click on my name for the link in question. scroll down for the username jackthompson(at the moment, his are the bottom 4 posts, each one more than a screen of text).

Ph33r the madness of the Jack-LOLantern, for now it is the very BIBLE he is trying to throw at the game industry.

I truly worry for this man's sanity. Who does he think he is, trying to quote scripture against gamers? Some sort of.. well, god-king? (Sorry, had to have a tie-in to the two posters before me when writing this one)
incredible... He will loose and after that he will be remembered as the lawyer ( or should I say comedian?) that was destroyed by a games developer LOL
GET READY MEN FOR TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL!
Kurisu7885: http://kotaku.com/commenter/jackthompson/

Still just as insane as ever.
This is madness!
Madness??? THIS IS SPARTA!!!
This is one hell of a hype-train for Manhunt 2 and GTA IV! The lawsuits are just a distraction.
the sad part of all this really is just how dilousional jack really is. his actions have led him to a point where he is now facing legal action from the florida bar and take 2, yet he cannot and will not admit he has been wrong at any point. rather then seating back looking at what he has done, admit to himself he was wrong and try to move on he will continue down this self destrucive path untill he has nothing. its always someone elses fault when he fails and if these two lawsuits go against him then its going to be very interesting to see who he blames and how high up he thinks this conspiracy goes against him

i pity this man, i really do
@silverstar Link please, this I gotta see.
Wait, that whole long string of BS about him praying to god and quoting pseudo-scripture, was legit? He bloody well posted to his own thread at Kotaku!
I honestly don't know which way this one will go. T2 has a lot of evidence going for it in its case, I think. On the other hand, is it enough to back up their claims? We need "The_Lawyer" in here!

I do think it would be funny to see T2 win this suit, and immediatly following have Jack's license revoked. A double whammy might actually make him see just how misguided and delusional he is.
Oh man, I want play by play commentary for this! This is going to be the fight of the century!
The thing about that is, that shareholders care about money. had they been reading the news about their stock(and it is almost gauranteed they will considering they are going to the meeting), they will know jack thompson is out to hurt take two. moral or not, the shareholders will hate jack thompson more than gamers do. he is attacking the company they own.

jack thompson walking into the stockholders meeting would be like him walking into a lanparty. he will be the most hated man there.
Actually, he didn't buy shares for that reason, he got them so he could attend shareholder meetings and hopefully harass Paul Eibler directly, or any of the boarm members.
@jonc2006

Well what jack is aiming to do doesn't really need a high level of power. What he plans to do is go straight to the shareholders and cause trouble for take-two. Bascially, he will go the shareholder meeting and start spreading his usual half-truths, misinformation, and outright LIES to the other shareholders. Shareholders who have strong morals but are ignornat of the truth (like so many politicans), will believe Jack's lies and act upon them, either pulling out of the company or in the worse case banning together to try and make changes in the company. Shareholders that are care more about their profits however, will be harder for jack to reach... in order to ban games through them, he would have to convince them that games like GTA will end up hurting their profits... He'll need a miracle for that one seeing as GTA is one of take two's most popular games, and thus difficult to convince them it will hurt them.

So ya, that's bascially what Jack is trying to do... he himself will not make any changes, he will however try to convince the other shareholders to either pull out or ban togather and make changes for him. How much those shareholders will listen/believe/care about what Jack is saying is all really questionable since we don't know what kind of poeple get shares in the company, particurly the bigger shareholders

though y'know... i'd figure they'd have certain rules for those meetings. Like only the top shareholders get to speak first, and minor shareholders only get speak after the big guys are done... afterall, the bigger shareholders have the most at stake... Jack more then likely got the bare minimum of shares which should put him at the bottom of the list of speakers... though i'm not sure how shareholder meetings work
um...yeah...good luck with that jack.
Most successful?... Wait.. what else has Jack done in his life? No one heard of this guy until he pretty much shoved himself in the path of the cameras and started making very uneducated statements aout videogames, psychology, just about everyone on the internet.

He's successful at being unprofessional, annoying, stubborn, and self-righteous to a dangerous fault. I don't think it's smart, otherwise, to stake your claim to fame on being a pest to a very successful company.
"Said the desert to the grain of sand"

Successful? Successful?! Successful??!! I wouldn't call one pissed off judge, one overturned ruling, and one completely scrapped legislation successful. That sounds more like a complete and utter travesty. You've got to be kidding me.

As for the law-abiding part, since when does threatening judges and making false claim fall under law-abiding? Did I miss something important here?

When I go to the beach (or outside in general) I usually don't mind flys and ants very much. If they become too much of a nuisance though, I've got no choice but to squish the living daylights out of them.
@Joe Bourrie

well it is possible, but it is highly unlikely to happen. he would need to have a consideribly high position of power in order to cause any real trouble. due to who he is, i doubt it would be easy for him to climb the ladder, in that sense, in a time frame that would be needed to be effective enough to make any noticable changes in how they run their corperation. i will give jack one thing though, he is persistant and is relentless enough to attempt almost every option or method possible to get his way even after facing countless defeats. people like that are hard to come by. fortunatley.
@valthun

He bought those shares a long time ago, and uses them so he can have some sort of say in how the company is run. "Taking it down from the inside" and all that BS.

But not nearly enough to make any difference at all.
jack thompson when you wil die i will spit on your grave
@valthun

if thats true the only reason i could think of him doing that for would be for him to have the ability to have say in some aspects of how things are run. think of it as some way of infiltrating them in his own little "covert opertation". not nessecarily hypocritical but definetly a sleazy way of manipulating things to go in his favor.
Holy crap if you read the whole article JT has purchased shares of T2 stock, and has requested to speak at the shareholders meeting on March 23rd. Isn't he now in a point of contradiction in which he wants to shut a company down for which he owns a stake in? Maybe the word I am looking for is hypocrite.
Well, its not hard to be the most successful critic of something, if your THE ONLY ONE...
(apologies to the original)

Me no understand why maker of fire want stop Og. Og only throw dirt of behind at fire maker for years on end, Og only follow word of big chief. Og stop fire maker from sell fire, this why fire only available to every single human on Earth but still not sold to man in sky who makes Sun shine, this big victory for Og, make fire seller jealous.

Fire maker bad, Og good.
“(Take Two’s law firm) Blank Rome… has, by this remarkable lawsuit, laid bare precisely what it is about - the silencing and destruction of Take-Two’s most abiding and most successful critic.”

Inaccurate choices of words aside, isn't this a natural reaction when Thompson's goal is the silencing and destruction of Take-Two? You can't complain about getting shelled by artillery when you're the one who declared war in the first place. It's time for him to own up to his actions.
Well, folks, this is one for the ages. Jack Thompson vs. Take Two, the final showdown. The winner will get bragging rights about taking the other one down, and the loser will lose all credibility amongst their peers.

So what nasty tricks does Jack have up his sleeves now? I'm gonna guess... threatening the judge with legal action if he doesn't get the verdict he wants, followed up with filing a lawsuit against Take Two if he loses this lawsuit, as well as one for the judge who would dare rule against him.
well, of course Jack has peers... I'm pretty sure that's what he thinks the people who actually believe what he says is true are. And if not them, the family he goes home and complains to that he's never gonna win
Take-Two's pretty pissed, but theres 2 things i'm seeing through this action.

1)Take-Two's tired of his rigorous crusade that has yet to prevail.
2)Take-Two is losing a lot of money with all the actions against them, and this looks to be one of those financial boosts they need to keep going. I could be wrong though...
Sorry for the double post, but I had to say the writ with the bar about the complaint is going to get him absolutely nowhere, especially considering one of the other complaints against him comes from the Judge in the Bully hearing...
You know, in addition to the lawsuits filed, maybe Take Two should file one more lawsuit -- that Jack Thompson himself is a public nuisance, what with his endless tirades and delusions of grandeur.
Jack confuses 'successful' with 'annoying', he seems to equate the two, considering his comment that he has a first Amendment Right to 'Annoy People' made about a year ago.

Jack has had very little effect on Take 2's sales, and the effect he personally has had was mostly achieved through abusing the legal system or deliberate misdirection.

I don't doubt Jack is faxing his 'Poor Me, I'm hounded by the corporations' story to every News source he can find, but the fact of the matter remains that the opposite is actually the truth, Jack has harassed and smeared Take 2 for too long, he is getting exactly what he gave, and throwing a tantrum about it won't change the outcome, since the evidence Take 2 has appears to be pretty strong.
"(Take Two’s law firm) Blank Rome… has, by this remarkable lawsuit, laid bare precisely what it is about - the silencing and destruction of Take-Two’s most abiding and most successful critic"

Look up successful in the dictionary dumbass.

It's going to be fn to see Jack Thompson digging his own grave:D
@maskedpixelante

jack thompson has peers?
"This shows the extent to which I have become a problem for (Take Two). Or maybe they are trying to show that I won’t be a hindrance in the sales of their upcoming products."

BAWAHAHAHAHAH!!!! Oh, thats rich, Thompson should get of of the law business and go into comedy.
this is so funny man, this guy is in for the worst wake-up call in history. if it doesnt happen this time, it will pretty damn soon.
Jack, stop being a comedian. You're too damn good at it! ;D
Apparently, Jack doesn't get it. They are telling him to back off and they are telling him in the only way he seems to understand, by lawsuit. Karma has a funny way about things.

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successful critic? dont make me laugh.
Or maybe they just thought they'd shove your own medicine down your throat, Jack.
He is scared now. If they take his liscence he cant fill people with bs anymore.... :D
Or maybe, just maybe, they're tired of you harrassing them. Amazing, ain't it?
You know what would be perfect. If he tried to eat one of the game discs for GTA IV or Manhunt 2 and he chocked on it and died! That would be perfect, if he died from a video game! I hope he does die from a video game in some way!
Jack is deathly afraid of this suit.

Whenever it's been "put up or shut up", he's shut up, never put up. I've given him direct questions that he's never answered (in GP, on LJ when he's posted) because I phrase it so there's no wiggle room. He is incapable of anything other than posturing.

There is no option other than "put up" in this case. He will lose, and he knows it.
I think the Devil has something in store for Jack. He will be required to play GTA for all eternity. MUHAHAHA.

Seriously, this guy is just one of those people who shouldn't bugger off because it makes the wait for the new GTA all that more enjoyable. Cheers Jack, for making my life that much more funnier.

I definitely won't buy this game for my children! I get to play first ;)
What really gets my goat is that Wacko Jacko is already taking credit for the shareholder revolt going on at T2, and will no doubt be giggling with glee if and when it succeeds. Of course his laughter might die down a little when he discovers that the new leadership of T2 has no intention of dropping their lawsuit.

And by the way, Thompson does go after porn. It was his personal crusade before videogames, and even between that time, he was hounding 2 Live Crew and Howard Stern, using basically similar tactics as now. However, he's turned his bombast up to eleven, he's going straight for bible quotes in public statements, he's harrassing judges, making specific accusations of criminal conduct by, and all the other aspects of his behavior indicate that he's really popped a seam. Wacko Jacko is certainly going down in a fiery blaze, but down he'll go, and he'll be lucky to get on the 700 club when it's all said and done.
hahaaha die JACK die!! no really your screwed up the ass rofl
"Just because i go on homicidal sprees on games, doesn’t mean I don’t care for my fellow man"

By taking you frustrations out on bits of polygon and binary code, I think you won't be doing so anytime soon

@chuck

According to Jack, video games are porn, worse than porn in fact. I'm sitll waiting for him to reveal the hot pixel on pixel action in those hidden scenes in super mario Bros, I mean, since all video games no contain hidden hardcore porn.
Am I the only one literally L-O-L-ing that Jack Thompson's email address is "amendmentone@comcast.net" (as seen in his posts at Kotaku)
Why dont u guys worry about ur lives /sarah smith is the only one that has said anything nice it isnt even ur problems so but out.
That is just SICK. The email message he's written.
QUOTE:
I have been praying, literally, that Take-Two and its lawyers would do something so stupid… that such a misstep would enable me to destroy Take-Two…

The pit Take-Two has dug for itself will be patently clear next week when I strike back.
UNQOUTE

It's just WRONG. wtf kind of behavior is that? "destroy" Take-two? That could be attributed to psychiatric problems! He should be detained in a mental institute or thrown in jail for threatening, harassing and bringing a companies name into disrepute.
I wonder if a class-action lawsuit is possible against this twisted, demented fool.
When will people relize that violence is every where and not just in games. As a gamer I do play a lot of games most of some rated M, but just because I play a GTA game doesn't mean I'm going to just go out and start doing the things they did in the game because I know that is just plan stupid. I say if parents don't want there kids playing violent games don't buy it for them and if they do buy it tell monitor them or something. And as for Jack, he just don't have any thing better to do.

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Posted 11/07/09 at 04:18pm
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Posted 11/07/09 at 10:58am
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:56am
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:51am
JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:48am
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:11am
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:07am
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Posted 11/07/09 at 10:05am
JDKJ: I'm no psychologist, but I'm told that crazy people have a tendency to do crazy things.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:03am
chadachada321: Whoops, was out of the convo for awhile. I do wonder what type of ammo he used etc, but the real issue is WHY he did it, not HOW
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:56am
JDKJ: But if it turns out that they actually did, they'll have Hell to pay.
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:45am
JDKJ: And I'd tend to rule out the possibilty of FN Herstal supplying restricted ammunition to someone merely because they're ordering it from a military base.
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:37am
JDKJ: I know you don't leave your gated community and get around much in dark alleys, so you may be surprised to learn that there's this thing called "the black market" where, if you've got enough money, ain't too much of anything which can't be bought.
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:36am
Austin_Lewis: Or, maybe he or someone else at the base ordered the SS190 from FN Herstal.
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:32am
Austin_Lewis: the hands of private owners. They run about 300 dollars minimum for a box of 50, and boxes of AP 5.7 are extremely scarce, mainly residing in the hands of Class III stores or individuals who for one reason or another got a demo box of it.
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:30am
Austin_Lewis: There are other firearms that fire the 5.7. However, I too would like to know where he got the ammo and what kind was used. Maybe Hasan, planning not to live through this, went out and bought one the boxes of SS190 that are floating around in
Posted 11/07/09 at 08:44am
JDKJ: And it isn't yet clear what type of ammunition Hasan used. It's strange that he purchased a gun but didn't purchase ammunition for it at the same place and time. Especially because the calibre required is peculiar to the actual gun.
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