Yesterday's GP Article Turns Up in Jack Thompson's Lawsuit Vs. Florida Bar

Jack:

I have a simple question for you. The due process that you are providing as evidence purports to people who are making the BAR aware of a lawyer who may be acting whilst mentally incapable of doing so.

How is this relevent to the BAR already being aware of this possibility and acting on their own behalf? Are you really suggesting that the BAR would have to complain to ITSELF in writing before it could act?

To have a process this that would, in my opinion, be 'insanity'.

...not that I wish to throw fuel on the fires of poor Jack's eroding mental state, but... wasn't he banned from this site? Does GP need to update its IP blocker, or what?

@Mr. Thompson,

In all honesty and sincerity, sir, I would fully recommend that you look into the possibility of professional psychiatric help for yourself. You are not well, sir, a fact that is becoming increasingly apparent from your 'press releases' and legal filings. I think that if you take a few steps back and look at your comments with a clear head, you'll realize that you've lost all sense of professionalism; indeed, your filings of late would be more appropriate as LiveJournal comments than as legal documents. I'm certain you do not truly believe you can convince anyone that you are in the right with the hyperbole and paranoid imaginings you insist on writing.

Get help, sir. We, the gaming community, have never minded honest disagreement, but what you've been doing doesn't help anyone.

Cullarn,
Works for me. But then, I usually search "Party or Attorney".

www.floridasupremecourt.org
Docket Search
Leave as Case number
Leave the SC07
And just enter 80 or 354 in the other field.
Comes up for me.

I wish some of the other Federal Courts didn't use PACER. Even doing searches cost.

Nightwng2000
NW2K Software

SC07-354 also cant find (seeing as how the first one came up as the first hit on the search engine i have to wonder if these were never considered as the first part was thrown out)

@jt

1... "It is akin to choosing between castration by knife or castration by chemical." -your imagination is more violent than what's in Manhunt .

2... "The Bar has allowed its rage, its ideological agenda, and its selective prosecution propensities ... to trump not only the civil rights laws of this country but common sense as well." That is a description of your own tactics against Take-Two.

3... "God is nothing if He is not clever, and make no mistake, Thompson believes God is in the mix in all of this. Thompson, as a Presbyterian, believes and in fact knows that God is in the mix of everything. Call Thompson crazy, but omnipresence and omniscience are pretty mainstream theological concepts." You're in the practice of law, not theology. Your duty is to treat the letter of the law as sacred, not "the word of God" or what's in the bible or whatever you get your Presbyterian stuff from.

4... Your efforts to block the publication of video games have gone against the protections of the first ammendment of the Constitution.

In addition to protection of the "freedom of speech," the first ammendment also protects the "free exercise of religion." By inserting your religious views into your litigation practices and statements, you are ignoring the basic separation of church and state "stuff" in the constitution.

Jacks so eager to prove hes not crazy that he seems to forget you can still be disbarred for many other reasons. This whole insanity angle is just one of many front on which your credibility is in question. Even if you find a way to get around it you cant do much about the rest of the reasons your looking at disbarment.

Even then, the level of paranoia you exhibit is pretty clear sign of metal disorder. If the entire industry and gamers and drug cartels and whatever the hell else you have named your attacker to be were actualy trying to crush you, youd been crushed a long time ago.Most the industry just wants you off their backs and most gamers couldnt give a crap what happens to you as long as you never actualy succeed in any of your crazy schemes, all of which have fallen flat under the weight of your own inadequecy as a lawyer and a person.

'It can admit its mistakes (only crazy people don’t admit their mistakes),'

You mean mistakes like accusing a Bar member of extortion by invoking the wrong Rule? You mean that kind of mistake Jack? Or do you mean mistakes like accusing the VTech killer of being a Gamer before he had even been named?

Maybe you meant the plethora of 'mistakes' you made in your interview with Popzart.....

@ Jack Thompson Attorney

"The Bar has a choice. It can admit its mistakes (only crazy people don’t admit their mistakes), and get this all behind all of us, or The Bar can live with the rather frightening consequences of what it has done, to Thompson now for the second time."

I guess that makes you off the charts for sanity.


I think that if the courts are deciding to continue with their, as you basiclly described it as, pointless & self-mutilating case, then they probably know exactly what they are getting into. Granted reasonable people make mistakes, I'm sure after the numerous complaints made because of you, the inappropriate and unethical treatment you give others (including judges and other staff), & the childish backlash you give to people who make any comments towards you that you find offensive.

Why won't you humor us and just take the evaluation?

@JACK THOMPSON, IMPOTENT ATTORNEY
if you truly are sane (yeah right) then you have nothing to fear from the psych test.
your cowardice proves your insanity.

P.S. calling us children and then asking for our names are the actions of a child molester

???...Ace beats Jack?

He'a like a squid, the minute he's afraid he hides behind a cloud of ink.

@JACK THOMPSON, ATTORNEY:

Why do you continue to waste your time by filing writs of mandamus and numerous supplements thereto? Don't you understand what the Court said its 07/13/2007 Order denying you petition for mandamus? The Court literally said:

"To the extent the Respondent seeks mandamus relief, the petition for writ of mandamus and supplements are denied because respondent has an adequate alternative legal remedy by way of a petition for review after the referee issues her report."

You do know what this means, don't you? Hmmm, maybe not. Lemme help you. It means that you've no basis whatsoever for a grant of mandamus, at least not until you've exhausted your right to petition for review after Judge Tunis issues her report--which, hopefully, recommends your disbarment. Let me try to put this in a form even you can understand: Right now, them mandamus planes just a'int gonna fly. You may want to rethink your strategy.

Or is it is that you think there's some strategic advantage to blowing smoke up the Court's ass?

Either way, good luck.

Wow, that was jumping all over the place. Also, still very unprofessionally written.

Laddy Jack: "(only crazy people don’t admit their mistakes)"

Ha...haha...hahahaha...it's pretty much "Insert your own joke here" at this point, folks.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA





John B. Thompson,



Plaintiff,



v. CASE NUMBERS SC06-2032, SCO7-80, SC07-354



The Florida Bar,



Defendant.



VERIFIED SUPPLEMENT TO PLAINTIFF’S PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS



[WARNING: THIS PLEADING HAS BEEN PREPARED AND SUBMITTED

BY A LAWYER THAT THE FLORIDA BAR ALLEGES IS INSANE]



COMES NOW plaintiff, John B. Thompson (hereinafter Thompson), and hereby supplements his petition for writ of mandamus, stating:

1. As a Briton would say, The Bar has made a hash of its pursuit of Jack Thompson. With what is alleged under oath herein, that assertion is not even debatable.

2. With Rules-breaking, unethical staff counsel, with an ideologically compromised and federal government-targeted designated reviewer in Ben Kuehne who was the last person on the Board of Governors who could assure the “fairness” of proceedings against his ideological opposite, with an immediate past president, Hank Coxe, who claimed before seven witness that Thompson should be suspended for mere “vitriol,” with a Board of Governors that is presently doling out money to the ACLU to assist minor girls to circumvent Florida’s parental notification of abortion law, Florida Statute 390.01115, and with a Bar referee, Dava Tunis, who has allowed no discovery and denied the most basic due process in her courtroom, The Florida Bar has now made a fatal error that this court should seek to remedy. The Bar has allowed its rage, its ideological agenda, and its selective prosecution propensities identified by Bar President Miles McGrane’s poll of Florida Bar members to trump not only the civil rights laws of this country but common sense as well. Plaintiff has no earthly idea whether anyone is reading this stuff at the Supreme Court, but somebody ought to read this filing, for herein may be found a means of resolving this mess.

2. As the court should know, a mediation of this imbroglio was requested by Thompson for years. A “mediation” finally occurred, but it was attended only by The Bar’s staff counsel, Sheila Tuma, in violation of the core concept of mediation—that a representative for the parties must attend, each with full authority to negotiate and settle. Going into the mediation, held in the Miami Bar offices, Sheila Tuma assured plaintiff and his lawyer in writing that she had “full authority” to do just that. That was a falsehood, to be kind. As proof of the falsehood, Ms. Tuma literally had to suspend the mediation to give Thompson’s counteroffer to her Director of Lawyer Regulation, Ken Marvin, and the new leftwing ideologue chosen to be Thompson’s designated reviewer, Steven Chaykin. Chaykin of course is so ideologically driven that he was rebuffed by even the Board of Governors. So now Mr. Chaykin is in charge of “fairness” for Thompson.

3. Be that as it may, at the faux mediation, as this court already knows (hang in there, the other shoe will be dropping, infra), Ms. Tuma offered the following “deal”: Thompson would have to submit to a 91-day suspension, plead guilty to everything, and accept a forced psychiatric evaluation by the Florida Lawyers Assistant program. This was not to be an assessment for anger management counseling. The purpose of the assessment was and is to find that Thompson is incompetent.

4. This was quite a Hobson’s choice, and it constitutes extortion, which is why the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s office is presently looking, after meeting with Thompson, with proceeding further with a criminal investigation, possibly to be pursued by a special prosecutor requested of the Governor, just as Thompson successfully persuaded the Broward State Attorney recently to seek and secure a special prosecutor to investigate allegedly corrupt judges in Broward. Thompson was happy to help.

5. This Bar, that this court is supposed to supervise now, not just when it has destroyed what is left of a lawyer’s career, thus confronted Thompson with an impossible choice and a nonsensical one, by demanding: While you are probably impaired and incompetent, consent with a consensual capacity you do not have to a 91-day suspension, plead guilty to things for which you may not be responsible by virtue of your alleged incapacity, OR we will have you permanently disbarred.

6. Let’s see now, Thompson is to choose between the second attempt by this Bar, with this court’s participation, in a public humiliation of him with lunacy tests, as it did before, to distrous results for this court and The Bar over a decade ago, or Thompson is to go forward with a trial, during which he is allegedly mentally incapacitated, and endure certain disbarment. That is what happens at Bar trials in which the referee has denied all defenses by denying all discovery. Thompson was born at night but not last night. Remember too that this is a referee who called Thompson’s defense “propaganda” and who denied Thompson a continuance while his wife was enduring chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. One would expect a jurist who is a mother with minor children to appreciate such a burden, but it would appear that the agenda to which she has signed on trumps even parenthood.

7. Yesterday the allegedly insane lawyer made a phone call. He called The Bar’s Ethics Hotline at 800-235-8619. The number is conveniently listed on page 2 of the most recent The Florida Bar News which has denied publication of Thompson’s paid ad about this mess and which also reports new Bar President Frank Angones’ unintentionally funny calls upon our profession to “raise the integrity and esteem of our profession” while he knowingly participates in his Bar’s efforts to pathologize a Christian lawyer’s pro bono conservative activism.

8. Thompson had a question for the Ethics Hotline folks, and it was this: How does a lawyer concerned about the mental health of another lawyer get The Bar to deal with the alleged problem?

9. God is nothing if He is not clever, and make no mistake, Thompson believes God is in the mix in all of this. Thompson, as a Presbyterian, believes and in fact knows that God is in the mix of everything. Call Thompson crazy, but omnipresence and omniscience are pretty mainstream theological concepts. Guess who Thompson, whose identity was not know, was given on the phone? Why, it was Kenneth Marvin, Director of Lawyer Regulation for The Florida Bar. Thompson felt honored. He was dealing with the head guy himself. Mr. Marvin was courteous. He was patient. And because he was not lawyered up, he winsomely committed the truth.

10. Under oath, Thompson now states that Mr. Marvin said, categorically, that the Rule that must be first followed is Bar Rule 3-7.13. We read it, on-line, together. Mr. Marvin was clear and the Rule is clear. If a lawyer or anyone thinks that a lawyer may be laboring under a mental defect or illness, then the concerned person must submit a sworn Bar complaint to the appropriate Bar office alleging with specificity precisely what the lawyer has done that gives rise to these concerns.

11. The Bar then forwards the specific complaint to the target, to use a term with with Bar Governor Ben Kuehne is painfully aware, and thereby disclose to him the identity of the complainant and what the nature of specific complaint is. The staff counsel then investigate and process the complaint, taking into account the rejoinder of the respondent to specific mental health allegations. The complaint is a real “complaint,” in that it must constitute a separate, stand-alone complaint case, with a real Bar case file number and everything else that is attendant to a complaint for misconduct.

12. To proceed to the point of actually requesting that anexamination be done, the Bar staff must first go to a real grievance committee (they actually have real numbers and are compromised of real people), and the committee is to make a probable cause determination. Mr. Marvin helpfully offered that the wise course is to ask the allegedly deranged lawyer to appear before the actual grievance committee so that it can assess him, with their own eyes and ears, to see if he or she is in fact bonkers.

This latter procedure is a great idea, as all lawyers should know that the right of an accused to confront his accusers is a pretty basic due process concept. In fact, its in the bloody Constitution. The concept is, oh, five hundred years old, if not older.

13. Then and only then, Mr. Marvin helpfully explained, does Rule 3-5.2 kick in, if the lawyer, about whom probable cause has been found that he is the second coming of Charles Hinkley. The Bar officials designated in that Rule execute affidavits relying upon the first affidavit and upon the layered protection of the grievance committee findings and petition the Supreme Court for a temporary suspension pending examination by a health care provider chosen by the Florida Lawyers Assistance program. These are not Thompson’s words, they are Mr. Marvin committing the truth because he did not know with whom he was speaking. For Biblical endorsement of this approach, please refer to the numerous Scriptural endorsement of the use of secrecy to discover the truth. It is the basic concept behind all police undercover work, surveillance, and the like. And it works.

14. Mr. Marvin concluded this phone call which occurred between 2:15 and 2:224 pm yesterday, July 26, 2007, by noting that this is the only way this process can work, that it is used to protect the accusers and the accused, and that it cannot be done any other way. Fascinating. Damning.

15. Consider how The Bar, for its various reasons and agendas, has “done it” to Thompson: There is no sworn complaint. There is no bar file complaint. No bar complaint file number. There has been no specificity as to what Thompson has done that suggests to a complainant or even to The Bar, if it chooses to be the complainant, that he is mentally ill. There has thus been no disclosure to Thompson what his acts are and what his presumed illness is. There has been no grievance committee consulted. There have been no grievance committee proceedings. There has thus been no grievance committee before whom Thompson has been called. There has been no probable cause finding. There has been no submission of the matter, then, to the officers identified in Rule 3-5.2. There has, in sum, been no adherence whatsoever by The Bar as to the clear procedures set forth in its own Rules in this regard and as helpfully, patiently, and clearly explained by Mr. Marvin. In short, The Bar has broken all the rules in order to break Jack Thompson.

16. The fact that it is Mr. Marvin, of all people, who has both explained how it is to be done and who has also superintended the Rules- and law-violating extortion of Jack Thompson is stunning beyond belief. But it is true. And it is consequential.

17. Why is it consequential? Because when it came right down to crunch time, when this mess could have been settled with any rational person considering what Thompson was willing to do to settle all this stuff, as indicated by his willingness to pay for the mediation himself and to negotiate a settlement, The Bar had their Ms. Tuma, the career Bar prosecutor from Illinois who has never done anything else as a lawyer but that, waltz into the room and play the lunacy card yet again, out of the blue.

18. The Bar does not want this resolved. The Bar wants to extort Thompson. It’s choice is no choice. It is akin to choosing between castration by knife or castration by chemical. Yet The Bar itself does not have what in Miami is called the cojones to do this by the Rules, to do it according to its own laws. They are welcome to try.

19. The reason The Bar is not willing, it seems, to do it by the Rules, as elucidated by Mr. Marvin is that it knows Thompson is not nuts. It knows. Thompson sat there in the flashy offices of Greenberg Traurig in Tallahassee on March 15, 2006, with Harkness, Hill, Bookman, and Coxe, the self-styled Guardians of Democracy, and they either saw that Thompson was a loon or were unnerved by their observations that he was not. If it was the former, why did they not act? They have not acted. Instead, in the purest act of bad faith imaginable, they send a woman to do what these men, these alleged men, are afraid to do. They sent Sheila Tuma into a mediation, authorized by Ken Marvin and Steven Chaykin to do it, to demand that he get on The Bar’s psych couch and let these unnamed latter day gulagists do their analyses. Either that or be disbarred.

If Thompson is crazy, he’s not that crazy.

20. The Bar has a choice. It can admit its mistakes (only crazy people don’t admit their mistakes), and get this all behind all of us, or The Bar can live with the rather frightening consequences of what it has done, to Thompson now for the second time.

21. This is important stuff, and it affects, with all due respect, the future of this Bar and of this High Court.

22. Powerful people, as the world defines power, invariably forget the heel of Achilles. The vulnerability of this Bar is in thinking that because they make the Rules, they are above them. Lord Acton nailed the problem as well. Every school kid knows the aphorism that the Hank Coxes and the Frank Angoneses have managed, in their self importance, to forget.

WHEREFORE, Thompson demands, by granting this petition for writ of mandamus, that this court review what this Bar has done to Thompson, and in doing so, has done to itself. In The Bar’s illegal, Rules-breaking, extortionate attempt to pathologize Thompson’s faith and activism, it has fashioned a noose for itself. Thompson does not really desire to cinch that noose, but he shall if he must.

I HEREBY SWEAR AND AFFIRM, AS IF UNDER OATH AND UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY, THAT THE FOREGOING FACTS ARE TRUE, COMPLETE, AND CORRECT, SO HELP ME (CAN I SAY THIS?) UNDER GOD.

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing has been provided this July 27, 2007, to John Harkness, Executive Director of The Florida Bar, to Circuit Court Judge Dava J. Tunis, to Bar staff counsel Sheila Tuma, and to Kenneth Marvin, Director of Lawyer Regulation for The Bar.

@ TheCapedCrusadist

I understood that - I was trying to poke holes in his current re-direction, point being that even his attempts to mislead have glaring errors.

@GoodRobot

Heh, i'm not too upset at the comments of Jackie Boy. I actually now feel honored to be insulted by the most hated man in video game culture. Sure, I wasn't really that happy to be called a knucklehead by Jack Thompson based on my clueless knowledge of law, but whatver. I can now brag that I was personally smack-talked by him to my freinds.

Maybe he just need to meet his gamer-bash quota for the week. :)

Thanks for your support, Robot.

"also, “is this a great country or what?” is’nt really appropriate from someone who practices law."


Well I don't really see any problem with a lawyer saying that. What I do take issue with is that Jack attempts to undermine the freedoms that makes the US what it is, but then revels in those same rights when they work in his favor.

@monte'

Thompson is not a Christian. The man actually does know and exploit the bible, but Thompson is a man of hate and contempt, quite contrary to anything the bible teaches. I don't believe he's honestly so blind to believe that his methods are actually God's will. Christ is a teacher of love and forgiveness, specifically the love of ones enemies. Yes, there are rules and guidelines in the bible that people are supposed to follow, and not all of the teachings are positive and humanitarian in nature, but what is crystal clear is the way people are supposed to treat their fellow man. Jack Thompson knows what is in the bible, but he neglects it. Thus, he is either a true idiot who believes he is personally above the words of the bible, or he is deliberately exploiting a religion he does not believe in, in order to further his career and hate agenda. My money is on the latter.

@jt

Why not take the psyc exam if you have nothing to hide?

The whole "He didn’t know who I was, I sure as heck know who he is." scenario sounds like calssic SOCIOPATHY, the very issue that your using as a basis for your "crusade" against Take-Two and Rockstar.

ps

stop acting like you're personal friends with "the Lord Jesus Christ"... also, "is this a great country or what?" is'nt really appropriate from someone who practices law.

PPPPS
O lord, make my enemies ridiculous.- Voltaire.
Voltaire was an atheist.

PPPS
@JACK THOMPSON
They want you to undergo the evaluation because they see how insane you are, and you are making the Florida Bar look bad to the rest of the country.

Dear Jack Thompson,
I haven't heard of any other lawyer speaking in the third person, but I guess I don't know many good ones. Just a few Judges and DAs, thats all.
I think the problem here, dear Jacky, is that you tied your psyche to your ego and inflated your ego. Now that the whole civilized world is deflating your ego, it would appear that your psyche is crushed, leaving you with less mental stability than you had in the beginning (and let us be brutally honest, you had very little). Let's face it, people just don't buy your particular brand of bullshit anymore.
I know, you'll probably go on a tangent somewhere calling us 'potheads' and 'knuckleheads' and the like, but let me explain something. I'm in college, going for a Crim/Soc degree. Once I go back, I'm going straight back to the recruiters' desk and sigining up for the infantry.
I know, this may seem like something a bloodthirsty videogamer would do. But then again, its something that sane and intelligent men have done for 250 years and more in America.
So go masquerade as something important while you still can, because the judge is gonna rip the mask of your face, God willing.
Austin Lewis,
Irish-catholic Republican.
PS.
Hooah, Tiocfaidh Ar La, Erin go bragh, and Pog ma thoin.

"Change republican with democrat and you’ll have it right, since all the time something anti-video game seems to be the democratic thing, not to mention Thompson said he supports Hillary."

Which would be true, were he referring to video game legislation. But he was referring to the Patriot act and Wire tapping, where the republicans tried to convince us that we shouldn't mind giving up freedom of privacy if we don't have anything private to hide.

So it was correct the first time around.

Thompson seems to be alleging that the complaints against him are related to his mental health. They are not. I believe the Florida Bar is simply trying to ascertain whether or not he is crazy. If he were (and I do not believe he is) then perhaps they could attribute his behaviour to his mental illness.

The upcoming disciplinary action has nothing to do with Mr. Thompson's mental state. It has to do with his inability to follow Bar rules and practice law according to set guidelines and the orders of Judges. You only need to read the Bar complaint documents to find out all of the rules he has broken.

Mr. Thompson's predicament has nothing to do with him being crazy. It has everything to do with him being a rude, abusive, dishonest individual. It has everything to do with him trying to use the law as a sledgehammer to get his way ("disagree with me and I'll sue you! Say anything bad about me and I'll sue you!"). It has everything to do with his conduct in multiple courts of law which have led to the Judges involved complaining about him. (his behaviour was like a disciplined child screaming that the parent who spanked him was a doody-head).

Long story short: he is NOT crazy. He IS woefully unprofessional and cannot follow the rules of his profession. As such, he should and if there is any justice in the world, will be disbarred.

It seems that Jacko seems to have some problem with if then statements. As you can see from my name I'm no lawyer, but the rule he is citing says IF someone claims that a person is mentally ill, THEN these procedures must happen. Unless there are some other rules that Jacko isn't citing there is nothing to tell us what the procedure is if no one has claimed that a person is mentally ill.

As an example the statement "If it is a pig, then it has four legs" does not mean that "if it has four legs, then it is a pig." Just because they are asking Jacko to undergo mental evaluation doesn't mean that some other person has suggested it and so those rules don't apply.

It is interesting that someone seems keep making faulty arguments when that person's job is at least in part about forming an argument.