November 30, 2007
We've heard very little news from this week's Florida Bar disciplinary trial of anti-game activist Jack Thompson.Here's what we know:
As expected, the case, which began on Monday, continued all week long. We spoke to a staffer in the court of Judge Dava Tunis this morning who told us the Thompson trial was reconvening at 11AM today, Miami time.
Earlier this week Thompson filed a motion with the U.S. District Court to vacate the Bar case. Judge Adalberto Jordan rejected Thompson's motion yesterday, thus allowing the case to continue.
Thompson himself has sent very little GP's way this week. Although he e-mailed this cryptic message on Wednesday morning, we received no follow-up, despite a couple of requests:
Florida Bar Disbarment Trial of Anti-Violent Video Game Activist Heats Up... Things took quite a turn against the video game industry at Miami attorney Jack Thompson’s lawyer “disciplinary” trial yesterday [Tuesday]. Wonderful details will be disclosed publicly shortly.
I'm still awaiting those "wonderful details." Although my gut tells me that if Thompson had something to brag about, he wouldn't keep it to himself, it's probably best not to indulge in too much speculation at this point.
Regarding the Tivo Alert, we've learned that Thompson will appear on Spike TV's GameHead program tonight at 1AM Eastern Time. Show host Geoff Keighley was at VGXPO a few weeks back and apparently caught up to Thompson there.
Keighley will also have an interview with Spencer Halpin about his Moral Kombat movie.
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At a guess Jack thinks that his disciplinary trial is him against the Florida Bar/Game industry. So anything marginally in his favor in the course of the trial is something that's "a turn against the video game industry". That or he managed to get some of their complaints thrown out from the stack that's against him.
Either way, I highly doubt it's anything major. IIRC he's used similar phrasing in the past for when he's fired off a letter to some official. Hell, it could be him firing off that motion the article mentions.
As I said, Jack probably thinks this is all their doing. Everything against him is one big conspiracy in his mind.
Yes. About six times. He further inflated his hypocrisy by circumventing the IP ban several times and posting under poorly-thought-out aliases.
Check this link out: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/trueneutral/Blog/JTCtrlAltDel.jpg
"As I scaled the walls to his keep, I heard him say, 'all exactly as I planned.'
When I slew his guards, he cackled, 'exactly according to my plan.'
When I infiltrated his inner sanctum: 'just as I had planned.'
I disarmed him in combat and knocked him to the ground. ' all according to my plan.'
His last words as I ran him through were, 'just as I planned...'
Later I spoke as I stood over his grave: 'You never really got the hang of planning, did you?'"
I doubt those eggs are even laid yet
Bravo, good sir - you win two cookies, with teh whipped cream.
"Don't confuse the issue with the facts." Yep, sounds like a JT mtethod of thinking. Goes along with the, "If you can't fight any evidence, create it." Methodology of Mark Furman.
I do like a good bit of comedy.
Hi-larity. You get an intertubes.
As for my take, I think the reason he's been so tight-lipped about this since Wednesday is because shit's not going his way. He's usually shouting from the mountaintops when he thinks he's winning, and doing so incessantly, and seriously, do you think a gag order would really stop him completely from talking about it?
Anyways, I'm off, gonna go watch a half of the Raptors and munch on my pizza.
Man, he really IS senile if he thinks anyone is going to give a rats ass about this...
YOU WILL NEVER GET AWAY WITH THIS!, JACK THOMPSON!!!!!!!!!!
J/k :P
According to Tim Buckley, he was molested by Grand Theft Pong as a child.
Then he should just stop what he is doing!!
Fuck Jack is such a piece of shit. Better keep an eye out for John Boy suicide bombing an EB Games after this week.
THIS IS GREAT.
Priceless.
Considering Jack took time to mail you during the case, he may be in violation of said gag order, putting yet another count among his dozens, if not hundreds, to be considered for his disbarment.
It only makes sense within the narrow confines of his own delusions.
This means that Jack got the judge to admit there are violent video games out there. Jack has just turned the gaming word upside down with that revolation.
Here's to hoping.
PS: John Bruce sure is desperate for attention if he is going on Spike TV.
E. Zachary Knight
Divine Knight Gaming
Random Tower: Game News and Commentary
No crowing=jack still in deep hot water.
Even if he found one issue he could turn to his favor (or at least not against him) there are many Real issues to deal with. It would be truely surprising if he could find some type of child like glee in getting off from under just one of them.
Dennypoo Sweetykins, can't you see that this is all part of my master plan? Soon Norm Kent will be in jail and video games will be illegal as a result of my disbarment case being overturned!
He probably introduced that biased psych test from Dr. Wunderman, the one filled with so much conflict of interest that you'd think John Bruce evaluated himself, and it was accepted.
Wouldn't be a surprise really. Wasn't it Dr. Wunderman who did John Bruce's evaluation the last time?
Really, John Bruce's so-called surprises aren't as big a surprise as he might think. I already view the overall legal system as dishonorable, unethical, corrupt, inconsistant, illogical, and ignorant. After all, HE'S a part of that legal system. The two go together like weiner and bun. And HE'S the weiner.
:P
Nightwng2000
NW2K Software
Indeed, the first time I visited the site there was some kind of header banner about 'Motion Capture Porn' or the like O_o
In other words it would be like if he was found not guilty for cutting the tag off a matress, but found guilty for several counts of 1st degree murder.
I agree with others, though, he's been dead silent, which means that he either has nothing to boast about, or the Judge has order him not to under threat of some form of drastic punishment.
Here's hoping you can't keep your yap shut, JT.
Bless. Somehow I doubt the judge said, "Case dismissed, and as a result of your exemplary attitude you've been appointed the position of chief justice of the supreme court. And we've all chipped in and got you a unicorn."
Isn't the absolute best result for Jack basically saying that he's OK to continue practicing law? This case can't result in anything happening to the game industry.
How many times did he come here and boast about how some random filing of his just brought him the greatest victory ever in his suit against the Florida Bar? And what happened again in that trial?
Denied
Denied
Denied
Denied
Denied with prejudice
Denied
Denied
Denied
Etc.
HA!
So how has it turned against them?
If he really IS on TV, live, at 1 in the morning... eh. Who cares. It'll just be the usual garbage. I'll just wait for it to be posted here or on YouTube.
It also sounds like he thinks his trial will play out like an episode of Perry Mason or perhaps Phoenix Wright (if he acknowledged such a thing existed). He seems to believe not only will he walk away unscathed from all this, but that somehow video games will be made illegal.
and as you have pointed out he thinks its a conspiracy that means you are in on the conspiracy as you are trying to dismiss the conspiracy as not been a conspiracy which automatically means you are in the conspiracy
my head hurts...
followed by... "Thompson himself has sent very little GP’s way this week. Although he e-mailed this cryptic message on Wednesday morning, we received no follow-up, despite a couple of requests:"
I cannot help but think the two statements are linked. Jack was probably crowing at the fact he filed for the motion to vacate. The reason he hasn't followed up is because his motion was rejected. He is ever the optimist, you have to give him that much.
You know maybe he acutally believes his own line that God with send an angel or empower Him to overcome all the evil and deliver him from under harm.
Its kind of sad in a way. He thinks himself equal to the gaming industry, superior to the Florida Bar, and the weight of all the people that stand against him (if only in his own mind) just gives credance to his "calling". The truth is a bit more bleak if he could only remove his self imposed blindess to and see it. The only people that much care about his fate are gamers, parental watch groups (as a talking head) and a few game companies... Yes there are alot of gamers but only a tiny percentage are rabid about his demise. At best he might make an ofter overlooked footnote in some rarely read history book.
History tends to roll over self-important, under-educated, bigoted twits like him without a hickup.
@GryphonOsiris
Good analogy bro :)
How is this related to an ethics trial focusing on an attorney's behavior? How could Jack's trial end up hurting the videogame industry?
OH!!! I get it!!!
If he is disbarred, Manhunt 2 and the like will lose their largest producer of free marketing.
Makes sense now... sorry to bother...
Happened just after John Bruce added GP and the ECA to his suit along with the Florida Bar. The judge dismissed all the cases and John Bruce was back to being a social pariah... oh... wait... he's never STOPPED being that.
Nightwng2000
NW2K Software
In other words, more of the same idiocy as always.
You fail that to understand that in 'Jack Thompson World, the third planet from the sun,' everyone is in cahoots to bring him down like some sort of giant monster than couldn't make it into a Godzilla film.
The Video Game Industry, Consumer Groups, all retailers, all the courts and all the law firms out there, the president, they're all 'in on it' to him.
In his mind, the Florida Bar practically IS the video game industry.
dumbass