Jack is a disgusting human being. He proves this time and time again. He has no shame, he has no decency. There really isn't much else to say.

How dare you Mr. Thompson.

@Vinzent
OMFG he said “possible” this time! Could he it be that he doesn’t want to be made to look like an idiot the same way as during VTech?

Obviously not, because he's still claiming that VTech was caused by video games. Curse you, Sonic the Hedgehog!

You know, I shouldn't be, but I am kind of surprised. I figured he was going to continue to lay low until after his Bar judgment.

@treydawg
Did I miss something? Since when is Microsoft the parent company of Facebook?

FOX News keep paying Jack his fee's. Jack therefore comes out with more shit. Viscious circle continues.

So the real wankers are FOX. Jack is the fuckwad in this example.

@J_Sensei

I know right I hope someone takes the first few sentences from this video and makes a montage of "Jack Thompson Greatest Moments".

This was such a horrible occurrance and the reason jack went for it so quickly is to get his face back out there before a verdict is given. Jack I agree that violent video games shouldn't be sold to children and a lot of other people do to. So stop blaming people and try to spread knowledge of the rating system around to do some help.

We all need to make Jack see that he is creating a lot more harm than good.

Jazz

@ Black Manta
Might have been a troll(which I frequently assume such posts are until confirmed), but it is right in the sense Jack "Massacre Chaser" Thompson has been making such hypocritical "I'm not for censorship/I WANT IT ALL CENSORED!" comments for a while....

Look at his history, attacking music industry, attacking the TV/movie industry, radio shock jocks, and it is the same old thing with video games.

He wants actually censorship, wants all games he doesn't like banned for EVERYONE, and he tries to fool people by throwing out a "I'm not for censorship, I'm doing this to protecting the children" excuse from time to time.

And we all know how he loves to avoid or ignore the other, more likely, factors into such horrific events....

@ Erik

Yes you have a very good point. Although my point was I would not say he caused it. He contributes to it because of what he does. But he did not cause it. Thats all I'm saying. Cause is a very strong word here.

I've accepted that FOX isn't really good at gathering CREDIBLE opinions. They'll happily assemble whatever random moron they can find to drive in a biased perspective.

That said, Jack continues to wield (PROVEN) false information with all the grace of an oaken club. Good lucke with that Jackie.

P.S.

Whatever happened with Jack promising to subpoena George Bush? Can we chalk that up as failure # 39162?

@ Yuki
Nice idea, but totally unrealistic and highly unlikely to happen. Besides, why would they want to bring themselves down to Jack's level of ... I mean complete lack of ethics?

Like I said before, what they did was appropriate and reasonable given the circumstances. The media can get away with such things, and there isn't anything you can do about it.... But I wouldn't really worry about it because....

Yet along with a certain "person," these "news stations" are pretty much doing damage to themselves. Forgetting the source, this would be the second time such a station has just ran with whatever they could pull out of some orifice along with a so called expert to go with it.

I'm probably not the only one who watches such stuff, only to later wonder what happened to such claims by "experts" when actual information is officially revealed. And usually it is a much more realistic explanation for why such a thing had occurred....

And other traditional media outlets, like MSNBC, are starting to question such actions and claims of those like him.

sigh

Not this again, how many times now?

Chalts,
I agree. I felt that the interviewer has an obligation to keep his guests from veering too far from the questions. Jack Thompson didn't even touch upon the age factor with the case of the NIU shooter, something that his interviewer obviously wanted to talk about. When you consider his current age, the shooter was already over the age of 17 when Counter-Strike was launched, the first time he would've played it.

But instead, his response turned to the usual circular logic of using his past theories and conclusions with Cho Seung-Hui's actions, and projecting them onto this case. And then following a shameless plug for his book, and then more talk about some violent shooting scenes that are not about NIU. I don't think he ever talked about NIU in the video clip we saw.

Thompson was just giving him a slice of his career. I would be insulted if I interviewed someone and one of my questions was responded with "look at how cool I am, and all the stuff I did". I won't care, unless I specifically asked what kind of cool things you did.

@Anon

Uwe Boll has done more to destroy video games than Jack could ever dream of doing. Look what he did to Far Cry.

That train's never late.

"I am certain that the past and future survivors of these incidents will not fully understand why The Florida Bar is seeking to destroy a latter-day Paul Revere…"

Am I the only one that almost spewed a drink from the unintentional hilarity and sheer egotistical nature that it took to make that comment, especially considering he meant it seriously? I was taking a sip of my milk when I read that, and I almost ended up with milk on the screen.

Also, it's almost good to see Whacky Jacky in the news again. Ever since those possible disbarment proceedings started, it's been different not seeing him yelling every time I turn around.

These two combined leads to another question: If Jack is disbarred, but still shouts just as much about video games and such, will that drive the unintentional comedy scale even higher?

Well, Good ol' John Bruce didn't take long. Wonder what other sensationalist bullshit we will see spout from his mouth before the end of the week.

Man.... man.... if only I had the energy to care what JT said any more.

The shooter was 27 by which it should not matter what game he played because he is over 18.

Even if there was 100 school shootings happening and the excuse every time was video games it still does not mean anything when it comes to other situations that are way more effective than video games.

He was 27, so he was no kid and he served as vice president of the university's Academic Criminal Justice Association and got good grades. This to me says mental issues, not gaming trained killer. But even if GTA is found, is he prepared to say that these games should not be sold to adults either?

But my gut tells me that yes, he probably played video games. I am NOT saying it is a cause! Just good lucking finding somebody who doesn't play video games at all these days. So JT will make sure it will have a gaming connection.

My guess, he will blame the GTAIV posters for sending him over the edge.

Was anyone hurt in this one?
I don't see much data on this one anywhere.

i am sickened to no damn end by this digusting piece of garbage that dares to call itself human

this is what shakespeare was talking bout ( no im not advocating violence)

From what I heard this morning, the guy had just stopped taking medication for emotional issues, and people who knew him had noticed a sharp change in behavior over the past few weeks. Sounds to me like this is a case of an unstable person who was off his meds.

No mention was made of video games.

The truth will come out, and JT will end up appearing as inane as...well...JT. Nothing else even comes close to adequately describing it.

Did I miss the verdict from his fscking court stuff regarding disbarrment?

What was it?

It's already hit YouTube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTu0X8TQ2i4

Some days, I hate how fast this crap spreads.

According to Yahoo (link in my name), he was 27 and off meds. To me that's too old to play the "poor kid brainwashed by video games" angle. It's not games that are negatively influencing society, it's lawyers attempting to make any horrible action perfectly excusable.

"Did I miss the verdict from his fscking court stuff regarding disbarrment?

What was it? "

The Bar hasn't come to a decision yet, or else GP would have posted it by now.

As for the news, well, stuff like that is what caused the phrase "massacre chaser" to be coined almost a year ago.

@GPman

He's been saying such games shouldn't be sold to adults either, otherwise he wouldn't be shooting for outright bans. Actions speak louder than that rectum he calls a mouth.

Jack Thompson, never late for a train wreck car crash or school shooting to make a buck.

And I think he slipped on this one. For Vtech he was on the new before the day was over

The first thing he says is "I wish I weren't here." Yeah, I'll bet he doesn't.

Also, count the times he says "Um..." He has no clue what's going on and instantly goes into his book spiel.

First rule of public speaking: Never say "um".

@Tyler Baumbarger

If he thought that, he wouldn't be there.

"I was on the Fox News Channel this morning because of the possible violent video game connection to this latest massacre at Northern Illinois University. "

OMFG he said "possible" this time! Could he it be that he doesn't want to be made to look like an idiot the same way as during VTech?

I already knew this would happen as soon as I heard about the shootings. I also knew good ol' Jackie boy would be the first to claim it and even before they had finished investigating.

Firstly, my condolences to those affected by this tragedy.

Secondly, Thompson is just absolutely batshit crazy, and people like him and Prokofy Neva simply couldn't live without this kind of fear-mongering and one-message-to-the-exclusion-of-facts outright lying. It is absolutely astounding to me that people give him airtime *at all*.

larouche is acting stupid as well

http://www.larouchepac.com/news/2008/02/14/northern-illinois-school-shoo...

I heard on the radio that the guy wasn't taking his medication which caused him to go mental.

And when I herad that the first thing to pop in my brain was "And yet still its going to be blamed on violent video games."

Sadly.....I was right. :(

As an aside, what's really amusing is that Paul Revere's role in history has been blown out of proportion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem. Revere's ride was actually a fairly short one, through a few cities. It was Israel Bissell who made the journey of almost 350 miles to warn the colonists of the British invasion. Also Paul Revere would never have shouted "The British are coming!" because all the colonists at that time considered themselves British.

I don't know how this relates to Jack's self-claims of being like Paul Revere, but I thought it was interesting to note.

I am a little surprised it took him this long though. I would've expected him to start the massacre chasing about 20 hours ago. He's getting old I suppose.

I really can't help but laugh at the pathetic nature of his massacre chasing though. This just reeks of desperation. An old man trying to cling to his old beliefs no matter what in direct contrast to reality.

I'd feel sorry for him if he wasn't such a douchebag.

"I was on the (Fox News Channel) this morning because of the possible violent video game connection to this latest massacre at Northern Illinois University."
-Bracketed portion renders this statement irrelevant
(Cooper Lawrence syndrome)

Since Jack's career in law seems to be hanging in the twilight, I believe that we should begin referring to Mr. Thompson as a Miami-Dade psychic. He how has two major references on his psychic resume (Virginia Tech, and now Northern Illinois). This obviously makes him an expert.

Unfortunately for Jack, he seems unable to comprehend that people will be questioning his expertise and asking him "hey didn't you say you were a lawyer last month" after the Florida Bar revokes his bar license.

@Jon Kanders

Yes, you could probably set your watch to it.

Works out great for everyone else, because it means he's devoting less time to actually trying to defend his legal career. Not that it actually matters, but he continues to pile **** on a mountain of ****.

Typical fraud noise channel hog shit.

@treydawg :
"larouche is acting stupid as well"

It's a pleonasm :D

I’m very disappointed. But I shouldn’t have been so surprised. It is Fox news after all. But did they learn nothing from the last time he was on?

I also should have known better than to think he’d have the sense to stay quiet when his license is in order. But to compare himself to Paul Revere is extremely galling. It really does speak to his martyrdom complex, doesn’t it?

Hopefully Judge Tunis will take this into consideration when she makes her final ruling.

He was off his meds? I know, let's blame $cientology!

Fox News. Bringing fair and balanced coverage of video game news from Cooper Lawrence and Jack Thompson since God knows when!

I love how Fox News brings Thompson on their network just weeks after the Mass Effect incident.

"“brain scan studies out of Harvard”? I’m not going to bother looking for it. " -janarius

Wise decision. They don't exist.


Andrew Eisen

@ Jon

The train is late because it derailed

And I believe Chris Titus said it best.
"Be normal, and the crowd will accept you. Be deranged, and they will make you their leader." And he certainly was made a leader in his own mind.

I would think JT would wait until the facts came out before distorting them. I guess he went out and starting straight up making shit up instead of waiting to twist the facts.

Hmmm, I have a friend who was studying brain-wave activity when he was at Harvard... granted he was monitoring sleep deprivation, but I'm sure JT can pervert that somehow.

Same old boring predictable crap from Jack. Plugs Columbine, Pedukah, Erfurt, etc. He's just running his mouth as much as he can before his disbarment. *yawns*

“I am certain that the past and future survivors of these incidents will not fully understand why The Florida Bar is seeking to destroy a latter-day Paul Revere"

The nads on this guy.

Is there anyone with more misplaced arrogance than the world's premiere massacre chaser Jack Thompson?

@Thomas P.
Didn't you know? If he waits for the facts, he has to at least pretend to go by them. If he makes up the facts first, then anything contradicting him is part of the game industry experience. Note how he still claims that Cho played Counterstrike, and there were all those times he yelled at the police because they couldn't find the video games he "knew" where there.

I would love to know who made the first phone call, JT or Fox News. Can you imagine how EXCITED JT must be whenever something like this happens? He is a sicko.

@ Kurisu

I know it isn't. It tends to follow "Just because you're necessary doesn't mean you're important"

BREAKING NEWS:

possible links between school shootings have been uncovered by dynamic laywer jack thompson, studies show that most school shooting are carried out by carbon based life forms, a significant contributing facotr as 100% of cases show this pattern.

It is high time we banned carbon from the periodic table to protect our children.

What the fuck is a "campus shooting expert?" Isn't there a law against using false titles?

At least he was anointed a 'video game expert'.

Jack Thompson is an attention woe. Plain and simple.

His legal career is falling apart, and he needs to develop himself as enough of a personality that he can get another publishing deal. That's all this is.

As for Fox News, they aren't a news source. They're a medium for mass manipulation, an arm of the Republican party. I honestly believe it's misleading for them to even refer to themselves as "Fox News." They don't distribute news. They distribute "opinion" in exchange for compensation from conservatives.

Jack Thompson is a soon-to-be-disbarred attorney, grasping for any piece of publicity he can get, and he appeared on a "news" outlet that has less credibility than The Onion. I really don't see why anyone cares. There are more important things to be worried about than a has-been spouting lies on a fake news station.

@ JT

I thought the reason we weren't on Fox news was because we're all well adjusted folks who don't go conclusion hopping and wait for more information. So yeah, hooah to you, sir. Me, I'll be waiting for the facts.

"Hey, there was a reason I was on Fox and none of you knuckleheads were: I know what I’m talking about and you all don’t. Hooah!"

Just like Cooper Lawrence! Hooah!

"Hey, there was a reason I was on Fox and none of you knuckleheads were: I know what I’m talking about and you all don’t. Hooah!"

Cooper Lawrence was also on Fox News, and that didn't stop her from being completely wrong and misinformed now did it?

Actually, John Bruce, there are two REAL reasons I'm not on FOX News:
(1) I don't mentally molest the families, individuals, and communities that suffer such tragedies just push my personal, religious, and/or political beliefs.
(2) Like leads to like. FOX News advocates lying to and deceiving it's audience, even having won a law suit to defend the right to do so. And that Demon-Pretender-To-The-Throne-Of-Heaven that you worship advocates lying and deceiving to force your personal, religious, and/or political beliefs upon others. So, no, it's not a surprise.

And even if that poster wasn't the real John Bruce, these facts remain true.

Nightwng2000
NW2K software

Speaking as someone who actually has a chemical imbalance I think I can explain this to a degree.

People who have this particular issue, especially those with schizophrenia, often stop taking their meds for what is, in their minds, a legitimate issue. They start to think that since they're better they don't have to take the meds anymore. This leads to a rather vicious cycle of ups and downs and wildly erratic behaviour.

If that's Jack, could I point out that the same case has been made to ban guns. They shouldn't be available because there are crazy people out there.

Could I also point out that these killings were all done with guns. I don't propose we repeal the second amendment.

IF, and that's a big if, this person was influenced by video games, would you say he wouldn't have committed this crime if he hadn't played video games, yet still went off his medication and was in posession of the guns?

How many of these incidents has happened in the last 10 years? How many casulties of campus and school shooting have their been? Now, how many people died in drunk driving accidents? Wouldn't you be better off fighting the Alcohol Industry to bring back the prohabition?

What percentage of the adult population will commit crimes BECAUSE they played a video game? Do you feel justified in stopping mentally stable adults from enjoying the medium since it MAY effect a minescule percentage of the population? Would that not also follow a ban of peanut products since they are harmful to a small percentage of the population?

What is your ideal outcome, your end game? If a judge said to you, 'You win, what do you want?', what would you ask for? Do you want all violent video games banned? Do you want stricter laws regarding the selling of these games? Given the option that whatever you asked for, no matter how outlandish would be granted, what would you ask for them to do? At that point, what would define a violent video game? PETA doesn't like Mario jumping on turtles, teaches kids that it's cool to kill animals. Same goes for Big Buck Hunter. Athiests may feel that Veggie Tales isn't right for children. Who makes the call? Police Trainer (it's an arcade game) has you shooting human shaped targets for high scores. Grand Turismo teaches unsafe driving habits and lack of responsibility when you crash.

I'm asking these questions to understand better.

***Had to fix it it got messed up***

Maybe I’m crazy. But I thought there was more wars and killings, or at least the same amount before video games,computer, or tv was around. Heck even before guns where around. Jack needs to shutup. He's part of the problem, the problem being no one taking responsibility for what they do. THE VIDEO GAMES MADE ME KILL THEM!

Freaking idiot.

@FlashnFuse

do you watch glen beck FlashnFuse?

After watching that video, I have only one thing to say:

Ow! My Brain!

Johnny Bruce Thompson and Fox News should get married.

Sorry I'm late anyway.
@Thompson: Tell me to my face, someone who was on campus, along with those in that auditorium and the families of the victims that video games were the cause. Crusader my ass your just like the rest of the news media you don't give a shit about those who were injured or died. You don't care about how students like me were scared and desperatley trying to contact our families'. You don't care that some of those shot had to be airlifted all the way to Rockford for treatment.
I can say this Thompson because I along with 25,000 others was at NIU. I can guarantee you this nobody at the time thought that video games caused it
If you go to NIU to further your cause I will be there with every one else I can get to help me to make sure it goes nowhere.
@Everyone else
Anybody got his contact information? If so I plan to forward it and this story to every student currently enrolled at NIU.

“Actually, Cho trained on Counterstrike, as the Washington Post reported.” –Thompson

No Thompson. Here’s what the Washington Post reported:

“Several Korean youths who knew Cho Seung Hui from his high school days said he was a fan of violent video games, particularly Counterstrike, a hugely popular online game published by Microsoft, in which players join terrorism or counterterrorism groups and try to shoot each other using all types of guns.”

Oh, and you might want to spell-check your username.

Andrew Eisen

oh christ here we go. only Faux News are the ones stupid enough to put this guy on the air. Now, if you dont mind, I'm watching Studio B. Shepard isnt here again.

@Mark of Cain

Just how close to the actual shooting were you when it transpired? Seriously, thats frightening if one of the readers here was that close. Also, how can I contact you regarding your query?

Ok, he is going to tell us that, because fox, put him on tv he knows more than us? you know, a channel famous for temptation island, Family and countless other trashy shows they toss at their audience.

ps. not saying family guy is trashy, but it's funny to equate thompson with that show.

btw, Jack, how about you give the real reason you stick to Fox News now - not because you know what you're talking about, as anyone can run your arguments to the ground, but because they WERE by Chris MAtthews on a much better news organization. Seriously, Fox is the only place willing to let you spew your Coulteresqu hatred, so man up and admit it.

I'm glad (and surprised) to see fox news mention the medication stuff. I've been saying that for years. Every school shooter since columbine has had various problems with anti-depressants. Yet, it always takes back seat to video games, I never understood this. It seems to be the common link.

I lol'd so hard the second he said "Violent video games" for some reason.

If that was actually Jack Thompson up there, shouldn't he have at least been able to spell his profession correctly? "Attonrey"?

Hey, maybe I'm just nitpicking, but come on. How do you expect us to take you *cough* seriously *cough* when you can't even spell what you supposedly do correctly?

Just an FYI, I was just watching Fox News, and the governor of Illinois was quick to jump to blaming games. In fact, he cited TV and movies as well, but places most of his disgust on "violent video games."

Given that no gaming link has been shown in this case, the quick jump to blame games is reprehensible. In fact, even if Kazmierczak was a gamer, the fact that he required medication and did not take that medicine should be more than sufficient to make this case an outlier, and not the result of the games (if games can even influence behavior).

sorry for the double post, but is there any info out on what type of meds he was supposed to be taking, and for what mental illness? and maybe some background info on the guy?

Jack Thompson: I wish I weren't here.
Fox News: Us too.

Truer words have never been spoken.

@J_Sensei: ESPECIALLY on Fox News.

I soon as heard about this this morning, i knew they were going to blame this on video games.

To coin a phrase from someone here at GP.com...

[/headdesk]

@ Canary Wundaboy

Let me join you, together on 3. 1.2.3 [/headdesk]

"That train’s never late."

Problem is, you have to shoot people to make it appear.

So you admit that some people are just messed up in the head. In the same breath, you want us to censor ALL MEDIA that could be copy-catted just so the mentally ill don’t have something to mimic?

Did he really say that? Exact quote please since I’m guessing his post was almost immediately deleted. If that’s true, then he’s pretty much admitted that’s what he wants all along. I never thought that’d be his ultimate goal, but there you are.

Genius, man. Just pure fucking genius.

I'm just about ready to break my monitor after seeing that....how could Faux News let HIM get air time? They know who he is...

Jason Della Rocca didn't call Thompson a massacre chaser for nothin'. I mean, Thomson seems to be on TV when stuff like this happens and he always brags about his involvement in the James v. Meow Media Inc case. I believe he's always bringing that up so he can make his move.

He can't even wait until the bodies are cold and have been properly examined before throwing his BS theories out there on a whim. It makes the blood boil to think that he is still allowed to practice. It blows my mind knowing that when he is disbarred, fox news will refer to him as an ex-attorney instead of a disbarred massacre chaser that should spend the rest of his life contemplating the concept of using the tragedy of others for his personal gain. He can blow smoke all day long, but no one who is trying to better this world goes on television and says "I told you so". A self serving prick trying to sell more books, and try to advance his own agenda would do that.
How could a family possibly understand his Paul Revere BS when he's using their dead as a horse and pony show to further his own agenda? Personally, if I was on that end, I'd be looking for every trick in the book to ensure that Mr. Thompson could never voice the name of a related victim. My sympathies to those who lost a loved one, and I hope that the result from the investigations is a positive change, least we fall into a morass of blame and BS Mr. Thompson do desperately wants.

I can't believe he's still saying that the VT shooter trained on "Counter Strike: Half-Life," a game that doesn't even exist.

I'm sure it has already been said, but still, damn, JBT is a sick, twisted excuse of a human being. There are REAL wars, REAL crime, REAL homelessness, REAL drug abuse, REAL abuse in the home, and all this filthy snake cares about is a harmless form of NON-REAL recreation? It makes me physically ill.

Bless.

Jack Thompson makes a good case for banning... himself.

Just think of all the crazy people out there who hear him blaming video games who might think they can get away with murder if only they play the games-made-me-do-it card. He's practically telling them it's okay to kill people because it's the games' fault, not theirs. And by repeatedly bringing up previous shooters, he's pretty much ensuring future psychos that they can be (in)famous too.

So, yea, if he thinks it's okay to censor games because they might inspire some nutjob to shoot someone, then he should have no problem being censored himself for the same reason. Think of the children!1!11

is jack a psych can he "offically" say that this shooting is caused by videogames.

if he can predict that can he predict the next president?

@Jack Thompson, Attonrey

Thompson, I've been playing video games since the days of the Commodore 64, I am a terrible shot with a rifle, much less a pistol, and can't even handle raw meat without feeing sick.

Also, the Washington post retracted that statement and apologized as it was false. Deny it all you want. And yes people have detached, on numerous occasions, video games from those events.

Like I said, keep denying it, it won't make you right.

Why am I not surprised?!?!

"Hey, there was a reason I was on Fox and none of you knuckleheads were: I know what I’m talking about and you all don’t."

Actually, I'm not on Fox news because I don't puff myself up to look important, and I don't WANT to be on any "news" network that would have a liar like you on their cameras.

And you do realize they ONLY have you on to grab them a few more ratings, not because they respect you or think you're right.

And, WE don't know what we're talking about? Name the last five video games you sat down and played, with your family or otherwise, not banned or talked about, just played.

@Jack Thompson, Attorney

Also, Thompson, a very good point was made on our forums.

You DIDN'T predict Columbine. I'll repeat it. You DID NOT predict Columbine.

If you had, you would have said where it was taking place and tried to stop it. And if you had, then you kept silent so it would still happen and you could ash in on it.

"Of course this shooter had something wrong with him. All of them do. It is precisely because there are dangerous people out there that we should not be dispersing into the general population murder simulators to train them to massacre."

By that logic I can make this statement

It is precisely because there are dangerous people out there that we should not be dispersing knives into the general population which the killers can use to stab and murder. (sad to say though, that certain parts of Britain are using this logic).

Or even.

Gangster movies, and documentaries on sucessful criminals or unsolved murders should not be distributed to the general public because a crazy individual could study those tapes and use them to formulate his plan.

And finally

Paintball guns can be used to train murder sprees by insane people etc.

The thing is though that the vast majority of the population aren't insane individuals and only a few people can't handle violent video games (and that's assuming they were influenced by violent games in the first place).

"Hey, there was a reason I was on Fox and none of you knuckleheads were: I know what I’m talking about and you all don’t. Hooah!"

You claim to be an expert, we don't. You seek attention, we don't. That's why.

Oh and if we want to boast about being on a biased news source, Bogost (I think) was on the Colbert Report, you were not (Sorry couldn't help it).

Oh and everyone criticizing Jack over the typo; please be quiet as the number of times people have requested an edit button has just recently passed 5000.

Chrislovespills = BANNED.

Be civil, people. I kid you not.

-GP

@Jack Thompson Attonrey

"Nope, it is I. Actually, Cho trained on Counterstrike, as the Washington Post reported. You all can try to repeal that fact, but you can’t. Nobody has even TRIED to disconnect violent games from Columbine, Erfurt, Red Lake, Ft. Myers, and about 40 other school shootings.

I’m right, you’re not, and that ’s why Fox continues to call on my expertise. Hooah! "

Fox also called on the expertise of cooper lawrence, and we all know how that ended up? don't we?

Mr. Thompson, I have a question for you. Do guns kill people...or do people kill people?

I'm going to assume your not to crazy, so you would probably say people kill people, not guns. After all I don't think any of us have seen a gun get up and walk and pull the trigger its self. And it would be crazy to blame the gun for anything at all during a shooting. After all, the gun can't do anything.

That leads me to my next question.

Do video games kill people, or do people kill people?

@Pierre-Olivier

"What did this Chrislovespills guy said before he was banned?"

Good question.

Since I don't see Chrislovespills' post, I think I can assume it was some kind of death threat (which are a big no-no).

GP: Wasn't a death threat, it was something about bitch-slapping. Either way, we are just NOT going to have it on here.

I was saying to my wife just this morning that JT would be all over this one. I hate being right.

@Pierre-Olivier

Likely, and it is true, he didn't predict Columbine because if he did he would have been more specific, and if he did it was basically a cover up

jacko,
first, how's that jackandgoliath.com website coming? You know, the one you said you were working on, what a year and a half ago?

Second, let's say that yes, this guy was playing GTA and Counter-Strike 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Why do you care? What does this crime have to do with your crusade against selling and marketing violent games to minors? You have said time and time again that you don't want to ban these games only ban the sale of them to minors. This guy was 27. The first GTA game came out in 1998 when he was 17. Are you saying that playing these games (and the first GTA, not even your much hated GTA3) for a year, when you are 17 will drive you crazy a decade later? It seems like either that or you do want to ban the sale of these games to people over 18.

@Aaron

Surely thou truly art a son of Levi and the brother of Moses for those words, for none shalt findeth words more true than they!

basiclly JT wants to banned "everything that has violence" in it, movies, books, tv show programs that start at 8pm at night while kids are still awake.

even news media report police chases, gun fires more often between the hours kids are going home from shcool.

@Jack

"Actually, Cho trained on Counterstrike, as the Washington Post reported. You all can try to repeal that fact,"

We don't have to repeal that fact, the Washington Post already repealed it. And I see you still haven't read the Virginia Tech report, or you wouldn't be as ill informed on VT and Cho as you obviously are.

"Nobody has even TRIED to disconnect violent games from Columbine, Erfurt, Red Lake, Ft. Myers, and about 40 other school shootings."

You don't have to disconnect something that is not connected. The reasons why these tragedies happen are MUCH more complex than you try to boil them down to. Of course the failures of the psychological medical field in this country won't line your wallet like a "soft target" as the video game indsustry now will it?

"I’m right, you’re not, and that ’s why Fox continues to call on my expertise. Hooah!"

What is your opinion court case in which Fox News won that grants them the right to lie to their viewers?

Furthermore Jack you are directly responsible for these events, as your little dog and pony show is taking attention from the true issues that need to be addressed.

Of course you predicted Columbine, you CAUSED Columbine.

@Erik


I don't think jt will be posting here anymore to day lol

But I think its a little to much to say he caused columbine, unless I'm missing something.

Lets not forget that he critized Cooper Lawence for not having the facts. Her and the eating disorder expert (Halo 3 in church) did not know that they were going to discuss violence in video games until the last minute. I guess he supports Fox using fake experts and later attacking them. He better be carefull that he does not bite the hand that feed him. If word of him attacking Cooper like that gets back to Fox News, he could be in deep shit with Fox.

Not so much Paul Revere as Chicken Little....

To Jack Thompson, the incredible idiot.

You have time and time again boasted about you showing up on Fox tv.
You have time and time again boasted about that being a success for you, and proof that you have a point (which you do not).

Yet you fail to realise.. Fox also did the Mass Effect tripe. And guess what, SHE didn't know shit of what she was talking about either.

And not just her. In fact, looking back, Fox has failed practically every time in getting QUALIFIED, objective experts onto their show. So they have to pander to agenda-pushing mongrels like you.

At least the girl who did the Mass Effect Fuckup realised she was WRONG!


Sincerely
The airsoft-gun experienced, doom-playing splatter-game veteran Jes, who has yet to actually physically attack and hurt someone IRL, much less WANT TO!


PS.

"Hei Gaize, I prediktud Kolombein 2!!! I zed a shuutin vuld take plaez zumvear, i wuz ritt den zo naow i muzd b alwaiz ritt!!!"

Wow, isn't it typical that the day he gets approval to speak in the forums he runs off like the massacre chasing coward he is and doesn't answer a single question to him here?

All I can say is that Jack Thompson is a sick human being. The first sentence out of his mouth in that interview is blaming violent video games. It's shameful, inconsiderate, ignorant, and opportunistic. Five innocent students are dead thanks to a nutjob who didn't want to take his medication... and all Thompson can think of is how he can attack games using this murder as his ammunition.

Hey! It's everyone's favorite nutjob, let in for a special Q&A session before going back to his null space!

Frankly, I'm still just hearing that this shooting has happened! I'm all, "Wait, WHAT?!" and before I know it, BOOM! Video games are blamed.

At this point though, I now notice that Fox News is frankly a piece of crap news channel. JT getting on there... no big surprise.

Also no big deal really. They let just about anyone on that channel now. All they gotta do is raise their hand!

Not to mention that Fox News is admittedly biased towards the news. Anyone with half a brain can see that.

Also, to the guy working with those 45-50 year old with heads up their butt? Kick their ass and take them to the court! Show them that their thinking leads to totalitarianism. The old farts!

Anyway, I got no words for JT except for this:

If you REALLY are an expert, then I want to see you on CNN News. Go on, I dare yah!

I DARE Jack Thompson to get on CNN News coverage for this story.

~Otaku-Man

@ Jack Thompson, Attonrey(sic)

Here's a quote that best describes you, Faux News, and the rest of the mainstream media, from a deleted scene from the school shooting episode of the TV show One Tree Hill, by Brooke Davis(played by Sophia Bush) after a news reporter asked her how she was feeling while the standoff was still going on:

“You should be ashamed of yourself. There are kids inside our school fearing for their lives right now, terrified that someone’s going to put a gun in their face and pull the trigger, and you want to know how I’m feeling?! Our pain is not a commodity for you, it’s not a newsbite to boost your ratings, because tomorrow, or the next day, or the next week when we go back to school, changed forever by a day that will never leave us, where are you going to be? At the next tragedy, thrusting your microphone in the face of the next fractured person, asking them how they feel? Lady, that is not journalism. You are not contributing anything to society. You’re buzzards circling the carnage, but you prey on the living. That is how I’m feeling, but something tells me that you’re not going to hear that.”

Practice what you preach: Grow up and get a life.

Hm. I used to go to NIU and this guy is about the same age as me. I don't know enough about this person to know if he came to NIU for graduate training or was there for undergrad too. He isn't a face I remember though.

"Vegeta! What does the scouter say about Jack's fail level?"

@Shoehorn O'Plenty

He'snot even a has been. He's a never was.

On 4chan, this is described as EPIC FAILURE, oy. 2 of the most un-credible sources of information unite for the third time.

Did anyone else notice that when Jack said he wished he wasn't there, the reporter said he wished he wasn't there either?

... And no one is surprised.

@BearDogg-X:

He should be, yes. But I think we all know whether or not he genuinely is. (Hint: all signs point to 'no'.)

Another day, another massacre, another soapbox of Jack to step up on. Just another day at this gigantic office we call "Video Game Culture".

Hmm. A "modern day Paul Revere?" I think not.

A modern day Joseph McCarthy is a more suitable title.

I really can't say anything because Jack's actions are now just so predictable. I don't even have to watch that clip to know what he's going to say. Though I am curious to see which game he's aiming at now. V-Tech was Counter-Strike, whats the NIU shootings' game of choice?

Kinda unrelated, but if Jack was a VG character... he would make an exceptional Count Vegar (Jak 3)

Uh, what the? What was with Jack Thompson's latest post? Is that really him? I mean, Dennis said he was being allowed to post again, but what the heck was with his third post? Did his GP account get hacked? Or is Jack trying to be funny or something?

"I am certain that the past and future survivors of these incidents will not fully understand why The Florida Bar is seeking to destroy a latter-day Paul Revere…"

This comment would be comedy gold if it didn't come on the back of such a tragic incident.

Maybe we need a new phrase to encompass Jack's lack of scruples and caution? Not Ambulance chaser... campus shootings chaser perhaps?

Gift.

PS. Forgive me my spelling, it's 4 am and I just got out of work

Ambulance chasing moron.

Has Mr. Thompson even commented on this story?

@ BlackIce
Yes, the standard "NANANANANAA I AM RIGHT BECAUSE I WAS ON TV, YOU ARE WRONG! LALALALALAL I CAN'T HEAR YOU OR MR. REALITY LALALLAALLA!"

Now that I think of it, this is a good thing. Here we have him publicly making such statements & claims, which gives us something to bring up the next time such a thing happens.

Remember when Jack "Anonymous Coward" Thompson would harass police officials about supporting his agenda? Remember those times he ended up being totally wrong? With such appearances on things like national TV, IRL he sure can't easily get away with or dismiss such stuff....

I'm for Jack publicly ruining his reputation even more.

@jack thompson

Fox news wanting you on tv isn't a good thing....... I personally would be ashamed if fox news ever wanted me on their show.

the simple fact that no one has tried debunking videogames in other shootings is only true because they were proven to not involve games from the get-go.

that's why not a single judge has ever ruled your way in a case against companies like T2 or R*

Wow, that appearance was horrible even by FOX's and JT's standards.

And what the hell? "Campus Shooting Expert"!? Has the "expert" become such a bastardized word that just be slapped on like a temporary tattoo? I might as well put "Oxygen Consuming Expert" on my resume, might be able to land me a decent job.

Did Jack get a tan? Looks darker than usual. Hopefully is turns into melanoma.

Once again, Jack surprises no one.

As somebody actually affected by this tragedy, I would like to tell Jack Thompson to shut up and go away until even the smallest shred of evidence connects the killer to Jack Thompson's pet project. I find him highly offensive for jumping on our tragedy to further his own goals. I'm throwing him in with the Westboro Baptist Church people coming here to protest our candlelight vigils. Horrible, offensive morons who hump tragedy because it makes them feel good.

@ Nightwng2000

People are protesting a candle vigil for the victims? Wow, is there a link to that?

@Smoking gun
"do you watch glen beck FlashnFuse?"


Nope

Blah blah blah, Jack's an ass, where's my coffee?

I saw ABC World News and they described the killer as a good student with well-rounded social abilities. In fact he led a student organization when he was attending NIU. He didn't display any personality weaknesses to his peers. He had no criminal records. So we can already throw away the "crazy loner" theory. He was crazy all right, but only in the very short time he went off the meds. Not once did they mention video games or even any other media.

Why is it that Jack Thompson always goes on the day time TV shows instead of the prime time shows where the hosts actually have enough back bone to rip him a new one? I'd love to see O'Reilly tell him to "shut up"...

Heck, even Alan friggin' Colmes has more fight in him than the talking head that interviewed Jacko in that youtube clip.

Counter Strike doesn't have a "hero" character. I figured he would have researched after the last time he failed attacking this game. Can someone just be rid the world of this asshole?

@ JustChris
I would say it is more like....
“I'm Uwe Boll, and you haven’t filmed any movies. That makes me better than you!”

You know, I really think that JT sits in the bathroom at home with a bottle of KY and thinks about school shootings. It is the only rational explanation for the near orgasmic reaction he has about every single school shooting that happens.

Another day, another attempt by Jack Thompson to bolster his doomed career of fear-mongering and ambulance chasing.

i wonder how long it took him to get his sneekers out of the closet in order to go after this. i mean really guinness should know about these things. also hes probably set a record for spewing more hot air then every factory and car in North America. maybe we should get the environmental protection agency to scheck him out just in case?

This guy needs to get a f***in life seriously. What a douche bag!

[...] Yet some of us are quick to point the finger at Counterstrike when the NIU shootings occurred as well as the Virginia Tech ones. [...]

[...] During his brief air time, Thompson made sure to plug a book he’s written (which I will not plug here). Then, fresh off the boob tube, he began firing off press releases to various Web sites, trumpeting his screen time and flashing a photograph of himself in all his broadcast glory. (Look ma, I’m on TV!) [...]

The sad thing is, while Jack is doing his self-promotion, read the ticker at the bottom. truly effed up.

lets see- millions of kids and adults play video games (violent ones at that) yet there are rare instances of people going off on society and sliding one down the chamber and losing control. By this logic then there should be a lot more dead than simply the 38 in the last two school shootings. It is like when they said heavy metal caused suicides. Riiiggggggggtt...maybe the fact they were high on drugs and depressed had more to do with it. Forget the fact that Cho and this latest Ritalin-candidate should have been on meds...Mr. Thompson likes to take away the idea of personal responsibility and just simply 'play' the blame game on an industry that plays host to millions of fans...so Jack stop blaming games for their behavior...and making excuses for your own fallible reasonng. Don't play any video games, either JT, you might get pissed and go to a university with your AR 15- but then i guess that wouldn't be your fault if you did, huh? You could always blame playing CounterStrike for your moment of angry delusion.

did i hear right? did he say that the shooter tried to wear "hero attire?" if he's talking about realistic video games, like GTA, then the "attire" would just be regular/casual clothes. In that case, damn, I wear hero attire everyday.

However, I have yet to hear of a shooting in which the suspect was dressed like cloud or master chief. Maybe he's gonna predict one like that too in his next book.