That joke predates Family Guy by at least a decade.

"This court has threatened Thompson. He does not threaten back. He hereby informs this court that he will see it in federal court."

Did he seriously just say he wasn't going to threaten them back, then threatened them that he'd take them to federal court? Thus is the reason why Thompson is crazy.

I could see it now...a T-Shirt with Jackie Boy's face on it saying "The Court threatens, but I inform!"

Jack just cannot admit when he's made any sort of mistake or error of judgment. I think this really is some sort of delusional behaviour that needs to be looked at by a professional. I don't know how he is going to react when he loses his license. Given his increasingly erratic behaviour and his past conduct (look at http://nationalgaynews.com/content/view/1815/174/ Jack "was accused of attempting to drive Neil off the road by his station on the 79th street Causeway").

AgnostoTheo:

I'll take the 1,000,000 - 1 bet for $1. If the unthinkable happens, I'll be a millionaire. If it doesn't, I'd buy that for a dollar.

@Chalts

Like trying to beat an F22 Raptor using an Ultralight

In Bizzaro world...

Agree with Benji, Jack's wife has remained extremely professional throughout and has stayed clear of the issue, and we, in turn, show her the same respect.

Kuros and Blackice:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Smirnoff

It's nothing to do with Family Guy. Have a read.

What is the current score for the JT t-Shirts?
"Florida Bar 1[IMHO 9+], Jack Thompson 0 GamePolitics.com ? Blog Archive ?"

When I look at JT's current antics I don't take joy in it anymore because of how many times he's done it. At this point, the man could dress up as Jesus in Full costume with full self-inflicted stigmata and set himself on fire in the street and I wouldn't surprised by it.

His situation right now reminds me of the old WWII anecdote that ended up in Saving Private Ryan: A bunch of allied soldiers take down a group of Nazis and purposefully leave one alive. They make the live one dig graves for the bodies of the dead he's killed until he loses count of how many holes he's dug. When his captures tell the Nazi he's finished, he instantly realizes he's dug one hole too many at which point the Allied Soldiers shoot him in the head.

JT is not one of the Allied soldiers in this analogy.

Wait...

This means Jack might have to find a REAL lawyer to help him?

Crap, he just might win.

This is kind of appropriate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb7BJQ7LAlo

I'm curious... When (not if) this howler monkey does lose his license, is GP still going to keep giving him blog space? If he's no longer a threat all it'll do is masturbate his ego. I say we ignore him and find a new big boss to fight.

Semi-off topic, but I sent the following letter to The Washington Post today:

"You may or may not be aware that the controversial Floridian Lawyer Jack Thompson is claiming that your paper supposedly verifies the "fact" that the Virginia Tech mass murderer CSeung-Hui Cho played the PC game Counter-Strike. I do recall reading that in your paper, but I also recall the point vanishing from the story soon after. As everyone except for Mr. Thompson is now aware the point about Counter-Strike was proven false by the official Virginia Tech report.

Was this point officially retracted on this point, and if so what is the Post's opinion on Mr. Thompson falsely claiming your paper as a reference on this erroneous point to other news agencies?"

@Andrew

But the point of Counter-Strike I've not been able to find in the Post's archives. Ergo, its a point they may no longer support.

http://pview.findlaw.com/view/3416059_1?channel=LP

I'm finding a lot of stuff for some reason that I missed before.

How on Earth does this guy pass any kind of mental evaluation? Several times, too, if I remember right. He is absolutely delusional! He sounds like a cartoon villain!!

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Oh that silly goose...

Jack Thompson is not a lawyer. He just plays one on TV

It's official. Jack Thompson will virtually sue ANYONE for libel is they say anything remotely negative of him.

I seriously ought to just make a calm rant about him in my deviantart journal and send him a link to it in an e-mail. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if he threatened to sue ME, like the child that he is.

Result!

Well, I gotta hand Thompson one thing- at least he stays positive. Utterly delusional, but positive nonetheless.

I'm sure getting his license taken away will top this for 'greatest thing' the court has done to him.

Holy crap.

Crazy +10

Seriously, his responses are purely delusional, and I wish I could come up with an analogy for it but I cannot possibly concieve anything mindbendlingly absurd that would match the lunacy, except maybe for Hitler's insistence that he was still going to win the war even as the Russians were knocking on his door.

Maybe Thompson has Parkinsons and is a meth addict as well?

Did he seriously just use Brer Rabbit in a legal pleading? That in itself has to be grounds for taking his license away. I mean come on! Where's the professionalism?.... oh wait, it's Jack Thompson, never mind.

On another note "including, but not limited to directing the Clerk of this Court to reject for filing any future pleadings, petitions, motions, letters, documents, or other filings submitted to this Court by you unless signed by a member of The Florida Bar other than yourself."

Isn't his wife a member of the bar? In fact didn't someone say she was on the disciplinary board for it as well? Couldn't he just have her sign whatever nonsense he wants to push through? She obviously hasn't had a problem with his shinanigans so far.

May i be the first to say it, yay!

I like how he cites the First Amendment like he gives a rat's tail about it.

Okay, so it looks like we don't have to worry about JT much anymore (Justin Timberlake on the other hand is still a serious national threat). But honestly, how much longer does this insane legal battle have to go on before the man is simply disbarred?

Jack, I know you're going to get in here and read this at some point, if you have not done so already, so ponder this:

Every time you have said that a legal setback was a blessing in disguise, you have been shown to be wrong. What makes this situation any different than the others?

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It's only a matter of time now...

I think we should all chip in and buy Jack a framed demotivational print. I'm thinking the one that says "Consistency: It's only a virtue if you're not a screwup".

I would admire Jack's "I reject your reality and substitute my own" mentality if he weren't so incredibly wrong about pretty much everything.

Oddly enough, he says he's been "practicing" law for 31 years. While I believe this is true, he's just using the verb incorrectly.

He really has been practicing for years. Shame he never got to actually go out there and try the real thing. Ah well, there's always Judge Judy for him to look forward to!

hahahahah utterly priceless.

he seriously wants to see himself as a martyr sacrificing himself for the children (although i suspect actually he just wasnts the money and publicity) as a 'whistleblower'

And then he makes out like the judges are all gamers who want to 'silence' him, but he'll keep on taking the hits for the future of mankind.

Lol JT do yourself a favour, these judges keep on telling you you are an idiot, not because they are on the game industry payroll, but because you are an idiot. simple. They are bringing up your errors as MATTERS OF LAW. I am of the opinion you ABUSE THE LEGAL SYSTEM (they also said so) and that wastes taxpayer cash. It also irritates the heck outta everyone. your like a gnat buzzing around somebodies head, repeatedly bashing into them like your puny weight will do anything. Well sooner or later people get tired of that , and they will swat you like the meaningless parasite that you are.


Oh and after all the comments on the samuel jackson blog, JT returned to post just one short sentence. 'you gamer idiots'. hahah mature, and professional. wow.. and you wonder why people think you shouldnt be a lawyer when you say things like that.

AT LEAST WE DIDNT POST TO SAMUEL L JACKSON ON AN OBVIOUS SPOOF BLOG (LIKE HE WOULD EVEN HAVE TIME FOR YOU!) , NOW WHO'S THE IDIOT!

Now is the time to post more official complaints to the Florida Bar about his unacceptable behaviour (calling all gamers drug-addled serial-killing morons, etc.)

I wonder if anyone has submitted JT's Wikiquote page to the Florida Bar? :)

What an awesome birthday gift. I woke up to bed in breakfast, gift card to gamestop, and jack getting slapped in the face by the courts.

Sock it to him...

Optimistic isn't he? Now let's see how he gets barred from practicing law in Florida.

Jack Thompson is AWESOME!!

Even when he loses horribly, he still somehow wins!!

Oh snap!

So basically, the court's saying that because JT's been 'allegedly' abusing the legal system like a red headed step child (which he has, I'm sure GP has more than enough examples of this on record), that the court wants to see how they aren't actual abuses (even if they are).

In summation, JT's painted himself into a corner of his own legal making. Good going JT. A winnar is you!

I have never seen someone so thoroughly unable to figure out when to quit.

It's like watching a VW-Beetle with NOS driving down the train tracks towards an oncoming locomotive.

By the way GP, I love the pictures you put up of Jack. He tries to look all serious, but they make me laugh because I know his true nature.

It's like looking at an eight year old trying to be an adult, it's cute.

I always wonder if he really believes what he says or that he's just in so deep that there's no way back for him. I'd almost pity him..

At what point in time does GP, Kotaku, and Sarcastic Gamer come out and say that "Jack Thompson" is just a made up character that they've used to entertain us over the years.. and that he doesn't really exist. I have a difficult time believing any real person would write such comical non-sense to his boss, even more difficult to believe it considering his boss is the Judicial Branch of government.

Seriously.. spill the beans already GP, this JT character has been a riot and deserves his own skit on a G4 show.. maybe he can be the voice over for Ninja Warrior. Squid Man will win it all next time!

@Kuros

There's no Florida in Russia..

@ Void

I dunno...I think the "stupidity" or "mistakes" poster would be perfect for Mr. Thompson. Furthermore, is there a lawyer in the state of Florida that will sign off for him after seeing what he has done?

can't wait to see his ass barred. what will be in the days afterward? the exodus theory? world piece? 2012 not happening?

@ IllegallyMindedJohn

Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and other insane christian activists were/are surely real people. Lyndon Larouche is a real person. If kooks like them are real, then believing JT is real isn't too far of a stretch.

I've worked with legit mental patients back in college, and some worked under similar "logic" that JT does. He's perfectly believable.

Jack has now been rated EC-10 for a sensability offense.

I actually believe that the man does not understand what is happening in his own trial. He cannot comprehend the meaning behind this show cause motion, as evidenced in his little outburst:

"The [Florida] Bar threatens a whistleblower with retribution because he dares to keep blowing the whistle?"

This has absolutely nothing to to do with his whistleblowing (read: quest for self promotion), but is regarding his SPAMMING of the docket with motion after motion after addition and correction. Hardly a day goes by without one or two extra motions thrown on there and frankly the court has had enough. Whether they believe he is using it as a stalling tactic, or that he is trying to bury the original charge under so much paperwork that it will fall over, they want answers and this Show Cause motion is intended to get them. Unfortunately, Jack cannot understand this and sees it as an attack.

On the other hand, perhaps he understands only too well, but knows as well as we do that there is no defense for his spamming of the docket with ludicrous and spurious claims. Such childish behaviour is unbefitting and adult, let alone an attorney in his practice.

@TheGreg

"Isn’t his wife a member of the bar? In fact didn’t someone say she was on the disciplinary board for it as well? Couldn’t he just have her sign whatever nonsense he wants to push through? She obviously hasn’t had a problem with his shinanigans so far."

Yes, his wife is a member of the bar, and is on the disciplinary board. However, due to conflict of interest (natch) she'd have to sit out on any decisions regarding his fate.

She *could* sign his stuff for him, but methinks that at the very least, the number of lunatic filings would decrease, and perhaps even the spelling and tone would improve. While she probably tolerates him filing such nonsense, I suspect she'd have the good sense to at least review them before attaching her own John Hancock to any slew of documents he threw at the court.

The gay porn incident, I believe, would be a prime example of something that would have been handled differently. She would likely have applied for a sealed submission, for one...

Jack Thompson couldn't deconstruct a ham and mustard sandwich, let alone this.

@ Chuma

I don’t know how he is going to react when he loses his license.

I've long predicted that if something like that happened, he'd pull something akin to what R. Budd Dwyer did. Let me explain.

R. Budd Dwyer was the state of Pennsylvania's treasurer. In the mid-1980's he was accused of recieving $300,000 in kickbacks, a charge which could, if he was found guilty, land him in prison for 5 years. Throughout, Dwyer maintained his innocence, insisting he had done nothing wrong and continually claimed he had been framed and was being persecuted.

On January 22, 1987, the day of the ruling, Dwyer held a press conference on live televsion. After making a speech reiterating how he had been a victim in this whole situation, he reached down and pulled out a .357 Magnum! He stuck it in his mouth, pulled the trigger and blew his brains out. All with the cameras still rolling.

We're all familiar with Jack's martyr complex as well as his quest for fame. It seems to me that he's heading in this direction given the way things are going. With the loss of his license, he'll have no other way really to continue that and his recourse may be some final, desperate act of grandstanding that will make him seem like a martyr while at the same time giving a big "Fuck you" to his enemies. His ego's certainly big enough I think to do that. So a public suicide would be a possibility.

Read Budd Dwyer's wikipedia entry for more.

It's amazing how Jack, in his quest to end violence, threatens to destroy everything. That, in and of itself, displays extremely violent tendencies.

@Ben Ambroso

Great idea! Head over to Zazzle, and start designing. I'd buy one.

Why are all comments Black Manta's? Voodoo spell?

@Majestic 12x: I do recall hearing about JT's claims that the judge's signed oath form was forged. If that were true, it deserves attention - the law is the law. I'm doubtful of whether or not it's true, though. For one, signatures change over time, so saying one's signature from ten years ago is different from one's signature today may not be saying much. For another, the handwriting expert JT has that's saying the signature was definitely forged, if I heard correctly, doesn't have any professional credentials and his status as an 'expert' witness is suspect.

It's about time that the bar came down on his ass. This does prove that common sense has prevailed in this long fight.

We're witnessing history here folks, soon John Bruce will have no pedestal to stand on to spit his "brilliant thoughts" because it'll be kicked out from underneath him.

Jesus jack sees himself like a legal super hero.


He is the don quixote of the Florida legal system and of the video games debate.

Jack, knowing that you're going to be reading all of these things and stewing in your own little pot for a while I think I speak for everyone here when I say.

"Nice knowing you but it's time to get the hell out."

forgot the link

http://www.lolcats.com/view/10241

Fixed Temorarily maybe.

He's just going to get out of it again.

@E.ZK

I'm beginning to think someone's screwing with the code. We've had the site down twice in three days, this happens and the internet's probably going to explode tomorrow.

Son of a submariner!

Goodbye, Jack Thompson.

"Every time you have said that a legal setback was a blessing in disguise, you have been shown to be wrong. What makes this situation any different than the others?"

That's the definition of insanity - doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result.

@ Lost Question

I beleive we do know that she has no problem with his goings on. As a mother, or at least a good one, if she didn't beleive he was doing right she would have put an end to him useing their son as a pawn in his game after the first time.

@BaronJuJu:

The order isn't effective yet, and in fact they *are* telling him to file a response to that order. Responses are not motions. Of course he's yet to actually comprehend the "show cause" bit in his blustering response, but I suspect he'll get something in at the 11th hour that actually states his case and tries to show cause. It happened with his gay porn filings (he more or less apologized) and it's likely to happen here.

Not that it'll save him. He's racking up even *more* egregious ethics violations against him with the latest round of accusations against Judge Tunis and others. I'm curious how one "forges" their own signature, anyway.

"Order to Show Cause" = Court's equivalent of a you-know-what slap. It's the kind of title to an order law students and lawyers read, flinch, and say, "Ouch!" in much the same way as a man would when watching America's Funniest Videos flinches when a man suffers a particularly painful crotch shot (after laughing, of course.) It's often funny when it's not happening to you, but it's almost painful. Cue the canned laughter, and the comment I always say when I see someone eat asphalt on one of those video shows: "Ha! Oh man, that's gotta hurt."

A.

Well, if there has anyone that has ever lived by the motto "When life gives you lemons, make lemon aid" he must be that person.

He has never suffered a setback, and has won every case, even if it only seems so to himself, rather then in a technicaly "real" sense.

If he looses his license, he will be on Faux News claiming that it was his crusade against immorality that was the cause, and this is all proof.

The only question is, will Faux News support him or not? For one, he will seems like a martyr that wants to raise family values. However, they should know that the more they reveal about his "crusade" the more it will show that their expert has issues. Will they continue to back a horse once it becomes apparent he is losing?

As a Lawyer, he should know that this new lawsuit has no chance of suceeding, in any way shape or form. I don't believe that this is the first time this has happened, and no one is stopping him from bringing a lawsuit, he just can't do it by himself anymore. What is amazing is he doesn't see the irony for filing a frivolous lawsuit against punishment for filing frivolous lawsuits. And I wouldn't count on his wife signing everything for him either, or it could have the same punishment for frivolous lawsuits.

The one bright side to this is that if he figures he will file suit against them in a federal case, then it also means that he isn't going to try and show cause why they shouldn't do what is is suing them for doing....

@Skyler -- the court hasn't thrown Jack's career into the toilet. Jack has done that himself, repeatedly, and has done so once again with his response.

If Jack had a real understanding of the legal process, had any reading comprehension skills at all, he would understand that they're asking him to explain himself and all of these crazy filings. (NOTE: if Jack had a real understanding of the legal process, he would not have even come CLOSE to being in the situation he's in now, but let's just go with the flow here.)

Let's take a look at his response:

[i]This court’s panicked threat against Thompson… has wonderfully proven not just that Thompson has no “adequate state remedy” but that he has no state remedy at all. This court threatens Thompson if he even files this pleading.[/i]

Jack now believes the federal courts MUST take his case because the state is threatening him. This is not so. The SCOFLA is not saying he can't respond (in fact, they're asking him to respond), but they are threatening him with sanctions if his response isn't good enough.

[i]This is a brazen attempt by this court to repeal the absolute right of every citizen, under the First Amendment, to “petition the government for a redress” of grievances… [/i]

This is not the case at all. The SCOFLA is just saying Jack will need to get another Bar member to sign off on his craziness. Jack is still able to "petition the government for a redress of grievances," but he'll just have to do it like a normal person does, i.e. through a sane lawyer.

[i]The [Florida] Bar threatens a whistleblower with retribution because he dares to keep blowing the whistle? This court has threatened Thompson. He does not threaten back. He hereby informs this court that he will see it in federal court. This court has just thrown Brer Rabbit into the briar patch.[/i]

Jack says he won't threaten, but then does just that. He just doesn't know when to shut his own piehole and will end up digging himself in deeper (if that's even possible at this point). He's got the federal courts already ticked off at him, now he's going to go after the SCOFLA again? Jack has already been told that the federal courts will NOT step in while there is ongoing legal action. Guess what? There's ongoing legal action here!

It amazes me that Jack was able to graduate from a legal school and manage to pass a Bar Exam.

Wish I had more time for a longer comment, but I don't, so I got to get right to the point.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

mmm...schadenfreude

So now he's going to sue the florida supreme court for ordering that he prove he's not abusing the court system? Am I the only one that smells irony? What a douche.

Yay hopefully whacko Jacko's going bye bye.

Guess not..

Sorry for the duplicate post, but it looks liek the system also doesn't like the greater than sign. Going to try something...
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@Eville1

Thanks for the link. It *IS* a good read. I especially love the bit where JT responds to the Show Cause Order, by responding that the court has no jurisdiction since they all failed to sign their loyalty oaths (or forged them, as he claims with Judge Tunis, although his signature "expert" is a man who was criticized during the JonBenét Ramsey case for being unreliable, uneducated, and uncertified. He has also has questionable "credentials" apparently... see pg 7)

Therefore, the Court finds that Mr. Baggett is not qualified to testify in this case as an expert in the field of handwriting analysis and document examination. DRACZ v. AMERICAN GENERAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (2006)

Bugger..

@chuck:

Jack quit defending hospitals against medical malpractice lawsuits more than 20 years ago.

@Eville1

I love that link, it brightened my entire day. My absolute favorite part was this:
FILED AS "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]" (DENIED, SEE ORDER DATED 10/10/07)

Seriously, it seems he tries to send in new paperwork as to why no judge is worthy of him several times a week., up to three times a day (like, just yesterday).

I'm bookmarking that docket. I think I'll pull it up whenever I need cheering.

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@Cobvious I wouldn't know if it is for that one case or all of them, it may even be that that one case is the important one.

@Chuck

Ah, thanks for the clarification.

@Eville1

Thanks for the clarification.

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@ Jabrwock

ohh, another one. Wheeler v. Olympia Sports Center (2004). Testimony thrown out due to not passing Daubert. This gent has a history. Apparently he was one of the 'handwriting experts' that fingered Karr as the killer of JonBenet Ramsey. Karr was later released due to a lack of corrabative evidence.

Yeah I can't wait to see how this turns out... Oh the party we (see my url) are going to have if it is genuinely over for him...

Okay..

His name's John?

Hopefully this'll fix the html.

This is the single greatest gift that any court has ever given me in my 31 years of practicing law. I shall now, through a new federal lawsuit, deconstruct The Florida Bar…
Thank you, Supremes! You have given me the weapons I need.

He still thinks this is a first amendment issue, and that he is going to win?

What happened to being responsible for one's actions? The court told him to cut it out or face the consequences, which Jack chose to ignore and continue despite several warnings.

I don't see where the free speech issue is in all of this, Jack chose to ignore their requests and procedures, and is now being called by the court to DEFEND his abusing the legal system. So all Jack has to do is respond with a good reason why what he is doing isn't abuse....

That being said, people need to realize that freedom of speech doesn't mean the freedom to waste everyones time, nor does it mean people have to listen to you! And just because you have first amendment rights, it doesn't mean it will excuse you out of everything you do or say.

GP:(why does he see this as a winning tactic?):
He probably learned, like with his previous fight with the Florida Bar, that ticking people off is a good way to to get out of being responsible for his actions and failing cases.

For a good example of this, see the Bully case.

Jack: He does not threaten back
Now we all know that is a huge load of BS... Like I said before this "lawyer" needs the toy(i.e. the legal system) he loves to use & abuse taken away from him.

This fixed the italics last time, so fingers crossed...

With luck, this won't be italic...

[...] jack thompson is set to lose. GamePolitics.com

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One hasn't seen such spin since Saeed al-Sahaf.

I've got it. Thompson is Bizzaro!
The real Jack Thompson is a competent lawyer trapped in Bizzaro's parallel dimension!

Ah, never mind. It's probably the same thing as above, it looks like it just now got added to the online docket.

"The [Florida] Bar threatens a whistleblower with retribution because he dares to keep blowing the whistle? This court has threatened Thompson. He does not threaten back. He hereby informs this court that he will see it in federal court. This court has just thrown Brer Rabbit into the briar patch."

Wow... You can talk to impotent 15-year-old gamers over the internet like that, but that's not a wise way to talk to a judge. Careful, Jack, your crazy is showing.

This is the single greatest gift that any court has ever given me in my 31 years of practicing law. I shall now, through a new federal lawsuit, deconstruct The Florida Bar…

I lost count of how many times he has used that line by simply changing the name (Rockstar seems to be leading though). Never has his so called "good fortune" helped in in the slightest (or rather say he has hurt himself more). It as reached a point now beyond pity or humor. Again I am lead to ask how the name of the gods he passed a mental examine and was shown to be sane (and none harmful). Ah well, soon it will be over but the faded shouts (could just hear JBT asking for a "do over").

Hallauha or however you spell it.

Andrew Eisen:

Yes but the underlying point is that just because one newspaper says it doesn't mean it is fact.

chuma,

“Yes but the underlying point is that just because one newspaper says it doesn’t mean it is fact.”

Doesn’t make it false either. There’s really no reason to doubt that high school acquaintances of Cho’s did indeed say he played Counterstrike. After all, a short passage in the New York Times indicates that he played games at one point.

“When Mr. Cho entered Virginia Tech, which is crouched in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwest Virginia, his parents drove him to school with guarded expectations. Perhaps he would no longer retreat to video games and playing basketball alone the way he did at home. Perhaps college might crack the mystery of who he was, extract him from his suffocating cocoon and make him talk.”

So, what we have here are two newspapers reporting that Cho played video games before college. However, nowhere in either publication does it say or even remotely imply that Cho was obsessed with violent games or trained on them to murder people.


Andrew Eisen

Hmm Anyone want to start flowers of Jack again? Or throw some celebration in Jack' honor on March 5, 2008 when he "wins"?

I m thinking we throw him a LAN Party or Better yet we throw him BYOG (Bring your own Games) party. Who knows Dick Chaney, George Bush, Jed Bush, and Samuel L Jackson might show up.

Now who are we going to get to provide the consoles and the TV? Circuit City? Best Buy?

AS usual. I'll believe it when I see it. When Jack looses his license. THEN I'll believe it.

Remember that gay porn thing and how he mangaged to wiggle out of that one. Alot of people thought he was done for by then.

Briar patch...or tree chipper? You decide.

Jack Thompson = Wimp Lo (from Kung Pow):

Master Tang: Pay no attention to Wimp Lo, we purposely trained him wrong... as a joke.

Master Tang: Please forgive Wimp Lo. He is an idiot.

Wimp Lo: I'm bleeding, making me the victor.

[Chosen One kicks Wimp-Lo in the face. Wimp-Lo does a pose]
Wimp Lo: Ha! Face to foot style, how do you like it?
Chosen One: I'm sure on some planet your style is impressive, but your weak link is: this is Earth.
Wimp Lo: Oh yeah? Then try my nuts to your fist style!

Ling: Please, stop. Wimp Lo sucks as a fighter, a child could beat him.

Wimp Lo: If you've got an ass I'll kick it!

Wimp Lo: Knock, knock. Who's there? Your butt that's about to be kicked!

It's only a denial of his ability to appeal if he can't get somebody else in the Bar to sign off on it, right? It's hardly the violation he's decrying it to be. What's more, he's acting as if he can't provide what they're asking for.

Murry,

I don't think you're correct. Fox News doesn't currently identify him as a lawyer anyway; it seems to like "school shooter expert."

Anyway, if he gets disbarred, Thompson will just play the role of martyr and claim that the powers that be are too in love with their money to listen to his warnings and are trying to silence him so they can continue to profit off our children.


Andrew Eisen

Hey, Jack. Click the link in my name. I dare you. (The rest of you click it to see why this is funny to me.)

I had an idea a couple of years ago to raise funds to buy Jack a Game Boy Micro and copies of Puzzle League & Dr. Mario, and Kuru Kuru Kururin. I may update the scheme to a Nintendo DS and Planet Puzzle League, Brain Age and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. Who knows? Maybe he'll learn something from the latter...

Citing the first amendment, which he has fought against in just about oh...EVERY CASE ABOUT VIDEOGAMES in defense of himself?


Jack Thompson, just stop breathing. You're wasting our oxygen.

The sweet irony is that Jack's response to the Court's complaint is likely to be the filing of countless more irrelevant docurants.

I think JT should man-up and self-immolate on the court house steps after the disbarment ruling. It would surely be the best way for him to garner token veneration for his twisted holy war against gamers. It would also give him some degree of immortality by getting him into the history books as a man of true conviction of belief which he apparently craves so much. Best of all he could write a note prior and blame his violent death on the video games he played as a child. It would be a win/win situation for everyone.

time to bring out the Cristal

@GreatNocturn
Are you referring to the Mayan, Christian and Nostradamus belief that the world will end on Dec. 12 2012(4 years till the end people sin to your heart's content then repent! THE END IS NEAR)
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Wait so Jack is stating the Supreme court doesn't want him filing cases when in fact they're just telling him to get another lawyer to sign off...how will this exaggerated response(read: threatening to sue after saying he won't threaten them) allow him to "deconstruct the Florida bar" rather than dig his own grave deeper...you know so its actually in the magma core of the planet. Well time to start prepping the victory party for his now inevitable disbarment and a quote from portal: Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and I said 'Goodbye' and you were like (deep male voice) 'NO WAY!' (normal voice) and then" you burned to death XD (not a death threat just a joke)

Jack is a nickname for John?! Seriously? Wow, I never knew that. That makes no sense.

its time to schedule an emergency party

Wow at his reaction..... just..... wow.

@DarkTetsuya

It's a tricky course, it's all straight and uncluttered and you know how jack is, he gets dizzy if he tries to walk in a straight line...

So Mr. Thomspon thinks that lawsuits and court filings constitute free speech? What an interesting and yet very very flawed look on it.

GP needs to quit reporting on Thompson. The whole fucking reason he does this is to piss gamers off and see his name in the news.

@Jormungander
just for the record, Christians dont think the world is going to end on that date, just the Mayans and Nostradamus.

@SithLibrarian:

Maybe here on Earth, but that's doesn't seem to be how things work in Jack Thompson land, where this man apparently resides.

@Erik

Indeed, if we ignore him he won't simply 'go away'; however if this latest news is any indication, he should be about out of juice to power his spotlight for the alotted 15 minutes anyway.

He reminds me of that guy off of kung pow. How do you like my face to your fist style.

"Har har har har! You think you won, Power Rangers! But I will be back and my master plan is ready! Har har har har!"

Who's selling popcorn?

@ Escanor

Actually, that's just people overreacting... those calendar were created centuries ago, correct? 2012 is just where they... stopped writing.

Man, JT has truly lost it. Check out the comments under this thread:

http://justicebuilding.blogspot.com/2008/02/rule-shmule.html

He's filed an FCC complaint and threatened (who I believe is) the guy who runs junsticebuilding.blogspot with a subpoena:

"By the way, any additional libels of me here will result in Rumpole's getting a subpoena"

and

"This is my formal complaint against the NBC Television Network and all of its affiliates (in Miami its affiliate is WTVJ-TV) for airing Jane Fonda's use of the word "c**t" in its Today show telecast on Valentine's Day, of all things, February 14, 2008, outside the "safe harbor" for such indecent comments."

The guy just never stops. This is classic.

How are people like this able to function as living breathing human beings, let along become lawyers? I almost feel like he should be so stupid as to not know how to eat, or wipe his ass, or confuse the two and get gangrene of the jaw as a result. If only.

Hm... I just read the article on this site:
http://justicebuilding.blogspot.com/2008/02/rule-shmule.html

"Thompson is a competent lawyer with 31 years of continuous good standing within The Bar who has a string of victories against powerful corporate interests—the very interests who filed these SLAPP Bar complaints."

Did this quote make anyone else fall on the floor, and begin uncontrollably laughing for 30+ minutes? Because I sure as hell did. My sides are beyond any levels of "pain".

@Ebonheart

I'll take that bet. I don't believe anyone sane can take JT's place, it's a kind of special position, like a special white room with padded walls. If there were a sane and competent lawyer out there who was anti-video games I think he would've done something by now. I think even with JT throwing a tantrum and all, that a competent lawyer winning an anti-gaming case would draw all the attention away from JT and distance whatever lawyer managed to do so from all JT's craziness.

The reason we've not seen such happen is because there's no one out there who's sane, able to file such cases, and actually believe they should file such cases. There's only room for one crazy at a time up in JT's position and if another lawyer is going to follow JT's footsteps he's going to be crazy enough that they will have to wait their turn for the spot.

Maybe it's just because I've been reading Eisenhorn recently (WH40K book with an inquisitor as the main character), but I would love to see the court read the judgment like a statement of Diablous Extremis. Something along the line of "John Bruce Thompson, in the name of the whole of the Florida Bar, we find you guilty of xyz (everything he's done wrong and got caught for). In accordance with this ruling your license to practice law is now forfeit and you are hereby banned from continuing your personal vendetta against gamers, game producing companies, and stores that sell these games until you can provide evidence sufficient for this court that you have a real case against them signed and upheld by a competent lawyer. I declare this before the lady, blind though she is, may her scales always rightly weigh the wicked and the just forever." Granted the Diablous thing basically reads that you're an enemy to humanity and will be hunted to death, so the above is quite changed. Still the sort of grave ceremony attached to it might help drive the point home to JT. Then again maybe we can just get a time portal and pull Eisenhorn through time and space to do the real deal for JT.

Justice! Jack Thompson Slapped with Show Cause Or...

You really should go read the whole story. That crazy f***er still seems to think he's got the upper hand, threatening and blustering against the Florida Bar Association like he's God f***ing Incarnate....

Ok is it just me or does Jack always talk about himself in third person? His reply email read like a bad horor movie script.

This is great, I'll be glad when he and his documents are out of Florida (and the rest of the world).

Also, did I miss a reason as to why his emails switch from first-person to self-narrative at random?

Jackie boy has been a nutcase for a long, long time. I just can't believe the irony of this situation... he's been trying to shut down and ban games forever, and now he's getting the RL BANHAMMER.

Every once in awhile, the legal system actually does something right. Bye Jack. We'll miss your shenanigans.

Glad he is out the way. Too many brainwashed bible thumping american idiots in this world enough.

I cant accept the supreme comes down.What i suggest this case will be reconsider to court.

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john

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