ROFLMAO

Jack is ripping off Yahtzee now, but that is scary insane.

I always knew Jack was loopy but after reading that filing... he truly is insane, isn't he? I'm not even attempting to be inflammatory... the man really is certifiable!

What the court is saying: "Show some maturity in your filings."

What Jack hears: "You aren't allowed to defend yourself, Take-Two said so."

Wow...

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Jesus H fucking Christ.

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WTF, GP, could you please confirm that confirmation? Oh, God.

It's real isn't it. This isn't even funny anymore. Actually it is. One part of me is laughing. Another is crying. How can someone be so insane? How? Why? WTF?

Then again, we can do a near quote from Kryten. "This man is John Bruce Thompson. It is his crime, it is also his punishment."

Alright. I know when I'm beat. As a criminal defense attorney, I have defended all walks of life, from defendants who have falsely confessed to crimes, to myself. I have wrapped up 15-yearl-old cases in a single day. I have proven clients innocent of larceny by proving them guilty of murder, then proved them innocent of that murder. I have dealt with the scum of the earth, from loan sharks, to ex-girlfriends, to prosecutors who themselves are the true culprits. As one man against the world, my desperate efforts have known no equal.

Until now.

John Bruce Thompson, I concede defeat. The shenanigans I have brought to the court of law are no match for what you have achieved in a single document.

Wow, we killed Game Politics for a little while.

GP: Is it unethical to post his wife's company website? :D

The only reason Jack wasn't found insane is probably because that he went to a psychiatrist of his own choosing. Pay one enough money, and they'll find anyone sane.

You have to admit...he's got balls.

That letter is absolutely hilarious.

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Hey, I remember reading that at the time. My thoughts were mainly variations on "WTF?"

OMG this is hilarious. I'm sooo screen capping this for when I need a good laugh.

"I have a right to file anything I want with the court. It is beyond bizarre that they think they can tell me I can’t seek relief. They can deny relief, but they can’t tell me I can’t seek relief."

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Nightwng2000
NW2K Software

So like an immature middle schooler fighting with his parents, Thompson’s argument is “YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!”

You may be on to something... Perhaps - in the 80's when he was still living with his parents, they denied him play time for video games - and now, he's most bitter indeed!!

lol

Filing documents and trying to use the legal system as your personal attack dog are two entirely different things

*blink* Wow.

That document is a work of art. The only thing missing is some melting watches and some excess paint splattered across it.

And this document was supposed to help his argument how???

This can't be real can it? Where did dennis get this from?

So, this is the legal equivalent of banging on piano keys, claiming you're playing chopsticks.

Jack Thompson thinks he's the only 'grown-up' ever. Plain and simple. So in doing so, he ALSO acts like he's only one-tenth his actual age to 'bring himself down to their level.'

The man is a prick.

Maybe he also thinks that everyone acts the same in real-life as they do on the Internet, and has decided thats the only he can communicate with anyone nowadays.

"The Florida Bar doesn't get it at all! These images are indeed LULZ-worthy. Why the Florida Bar has not done one iota of research on the matter is beyond me, Thompson. Epic fail, indeed a most epic fail by the Florida Bar."

"Ray has gone bye-bye, Egon."

OK, IANAL, and I have no idea what the technicalities of a court are. Do courts use some sort of Rosetta Stone or Enigma machine to translate this into something that makes sense, or do they view this in the same way I do, the same way one would look at a man walking down the street wearing a tu-tu, skipping, with a large can of SpaghettiOs strapped atop his head with a power steering belt?

Jack isn't just a tool, he's a goddamn Leatherman.

Let's hope this complete joke of a lawyer loses his license.

The inclusion of pictures... Hahaha, oh wow.


I mean...Wow. I just have no words to describe Thompson now. That's just bad, when I can't even come up with a comment for him.

This is a joke, right?

It's not April 1st, is it?

@Anonymous

Maybe his Son? XD

Wow just wow. I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry at this man.

Do you think he's passed his letter writing down to his son?

Well I think this is quite possibly the most fitting ending to a career I've ever read. Pure drivel, with large writing and pictures.

You hear that?

That's Jack Thompson's swan song.

Wait... is it April 1? This is a joke, right? This can't be an actual court filing, can it? C'mon, GP, you're pulling our collective leg, right?

Looking at that filing made me think of 2 things: a grade-schooler making some sort of collage for art class, and the episode of The Office (U.S.) where Michael speaks at Ryan's business school class and holds up different candy bars as "visual aids." I just can't decide whether that episode or this filing is funnier.

I could only read about three pages of that before I was asked by my mother what I was laughing so hard at...

Either Jack Thompson is as crazy as we all think he is, or he is one of the greatest comedic minds of our time. Either way we get a good laugh.

I saw this yesterday at a southern Florida legal blog. One of the lawyers had pulled this out of public record to show how insane his filings were. They couldn't even figure out what he was trying to do. I still like the Jack Abramhoff pic next to the word "fairness". Precious moment there.
However, the line, "Thompson has no problem with enduring a fair disciplinary process. He has not had it, and no Justice sitting on this High Court could rationally think fair this Ben Kuehne-led high-tech lynching of an uppity Christian" is in extremely poor taste since he has so eloquently equated a black judge to a lynch mob leader. Yes, no racial overtones there Mr. Thompson. Good show sir, a few more like this, and the Fed will investigate the Florida Bar if they don't pull your license.

I wonder if an excessive use of copyrighted images in a court filing is illegal...think of all the infringement in this filing alone. I know threadless had nothing to do with Mr. Thompson, and I'm pretty damn sure the image is excessive. Might be a lawsuit in it for some of the owners of those images.

The only laughable thing about Jack's argument (well, laughable from a legal perspective) is that the courts are not taking away his right to do anything...they're just requiring that he have a little supervision in the process. He can still file, but he will have to get another lawyer to sign off on it. His wife is a lawyer, so I fail to see how calling up the wife and asking for a sig would be that much of an issue. A second pair of eyes on a court filing might...you know, stop all these pictures from showing up. Imagine if Thompson had to pass the gay pornography filing by his wife prior to submitting it to the courts. I would put down $10 that we would have never seen it.

Think of how insulting this is to the court that he filed this in. He straight up told them, "you are too stupid to understand my mighty intellect, so I will break this down into small words with pictures for you, so you will see how stupid you have been for opposing the mighty jackthom and beg for forgiveness."

@Paulrus

The question is, does Jack's swan song sound more like a Funeral Dirge, or something along the lines of "They're coming to Take Me Away, Ha-HA!"

I'll bet on the latter. I think Jack might look good in a fresh white Straight Jacket.

If this is real (and I'm having some problems with it) it's not just Jack who should lose his license. That shrink who green lighted him begs for a proper investigation...

This is it. This is the moment where Thompson crosses the threshold. He's becoming a new Francis E. Dec.

For those wondering, Mr Dec was an American lawyer, who - after a long and spectacular breakdown, including repeated incoherent rambling letters to the courts - was disbarred and then went utterly insane, eventually becoming a demented recluse, distributing his gibbering diatribes to anyone who didn't run screaming.

Read about his exploits here.
http://www.bentoandstarchky.com/dec/intro.htm

Alternatively (and less amusingly) there's a wikipedia entry on the man here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_E._Dec

There are easy parallels to draw between Thompson and Dec. This has gone on for quite some time, but I didn't really think he'd go this far. An illustrated lunatic rant with Judge Tunis' mention accompanied by a picture of a kangaroo with a gavel? Great stuff.

Keep tuned, kids. The best part is yet to come. Once Thompson gets disbarred, if he continues down the road laid by Dec, then the real comedy is yet to come.

...Heh, sorry for the double-link, I had no idea Wordpress would automate the trackback process for me. Chalk it up to relative inexperience in the blogospheric realm.

What gets me is, with the previous story, Jack actually thinks that not only are the Federal courts going to take him seriously, but are going to be his saving grace.


Briar Rabbit has jumped head first into the stew pot and he doesn't even know it.

Ugh... This guy's crazier than Ron Paul!

@Dominic

Also, parallels can be drawn to Joshua A. Norton. The self styled Emperor of the United States. He was dismissed as a harmless crank and even became something of a celebrity in San Francisco.

Every time I see a story about Jack I think he couldn't get crazier. The man has raised the bar every single time. Pure genius.

That is amazing. Think about just how long it must have taken Jacko to find all of those images.

Jack Thompson, the Winston Payne of real life.

(Those who play Phoenix Wright will understand)

That's...incredibly slanderous.

If you ask me what made the justices mad is that he used .doc to make it and that's why it came out so freaking ugly. He should have used .pdf format or html.

If JT is trying to get himself fired faster he's doing a pretty good job. Somtimes I wonder about his home life. What are his wife and his son like, honestly?

I personally have three theories about this thing:
1. JT's arguments are legit, he's just stupid in the filing. He means every word he says. [If untrue, it's perjury]
2. JT knows he's lost the war against games and just wants to accelerate the process of getting canned. [Highly unlikely]

Now conspiracy theory time!
3. JT is actually pretending to be crazy either because, A) He wants to martyr himself for the next generation of game critics or B) He's a video game supporter coming out of the closet with the biggest hoax in World History.

That theory is completely impossible, but I needed to be the one to put on the JT Conspiracy Theory Hat (Patented).

Actually it was a step up from his previous filings, below we have a [fake] example:
[parody letter]
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
THE FLORIDA BAR,
Complainant,
v. Case Numbers SC 07 - 80 and 07- 354
JOHN B. THOMPSON,

Respondent.
RESPONDENT’S VERIFIED MOTION TO VACATE THIS COURT’S
TWO ORDERS ON THE BASIS OF THE FLORID BAR’S FRAUD

I'm rubber, you're glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you!

Also, Ben sucks!

JOHN B. THOMPSON, Attorney
Respondent
[/parody letter]

They must have an industrial sized waste container specifically for Thompson's garbage.

The entire document looks like the work of a madman. Exactly how does Thompson claim to be sane? I can't think of ANY proffession that would accept this kind of behavior- even fast food employees (I mean no disrespect) would get canned if they acted like JT does.

In fact, his little "masterpiece" more resembles what some pimple-faced nerd in his mom's basement would post in a Dr. Who message board (again, no disrespect).

The difference is that a law degree and a so-called "serious" career choice is involved.

Jack, its time to throw in the towel and try to save what little face you have.

I can't see any of the pictures.

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Dude this guys more Daffy than Mel Gibson.

Somebody please show Thompson how to use Office properly. I can't read this, seriously! It's an eyesore. This is supposed to be a legal document?

Somebody give this guy a handful of crayons and scrap paper, so he can let it allll out okay?

@lurker

He did speak of suing them into oblivion, and in his mind that either means having all the owners and employees jailed and their properties seized and destroyed, or burying them in legal costs.

He likely believes that video games are still developed by nerdy kids, only then in his mind can this work.

It doesn't really matter if he gets disbarred or not. Fox will still call upon him as a "Video Game and School Massacre" expert. Fox doesn't give two craps about the credentials of their guests.

He won't go away unless that last string of sanity actually does snap and he either is put into a harness in some mental hospital, or goes on some shooting spree of his own (thereafter blaming video games).

how the flying fuck did this guy ever get a law degree?

I was just being facetious when I asked if this was a joke or not. I know GP wouldn't post a story like this if it wasn't confirmed to be true. I'm just so shocked that someone would submit something like this to the court.

I mean, REALLY shocked.

This is one of the best days of my life. I can't stop laughing, this just cannot be true. I wonder if he is going to be committed.

Chris242:I honestly wonder that myself.

Another issue is copyright infringement. Does he have permission to use those images? I really doubt it. Therefore he stole them off of websites. So he is submitting pirated intellectual property to the Supreme Court of Florida. Real smart. I doubt his usage is covered under fair use.

Again, he's spent too much time on internet forums. He's become addicted to image macros, clearly. I can see him attaching various "epic fail" macros to his next filing, while claiming some sort of victory.

I haven't commented in a long time, and normally I would have started again on a non-Thompson story, but I just had to.

Who else just can't get "Jack Quixote" out of their head when reading this? Can someone tell him the pen is only mightier than the sword when you're not writing on windmills?

Can you imagine how he was acting/looking, behind his keyboard, when he finished up his little picture book? I can just see him with a self-satisfied look on his face whilst thinking "this will show them!". The little man who could probably went to bed afterward with a little baby smile to dream of his impending victory.

I... uh... wow. I'm completely speechless.

"Some folks are asking in comments, so let me reiterate. This is a real document that Thompson really filed with the real Florida Supreme Court in December. Apparently, it made the justices really mad…"

Ironic, isn't it? Someone calls him a hack, he threatens to sue. He calls the entire Florida Supreme Court a bunch of half-wit lunatics who couldn't find their bums without a map from JT, and he's amazed that they're peeved?

I really hope they keep their cool, and just rake him over the coals for "conduct unbecoming a lawyer"...

@Jabrwock:...“conduct unbecoming a lawyer”…
Woo! that's rich. Man I pee'd in my pants a little when I read that line.

As you can tell my opinion of lawyers in general (depending on what type they are and their behavior) is pretty low. However, even for the scummiest of the scumbag lawyers JBT takes the top honors.

This document is full of 100% grade-a WIN.



PS. Godwin's Law, page 10.

Man, he's such an idiot.

Forgot to mention: In all my time spent here on Gamepolitics, this really is the best thing you've ever posted, Dennis.

Seriously, even better than the epic "2006 Person of the Year."

Wow...

I wonder if he has a prototype popup-book as a backup in case this one didn't get past the spam filters...

Just... Wow...

I dunno if I should laugh or continue to sit in utter amazement at how low JT has fallen.

@BaronJuJu -- he knows he's crashing, he just wants the biggest loudest bang.

He is a paranoid ranting self-righteous hateful windbag on a path to self-destruction, this Jack Thompson is.

But you gotta admit, he got style. The clerk reading these doesn't get to smile often, but I suspect there were peals of laughter brightening those drab offices on the day this one came in.

I'm almost going to miss the guy.

So wait, he was proven NOT to be mentally insane? :|

It looks like he just discovered Google Images and the copy and paste feature. Looks like our little JT is growing up and finding out all sorts of new things.

@SithLibrarian

It really is the best. The Kangaroos made it even more hilarious at how stupid JT is.

After the gay porn fiasco I don't see how anyone could be surprised by this "document".

ok gp are you sure that this really wasnt filed by "johnathon lee riches"
seriously where does the bar find them and why do they let them in the court room???!!!

this has got to be one of the most foolhardy, unprofessional letters ever. clearly JT has lost all sense of reasoning

@GryphonOsiris:

Unfortunately, the Florida Bar's the only one that and end our suffering and misery once and for all, though I haven't the faintest clue wtf is taking so long.

@Headspace Cools:

Which would just make him all the more irrelevant.

@Sidewinder:

I'm still convinced the two of them were college drinking buddies or something, hence the obviously skewed results.

@jds:

Yep. (sorry, but at this point what else is there to say? I think that sums it up quite nicely.)

@SithLibrarian:

I'm sure you were being sarcastic, but I get the impression there's actually nothing but pages upon pages of EPIC FAIL.

@BaronJuJu:

I just wish the FLABAR would hurry up and shoot his proverbial plane down, already.

@Ryno:

....... thread over.

@Anon:

You forgot the part where he still gets to keep his job throughout all of this.

This reminds me of the news story about that guy in jail who would scribble in pencil lawsuits like how Bill Gates was in a conspiracy with Bush against him and he was suing them for 100 billion dollars. He had a few more that he put out as well. They said that if he continues filing these insane things he would have to have them signed off.

It's funny how Jack finds himself in the same position.

Anyone remember that story, I can't find a link.

@Geno,
About him being found insane. The court demanded he be evaluated, or they were about to, can't remember which. He said he would do it himself. He went to a psychiatrist who just happens to be a friend of the family and goes to the same church. the court didn't make a big issue of it at the time. Now I think they are having second thoughts about an "independant" evaluation.

This can't be real. I mean, my God...

OMG I think I just figured it out!! JT is only *pretending* to be anti-gaming! In reality he is actually on our side, and trying to make the *real* anti-gaming people appear ridiculous! His seemingly insane rants are actually subtle and calculated satire which until now has slipped under our radar! Think about it, that explains EVERYTHING he's ever done!

@1AgainstTheWorld

thats the only explaination that makes sense,

so gp did take two hire jack thompson or did the esa?

@ Sidewinder and DarkTetsuya

I remember reading someone's posts in one of the law blogs that have been posted here that the doctor is actually a family friend of the Thompsons. Apparently they go to the same church group.

Suddenly things become a lot clearer eh?

JT's insanity scares me. Someone hold me, please.

I wouldn't do it if I were you. Posting Jack's info is OK as he puts it in pretty much every press release/e-mail and court filing he's ever written but for all we know his wife might not want anything to do with this.

@ Eville1,

None of that please, we must act like we did against the Co$ and appear respectable.

Even if we know what dwells in the not so hidden depths of the human mind, there is no use trying to use it to futher a cause, it works to destroy them, not to reinforce.

Wow. HAHAH WOW.

This is the most hilarious thing i've ever heard of. A childrens book for adults indeed.

I keep wondering if there is no one in Jack's life, -- a family member, his pastor, an old college buddy . . . anyone -- who can exert enough influence to convince him to get up from the computer and go seek the help he so obviously needs.

[laughing hysterically] This contest is over! Give that man the
$10,000.

Brane hurts more.

Yeah, if I was a judge on this I'd be royally pissed too.

@Jackdon'tknowjack

I don't think they would want Thompson turning on them.

@ Eville1

Yes, I think she has enough punishment just by being married to him. she doesn't need a flock of anon's in Guy Fawkes masks coming after her too.

It's his son I really feel sorry for though.

Maybe he's just doing it for the lulz?

You know what this reminds me of? That episode of The Simpsons when Springfield almost hosts the Olympics. In particular the bit at the beginning between the French Delegate and the Head of the Olypmic commitee (yeah, I know I can't spell).

FD: Paris would be a great place for the next Olympic games.

HoOC: And why is that?

FD: We don't have to explain ourselves to the likes of you (throws wine in face of HoOC). We await your reply. (HoOC throws wine back).

*reads filing*
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O.o

Ooookay. Smile and nod, smile and nod...

So Jack thinks that insulting the Florida Supreme Court's intelligence with his mindless, irrelevant pictures is going to make them see him in a positive light, how...?

Based on the kinds of stuff he has posted online and submitted before, this doesn't surprise me at all.

I mean, this is the individual who sent a LONG rambling letter to Jeb Bush, giving his life story, trying to get chummy with him, then issuing threats, and giving him a copy of his book expecting it to also be read.

Remember his antics during the Bully "case"? I don't think professional lawyers would smuggle in sling-shots or hold up a protest sign at their trails....

And he thought a fake Samual Jackson was real, only ten minutes later did it dawn on him it was fake and no real celebrity would give him the time of day.

It would not surprise me if he had some mental issues for quite a while, and he couldn't keep it in under-wraps/control with him getting more & more senile.

Something else I just thought of. I think the quote, "Those whom gods destroy, first they make mad" applies here as well.

He should have included another, more accurate picture of himself:

http://rofl.wheresthebeef.co.uk/Hurr%20Seal.jpg

XD

wow he even got himself mentioned in the aba journal !

for those wondering this really isnt balls

this is for his next book ironically hes going for people who dont read(namely court documents) once hes disbarred his next book will be released talking about his "martyrdom"

@Cattleprod:

It's in the comments to the Feb. 20th article re: the order to show cause. He posts a typical letter-rant to the U.S. Attorney General complaining of criminal conspiracies and demanding an investigation, etc., etc., blah, blah, blah, and, while he's at it, threatens, "By the way, any additional libels of me here will result in Rumpole's getting a subpoena . . . ."

Sound familiar, GP?

Just out of interest, I was wondering if JT requested the rights to use some of those images (im guessing some must be copyrighted) in the document. I didn’t see any references to the image copyright owners anywhere in the document.
Reading the document was actually quite worrying, it certainly doesn’t show off the place he got his qualifications from in a very good light. Maybe someone (i.e. his family) should take him away from the limelight for his own good.

@JDKJ
Seeesh, and in that same section he tells people he spammed the fcc over "Jane Fonda's use of the word "cunt" in its Today show..."

Not to mention the long winded conspiracy crap, almost as if he is trying to out do Lyndon LaRouche and their supporters in terms of being crazy...

SERIOUSLY, if he has the time for this kind of stuff, he sure isn't one to talk about video games being a waste of time and a form of "mental masturbation"!

Maybe he has been hitting the Dried Frog Pills a bit too much lately...

Wow, someone just discovered how to paste clip art. I sure the courts presiding over this issue will be pleased.

PDF

O_o

UUUmmm....wow. There's no wonder why the court punished Thompson I couldn't make heads or tails of that rubbish. Although I did the get message "This is so unfair!" when I read the letter.

That document reads as if it's intentionally filled with internet memes...well, memes from an internet that exists in another dimension.

What has science done?

Wow, just.....wow.

Jack Thompson is definitely getting hammered down by the law, but with that many inappropriate filings, it was bound to happen that someone say something. He has been filing quite a number of filings in a short period of time, something that a reputable Criminal Attorney Fort Lauderdale wouldn't do. Thompson needs to stop wasting the court's time.