...so by now you've read Electronic Arts stinging dismissal of controversial attorney Jack Thompson's offer to help it acquire Take Two Interactive. We've just received from Thompson this copy of his response to EA:I have in the last few days been contacted by a company with whom Take-Two does business. This company is now my client.
My client informs me that Take-Two has breached a substantial contract with it. It appears based upon what my client tells me that this is how Take-Two does business within the industry. This does not surprise me, as I have seen this same company up-close for a number of years. But it is surely gratifying to get corroboration of my observations, out of the blue, from a corporate entity which has been stiffed by Take-Two and which must take legal action, it seems, to get recompense. How sweet.
If you all at EA want to pursue a purchase of Take-Two without fully knowing what is “out there” in the form of liabilities, posed by my client and others, of your take-over target, you got [sic] right ahead. I’m sure EA’s shareholders will be impressed with your lack of “due diligence” exhibited first by your “don’t help us, Mr. Thompson” and now your anticipated “we don’t want to know about contractual liabilities of Take-Two” posture. Maybe the new corporate logo of EA should incorporate an ostrich...
Your corporate approach to due diligence exhibits the type of circle-the-wagons acumen that is leading the video game industry to the federal regulation that ESA’s own leaked poll indicates 65% of Americans want.
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I think Iam on the level here.
I bet his idea of "helping" EA was to use this "client" of his to force T2 into considering the aquisition. But since EA doesn't want his "help" he is going to use this "client" to threaten EA into accepting his help.
Lovely.
You'll notice how he doesn't mention his "client's" name.
Too bad the rules and regulations of law don't require an attorney to divulge the identity of a "client" that the attorney envokes while making legal threats.
But I guess that's something else John Bruce would oppose. After all, if he couldn't make legal threats against someone without anything to actually back up his threats, he'd claim it was a violation of his Rights as a Christian (much like the lawsuit he had brought claiming the Florida Bar was trying to prevent him from using his religious beliefs in the performance of his job, which the lawsuit failed of course).
Nightwng2000
NW2K Software
Well I'm sure that he plays GTA ;)
Why? do you ask.
Well here's evidence that he plays GTA, or should I say, some portion of it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NVAVLOXc4dE&feature=PlayList&p=BA01B64C6106AC...
But on the serious note, yeah, Elvis and Beatles were blamed as well by people who couldn't comprehend what it was all about back in days...
He's submitted several things. I read it on the Forum.
And ANYONE who defends Jack Thompson has a fool for a client.
1. JT owns Take Two stock
2. JT is suing Take Two
3. JT is offering his assistance to take over Take Two, and presumably his lawsuit would still continue against the new owners after the takeover.
He may be setting a new record for multiple conflicts of interest in the same matter here.
Bye bye Mr Mad Lawyer Guy,
You abused the Constitution and was happy to lie,
I wonder if you will ever figure out why,
You are standing in the benefit line...
Standing in the benefit line...
Sorry, was listening to Don Mclean earlier :)
"I’m thinking of studying for 3 weeks and becoming a lawyer in Florida, it obviously can’t be very hard"
why spend a whole 3 weeks?
Now, he insult the company that refused his "help". Now, I think EA won't let him get away with it. After all, they were so adamant about defending their games and employees.
Posturing again.
I'm going to enjoy watching EA tell him to stuff it again and again.
congratulations. nobody cares.
"You’ll notice how he doesn’t mention his “client’s” name.... Too bad the rules and regulations of law don’t require an attorney to divulge the identity of a “client” that the attorney envokes while making legal threats."
My guess? It's a tiny software company that T2 out-sourced some work to. Or a service provider of some kind. Every large company has it's skeletons in the closet. Remember EA's pay scandal?
@vellocet
He's not allowed to take action against T2 with regards to video games or their content. "breach of contract" would likely fall outside that. Then again, read on.
I seriously doubt it's a big client if he managed to secure them so quickly. Anyone who mattered has their own legal beagles to handle this. For JT to pick someone up, it must be either a very small (think garage) firm, an individual (maybe someone who was fired), or ... he's posturing by fudging "breach of contract" out of "they promised not to sell to kids"...
So… what’s he trying to do besides make himself look like a total dolt (even more so than usual)?
Correct me if I'm wrong, please.
Time to put on my Crazy hat and start practicing law in Florida suing anyone who does not crack their eggs from the little end first.
Then again, it could be something that is all in Jackos head :D
And even if there was a client, they'd be crazy to hire JT as their lawyer since I'm guessing his ability in corporate law is about on par with his ability in Constitutional law.
If this client exists and if there is a valid demand - the one time that Jack gets to write a legitimate "or else" letter and he blows it.
Of course, an actual demand letter cannot be published so there is no client and there is no demand to be met.
And this guy is not disbarred how?
"You’ll notice how he doesn’t mention his “client’s” name. "
He never has to cite anything for it to be true, didn't you know that? He doesn't have to give references or cite studies as long as HE knows they exist and prove his point.
@MRK@
"How does a raving lunatic like Thompson become a lawyer who is obviously making enough money to spend all his time filing nutball lawsuits, while hard working sane people can barely scape by?"
Hi wife is also a lawyer, a normal one who does her job properly instead of sending out nonsensical lawsuits based on perceived persecution, and who I imagine has never written insulting letters and press releases regarding those who she has opposed in court.
This is patently false. EVERYONE in the gaming industry has heard of this idiot and they all know of his reputation and, unfortunately for him, of his current predicament. No-one in their right mind would take him on as a lawyer. That would be like signing a guy who's legs and arms are going to be amputated as your new quarterback.
I seriously doubt there is any client involved.
Seriously, now JT's just becoming desperate for attention. Someone should cancel his license to practice law already.
When that day comes, someone really should bake a cake with texts stating "Happy Disbarment! Jack Thompson"
oh god hes not using that poll again is he?
and at the very least could hr get the info on that poll right?
last i checked 65% want whats in place to be enforced not new regulations.
seriously a drunken toddler going through the "mine!" phase is less annoying then this guy.
To tell the truth, I have a question.
EA wants to buy T2.
T2 says "We don't want you to buy us."
Now, JT comes in and says "I'll help you buy T2!"
EA says "We don't want your help."
JT says "Fine! Then I know someone who knows someone who said that T2 sucks, you shouldn't buy them!"
Um... isn't JT playing into T2's hands right now?
I think that throughout all of this, JT doesn't know what he wants. Maybe JT isn't crazy. Maybe it's his other personalities that are crazy.
:)
Wow, J.B. Way to abuse the legal system for what is essentially blackmail once you remove all the grit.
March 6th, 2008 at 10:08 am
I wonder if John Bruce fully disclosed to his “client” that he’s facing disbarment and may very well not be able to function as their attorney for much longer.
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Yeah, why would a corporation hire an attorney that may not be one for much longer? Wouldn't that be a waste of money and time. Further, wouldn't an attorney that specializes in corporate/contractual law be a better choice, as opposed to one that plays the role of Chicken Little and the boy that cried wolf all rolled up into one loser of a human being?
Wasn't this "Let me help you" and subsequent "no thanks" the final straw for Bin Laden? How long before JT goes all Unabomber on the industry? He's looking more and more like a kid that wants to hang out with the cool kids but keeps getting scorned.
Maybe JT is trying to use reverse psychology.
Though, You have to admit that even though he is childish and arrogant. You'd miss his antics.
She's Canadian, she lives in Canada! You don't know her!
He talks to her on the phone after supper, and he's going to go visit her this summer!
DOES TOO!
The answer lies in trepidation. We are creatures of the shoelace, lost in purple.
The koala knows.
"Of course, an actual demand letter cannot be published so there is no client and there is no demand to be met."
We're talking about John Bruce here. Mr. "The Florida Bar is an illegal organization because it sets forth rules and policies that try to prevent me from doing whatever the hell I want to do to everyone else and dosen't prevent others from doing the same thing to me" and Mr. "It's my way or my way, there is no other way". Do you really think that if it were a REAL demand letter that he publicized and someone complained, he wouldn't jump on the "violation of my First Amendment Rights" bandwagon as he's done before?
Nightwng2000
NW2K Software
EA Rep: Listen Jack, We don't really need your help with our buying out TT. There's just the whole you trying to sue us thing from a few years ago.
Jacko: Well... I didn't need your help anyway. I've got someone who wants me to sue Take Two for them.
EA Rep: Really? Thats, uh, great for you..... I suppose
Jacko: And when I win and get TT shut down, You aren't getting anything from me... I mean, my client.
EA Rep: If you say so
I swear to god I am going to laugh my ass off when he says his client is the ghost who never lies.
@Haiwali
Chef Brian seems to fit JT's persona perfectly in this instance.
Before Zelnick there was Eibler and he was named worst CEO of 2005. Stockholders made a coup and forced him out.
But since Zelnick's been in charge, things have gotten significantly better. EA should have made they're takeover bid just after Zelnick replaced him or even before Eibler left. They would've gotten it a LOT cheaper. But of course there wasn't this crazy merging fever going on in the industry back then.
He can go totally berserk (so to speak) guns blazing, and blame games "GTA made me do it!" Just in vain try to prove him right (in his twisted way).
That scares bejesus out me. Seriously.
But then... GTA would have really made him do it (in a way). Not that he ever played it. Which is in the end the real problem with detractors of video games. The mere existence of something they don't understand scares the bejeezus out of them.
How in the hell does he ever get ANYWHERE with others? He doesn't have a clue about how to conduct himself professionally.
Checf Brian's impersonation (quite well too) and "the got who never lies."
Let's see how well you read my mind with my... mind ray blocking hat on!
I have to say, there isn't anything that makes one feel so good as a bumbling enemy. I mean, that's why Batman looks so cool, he keeps going up against rejects. I mean come on, they have no super powers and use the same MO so much they are predictable. Penguin escaped? Look for the art museum that is hosting a bird exibit. Or the Riddler, who's super power is to tell everyone what his plans are... in advance.
It's so easy fighting back against JT because he is so bad at what he does. I think it is because he didn't find his destiny. Think about it, with just a little more sanity, he could have been a very good chair for the CPSC, fighting back against lead tainted products. I could easily have seen him as a school vice principle. If we ever invent a time machine, we need to go to the past and set JT on the right course where he could live his life out happily where he fits in and would actually help humanity.
@MRK, the word on the street is that he's being supported by his wife, who apparently is loaded.
Or maybe they don't exist at all.
Jack need to grow a Snidely Whiplash mustache.
"So you don't want my help, EA? Fine then , you shall rue this day, for I shall destroy you as well! Muahahaha" *twirls mustache villainously*
Although I have to say that the idea of Jack trying to take on Ea brings to mind the image of someone taking on a Borg cube with a hang glider armed only with a wooden sword.
@Glen, you got that right. Never ceases to amaze me. It's one thing to do this in your personal life, but to act like that when you're supposed to be Important Lawyer Person is a whole another thing.
He's DEFINITELY got some sort of personality disorder. I'm going with an extreme case of narcissistic egomania combined with anger management issues. He really should seek some help for that.
O RLY..?
Jack need to grow a Snidely Whiplash mustache.
He tried that once. Well, a mustache, at any rate. It made him look even dumber.
(read it like Kirk would)
I can perhaps add something. Cue lip trembling:
JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!
"I can has lawsoot naow?"
"GTA... DO NOT WANT!"
"Goin to teh cort, brb."
"Invisible show cause!"
"I WON! Wait... wut?"
One reply I posted earlier isn't up yet...
Conflict of interests and all that.
Anyways, anyone else want to try there hands at a florida bar?
Like the old saying goes, "a lawyer who defends himself has a fool for a client."
"so... since the 19th where Thompson was given his Show Cause he has filed 9 more times. one Response to the Show Cause, followed five days later by FIVE supplemental responses, another motion to disqualify the judges, the Quo Warranto (usually used to imply the official is not valid), and yet another motion to stay the trial.
02/21/2008 RESPONSE RESPONDENT'S PRELIMINARY RESPONSE TO SUPREME COURT'S ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE"
02/26/2008 SUPPLEMENTAL RESPONSE
02/26/2008 SUPPLEMENTAL RESPONSE
02/26/2008 SUPPLEMENTAL RESPONSE
02/26/2008 SUPPLEMENTAL RESPONSE
02/26/2008 MOTION-RECUSAL/DISQUALIFICATION
02/26/2008 PETITION-QUO WARRANTO
02/27/2008 SUPPLEMENTAL RESPONSE
02/28/2008 MOTION-STAY"
Conflict of interest is exactly the first thing that came to mind.
"Here, let me help you sue the company I'm a part of."
So wait, he "showed" his cause on the 21st of Feb?
Dennis, why didn't we hear about any of this?! Thompson's filings are like a magazine subscription, "Crazy Lawyer Weekly" or something. It's one of my favorite subscriptions! D:
As if wallpapering the hallways of the Court with his filings wasn't what got him in hot water in the first place. Oh, boy.
Any one know how Jack's appearance before the Supremes went? Wasn't it yesterday?
Not as I recall. His Preliminary Response didn't in any way attempt to justify his actions as legitimate or otherwise excusable (which is what "showing cause" requires). Rather, his 2/21 filing -- as usual and as I suspect all his supplemental filings do -- just rants and raves against the Court and all the other usual suspects in the vast conspiracy. It's the old "Hide Behind a Cloud of Ink" trick that Jack so loves to perform.
As I understood it, the Supremes were requiring Mr. Thompson to physically appear in Tallahassee before them on March 5th for a hearing on the matter.
To me it's clear who this mystery client is based on the facts:
-JT is facing disbarment
-JT is facing a show clause order that if not met he cannot file more motions before the court
-JT has not won a case in the realm of the video game industry
Which brings the questions others have already raise... Who in their right mind would hire such a lawyer to represent them in a video game merger and aquisition situation?
Logically no one in their right mind.
So that leaves only ONE possible answer for who JT's mystery client...
JT's client is JT himself. He omitted this because it would make the letter he sent look even that more derranged than it already does.
I feel this also proves the proverbial gallows floor has dropped beneath JT's career and he's feeling that rope pulling on him now.
NOTE TO JT: At no time did I threaten you or your life sir. My metaphor is simply pointing out that your career path is coming to an end.
Let's see how he looks suing just a random person.
Second Jack it's you that doesn't understand the gaming industry.
who fucking called it
You realise that Valve is the publisher of counterstrike right?
Postponed as Diana Ross was busy that night,,
I'll get my coat...
His license should have been yanked the first 230983049853 times he did some crazy shit. Hopefully those mistakes will soon be rectified.
Valve are the digital publishers and programmers, but EA are the in-store CD/DVD/Blu-Ray publishers of CS:S.
If you buy it in a shop on DVD, its EA published. EA publish all of Valves work. Orange Box 360 & PS3 were EA published too.
God: I saw Take Two plotting to turn our children evil…
Take-Two President : No, you told me to make this game for adults and not children!
Jack: Is it true my God?
God : Uh… Hey, hey! ... Well, I had not imagined that you two would be in the same place! Hum… Actually… Hum… I am a little embarrassed… Well, I will let you…[leaves]
Idiot needs to get disbarred and kicked out of the country.
He's also been ranting and raving about the Loyalty Oath paperwork that Florida judges are required to file not being filed as required in several instances and therefore several judges -- including, of course, the judge in his disciplinarry proceeding, Dava Tunis and a few of the Supreme Court Justices -- are and have been without legal authority to decide cases. He's claiming that anyone who's had a decision recently rendered by these judges has a clear grounds upon which to seek reversal.
Wow. Just, "wow."
Which, ironically, Jack Thompson dislikes because of the "Left Behind" game, where if you can't convert targets to Christianity, you kill them.
And again, self importance isn't the same as actual importance.
Where did you see that? The only places I know to keep up with Jack are here and the Justice Building Blog, neither of which have been reporting on him as much.
Try jaablog at jaablog(dot)jaablaw(dot)com. It's one of those sites where, despite -- or, perhaps, in spite of -- repeated requests to go away, Jack-O keeps posting.
http://jaablog.jaablaw.com/2008/02/29/norm-kent-for-norml.aspx
Norm Kent rights an article about the legalisation of pot, Jack responds with:
"Jack Thompson, Attorney wrote:
Dearest Norm,
The First Amendment allows you to petition the government to change or repeal the drug laws. The First Amendment does not give you the right to violate the laws you don't like."
I actually spat out the orange juice I was drinking whilst reading that.
Wow that is so hypocritical. He's so full of bs.
I blame Disney and their phony nature movies.
And Mr. Thompson, even if you have a client with dirt on T2, I doubt you'd be able to show it to EA. Aren't there client confidentiality rules?
I like this quote the best:
"I’m sure EA’s shareholders will be impressed with your lack of “due diligence” exhibited first by your “don’t help us, Mr. Thompson” and now your anticipated “we don’t want to know about contractual liabilities of Take-Two” posture. "
Shareholders love when a company asks a loon for help!
Wait is JT actually getting me to defend EA????!?!?!? zOMG, he's a brilliant mastermind!
Except, in this case, he threw the punch before giving the taunt.
"we don’t want to know about contractual liabilities of Take-Two"
More like: "we don’t want to know about the 'contractual liabilities' BS you made up..."
"ostrich…"
No, that sounds more like you Jack, you keep sticking your head under the ground when things don't go your way. See your current investigation by the bar, you keep going "LALLALALALLAAAI CAN'T HEAR YOU, I'M FILING MORE JUNK, LALALALAL" every day trying to escape the reality of being disbarred... Hmm, does your "client" know about this?
Again I ask, W(here)TF does he get this stuff, and what sane "company" would have him represent him(let alone believe his absurd claims)?
"J.B. does too have a client!
She’s Canadian, she lives in Canada! You don’t know her!
He talks to her on the phone after supper, and he’s going to go visit her this summer!
DOES TOO! "
Wow, I did not expect this. First he wants VG's banned, and now he's cheating on his wife? Ooh, what's her name? I wanna be the first to inform Patricia of this.
LOL, I hope his second comment is a troll, it is just filled with irony!
"I would suspect that someone, however, who has the time to type "dull" several hundred times needs to get out more and enjoy life a bit. Hop in, the water's fine."
Said the person who spends several hours online searching his name and posting, as well as spewing out several page court documents and press releases as soon as a gunshot is heard... And I take it Jack doesn't know about the wonderful cut & paste feature.
I wonder where he goes for vacationing time? I just assumed he spent most of it on Planet Jack.
I believe it may be a reference to a study conducted by a company named Hill & Knowlton. When the study's results were released by H&K, a beef between them and the ESA ensued. There's plenty 'net coverage out there, if you're interested. From what I've read, although there was some back-and-forth between H&K and the ESA before the study was actually conducted, the "ESA's study leaked" claim is more Jackspin than anything else.
"I wonder where he goes for vacationing time? I just assumed he spent most of it on Planet Jack."
Hmm... You MAY have a point there. Let's see if we can find this "Planet Jack" so we can understand him more and maybe help him see the light.
That's O.K. By now, Jack's become accustomed to losing lawsuits.
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/1193/hyperchickench0.jpg
EA, if you really think you can take over take two, then the least you can do is deny Jack that pleasure
Now EA have said there piece and made their feelings known (note he didn't even attempt to address the Sims 2 lies, btw) it's time to turn their back on the 'funny man' and get back to business.
OOooo good point! Didn't think of that angle. Jack's 'client' is total make believe because he is legally bound to not take action against T2.
Then again this is Jack we're talking about...
LOL, that made me laugh outloud, good family guy reference, and apptly applied
I take offense to that, I have bipolar and I dont take medication for it (I use self control). The worst I let myself get out of control is profuse swearing on the internet, JT is out of his f***ing mind. If he has bipolar he also has the maturity of a child and a complete lack of introspection to boot. I've known alot of bipolar people (and a few schizophrenics) and I can say that JT is much more erratic then them. The man is mentally unstable. On an unrelated note I'm thinking of studying for 3 weeks and becoming a lawyer in Florida, it obviously can't be very hard
Valve is the developer of CS and they self publish it but if you buy the box at the store it has EA on it. Perhaps EA is technically the dstributer? ANyway, EA is economically involved with Valve and Counter-Strike. http://www.gamespot.com/news/6129331.html
So either way Jacko is trying to cozy up to one of the companies that make money from Counter-Strike.
He's narcissistic. HUGE difference.
Regardless, we can all (including myself) play amateur psychiatrist all we like, but you would think by now the court would want to have someone else take a look at him, not just the psychiatrist Jack got to pick himself. The saddest thing is that he claims to be the "only certified sane attorney in Florida" because of it...
Well, this sucks. There's no way for EA to reply to that. And for Jack, no reply is worse than a reply. I'd say it's high time EA put Jack's e-mail in a filter that automatic responds. "Your E-mail has been blacklisted, and your message was automatically deleted. Have a nice day."
Oh now I get it, it all makes sense now, Jack Thompson is suing on behalf of the John Bruce Thompson Company!
Well, that is what I am getting from his incoherent sentences....
I still say it is BS, again I ask that even if some company had a legit claim, why on earth would this unnamed "Anonymous" company use him of all people? This is a person who fails it at being a competent lawyer, and one that sometime soon will probably no longer be legally competent to practice law.
I know you want to buy that car, and I'll help you do it.
no thanks.
well, just so you know, someone else is suing the owner of that car over something else entirely, ergo *nyah*.
did the client request to have this information shared with EA? Maybe it was hoping EA would buy out T2 so it could get a fat settlement? What damage has he done now?
But I m really surprised that the psychologist or psychiatrists has not found at least some form of personality disorder, because thats usually an miscellaneous category (it has often used to explain serial killers because there were no other explanations) and everyone can at least qualify for 3 of them. Which just makes me wonder how thorough the psych eval was, I already know i could qualify for 4 of them.
Sorry, I have to do it...
That's pretty good! What else do you got?
By publicly addressing and rebuking him, as has been posited by many, it serves to give him the attention he seeks and, as with feeding a stray dog, he comes back for more. From this standpoint, I can see then why many companies would prefer to ignore him and hope he would go away. Unfortunately, while we all know how much of a failure he is as a lawyer, we are also familiar with his tenacity. Either way he will keep badgering until he gets what he wants and nothing short of a legal smackdown by a judge or another authority will get him to back off. To use another dog analogy, it’s like having a Pit Bull clamped onto your arm until you whack his nose with a rolled-up newspaper.
So really, dealing with Jack is a no-win scenario. If you ignore him, he baits you until you respond to him. And if you do respond he attempts his usual tactic which seems to be to pull you into the equivalent of a tar baby (apparently he’s familiar with Uncle Remus, as he referenced the briar patch which was from the same story), as he files lawsuits, insults and threats which, while they may have no merit and be utterly without meaning, only serve to slow you down to the point where you are so distracted be dealing with him that nothing else can get done. This is exactly what he’s been trying to do with regards to the Florida Bar, though fortunately the Bar has seen through his ruses.
I think really this has been Jack’s tactic all along. I think he knows he’s a complete and utter failure at being a legitimate lawyer, but admitting that to us publicly would be a sign of weakness. However, he knows enough about the law and the legal process that any lawsuit filed, no matter how frivolous, needs to be followed-through on and that takes time and money which most companies would rather spend elsewhere. In so doing, he hopes to litigate them to the point where they can no longer do business.
If Jack is a dog, though, then no doubt he’s a mad one and his foaming at the mouth has become apparent by now for all to see. And hopefully the Florida Bar will do their job and put this mad dog to sleep once and for all.
Dude, the reason the psych people haven't found the mental issue is that its a brand new one, he's like the alpha test for it before its release to the market. It will be called either Jack Thompson Syndrome or Jack Thompson Complex, I can't decide which sounds better.
Symptomology: ranting, paranoia, delusions of competance and a desperate desire for attention.
Suggested Treatment: Quick slap upside the head
I'm getting a mental image of jack running down the street wearing a tinfoil hat and a half done up straight jacket, being pursued by mental health nurses and screaming "AHAHAHAHA ALL YOUR GAMES ARE BELONG TO US!"
Actually the Ostrich comment makes a lot of sense. not because they stick their heads in the ground, but becouse the dominate pair in an area collect all the eggs of the other hens to hatch and raise as their own.
Actually I am hoping he doesnt have a Mental Illness that way he does not have an excuse if anything drastic were to happen, or well lets just say happen.
Since he has already been cleared a psych exam, he cannot use the Mental Illness or Temporary Insanity defense. I can see it now...
Jack Thompson: "In my defense I would like to plead Temporary Insanity"
Opposing Lawye"
r: "So Jack, where you Temporarily Insane when you brought charges to Janet Reno for battery?"
Jack Thompson: "No"
Opposing Lawyer: "How about when you were recording Neil Rogers broadcast for 8 months and documented you name 40,000 times?"
Jack Thompson: "No, I was mak..."
Opposing Lawyer: "Thank you Jack, So were you Temporarily Insane when you attempted to block album sales and mailed you drivers licenses with a picture of Batman pasted over your own picture to remind people you were playing the role of Batman?"
Jack Thompson: "No, I am Batman"
Opposing Lawyer: "So, Batman, You took a psych exam by a doctor of your own choosing and you Passed, correct? "
Jack Thompson: "Yes"
Opposing Lawyer: "So you passed a psych exam, mailed people pictures of yourself telling people you Batman, spent 8 months recording a radio show just to listen for your own name, and Now your claiming Temporary Insanity?"
Jack Thompson: "Video games, rap music, and Janet Reno made me do it"
Nah, I think they're more like his 'stable of experts' that don't exist. :P
And that "picture book for adults".
Opposing Lawyer: "And were you 'temporarily insane' when you constructed and submitted to the judge a document which you considered a 'picture book for adults'?"
Jack Thompson: "No. I had to use pictures because those people are unable to understand what I tell them!"
Opposing Lawyer: "Because your words are severely confusing and incomprehensible?"
JT: "NO!!! Everything I say is the TRUTH!!! They can't understand because their FRONTAL LOBES ARE FRIED!!! Anybody who thinks I'm wrong is obviously SOME KIND OF NUT!!! I'M RIGHT, THEY'RE WRONG!!!!"
The "mystery client" approach is a new one, and I think Jack is bluffing.
Sorry don't know how to link properly here, but that's a link to a description of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
TL/DR, here are the American criteria for NPD. See if any sound familiar:
1. has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
2. is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
3. believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
4. requires excessive admiration
5. has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations
6. is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
7. lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
8. is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her
9. shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes
The street word for that is "Psycho"
The guy has and endless supply of self-inflicted legal jokes to dispatch upon the gaming public...I am personally amazed.
I think you missed one:
10. Jack Thompson
:P
It's incredible, it fits him completely, every single point.
But imagine living with him. This guy is bat sh*t loco, i do honestly believe he's delusional.
Dennis, why didn’t we hear about any of this?! Thompson’s filings are like a magazine subscription, “Crazy Lawyer Weekly” or something. It’s one of my favorite subscriptions! D: "
His Show Cause response was posted up, sort of, by Dennis. But his response was sort of a, "HOW DARE YOU DENY ME MY RIGHT TO SUBMIT TO THIS COURT! I'LL SUE YOU!" response.
Jack is back and you're gonna be in trouble!
I'll give some benefit of doubt. Jack's been known to fish out a client or two.
He's convinced more than one family of a shooting victim to retain him. He convinced a former Tew Cardenas (law firm that filed Bar complaint against him) employee to retain him in a harassment claim against the firm. He claims to have been retained by the family of a murder victim in an action against the Florida Bar involving their handling of a case of alleged attorney (Hilliard Moldof) misconduct during the murder trial. Anyone remember the missing, video game-playing "child" and the distraught family that retained Jack to assist in the search? He's apparently not without some ability to sign on clients.
However, he usually claims to have been first contacted by his client, not the other way around. I'm not so sure that's true. And, if it's not true, then perhaps Jack occasionally wanders into the lawyer's ethical minefield of directly contacting potential clients to solicit them as clients. Isn't it alleged somewhere that he once solicited represented parties in violation of the Florida Bar Rules?
EA basically has to convince the stockholders to sell their shares to them, against Take Two's will. A lot of Take Two's shareholders are probably also gamers. Gamers hate Jack Thompson. Thus, Jack Thompson's endorsement for the takeover is the last thing EA wants right now.
Doesn't smallpox have a cure today? If so, find the analogical counterpart and deliver it to JT. Maybe it will end this once and for all.
Jack has done it again. It's difficult to comprehend such a level of stupidity! Forgive me, but I am a bit out of the loop when it comes to the "Poll" he mentions. :-/ Is it real? Is it yet another "fact" Jack's made up? Either way Video Games are art, and no one has any business censoring art.
Ever wonder why broccoli is reluctant to play checkers?
The answer lies in trepidation. We are creatures of the shoelace, lost in purple.
The koala knows.
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