@GP: It is perfectly understandable why he isn't naming people, all that would do is give them more ammunition to attack Rockstar with.
Without solid evidence saying a person is out to destroy you and your company is nothing more than libel and/or slander. If they're really out to get Rockstar, they will sue over something like that.
Especially if they're influential politicians or other powerful individuals.

Say their names, cause a backlash from anyone who owns a console. Write these politicians. Give them the glaring evidence of all the reports from the last 4 years "Proving" the opposition wrong on all fronts. Mass mail all media outlets. Make them all choke on the truth. This isn't comics. This isn't Rock n' Roll. This is a medium that puts all those to shame in the mature catagory. Some games are for kids, Some are for an older audience. That is why there is a rating system in place.

Sorry for the rant.

Bane XXIII

Minneapolis, Mn

I would really like to be able to respect the guys are rockstar, I really would. But seriously they've done some very "asshattery" level things along their way. The hot coffee thing for instance, while it is a 'mod' to open it up, the amount of code and data that you'd need to remove to make that be totaly unaccessable and unusable is miniscule and it feels like ether A) lazy programing or B)they left it in JUST to cause a scandal.

I can apprecate pushing the envelop to an extent but these guys do it in a way that seems to be willfuly antagonistic.

I think he's referring more to the fact that whenever someone like a politician or lobbying group wants to find a scape goat in Video Games, GTA is inevitably used.

That said, did he expect otherwise? If you want to make a controversial game, expect controversy.

Actually, I am EXTREMELY powerful in the sense that when the mass media want someone to trash Take-Two, they look around the newsroom and ask, "Who ya gonna call?  Jack Thompson!"

And you're laughing all the way to the bank with it. Even AFTER the recent ruling from the courts.

So there's that, whether you like it or not, and secondly, I would say that judging by Dennis McCauley's obsession with only one side of the Dava Tunis story (too bad you lemmings don't  know what else is going on down here that is bad news for little Dava) he thinks I'm pretty damned powerful.

No, idiots are just fun to mock. Most of the gaming community considers you just that- a delusional idiot with no real power, but damn, do you give us something to talk about.

But the REAL power that I have stems from the fact that I tapped into the vast angst over "Hollywood" and the rest of the depraved entertainment industry that is right reflected in every poll in which Americans are asked if they are comfortable with the slide of our pop culture into the sewer.

Yeah, and every time you mention their vile products in a negative light, their coffers grow a little bigger from the free publicity you give them. You're their favorite PR person.

I have been at the crest of this tsunami since 1987, and the vast majority of Americans who know what I do praise me, write me, pray for me, and 250,000 people lined the streets in Provo to celebrate what I stand for and have been targeted for.

Praise you? No. Write you? Maybe, but not for the reasons you might imagine. Pray for you? Ohhhh, some of us are praying for you, alright.

But the truly powerful person in the universe who has reserved an especially warm room in Hell for Houser is God Almighty.   Either Sammy Boy repents, or he'll be S.O.L. shortly.

I'm pretty sure you're not God. Sorry to break it to you.

Warmly, Jack Thompson

You know, Mr. Thompson, in all honesty, I have nothing but respect for a person with the equipment to write a message ending with the hopes one of your enemies go to hell, then signing off with "warmly". Nice. Reeeeal nice.

You pose no threat to anyone. You are a joke. You are facing the potential death of your carreer as a lawyer. No one cares about 60 minutes anymore. You are a failure. Piss off you old woman.

-If shit and bricks were candy and tits, we'd all be livin' large. For information on games and psychology, look up: Jonathan Freedman(2002)Block & Crain(2007)Grand Theft Childhood, by Harvard Medical School researchers Larry Kutner and Cheryl Olson

@JT

Well according to Dante, hell has a circle for hypocrites...