If I had the money....I'd buy hundreds of violent videogames and send them all to him...actually, no...jappanese dating sims(tha hentai kind) =D
He tried to get Gabe and Tycho arrested...for calling his bluff?
This man is an idiot.I hate him so much, and I've never even met him...
The really dangerous thing about Jack Thompson is how he is portrayed by the media at large. He sells himself as an expert on video games, but he actually has no experience with the industry at all. He recently posted a series of scathing criticisms of football video games citing that "the NFL won't even let them use their name."
That would be a valid criticism IF EA DIDN'T OWN THE RIGHTS TO THE NFL LISCENSE!
The man is so grossly ill informed, and yet he is frequently called in to news shows as an expert on the industry. The real solution to the JAck Thompson problem is for developers to start representing themselves to the media, and not let some nutty lawyer be the only media voice on the industry.
I find it positively disturbing how many people in the major media and in mainstream society take the man seriously. He is nothing more than an ill-informed, sanctimonious, and evidently unbalanced demagogue. He uses the twin goads of fear and religion, backed up with his loudmouth and his reckless abuse of the legal system to stir up people who are too lazy and weak-willed to regulate their own households and raise their own children but are more then happy to rally to the cry of “It’s someone else’s fault!” It’s absolutely disgusting, really. The man is fawned on and puffed up as being insightful and knowledgeable by a media machine that finds it faster and more financially sound to keep people in a state of misplaced fear and excitement then to do some research and present facts. His very website is a poorly written, illogical diatribe which takes wildly out of context what information it doesn’t make up whole-cloth.
I do not advocate any illegal acts toward him, if only because it makes him look more and more like he might have a point and fulfills his desire to be seen as a righteous martyr. However, well written and rational counterarguments sent to media outlets which feature him like Reader’s Digest and CNN pointing out factual errors (with sources cited, preferably) and underlining the flaws at the roots of his stance would probably do more good then “messing with” or “having fun with” him. A campaign of writing letters (again, proper and business like letters, best foot forward and so on) to the Florida Bar Association requesting his suitability to represent the legal profession be investigated, based on his repeatedly demonstrable use of threatened litigation and false claims to have filed police complaints to intimidate anyone who opposes him has also been begun.
I invite anyone who is interested in the matter of this man to read up on the facts of his actions, his claims, his “evidence” and what has already been done to deal with this and other attempts to limit commercial and artistic freedom in the name of religion and public safety. I do not know how serious an effect he might have or exactly what tactic might be swiftly successful. I do know one thing for certain, however. Trying to simply shout down or intimidate a loud mouth bully with a public pulpit is seldom effective. It is almost never effective in the hands of individuals without similar access to the public and an air of respectability and knowledge.
Sorry for the long rant and I truly, sincerely apologize if this offends anyone. Jack Thompson and people like him really get deep under my skin. I loathe people who hide behind morals to build their own public image while behaving immorally and trying to slice away other people’s freedoms.
