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Jun 05

Jack Thompson: Legacy Speech

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As read on Console Patrol, the Florida Bar is recommending that Jack Thompson be disbarred, and banned from reapplying to the bar for ten years. This comes as welcome news to many gamers, who have such animosity towards this infamous Florida lawyer that shirts featuring slogans such as “Kill Jack Thompson” have been created and sold online.

While I do NOT for any reason condone the kind of violent response that has made gamers so distrusted amongst those “not in the know”, I do understand the reaction to the threat of having your access, your hobby, and in some cases your livelihood snatched away from you.

So, what happens when the man primarily responsible for this threat goes off the deep end? The answer is that the world ends up with something like Thompson’s 14 page objection (read: rambling diatribe) about why his crusade is just and honorable.

Ignoring the obvious “separation of church and state” business that Thompson is apparently forgetting, I have taken it upon myself to deliver to you some of my favourite excerpts from Thompson’s objection - or as I like to call it - his “Crazy Speech”

“There is a reason my e-mail address is amendmentone@comcast.net. It is because of the fascists who run The Florida Bar identified as such by a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.”

Fun fact: Thompson’s email address is now, once more, widely published online. He is also managing to overlook the fact that his behavior in recent years has been more consistent with the facists of old than the Florida Bar has been in trying to settle him down and stop wasting state and federal dollars.

“…Oren Wunderman, Executive Director of the Family Resource Center of South Florida, who spent hours examining me, administering tests, and he found me a) wonderfully sane, and b) a person whose Christian faith has enhanced his activities as a lawyer.”

Well, EVERYONE knows that faith enhances reason. Right? ….guys?

“…the efforts of the anti-Christian Florida Bar…”

I wonder if it has occurred to Jack that “anti-Christian” and “distinctly non-Christian” are two separate notions.

“The consequence of all of this post facto oath taking is that all that the Florida Supreme Court has done in this case is invalid and will be voided, and if you think I will not accomplish that end then a) you do not understand the lawsuit already filed, and b) you don’t know Jack.“

Hah hah! He made a funny! Everyone laugh at the funny!

Okay, enough of the quotes. What we’re seeing here is the last reach for the surface by a drowning man. He is obviously furious at the public shaming he has received by having these charges leveled against him, and can not seem to grasp why this is happening. As seen by his numerous bible quotes and comparisons to God, Jack perceives himself as fighting for a just and holy cause, and for that reason thinks he should be allowed to continue.

Anybody who has read his objection can clearly see he is grasping at straws. Trying to shatter the court’s credibility by making accusations about invalid oaths and bizarre anti-Christian agendas is really desperate behavior, even for Jack. Then again, what else can we expect from a man who slips gay porn into court documents?

P.S. I promised myself that I wouldn’t post about the sensational Jack Thompson, but in this case I couldn’t help it. I’m not writing about how awesome video games are, and how much of a douchebag Thompson is. What I needed to do here is outline the sheer desperation for attention exhibited by this man, and how he refuses to let go of public attention. Keep fighting your fight, Jack. Nobody can stop you from doing that. Just please stop abusing your position of power to do so.
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