[aldo_14]

(cue hearty laughing)

http://eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=61752

Anti-videogame campaigner Jack Thompson has accused a judge of violating the code of legal ethics after being removed from the GTA lawsuit and having his license to practice law in Alabama revoked.

Until earlier this month Thompson was the lead attorney in the case of Strickland vs. Sony, which was filed by the families of two police officers and a police dispatcher who were killed by a man who played Grand Theft Auto. The families are seeking damages from publishers, including Sony and Rockstar, and game retailers.

Thompson withdrew from the case after defence lawyers accused him of turning the courtroom "into a circus" and requested that his legal license be revoked.
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Now that request has been granted, according to US website Game Politics, after Judge James Moore issued an 18-page document condemning Thompson's recent actions and rejecting his attempt to remove himself from the case, withdrawing his license to carry out legal work in Alabama instead.

In the ruling, Judge Moore stated that Thompson's behaviour in court "suggests that he is unable to conduct himself in a manner befitting practice in this state." Moore added that he was referring the case to the Disciplinary Commission of the Alabama Bar in order that "appropriate action" could be taken.

In response, Thompson has contacted the Judicial Inquiry Commission to question Moore's decision, stating: "In my opinion, Judge Moore has violated... The Alabama Canons of Judicial Ethics by his unfortunate, improper, and prejudicial acts in this case, at the expense of three bereaved Alabama families."

[Flipside]

Bwahahahahahaha!!!

Took their time, mind. Now all we need is for that ban to be universal across the US

Though I feel for the families of the deceased, this isn't about them, no matter how much JT tries to make it so, they got justice, the kid was found guilty and sentenced. This is JT's personal crusade against the Unholy, after all, he IS a God-Warrior

[Night Hammer]

1 down, 49 to go

[NGTM-1R]

While you're there, follow the link to gamepolitics and read about what happened to Jack's new book.

It's...amusing.

[Flipside]

Yeah, I read that. Well, you can't slag off 95% of the Internet and then try to sell your book on it. As he sows, so shall he reap

[vyper]

I think, ironically, the perfect word here is: 0wn3d.

[BlackDove]

PWNED.

[Grey Wolf]

The word is PWNT, cretins

[Fragrag]

While you're there, follow the link to gamepolitics and read about what happened to Jack's new book.

It's...amusing.

I have just finished this book and let me say that it has changed my life for the better. After leaving the Marines in 1992 I wanderederd aimlessly around America trying to fit in somewhere and I was failing miserably. I was living in St George Utah with a crazy Mormon girl who was hiding from her husband who was also her uncle when I discovered Doom. I played that game so much I dried my eyes out and couldn't wear contacts anymore. One day while Claire was out grocery shopping with the welfare check( That part of Utah gets more federal welfare dollars than any other area in the country) I found some extra cash tucked into the mattress of her bed along with a few wallets from men I did not know. I drove over the state line to get some beer and I stopped into a video store and there was a new game on the shelf-Redneck Rampage.

Of course I bought the darn thing. I played the heck out of that one also. A few months went buy and Claire got herself pregnant. Since she had been gaining weight for some time, I had not been tapping that particular tushie. In fact I had partitioned of the trailer and was coming in thorough a window. So I knew the kid wasn't mine. It still made me mad. I packed my things and left Utah. On the way out of Utah I robbed three gas stations, two mini marts and the only porn bookstore in utah.

My life of crime had begun. For the next few years I crisscrossed america robbing porn bookstores, liqour stores and bbq resturaunts. Whenever I found a temple I would wait in the parking lot and follow the nicest car home and I would rob them to. It was during one of thes robberies that I stole a laptop that had soldier of fortune on it. I sat in many a motel six and played that one so much Lupita my Honduran girlfreind left me. I was on a path to nowhere.

It was around that time I saw mr Thompson on CNN and something cliked. I new why my life was spiraling out of control it was because of the video games. The fact that I was uneducated, unskilled and boderline sociopethetic had nothing to do with it. The fact that I never knew my daddy and my mom was a three-dollar ride in Biloxi had nothing to do with my situation. It was those damn evil video games. Read mar Thompson book and it changed my life.

I am back in Utah and I now am a counselar at a home for unwed mothers. Claires oldest daughter is here and we are planning to get married next month when she turns 16. thank you Jack Thompson and God bless you for looking out for the children.

A review from the Amazon page

[Flipside]

I've been serving a life sentence in Maryland since the late 1980s. I was a terrible convicted felon, with all the evil characteristics you'd expect...but he has really turned my life around since I was incarcerated for reinacting a scene from a video game. I'm now able to appeal my case since I've learned that it is not my fault, but the video game's fault. It's hard to believe huge companies like Nintendo would want to train someone to dress up like a toadstool and savagely beat two hooded children with a giant turnip, but don't take my word for it...buy Mr. Thompson's book!!!

Although I haven't read the book or know any of the facts regarding its content, it's obviously pornographic and violent. Anyone who reads this book - or in fact any books at all - are clearly degenerates and are a danger to good Christian society. In one chapter, he specifically says that he's a mental psychopath. Well, not explicitly - but young children might interpret him that way so he should be sued, and then banned from selling this filth to our children.

JACK tomson is my hero iam am david muphy i am 32
i liek jack tomson he is rite becos my dog steve wached terminater 3 around jimmys howse and he had a fite with spiderman (hoo is jimmys cat) so VIDIO GAMES IS BAD
I LIEked the buk but i onley got too payg 9 becos ryan pushed me and i droped the buk in a puddly

I leik the covar best becoz green is mi favorit and teh bit abowt hiting childrens


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ROFL These are classics

Edit : Oh, and apparently, some unscrupulous bastards have been deliberately jumping from the Amazon page to Sex-aids sites, so that sex-related stuff will come up in the Amazon page

[Nix]

Sadly, Jack would believe it to be true.  (It could be true in the backwoods country of Utah, Some of them are downright wierd.)

BTW..As long as people don't start saying "pawned" everything will be ok.

[NGTM-1R]

pwnzorificationized

Okay, it's dead now...where's my beating a dead horse smiliey, dangit?

[IceFire]

Hilarious guy....big mouth and very little else.

[Taristin]

Edit : Oh, and apparently, some unscrupulous bastards have been deliberately jumping from the Amazon page to Sex-aids sites, so that sex-related stuff will come up in the Amazon page

****ing Awesome

[Turnsky]

HA!

[Flipside]

270+ reviews.... Not one of them giving above 2 stars. Admittedly some of them are obviously from Jack-haters, however, some of them are quite obviously not. As one reviewer quotes...

'It's like someone gave Mr Thompson a Crayon and publishing rights'

[FireCrack]

I like this

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/guides/guide-display/-/FD8XYM3KGF8G/qid=1132625499/sr=18-1/ref=sr_18_1/104-4269468-6992711

[neo_hermes]

glad he got something for all the "good" he dished out to the people.