Re: [Xbox] Re: [gamers_for_life] Jack Thompson: "I guess my "mistake" was not killing 3000 people to make my point"

Mental indeed, if GTA was even close to as bad as he claims it to be then
EVERYONE who played it would be killing each other on the streets.

Alex.

On Wednesday 18 June 2008 03:10:56 Mo Mo wrote:
> This guy is seriously off his rocker. Enough is enough already.
> From: Nelson (nelzp)
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 8:42 PM
> To: gamers_for_life@yahoogroups.com ; Xbox@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [gamers_for_life] Jack Thompson: "I guess my "mistake" was not
> killing 3000 people to make my point"
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> http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008/06/17/jack-thompson-i-guess-my-mistake-wa
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> He fought the law and the law is winning. Jack Thompson, hot off the
> heels of a Florida Bar recommendation that he be disbarred for ten years
> for 27 violations of professional misconduct, is again testing if the pen
> is mightier than the sword. In a letter written to Chief Judge Federico
> Moreno, Thompson claimed his recent trial was a mockery of the system and
> demanded a fair trial.
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> "We find yesterday that enemy combatants at Guantanamo are to get more
> due process from federal judges than what I am to have. I guess my
> "mistake" was not killing 3000 people to make my point ... I demand a
> hearing," Thompson wrote in the letter to Moreno.
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> Judge Moreno responded to the shocking letter by dispatching two U.S.
> Marshals to the home of Mr. Thompson. "The purpose of that visit was to
> intimidate and harass me," Thomson wrote to Moreno following the incident.
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> As the Florida Bar continues to seek disbarment for the controversial
> lawyer, Thompson is now seeking a meeting with the House Judiciary
> Committee in Washington to complain that the Justice Department is
> harassing him.
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> Jack Thompson is famously known in the gaming community for his stance
> against violent videogames, particularly titles from Take Two Interactive;
> publisher of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto franchise.
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> [via Game Politics]
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