Well At Least He Now Has Time On His Hands To Finish The Darn Game

I'm not the kind of person to kick a person when they are down. I am the kind of person to laugh at a person when they are down.  Let's be honest...when someone falls in the street, initially you are concerned.  You want the person to be okay and you may even go the extra mile of extending a helping hand. Once they have their faculties about them, you are able to laugh about the then frightening occurrence.

Jack Thompson has had his fair share of slip ups and miscues [which just so happen to be captured on video and in this very brog]. He has been a strong proponent for the banning of most of the most popular video games with the ESRB rating of 'M'. He has issued ultimatums to gaming sites and the journalists of the more popular enthusiast outlets.  He has blamed the deaths of children in households and college campuses on games like Halo 3 and the Grand Theft Auto series, all the while representing the families of the victims of very real atrocities.

The fact that Thompson was disbarred in Florida over a litany of issues does not give me joy or feeling of accomplishment.  I'm actually quite worried if this is the last we will hear from our passionate politician. He could technically pass the bar of the 49 other U.S. states if AND ONLY IF, he has a friend-lawyer who could vouch for his conduct in the courtroom.

After The Jump: Reasons Why Thompson Was Disbarred, Reliving the 'Good Ole Days' with Youtube Thompson Interviews...

Adam Sessler and Jack Thompson chat about violence and how it effects society.

The reasons as to why Thompson was disbarred are as follows...

From ArsTechnica:

• Respondent made false statements of material fact to courts and repeatedly violated a court order
• Respondent publicized and sent hundreds of pages of vitriolic and disparaging missives, letters, faxes, and press releases, to the affected individuals
• Respondent falsely, recklessly, and publicly accused a judge as being amenable to the "fixing" of cases
• Respondent sent courts inappropriate and offensive sexual materials;
• Respondent falsely and publicly accused various attorneys and their clients of engaging in a conspiracy/enterprise involving "the criminal distribution of sexual materials to minors" and attempted to get prosecuting authorities to charge these attorneys and their clients for racketeering and extortion
• Respondent harassed the former client of an attorney in an effort to get the client to use its influence to persuade the attorney to withdraw a defamation suit filed by the attorney against respondent.

Odd, Thompson argued at great length about the effects on society of playing games of characters with 'less than stellar' moral values, but we see here a not so pretty picture as to how far Thompson himself was willing to go in order to accomplish whatever goal he thought was worth achieving.

Can I kick him now?

Paul Levinson and Jack Thompson discussing facts and studies in regards to crime rates how it effects today's youth. 

Thompson on NIghtline.

Could this be it? Could the man who dedicated a great deal of the last decade of his life be finally put out to pasture? I really hope not...

Thanks For The Laughs Jack,

The Brog