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Jack Thompson is also the name of an actor; see Jack Thompson (actor).

John Bruce "Jack" Thompson is an American attorney often cited in the media for his views on the effects of obscenity and violence in popular media.

A native of Ohio, he is a 1976 JD graduate of Vanderbilt University School of Law and has been practicing as a medical malpractice attorney in Florida since 1977.

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Quotes

  • "Sims 2, the latest version of the Sims video game franchise...contains, according to video game news sites, full frontal nudity, including nipples, penises, labia, and pubic hair." [1]
  • "HOnestly (sic), are all of you gamers on drugs, or what?" - Thompson to Scott Ramsoomair [2]
  • "Kids don't have liberties. Do your research" [3]
  • " 'EGM: You once compared Doug Lowenstein, president of the Entertainment Software Association, to Saddam Hussein.
    JT: If I did, I want to apologize to Saddam Hussein. Doug is a propagandist to whom the facts don't matter.' " [4]
  • "Are you, crazy? ... People are threatening to kill me. Either report what I have said, having been provided the emails, or stop bothering me." - Thompson to GameSpot. [5]
  • "You know, there are sociopaths everywhere. Some of them are in government, some of them are at TakeTwo. In fact, we got a bunch of sociopaths in Edinburgh, Scotland, sittin' around in kilts sippin' their single malt whiskey spreading racial, hurtful stereotypes in this country." Audio Link
  • "The Bible doesn't promote killing innocent people, Grand Theft Auto does. Islam does. Islam promotes the killing of innocent people. The Quran requires the infidel, whether Jew or Christian, to be killed. ... That's a core essence of the religion. ... Muhammad was a pirate who killed infidels and who advocated the killing of infidels. Not a nice guy. Osama bin Laden is in keeping with his fine tradition." -Sun-Sentinel [6] [7] [8] [9]
  • "The 'video game community' (what's next, 'the necromancy community'?) surely seems exercised about someone who is a 'joke' and who is accomplishing nothing. You all seem rather bothered and worried about a nonentity. God is in this battle, and I am privileged to be a foot soldier. You all should be concerned, not about me, but about Him." [10]
  • "You just watch. There is going to be a Columbine-times-10 incident, and everyone will finally get it. Either that, or some video gamer is going to go Columbine at some video game exec's expense or at E3, and then the industry will begin to realize that there is no place to hide, that it has trained a nation of Manchurian Children." [11]
  • "...Or else" [12]
  • "Any letter from a video gamer like you would deepen his concern. Are you actually so confused that you think gamers have any influence on anyone. Gamers are considered by normal people to be cretins. Get used to it." [13]
  • "Video gaming is an escapist activity and you’re being exploited by these companies. It’s not healthy; I worry about someone who would play Grand Theft Auto for ten hours a day. It’s a masturbatory activity, and it would be better if people put down the controller and went outside." [14]
  • "I've been on more Canadian news outlets than you've been on welfare lines." [15]
  • "I am a one-man violent video game wrecking crew" [16]
  • "If Dennis McCauley had the testicular fortitude to post my entire letter..." [17]
  • "I gave all this to Dennis McCauley, but apparently he was too busy freelancing a boil to report it." [18]
  • "California Civil Code Section 3495 enables and authorizes each and every law enforcement officer to walk into any video game store, without a court order, to seize and destroy each and every copy of 25 to Life." [19]
  • "One big difference between [Take Two Interactive CEO] Mr. Eibeler and me is that I'm not going to jail." [20]
  • "Funny how adults who are not on dope and/or immersed in games keep turning to my message, and to me, for help. It drives you little bats crazy." [21]
  • "At least I'm not a a coward like all of you nerds here, who hide behind anonymous avatars. How sad." [22]
  • "Oh, and certain regional governments in Japan have banned the sale of the Grand Theft Auto games to minors, but Japan's Sony has no problem whatsoever dumping this garbage into American kids' brains. Looks like Pearl Harbor 2 by Sony/Take-Two..." [23]
  • "What the Japanese are doing to our kids is insensitive and racist. The Japanese have for a very long time dumped pornography into this country in a fashion they would not tolerate in their own country. It is another version of Pearl Harbor." [24]
  • "GTA is a Sony/Take-Two game. It was made by Take-Two exclusively for Sony's Playstation 2. Sony has led the planet in the distribution of mainstream porn. I don't have time to document it for you. As for the offensiveness of the Pearl Harbor comment, it's accurate and it's needed. The Japanese have a contempt for our culture which is patent. There (sic) dumping of garbage into our culture is a slow motion version of Pearl Harbor." [25]
  • "I love the smell of burning gamers in the morning." [26]
  • "That's not the debate junior. That's a retail stat. You don't know the difference, huh? Gosh, I forgot. You're a gamer. You can't think for yourself. Sony and Microsoft and Take-Two have to do your cerebral stimulation for you." [27]
  • "As to the First Amendment, what the video game industry knows about that could be placed into a thimble with room left over for Doug Lowenstein's ego." [28]
  • "Do you need an IQ below room temp to be a gamer and post here?" [29]
  • "Jack Thompson keeps racking up wins and you gamers just can't handle the truth. What's the truth? It is this: Adults with common sense and common decency who respect law enforcement are still running this country. Video gamers are not, and never will..." [30]
  • "Sonny, if you have been to an evangelical church lately, then you know there is nothing 'organized' about this religion. Hooah!" [31]
  • "With enemies like you Pixelantes and like Game Daily Biz, why, I don't need any friends. You honor me with your hatred. I serve the Lord Jesus Christ, and you hate me because the world first hated Him. I follow the Creator of the Universe, and He has taken me to the Gates of Hell, and I kind of like it in here." [32]
  • "You all need to put down the controllers, get a life, and join the Force, thereby leaving the Dark Side behind. Hooah! Praise be to the Lord, Jesus Christ, the author of all things, even of The Florida Freaking Bar." [33]
  • ""Get behind me Satan" Thats you, junior" Thompson to Tim Kowalenko [34]
  • Another response from Jack to a few questions
  • Jack Thompson Saying that Vince Desi and the postal games are murder simulators to practice the killing of Jews
  • "Postal 2 is a game that targets people because of their minority status. Why am I not surprised that all you white bread crackers here at GamePolitics don't have a problem with that?" [35]
  • "Right, got it hun. I'll pray you have no more children" (said to gamer parent)
  • "Why don't you go buy a suicide game, practice that, and get real good at it."(said to prank caller)link
  • "We don’t need to play the game; it’s irrelevant to the subject." [36] (in response to an interviewer's question about the fairness of protesting a game that has not yet been released)
  • "PWNED Is Not a Word... as it is in serious need of a vowel movement. Somebody get Vanna White on the phone to buy one. Having said that, this entire site has been "pwned" by Jack Thompson today, and you pixelantes don't even know it." [37]
  • "Finally, kids, really, get a life. Put down the controllers, pop a beverage, watch the Super Bowl, and enjoy what is left of the land of the increasingly un-free and the totally depraved. Hooah! Jack Thompson"[38]
  • "These flowers were sent to harass me." [39]
  • "Listen up, Joystiq Jackasses!"[40]
  • "Ah, video gamer/pixelantes are the domestic version of radical Islamists as you continually threaten with violence those who simply disagree with you. How terribly revealing." [41]
  • "You've been pwned."[42]
  • "Video game technology is neutral as well. It is the most powerful teaching tool ever created. It can teach life or it can teach death."[43]
  • "The word is spelled "mischievous." Put down the controller and buy a dictionary. Jcak tpmsohon"[44]
  • "Is that the best you can do, punk?"[45]
  • "You all are the new book burners. Heil PS2! Heil Halo! Heil GTA!"[46]
  • "Jack Thompson Is In Bed with Prostitutes!"[47]
  • "You obviously have tertiary syphillis, resulting in dementia, from your meanderings. How sad. How predictable."[48]
  • "I would hold you, but I'm sitting at a computer miles and miles away. Sigh."[49]
  • "Nobody gets to designate the charity except Paul Eibeler. Can you read? Are you on drugs? Have the games fried your frontal lobes so thoroughly that even a "Dead Kenny" has more grey matter than you? Jack Thompson"[50]
  • "funny how corporations, according to your stupid generation...never do anything wrong. that nonsense is what led to viet nam, junior. hooah!" [51]
  • "God is very powerful, and He's not real pleased with Rockstar right now, nor with those who defend it. Watch out. Fire and brimstone on the way."[52]
  • "You do know that anyone can correct it, right, or are your frontal lobes completely fried by Doom?" (Regarding his vandalism of Wikipedia)[53]
  • "By the way, people who believe in the First Amendment don't ban people from Internet forums. Got that?"[54]
  • Call This Jack Thompson "Fan" Before He's Arrested
(Insert phone number here)[55]
  • Dear GP Morons (Which Is a Redundancy)
The Secret Service has been provided the link to the game, so the agent, and the Secret Service can make a decision with all the information. Your own Dennis McCauley said it might violate the law, and in fact it does. Your position is that the Secret Service shouldn't even know about this. What a stupid, idiotic position that is.
I worked with the Secret Service on another matter about four months ago regarding a video gamer, and they successfully shut him down, along with what he was doing illegally.
But you all wouldn't know, and you don't care.
Welcome to the real world, kids, where adults get things done while the rest of you waste your lives with "games." Jack Thompson[56]
  • "Amen to This. You Gamers Won't Understand, However
Beyoncé 'pimp culture' blast
By Laura White, Evening Standard
21 February 2006
Dame Anita Roddick has hit out at pop icons such as Beyoncé and Britney Spears for celebrating the sex industry.
The Body Shop founder said she despairs of the "pimp and whore" culture in which pop stars simulate sex and celebrities talk proudly about visiting lap-dancing clubs.
Dame Anita told the Standard: 'A lot of people seem to think it's cool to be a pimp or a whore. It's not cool. The reality is dark and evil and appalling and unregulated.
'The reality is sexual trafficking, which is about young women being forced into rooms to have sex however many times a day so the pimp can take all the money. I don't get it.'
Dame Anita, 63, said such imagery, coupled with the multi-million-pound beauty advertising industry, made it virtually impossible for young women to grow up with high self-esteem.
She said: 'There are thousands of ads mostly focused on women and young girls that say you are not attractive, you are not sexy, you are not intelligent unless you look like this... [in] kids' magazines there is a passivity and a stupidity that is seen as the great way forward.
'And then you hear the statistics that we have the most violent young women in Europe because of binge drinking. I haven't got much hope. Something's gone very wrong.'"[57]
"A comedian the other day noted the effect Britney Spears has had on the attire of young girls: "I went into a Chucky Cheese the other day, and I looked around and thought I was in a whore house for midgets.
Take-Two's Paul Eibeler would approve, but normal people do not."
"I had this Wall Street Journal article days ago, as it came out on Saturday. It is sad, really, that Dennis McCauley is so ideologically bent that he has misrepresented the nature of the article to take yet another swipe at me.
The article is about people who are within the video game industry or apologists for it. I'm not mentioned because I don't quite fit into those descriptions, do I Dennis?
Mr. McCauley may remember that some game magazine named Take-Two's CEO Paul Eibeler and me its two "Video Game Persons of the Year," me because of my opposition to the reckless elements of the industry.
Poor Dennis, he gave up being a journalist quite sometime ago. Jack Thompson"
"The above leading line in this story by Dennis McCauley is the most unintentionally funny thing I've read in quite sometime! Thanks, Denny. We needed that. Jack Thompson"
  • "I've been in the Wall Street Journal four times, honey, about more important things than this. Jack Thompson" [58]
  • "So, what medications are you taking these days? " (to a gamer commenting that his posts make him laugh) [59]
  • "The games are not under lock and key in... Best Buy,or Wal-Mart, for Heaven's sakes. They're being sold openly to kids as young as nine years of age, as Senator Lieberman proved in December. Stop making this nonsense up. Jack Thompson" (to someone who said games are stored in glass cases in stores) [60]
  • ""The Average Soccer Mom... Let me tell you smug little video game nitwits something. "Soccer moms," which is a pejorative term to describe loving American mothers who do everything they can to nurture and protect their kids, know more about life, more about parenting and its responsbilities, than Dennis McCauley and all of his sycophants here. "Soccer Moms" whom McCauley denigrates here, are holding this country together despite the masturbatory preoccupations of "Video Gamer Nation." How disgusting. Jack Thompson" [61]
  • "Feeble." Honey, I'm deconstructing the industry you love while you call me feeble. Dream on. Jack Thompson See below[62]
  • "Dear Jabrwock... First of all get a real name, instead of timidly hiding behind a fake avatar. Real men engage in discourse in the public square not hiding beneath a KKK-like hood. Secondly, the gamers who killed in the UK (Warren LeBlanc re Manhunt) and Devin Moore in Alabama (one of, oh, about 30 such gamers linked to GTA), the guy in Moscow who did the synagogue stabbings (Postal 2),and the knifers in Japan were identified as gamers because they were gamers, Ace, and because in many, many of the instances law enforcement officials, not yours truly, tied the crimes to the murder simulation games. Japan for years was happy to dump its violence into our kids' heads, and now the "culture war Pearl Harbor pigeons" are coming home to roost. It's about time. Hooah! Jack Thompson
PS: The world was designed to work this way by God, not by some pixelantes who act as if He doesn't exist. [63]
  • "Video Games = Drugs? A gamer posts the below at http://www.1up.com/do/my1Up?publicUserId=5713859. Quick somebody get him some valium" [64] (he then copied and posted this 1up blog post
  • "Dennis McCauley's Phone Number Is (private phone number) I called him yesterday, asking him to call me back at (Jacks phone number) so that I could correct an error (yet another one) in a story here at GP about me. But guess what? Dennis won't call me back. That's because he's not a real journalist, just a freelancer who is a biased video game industry jihadist.
Please contact Dennis and ask him to return his phone calls. Thanks. Jack Thompson" [65]
  • "An office phone number is not "personal information" ace Duh" [66]
  • "Dennis McCauley just got caught, which is why he was deleting my posts. Read this thread and weep. YOur great GP leader has been shown to be a fraud." [67]
  • "In other words, Mr. McCauley has been caught calling himself a "columnist," when in fact he is not, and Mr. Thom Fladung, who is the senior editor at the paper is telling Dennis that if he continues to portray himself, falsely, as a "columnist" then they will not continue to have the option to run it.
Nice going, Dennis. I warned you months ago that you should stop misrepresenting your relationship with this paper, and you didn't take the advice. Jack Thompson" [68]
  • "So, the fact that the GP owner misrepresents his relationships with papers MONTHS after he has been warned to stop doing it matters not a bit? Fascinating. Gamers are probably the silliest, least reflective people in the world. This proves it. Jack Thompson" [69]
  • "He's not interested enough in getting the stories right but rather in running over the truth to get it out first. McCauley has repeatedly reported stories wrong that have harmed me, and he couldn't care less. The Dave Walsh fabrication is just one of them.
And here he was today deleting my posts, so as to keep a lid on his own latest screw-up.
This guy for months has been misrepresenting his relationship with the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and he finally got caught--this after falsely misreporting that I was saying David Walsh endorsed me. Never said it. Never would say it. Yet McCauley ran that story without talking with me." [70]
  • "Another St. Paul Pioneer Press Editor Has Called Me to thank me for exposing to that paper Dennis McCauley's deception. I told her I was glad to help. Her name is Ms. Raschke. Shame on you Dennis! Hooah! Jack Thompson" [71]
  • "Look, jerk. He has been misrepresenting who he is and what he does. It's not where he works that matters. What matters is that months ago he was warned to stop misrepresenting his status with a paper, and he refused to correct the misrepresentation. He's a reporter. He's supposed to care about his reputation. If you don't care, then you're reading the write video game site, goofball." [72]
  • "It's his personal office, you moron. He has repeatedly misrepresented that he is a "columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press." Two editors there have now said that is NOT the case, and one of them called me to thank me for telling the paper about his continuing misrepresentation in that regard, which has gone on for months after he was told he should knock it off. He has an office from which he runs this ridiculous site, misrepresentations, shoddy reporting, and all. Enough said, idiot." [73]
  • "See, you can't believe anything Dennis McCauley says."[74]
  • "Uh, because it's national news. duh."[75]
  • "I guess you do hate high school. It's "if you're not one" not "your not one." Contractions are something you didn't learn, I guess. If you had paid attention in English class, you would have enjoyed it more. By the way, nice pottymouth. Jack Thompson" [76]
  • "SCHOOL SHOOTER WAS DESPONDENT... UPON LEARNING THAT HE COULDN'T TRUST DENNIS MCCAULEY ANYMORE." - Thompson on the Roseburg High School shooting of Feb. 23, 2006. [77]
  • Saturday, February 25, 2006 news story "This idiot illspirit apparently can't read. The lawsuit will be on behalf of the "surviving" family members. That means the victims are dead. Duh. Yet he says the victims are still alive. Of course, what do you expect from a crazed gamer? - Jack Thompson"
  • "Nobody's trying to pass a law, goof. Can't you read? Maybe you need to move to a country which bans reading, since you won't be impacted by those laws. Duh. Jack Thompson"[78]
  • "I'm now in contact with this DA's office. We shall prevail.
Secondly, please note that a lot of web site's don't allow right-click copying. One of them is the law firm of Blank Rome. You should know that, Dennis, since you're in contact with them.
Finally, blockbuster video game copycat wrongful death suit about to be filed. Hooah! Jack Thompson"[79]
  • "No, they didn't ban me. I love the fact that a bunch of First Amendment defenders want to ban someone from a news site. Absolultely precious. Jack Thompson"[80]
  • "Right, and the DA is a metaphor, too."[81]
  • "The Left Sides of Gamers' Brains Are Disabled as the Harvard, Indiana, and Michigan State University studies prove. You all ought to be more concerned about that. Duh.[82]
  • "Actually, it is working, as your post indicates you don't get it. You haven't even read the studies. Duh."[83]
  • "The reason why CBS chose not to edit Stern is that Stern's Arbitron ratings remained high and were arguably even enhanced by people tuning in to hear daily about Stern's running feud with CBS and his move to Sirius, In other words, CBS actually used Stern's discussion of his move to Sirius to make more money for CBS." [84]
  • "Jack Thompson will testify this coming Wednesday, March 15, before the Delaware legislature on behalf of a video game bill he helped draft. Game Politics knew about this days ago. Why did Dennis McCauley not report it? Surely video game enthusiasts are not censoring the news in defense of the First Amendment, now are they? Not our Dennis! " [85]
  • "1. Jack Thompson's recent successes in the baseless Bar complaints filed against him
2. The admonition from the St. Paul Pioneer Press telling him that if he didn't stop falsely portraying himself as a columnist for that paper, there would be consequences.
3. Jack Thompson's upcoming speech in Birmingham to 500 movers and shakers about video game-inspired violence.'
4. Jack Thompson's recent appearance on national television.
5. Wikipedia's pulling of the entries pertaining to Jack Thompson by gamers, pending review of their falsity.
6. Incredible victory over the Bully game, which imperils its release.
7. Etc.
Dennis McCauley won't report the truth, because he can't handle the truth, and it is this: The video game industry is on the ropes in a backlash by parents against it, and Jack Thompson has been a huge part of that success, despite the death threats, the baseless Bar complaints, and nonjournalists who run sites like this. Jack Thompson"[86]
  • "Wow, are you confused. The man who was voted Video Game Co-Person of the Year, along with Paul Eibeler, for 2005 is testifying before a state legislature on behalf of a constitutional video game bill, and that is not news at a site supposedly dedicated to covering governmental efforts against the video game industry? What illegal substance are you on, bucko?" [87]
  • "News Censored Here at GP... The game Bully, Ace, was supposed to be released in October 2005. I stopped that with the Hot Coffee fall-out and my lawsuit. Secondly, the following is about to be passed by three school boards, more to follow. McCauley had this news days ago and spiked the story"[88]
  • "Dennis McCauley has been the leading censor in America with his misuse of LiveJournal to ban from this site anyone who has the truth to report about his antics, including his problems with the Pioneer Press and his misrepresentations about his nonexistent "columnist"relationship with it."[89]
  • "Dennis McCauley has not deleted the above use of obscenity. Shame on him. If Dennis dares--dares--ban me from posting at this site again, then he'll be in more trouble than he already is. Jack Thompson
PS: I'm not a troll. I actually use my real name, unlike you cowards, and I am affecting, by your own admission here, the video game vs. kids debate. Get used to it. It's called the real First Amendment. Jack Thompson"[90]
  • "All web sites are "privately owned," except for government sites, junior. Dennis McCauley cannot run a site that posts false, defamatory, and actionable statements about me, including his own, and then prohibit me from responding to them, unless he wants to be sued. Got that?"[91]
  • "Let's see how long it takes Dennis McCauley to... ban me again, thereby setting his own trap for--himself. Jack Thompson"[92]
  • "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. You're next, Mr. McCauley"[93]
  • "Because most gamers are like you, unable to see beyond their faux self-righteousness and your obsession with your fun, regardless of the consequences to others. Gamers are involved in a wholly masturbatory activity to the exclusion of all other concerns. Why do I have contempt foryou? Because you are contemptible." Reply to a gamers email
  • "The goal is to make it such a negative thing that the retailers won't carry it, This thing hasn't really reached critical mass as a [public relations] problem yet; that's what I'm trying to do."Jack Thompson on a Miami School taking action against the as yet unreleased game Bully
  • "I just did an interview on WCCO-AM... You were contacted, unbeknownst to me, to be part of what I told was just going to be an interview of me. You told WCCO that you would not come on with me, in part, because of my alleged Florida Bar problems..."[94]
  • "...you continue to front for Best Buy, even to the point of telling WCCO that I am not credible because Best Buy's lawyering whores have filed a Bar complaint against me so that knuckleheads like you can try to discredit me, falsely... You and Kaplan are hypocrites, with a capital 'H.' ...Either cut off your blood money funding, or get out of the public square on this issue."[95]
  • "The problem is, they've had 15 years to do it, and they haven't done it, "This isn't even speech, This is software that enables a machine to allow a player to play a game." [96]
  • "Sure, I can draw the line even if you cannot... and the court in Alabama agreed with me: Adult games marketed to kids are not protected by the First Amendment. You don't passively watch a game, you play it. It is a device. Duh. Jack Thompson "[97]
  • " Dennis McCauley is committing a tort here by leaving up the post that "maybe I should be[at] the crap out of you [Helene Keeley] for being so damned ignorant. Dennis, take that post down, or else. Jack Thompson" [98]
  • "And you're allowed to say anything with that face? Wow. Jack Thompson"[99]
  • "Actually, I am correct, of course, as video games are actually devices, simulators. A lawn mower is not speech because it makes noise.You really need to get to a law library and see what is actually protected by the First Amendment. I won the hearing on this issue in Alabama, and you did not. Hooah! Jack Thompson "[100]
  • " Here's how to attend a hearing in Indiana: Call a meeting for all mentally healthy violent video gamers and hold that hearing in a four-person booth at the nearest Denny's. The booth will be empty. Glad to help. Jack Thompson "[101]
  • " Of course I'm right!I've been on national tv now about 100 times. Obviously the First Amendment protects me. It does not protect the marketing of adult-rated murder simulators to kiddies like you. "[102]
  • " No, you are not art. You are... a public nuisance. We're about to ban you. Hooah. "[103]
  • " It's called democracy, junior Get used to it, and get used to having adult games sold to kids taken away from you, as in Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and any other civilized country in which Rockstar is nailed. "[104]
  • "That's Che Guevera, honey, and he's dead, as dead as Rockstar."[105]
  • "Actually, nitwit, the Republican majority on the Committee loved my being there and told me so. You need to get out more often. See the below posting as to our court ruling in Alabama. Games aren't speech, anymore than you are a sentient being."[106]
  • " Yes, you are quite wrong, and here's why I argued on November 3 in our Alabama case featured on 60 Minutes and in Reader's Digest that games are not speech. I won the hearing, and we are proceeding toward trial. You won't read that here, because Dennis McCauley is a coward who censors the news. You all need to get out more and read real news, not the garbage that Dennis McCauley feeds your from the Flat Earth Society. Jack Thompson "[107]
  • "Unfortunately, the "games aren't speech" comments attributed to me at the Delaware House Judiciary Committee hearing were not fully reported. I went on to note that the controller's use as a data input device as well as the means by which the Dual Shock controller gives biofeedback renders the entire mechanism a device, which of course it is.
It is this argument that carried the day at our November 3 hearing in Alabama on the First Amendment, which I alone argued, against the mighty and unethical Blank Rome, and we won the hearing on my argument. So, kids, you can fuss and fume all you want, and the guy who showed up in a T-shirt at the hearing can be as upset as he wants, but nobody but an extremist ideologue thinks that mature-rated games whose "M" label is an admission of the harm to minors of the games thinks that a video game is "political speech" under any sane reading of the First Amendment.
If you all don't know what "political speech" is, then you need to review some court cases on the subject. As to whether games are speech of any kind, please note that "speech" doesn't cause hand injuries which are warned of on the Dual Shock Controller.
A video game isn't any more "speech" than a gun is. Both are devices.
And for all of you who think that the First Amendment protects everything, tell Dennis McCauley to stop acting like a child and preventing me from posting here through Live Journal. You all have missed a ton of bad news for the video game industry simply because Dennis McCauley can't, as a journalist wannabe, handle the truth.
Jack Thompson "[108]
  • " A computer is not speech, Kiddie. It's a device. Wake up and get a life. "[109]
  • " Of course I'm right Games are data manipulation devices, and they are biofeedback devices, when used with the Dual Shock controller. Your obvious problem is that the Dual Shock has been implanted into your prefrontal cortex. Hooah. "[110]
  • "Memo to Donaldson Next time, James, have the courage to come up and introduce yourself. You believe in the First Amendment? I would have asked that you testify. Jack Thompson "[111]
  • "I caught another kid last Friday who called and threatened me. How dumb does a kid have to be made by video games to call me, with caller ID out there, and with news reportage that the last knucklehead who did this to me got thrown into jail in Houston? Apparently he has to be as out of touch as most of the folks posting at this site. Hooah! Jack Thompson, The kid is from Boston, a gamer, and his mother is furious, despite the recent St. Patrick's Day festivities. I love the smell of burning gamers' moms in the evening! "[112]
  • "I would extend my condolences to you on your loss of consciousness, but you're a gamer, and gamer, by definition, lost all sentient being status upon the purchase of GTA. Hooah! "[113]
  • "We're working on a bill to melt down all PS2's in your stateand we have your address and your platform's serial number. I'll be over in one hour, but don't take it personally. "[114]
  • "Don't worry, you are so inert that a hurricane couldn't possibly blow you away. Relax. "[115]
  • "Actually, games that contain sexual material inappropriate for minors is called "sexual material harmful to minors." It is banned in 43 states, which is why GTA: San Andreas was pulled off the market, remember? Do you all ever read the newspapers here? Jack Thompson "[116]
  • "You can't even regulate your own thought. Senator Lieberman proved in January that roughly 40% of the time IDs are not checked. How bizarre that you would think your single, isolated experience is dispositive on the issue. Do you also assume that because you exist everyone in the world looks like you, too? Jack Thompson"[117]
  • "So Sorry that you can't handle the First Amendment like an adult"[118]
  • "Major Bad Scientific News for Video Game Industry. Hooah! http://videogames.aol.com/canvases/articles?id=20060224122509990001 Jack Thompson is delighted to help spread the bad news! [119]
  • "I'M BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK! I am delighted to alert all of you defenders of freedom of expression here (cough) that I am assisting the good folks of Flint, Michigan on this. See, there would be no suit but for my prep of Senator Clinton for her blockbuster news conference on "Hot Coffee" in July 2005. Also, as an aside, I am now working with the legislators in Louisiana on their video game bill to make it constitutionally bullet-proof. Hooah! I may be addressing the Take-Two Board of Directors face-to-face shortly, as its past Audit Chair has asserted fraud by senior Take-Two management in lying to the Board! Double hooahs! Finally, if Dennis McCauley dares--dares--take down this post with this news in it, it will be the dumbest thing he has EVER done. Your humble, active, and exceedingly successful dismantler of all things Rockstar, Jack Thompson"[120]
  • "Racist comments? Identifying the racism of the Japanese and the religious bigotry of some Muslims is racism? My are you confused or doped up!"[121]
  • "Too Late. Dennis McCauley is about to kiss this site bye-bye Just watch. Jack Thompson"[122]
  • "Dear LiveJournal (Sent to its parent company, Six Apart, in SF,CA):
For weeks, I have repeatedly asked the person in your San Francisco office to have a lawyer representing your company regarding the above to contact me. He refuses to help. He has repeatedly said the Abuse Department will contact me. It has all been a falsehood by this employee of yours.
Please be advised that I presently intend to proceed against your company not only for its direct role in the publishing of false and defamatory material about me at www.gamepolitics.com but also for your company's willing and knowing participation in this ongoing tortious activity.
Not only are you doing this, but your company is also assisting GamePolitics from letting me correct the actionable lies at its site by assisting GamePolitics in blocking my posts through LiveJournal.
I have had enough. Either have your lawyers contact me immediately, or I shall proceed.
Jack Thompson
PS: Dennis McCauley, you were warned, sweetie"[123]
  • "Better results? What in the world are you talking about? You on drugs in addition to games?"[124]
  • "GP Can Keep Banning Me and Dig Its Own Grave Deeper in Doing So Dennis McCauley keeps banning me from this site, simply because he doesn't trust you gamers with the truth, such as the below cover story in this week's Time magazine that addresses the dangers of electronic entertainment immersion of your generation. Hooah! http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1174696-1,00.html"[125]
  • "Nope. Wrong. The danger here is interactive violence. If you hadn't noticed, all the studies, including the one below that has just come out today, show a direct link between pop culture and sociopathic behaviors. Like, how dumb are you not to know that? :Apparently REALLY dumb:
Children exposed to sex in TV programmes, films, magazines and music are more likely to engage in sexual activity than those who are not, according to research out today.
There is a direct relationship between the amount of sexual content a child sees and their level of sexual activity or their intentions to have sex in the future, the study found.
Such media also has at least an equal influence on sexual behaviour as religion or a child's relationship with their parents and peers, the study said. "[126]
  • "Here's the truth, junior Actually, I got banned in large part because I revealed Dennis McCauley was told by the St. Paul Pioneer Press to stop lying about his affiliation with that paper. They told him to stop. Dennis didn't want you to know that. This is the guy who falsely reported that I was saying Dave Walsh supported me! Yet Dennis didn't want you to know he was falsely palming himself off as a Pioneer Press columnist. Total hypocrisy by Dennis McCauley."[127]
  • "Nice blasphemy."[128]
  • "I'm not preaching the truth to you. It's called casting pearls before swine. But people with real brains actually go here, and they are appalled by the lies. I am pointing them out for them, not for you. You are hopeless. Your post proves it. Duh."[129]
  • "Nope, doesn't work that way... So where'd you get your law degree, from North Korea Polytechnic? Figures. Jack Thompson PS: None of you has an explanation for how we won the case in the Alabama Supreme Court. Adjust your meds."[130]
  • "I've Forgotten More about the First Amendment than you'll ever know, obviously Dear Goofball: I won the hearing and you did not. Blank Rome cited all of their little video game cases, and lost. Can you read, or have the games completely fried your frontal lobes? Apparently they have. We're winning, and Rockstar is not. Bye-bye Rockstar. Jack Thompson"[131]
  • "I have made a choice, and it is a choice for Jesus Jesus said: "If any of you should cause any of these little ones to stumble, then it would be better for you that a millstone be tied around your neck and that you be cast into the sea." Rockstar is marketing adult murder simulators to kids. You are an apologist for that molestation. You're the one who needs to square his actions with the Bible, not I. I'm the one winning cases in the Bible Belt, not you. Please go to Hell more quietly. Thanks. Jack Thompson"[132]
  • "I've been a little busy utterly destroying Rockstar (see Alabama Supreme Court ruling yesterday, which your Dennis McCauley here won't report). Seems that Dennis knows what a huge body blow this is to the industry and he won't report it for that reason. I'll get around to my website when I don't have more important things to do, like getting Paul Eibeler arrested. Stay tuned for that one. Jack Thompson PS: HOOAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"[133]
  • "JACK THOMPSON WINS DESPITE THE TALIBAN PIXELANTES! Your hypocritical censor here, Dennis McCauley, has blocked me again (I can work around his Taliban tactics), because he doesn't want you all to know about our huge triumph in Alabama yesterday against Rockstar. Please be also advised that my client, Steve Strickland, will be testifying at 2pm Eastern on CSPAN, and also via CSPAN's web cast, at this hearing on the mental molestation of minors by Take-Two, etc. Dennis McCauley is not able to censor CSPAN, but he wants to. Jack Thompson"[134]
  • "Oh, we positively can't wait. Say, were you on the witness list in the Senate yesterday? My client was, and he thanked me, before the entire Committee. Didn't hear him mention you. You need to watch fewers movies and do something with your life, Hilary. Jack Thompson"[135]
  • "It's spelled "brilliant." Jack Thompson"[136]
  • "Jack Thompson: God Is In Control and You Are Not. Hooah! What Dennis McCauley does not want you Taliban pixelantes to know is that Alabama's Steve Strickland hit it out of the park yesterday at the Senate hearing, identifying Grand Theft Auto's role in the death of three men, including his brother, in the cop-killing case featured on 60 Minutes. Didn't see any of you on that piece nor at the Senate hearing. But I did hear and see Steve Strickland thank me, twice, in his testimony, for my role in identifying the now proven role of the game in these deaths.
Oh, and here's another story Dennis McCauley doesn't want you to see, which appears in a Wisconsin paper this morning: (he then posted half of this article: [137])"
[138]
  • "No, I Have Lots of Time, Because I Don't Waste It Playing Video Games By the way, Hal Halpin did NOT testify before this Subcommittee. That is a total fabrication by Dennis McCauley. Hal Halpin was not on the witness list, and McCauley knows it. So this site not only censors the news, it makes it up."[139]
  • "I see that McCauley is not reporting what Steve Strickland's testimony was. Hooah!"[140]
  • "Actually, the people who have cashed in on the deaths is Rockstar. That's why God and I are going to destroy them. Thanks for writing."[141]
  • "1"[142]
  • "Here's the Senate Testimony GP Doesn't Want You to See This is straight from the Subcommittee's site. Note that Hal Halpin never testified. But Steve Strickland did, and he notes my role in this on behalf of his family and the other bereaved families. We are going to destroy Rockstar in Alabama, and the rest of the entertainment industry is going to learn a lesson that will change how adult-rated entertainment is marketed and sold. All of you who get upset about this will please go to Hell more quietly. Thanks. Jack Thompson:" For rest of quote, see here: [143] and here [144]
  • "Is this a great country or what? Steve Strickland gets to testify and pixelante thugs who can't read the Constitution don't get to. I love it."[145]
  • "?"[146]
  • "This is Terrible News for Video Game Industry In December 2005, US Senator Joseph Lieberman proved, with his own reverse stings, that roughly 40% of the time major retailers were selling Mature-rated games to kids under 17. This new FTC finding corroborates that disturbing figure. Only video game shills, like the owner of this site, would say this is "good news." If government-sponsored reverse stings were to find that roughly 35% of underage kids were able to walk into major retailers and buy six packs of beer, then heads would roll and they should roll. Given these statistics (now pay attention you gamers who don't do your math homework because you have prostitutes to kill in GTA), if an underage kid goes into 3 retailers, he has a 60% chance of buying an M-rated game. If he goes on the Internet, he has a 100% chance. Go to BestBuy.com. No age verification whatsoever, and it is illegal to use a credit card as an age verifier. Folks, this FTC finding is proof positive that I have to cut this industry down to size in Alabama, and I shall. Hooah! The Alabama Supreme Court has given us the green light to do just that this week. Jack Thompson"[147]
  • "I am counsel for all of the plaintiffs, they are still my clients, I was the one who won the First Amendment argument in the hearing on November 3, 2005, which trial record was what was appealed to the Alabama Supreme Court, and I fully expect to be in the courtroom trying the case when it is tried."[148]
  • "As a public service, here are some news items you won't read at GP, because they are actually true:
1. The "rave party" killer of ten in Seattle, Kyle Huff, appears to have been a hardcore violent game consumer. More on that as it develops further.
2. The reason "Office Massacre" was yanked was because I and others like me are out here, not because of any sense within the industry.
3. We're about to file a huge lawsuit in another state arising out of murders by a hardcore GTA: Vice City player. Our success last week in Alabama before the Supreme Court gives us tremendous momentum going into this new case.
4. This GP site serves as a constant reminder of the damage to young brains caused by video games. Here, the posters make it clear that reality, found in hard cold facts about the harm done by video games are of no interest whatsoever. Dennis McCauley's bizarre story here asking "How long will it be until the "influence of violent games" argument is finally put to rest?" is a perfect proof of this mental flight from reality.
How long, Dennis? As long as the brain scan studies at Harvard and the massive findings by the American Psychological Association are sitting there as an irrefutable proof, scientifically, of what the video game industry can't rebut: That what you dump into your brain has behavioral consequences. This has been known for only, oh, 3000 years.
5. Finally, Jack Thompson is slowly and surely destroying all of the SLAPP Bar complaint efforts against him. Dennis McCauley has been provided the information, but he doesn't want you to know, as he is still seething, like a little child, from my success in having the St. Paul Pioneer Press warn him to stop misleading everyone about his "columnist" status with that paper. He was not and is not, and they made him knock it off. Jack Thompson
PS: The good guys always win, which is why I'm winning this fight. Hooah!"[149]
  • "No, I'm not being ignored... I was the guy whose success in the Alabama Supreme Court was in a national Associated Press story last week. I was quoted in it, and frankly I did not see you quoted. Who is being ignored? You and your pixelante thugs are, that's who. Jack Thompson PS: Hooah!"[150]
  • "Weaver Is Woefully Behind the Virtual Reality Curve "Virtual Columbine" is already here. It's called BULLY, Mr. Weaver, and you've obviously missed the school boards (Miami-Dade and two others), the county commissions (Lincoln, New Mexico), and others who actually have degrees in useful disciplines (psychiatry, psychology, education) who understand that Bully is in fact a Columbine simulator. Maybe Mr. Weaver needs to read the newspapers more rather than pro-game trade journals. Maybe he needs to ponder where the Duke sex scandal came from--from a pop culture dumbed down to the video gamers' scum level. Jack Thompson"[151]
  • "hillaryduffgta is Exhibit A as to the harmful effects of video games thanks for proving my point. you can't express yourself with anything other than a profane nonpoint. Jack Thompson"[152]
  • "I'm a little too busy to care about pissant t-shirts right now. Please note the below:"[153]
  • "No, the bad guys won this one. Sorry you're confused... But read my post below. Even you might get it. Jack Thompson"[154]
  • "Enjoy it while it lasts, as your industry that mentally molests minors... for money is on life support. Trust me. I know what you don't know. Jack Thompson PS: Hooah!"[155]
  • "Jack Thompson Here: With the Last Word on This Ruling
Of course this law was held unconstitutional. You know why? Because it is. I said that months and months ago.
We have some knuckleheads in legislatures drafting and passing laws that are not in conformity with the First Amendment. Our bill in Delaware is terrific, as is the one in North Carolina that I helped draft. They're not constitutional because I drafted them. They're constitutional because I've actually read the court rulings. All future laws will have plenty of testimony at the legislative hearings on the scientific basis for the proven harm.
The goofs in Michigan didn't do their homework. I have. Kiss the sale of mature games to kids bye-bye. Should take about another year. Thanks for your abiding interest. And kids, put down the controllers. Get off the drugs. And get a life. Jack Thompson"[156]
  • "So, Should We Indict Patricia Vance Now or Wait?
Patricia Vance and the ESRB have been knowingly involved in marketing and selling harmful material to minors for years. The ESRB is owned and operated by the video game industry, for Heaven's sakes.
The ESRB knew for weeks and weeks that GTA: San Andreas contained the Hot Coffee material and yet they did absolutely nothing aboutit until Hillary, armed with the information I gave her, broke the log jam.
Of course the ESRB ratings are a sham. They were designed to be a sham. Patricia Vance, get an honest job. Or better yet, go on a city-to-city tour with Doug Lowenstein and the two of you can explain that the Holocaust never happened. Jack Thompson"[157]
  • "This finding at Harvard by Kimberly Thompson... enhances even more our case in Alabama. This shows the broad deception by the industry in marketing and selling harmful video games to kids. Note also that Vice City, which is the game the killer in Alabama played, is one of the games studied at Harvard. Hooah! Life is good. My future is so bright I've got to wear shades. Jack Thompson PS: I understand the First Amendment, and you don't."[158]
  • "Actually, "destroy" means destroy. My methods of choice have been numerous television exposes of the Grand Theft Auto games, in the US (60 Minutes, Today Show), in the UK (BBC, etc/), Canada, and elsewhere; preparing Hillary Clinton for her severe hit on Rockstar in July 2005 re Hot Coffee; and litigation. As to the latter, the Alabama Supreme Court said this past week that GTA is not First Amendment speech. I am working with the various law firms suing Take-Two on behalf of shareholders over the Hot Coffee matter.
I am also working with the LA District Attorney. All of these efforts have resulted in a diminution in the value of Take-Two's stock and a real possibility that government and private action will drain the company of all its assets.
Only a bunch of gamers would think that the only way to destroy a company is with an explosive device.
Grow up and wake up. I'm on the verge, with God's help, of destroying the most out of control video game company on the planet, which even Warren Spector recognizes. Jack Thompson "[159]
  • "Oh, and what was the previous image? Do I have to get a subpoena issued to find out?"[160]
  • "Here's the scientific evidence you jerks say doesn't exist! This just came out today, out of Harvard no less. How idiotic are you people to have denied this for years? Look at what they say about GTA: Vice City!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" He then linked to here[161]
  • "No, you are totally wrong... 40% of kids presenting at a major retailer can buy an M-rated game, no questions asked. Plus, the rate on-line is 100%. The Federal Trade Commission confirms this. Get your facts straight. Jack Thompson"[162]
  • "ESRB ABOUT TO BE JUNKED
As you delightful pixelante thugs know, I prepped Senatory Hillary Clinton for her July 2005 news conference on "Hot Coffee." Prepped Best Buy's lapdog, Dr. David Walsh, who stood at her side, for it, too.
At that news conference, which I made possible, Senator Clinton stated "the video game ratings system is broken."
She was correct, and here is the latest proof how thoroughly it is broken, coming out of liberal beehive Harvard, no less.
The ESA's and the ESRB's self-policing house of cards has rested upon the demonstrably false assumption that the game ratings are a) accurate, and b) that mature-rated games will not be sold to kids with no parents in sight.
Now we know that both a) and b) are totally false, as the Federal Trade Commission study last week found that roughly 40% of the time retailers of video games will sell mature-rated games to kids under the age of 17. You can't warn a parent as to content when the parent is not there, and now we know, thanks to Harvard, that even if they were there the descriptors on the back are phony. What a freaking surprise! People have been saying this for years, including Leeland Yee.
In fact, GTA: Vice City and GTA: San Andreas ought to be AO-rated, not M. Yee has been saying that, and I have been saying that, and now Harvard proves we are right. Vice City was one of the games Harvard studied in coming to this obvious conclusion.
What Dennis McCauley here will not report is an even more damning study that came out of Harvard yesterday! It finds that the Grand Theft Auto games do in fact cause harm to adult males, between the ages of 18 and 21, who play them.
All of you know-nothing obscurantists here whose frontal lobes have been immobilized by obsessive game play (you don't know who you are, obviously, because your powers of self-reflection are gone as well) need to deal with the FACT that yet another peer-reviewed medical journal states, as of yesterday, that these violent games cause HARM.
You will continue to bleat like little sheep that the proof is not out there. It is out there, at Harvard no less.
You all can't handle the truth. You can't handle the fact that God is in control of this debate, not bought clowns like Doug Lowenstein who is paid to say whatever the industry wants him to say.
The evidence is in. The Grand Theft Auto games cause harm. This is the core of our case in Alabama. We could not have paid $500,000 and gotten a better medical study showing the harmful effects of GTA on teens. But now Harvard, wholly independent of our case in Alabama, has found as a scientific fact that GTA harms those who play it.
This finding is a gift from God that has fallen into our laps in the Alabama case, one week after the Alabama Supreme Court agrees with me that these games are not First Amendment protected speech for minors.
Hooah indeed! Jack Thompson, Your Video Game Industry's Worst Nightmare"[163]
  • "No, sorry to inform you... That you are not the entire universe of gamers. Duh. The American Psychological Association found in August 2005 that among those who play the violent games, there is a demonstrable increase in aggression and violence. Harvard has now found the same thing. Your argument is aking to saying that because you smoke and don't have lung cancer that smoking doesn't cause lung cancer. The idiocy of your argument proves the harm that the games have done to you. You can't even think straight anymore. Pathetic. Jack Thompson"[164]
  • "My attitude is why I am going to Heaven and you, apparently, are going to Hell. Please go to Hell more quietly. Thank you. Jack Thompson
PS: Write me again, "Warren," and I'll do something about it. "(reply to gamers email)[165]
  • "No, I want game companies to stop marketing and selling adult games to kids. Pretty simple really, which is why you don't get it. Jack Thompson"[166]
  • "WARNING! FACT ALERT FOR ALL KNUCKLEHEAD PIXELANTES!
FOR ALL YOU GAMER MORONS WHO CLAIM, SANS YOUR FRONTAL LOBES, THAT THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT PLAYING VIOLENT GAMES CAUSES HARM IN MINORS, PLEASE READ THIS, IF YOU'RE STILL ABLE TO READ. HOOAH!
http://www.apa.org/ppo/childmedia/testimony2.html
Jack Thompson, and have a nice day ;)"[167]
  • "JACK THOMPSON = BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO GAMEPOLITICS It's simply amazing. The only news stories that garner any interest, any substantial number of posted comments, are the ones either about Jack Thompson or ones at which I post and then you pixelante nazi thugs Pavlov-style. Happy to make Dennis McCauley money. Moving on to Patricia Vance, however. I am today asking Elliot Spitzer, the Attorney General in New York who is presently running for Governor, to act upon Harvard's unasailable findings that the ESRB ratings are a sham. Spitzer, most of you don't know because you don't read the news other than GameInformer magazine, specializes in criminal actions against the entertainment industry. I think the intentionally coquette-ish Pat Vance, her head alluringly and unprofessionally tilted to side to make her appear comely, would look delightful in an orange Rikers jumpsuit, don't you? She should be in one, since she and her ESRB having knowingly participated in (conspired) to adult entertainment into the hands of kids in violation of prohibitions against fraud. Patricia, get a good lawyer. You're going to need one. That excludes Blank Rome. Best, Jack Thompson"[168]
  • "Hey, how about a video game depicting the killing of the people who run Joystiq? Bet they'd be real interested in doing something about a certain game then. Maybe then they'd feel how cops and women feel about GTA. Oh, but that would require some actual thought, and I forgot: You're all gamers!"[169]
  • "Jack Thompson Responds This is very funny, actually. Nice job. I count 3 million dead kittens. Meow! Jack Thompson" (in response to a post saying evrytime you reply to Jack, God kills a kitten) [170]
  • "JACK THOMPSON IS WINNING!
The goal I set for myself was to destroy Rockstar Games and Take-Two, to make an example of them. That is why I prepped even Hillary Clinton (and Dave Walsh, see below) for their "Hot Coffee" news conference in July 2005. I would prep Satan himself for such a thing. Hillary is cuter.
Well, well, well. Take a look at the latest shoe to drop in the fall-out from the Hot Coffee scandal that Dennis McCauley brought to our attention and that I ran with. It amazes me that you pixelante idiot thugs are perpetually crazed about me for wanting to punish a game company for embedding explicit sex in a game being marketed and sold to kids, when in fact it was Dennis McCauley and his freelance GamePolitics that actually created the Hot Coffee fiasco. Nobody would have known about it without Dennis. Proves an Internet nonjournalist can do the right thing once in awhile--kind of like a stoppped clock is right twice a day.
Anyway, I am working with the lawyers on the below extravaganza. Don't expect Take-Two to survive, because it will not. I got Bono not to buy it, and I will soon make sure, with the incredible successes in our Alabama case (read the papers, kids),that Take-Two will collapse from its legal liabilities.
Paul Eibeler is head to jail, also. Is this a great country, or what?
Jack Thompson"[171]
  • "Jack Thompson: THIS GIANT "M" IS TOTALLY AWESOME, DUDES!
Actually, I don't think the "M" is big enough. I would favor two giant "M" labels that would be affixed to and thus obliterate the entire front and back of each "Mature" game.
And, if you buy such a game, labeled in that fashion, especially if you buy it at Best Buy, you get, free of charge, a giant "M" tatooed on your forehead right there at the point-of-sale device.
That particular "M" will stand for "MORON," which is presently a synonym for "gamer." David Walsh disagrees, but Best Buy wants him to disagree.
Oh, and here's the latest body blow to the video game industry engineered by Jack Thompson. Enjoy!
http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/metro_west_news/114378991122090.xml&coll=7
Jack Thompson"[172]
  • "Uh, yes Yet another major metro daily nails Rockstar. If you don't get why that hurts Rockstar, then please check into the nearest pyschiatric facility. Thank you. Jack Thompson"[173]
  • "Jack Thompson: DEAR M, FOR MORON The retailers are selling M-rated games to kids with no parents in sight. Did you miss the last 10 years of the debate on this issue, or what? Jack Thompson"[174]
  • "Dear Andrew: Actually, if you bothered acting like a real journalist--not surprised that you don't, since you're affiliated with Dennis McCauly--you would have called the Miami-Dade School Board Member, Mr. Bolanos, who sponsored the Resolution. He would have told you that he was furious that the Herald read that headline, since the Resolution was actually even stronger than what I drafted.
You also could have contacted the school board or gone to their site, and you would have seen that the Resolution was not watered down at all.
It surprises me, Andrew, that you are so ignorant as to the biases of the media that you don't understand that headlines and articles misrepresent the news.
How sad. How pathetic. How watered down your life is. Jack Thompson"[175]
  • "As Usual Dennis McCauley Has Told a Fib... Get out your own copy of GTA: San Andreas, as I did. Measure three inches up from the bottom. You'll find that a 3-inch square does not cover nearly as much of the cover as McCauley depicts. How typical. Hey, Dennis, you could get a job marketing porn to children for Rockstar. You've got the right mindset. Jack Thompson "[176]
  • "First, it's not a game... and secondly, I knew about it before you did. Jack Thompson"[177]
  • "Sure I like it. The M is better looking than my face. As if I didn't know. Duh."[178]
  • "Actually, if she hasn't divorced me by now, it isn't going to happen. Don't get your hopes up.
Oh, and the M really is for moron. That's why you folks buy and play these games. Jack"[179]
  • "Hey, Jack Thompson Has News! Watching TV causes bullying! Can you imagine what video games do? OH, yeah, Harvard reported this week that GTA causes increased aggression. Any of you kids able to read the news? http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=139804"[180]
  • "Actually, nobody trained to kill by eating a... Big Mac"[181]
  • "By All Means, Please Contact Judge Moore!
His name is James Moore, Fayette County Circuit Court Judge.
I still represent all of the families in the matter, and I am wonderfully involved in the case. I was in Birmingham last week meeting with the far more important Judge Moore, Former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. He came to hear my speech there. Of course, you wouldn't know, because you weren't there. Probably in drug rehab.
Anyway, Judge Moore's fax number is CENSORED if you want to express to him an y concerns about me and to ask him if these families are still my clients. He might find the inquiry amusing. Judge Moore has his own ethics problems, and you might want to ask him about that. Just be nice to him! Hooah! Jack Thompson " Reply to a gamers comment, reposted here: [182]
  • "Kids took guns to school for 200 years in this country without turning them on one another. President Clinton understood that if we want to do something about gun violence, we need also to look at the stimuli to use those guns. 3000 gun laws on the books. Not a single law on the books to stop the sale of murder simulators to kids. Idiotic. "[183]
  • "Hal, Nice of you to take your time to answer some gamers' questions. I have a few questions of my own and some comments. Feel free to respond, or not, as you like.
1. First a comment. Thank you for your kind comments about me a few months ago regarding my "commitment," I think you called it, to stay the course in my efforts, as you called upon those on the other side of this culture war divide to show the same resolve I show. That was very nice of you.


2. As to our Alabama lawsuit, about which no one who reads this site seems to know anything, I wonder if you would care to share your thoughts on the fact that the Alabama Supreme Court has rejected the defendants' First Amendment arguments and we are headed to trial where we will put the entire video game industry under the microscope. Are you looking forward to that?
3. Would you mind giving us your opinion of Take-Two's labeling me a bisexual pedophile at its official site and the fact that that will be part of the proof to the jury that the video game industry seeks to suppress information about its practices by going after whistleblowers.
4. Hal, I wonder if you could explain how a parent is warned by the ratings on a game before the purchase if a 15-year-old shows up at the cash register at Target, for example, and there is no parent around? Relatedly, why is it that the FTC is still finding roughly 40% of the time the cashier will sell it to that kid? If Wal-Mart were selling six packs of beer to minors 40% of the time somebody in the Walton family would be in jail. Now, it seems really simple to most parents out here, Hal, and I'd like you to explain to us why it isn't this simple: If your IEMA members really wanted to stop selling these games to kids they would stop selling them to kids, wouldn't they? There would not be a 40% failure rate, would there, Hal?
5. I am wondering, Hal, why you have never taken me up on my offer to bring together folks on my side of the issue with folks on your side of the issue for a summit about what to do about the marketing and sale of mature games to kids? Long term, this puts your retailers at risk. If they stopped selling adult games to kids, there would be no more lawsuits like the one in Alabama, which contrary to what the pixelantes here think, is going to trial. The Alabama Supreme Court said so. What happens in America these days is that both sides just get with people on their side and rah-rah with one another, and the two sides never get to any understanding. What goes on in that regard at this web site is typical. Why have you not taken me up on that offer? If your answer is what the kids here say, that I am a nobody, etc., then I guess I would point out that you are the one who identified me as leading the effort against the violent games. Why can't we have that summit?
6. Bully. Why in the world are not more people in the industry saying to Rockstar, Are you out of your freaking minds?
7. How is your brother Spence's Moral Kombat movie coming? I really enjoyed meeting him for it. He is a great fellow. When is it going to be released, if you know?
8. Why hasn't your organization isolated Take-Two and identified them to be the scoundrels that they are? I think if you did that, you would convince a lot of people on our side that your organization actually has scruples.
11. Why are your member companies selling M-rated games to kids on the Internet with no age verification effort whatsoever? You know that that flies in the face of what IEMA's stated positions are on selling M games to kids, right? As you know, which people at this site don't want to know, age verification software is available to all your members, and also a credit card cannot legally be used to verify age, as kids have cards.
All the best. Hope to see you and meet you at the summit you said you were considering."[184]
  • "How sad you couldn't bring yourself to respond to my questions, Hal."[185]
  • "You Pixelante Knuckleheads (Sorry to Be Redundant) Missed Spike's Point The point Spike is making in the movie and with his comments about the movie's scene with the violent game is that the games are too violent, and they are emblematic of the irresponsibility of the video game industry. I am not at all surprised that gamers wouldn't get it; in fact, Spike Lee knows you wouldn't get it, as indicated by his belief that someone will copy the game scene, which is a criticism of the industry. Which, of course, makes his point exquisitely. It is fascinating, is it not, that the people in this country who have deserved reputations are real artists, real professionals, all decry the recklessness of the entertainment industry and the divorce between art and sanity that prevails in some quarters. Here at GP is one of them. God bless Spike Lee. He gets it. You at GP don't. Hooah. Jack Thompson"[186]
  • "Gee, Hal, What Do You Think About This Development? Maybe IEMA can spread some money around and try to influence the Alabama Attorney General, too!"[187]
  • "Jack Thompson thinks it's great...
That pixelantes are so self-deluded that they think a term that points out their practice of targeting those with whom they disagree for death threats, obscene e-mails, and the like is somehow a badge of honors.
Kind of like Nazis and Talibanis saying "Hey, look at me. I've got my Adolf Hitler underwear on!" Or "Hey, I've got my Talibani jockstrap on in this Afghan rape room."
So, party on Wayne. Party on Garths. You're so stupid that you don't even know what the terrorist epithet means. Duh.
Oh, and proof that the Thug in Chief is GP's Dennis McCauley: He allows posts here defaming me, and yet, in wonderful defense of freedom of expression, he just "banned" jack12345678 from posting this response to the above idiotic question. Wow, what a First Amendment hypocrite Dennis McCauley is.
Hey, Dennis, tell these Pixelante Thugs about the threatening letter you sent me saying I can't post at this site? Gee, looks like I can, Dennis, despite your efforts.
Oh, and Dennis, tell us all about how the St. Paul Pioneer Press ordered you to stop lying about your status as a "columnist" there. That's the real reason you've ineffectually tried to "ban" me here. You don't want the gaming community to know you are a disingenuous fraud. Jack Thompson
Hooah! Jack Thompson"[188]
  • "Pay Attention For the same reason that Jesus excoriated, with his tongue, the Pharisees. You obviously don't read the Bible. You think Christians are supposed to be doormats for lying thugs like you pixelantes. Wrong. Read the Bible. Read what David did and said. Grow up. Jack Thompson"[189]
  • "Yep, enemies. Grow up."[190]
  • "Actually, I'm succeeding and you're not. We're moving toward the trial in Alabama, and Rockstar is on the ropes. YOu and Xenu can go to Hell."[191]
  • "When I married the love of my life, I got in that blessed transaction more than I bargained for. I got another family—my wife’s parents and siblings—in addition to my blood relatives, and I have grown to love them beyond words. They love me back more than I deserve.
My biggest “fan” in all that I have done against the entertainment industry, and against their lawyers, is my wife’s younger sister, Pamela Claire. She lives in the Midwest with her loving husband and their two children. Pam often sends me news of the entertainment industry’s latest assault upon her children’s world. One Christmas holiday, Pam’s son returned from a neighbor’s house, at the age of 12, saying “Mom, Jimmy and I had sex with a prostitute and then killed her to get our money back!” My sister-in-law’s “mistake” was to let her son go to a neighbor’s house. Take Two, the maker of the Grand Theft Auto game which he played with his friend, couldn’t care less about its reckless assault upon children, stealing their innocence behind their parents’ backs, behind Pam’s back. She was angry. She asked me to act on her anger. I have.
Pam wants me, for all the parents out there who are being ambushed by Rockstar’s child molesting games, to stop Take-Two. With Pam’s encouragement and by God’s grace, we are well on our way to do just that. This is why for 18 years I have done what I do. There are all sorts of “Pams” out there. They often write and thank me. Pam always thanks me.
Pam was diagnosed with breast cancer several years ago. She beat it. Until now. It is back, I learned this morning, and it is in her chest cavity. She has started the chemo—again. We don’t know what will happen, but with Pam’s blessing I am writing you, my enemies, to tell you all something.
Pam wants me to let you all know—all of the scoundrels who seek to harm me and what I do—video game companies, vigilante video gamers who celebrate their “pixelante” status by threatening to kill or otherwise harm me with Bar complaints and other childish abuse, including now the sale of “Jack Thompson Toilet Paper” at a video game site, ethically-challenged, self-righteous entertainment industry lawyers, politically-motivated judges who forgot why they took their oaths of office in Alabama and elsewhere, Constitution-shredding Bars, the whole lot of you, that she wants me to win all my battles against all of you and thus against the porn and the violence distributed to children that you facilitate. Pam knows why I do what I do, and she knows the price I have paid. She prays for me, and she prays against you. That is a frightening prospect. This woman makes Lance Armstrong look like a wimp. The prayers of a righteous woman availeth much.
The price I have paid for what I do is not even close to the price Pam has paid to try to keep on living, so that she can raise and protect her children as best she can. The price she has paid does not match , however, to the price our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ paid for all of us on a Cross. She knows that. When she was first diagnosed with breast cancer, she cried out “Lord why me?” Quicker than I would have, Pam got to the point of literally saying to God, “Lord, why not me?”
I love my sister in law. She loves me. She has always encouraged me to fight on, against all of you. She is my hero. She is my role model. I will not let her down.
I now dedicate this fight, this “culture war” in which I am privileged to serve as a foot solder—to her, to Pamela Claire, my sister in law who has never given up.
If some of you have been dismayed and/or amused by my persistence and by my willingness to “pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe” to win the war I am in, then please know that “you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”
You will not be pleased by what I am now willing to do, that is legal and proper, to win this fight. This has never, ever been about me, although all of you have always tried to make it about me. But suddenly this is even bigger than it was. The reality of death, of the preciousness of life, of what some women are willing to do to protect their young, has always inspired me, but it inspires me far more this day.
It was the women who never left the side of Jesus, when the men fled. The women in my life, including Pam, have never ceased to encourage me, despite the sinner that I am.
Thus, what I do henceforth in all of this is now, more than ever, I do for Pam.
Most sincerely, Jack Thompson
Jesus said: "If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first.”
Joseph said to his brothers: “What you intended for harm, God has used for my good.”"[192][193]
  • "Sorry to Interrupt with Some Real Video Game Industry News By the way, don't you love my new username, in light of the Harvard University medical study last week that found that video game users are far more likely to consume drugs? Anyway, at the risk of sharing real news with people who may, according to Harvard, be in such a drug-induced haze that they can't comprehend it, and also at the risk of crowding out really, really earth-shattering news that the ESRB's new web site is heavily yellow (slow news day, Dennis?) let me share with you all some real news about the video game industry's #1 nemesis, according to just about everybody:"[194]
  • "Jack Thompson Loves This! The bigger they are the harder they fall! Does this also mean that Hal Halpin has to get a haircut this decade? Jack Thompson"[195]
  • "Is Dennis McCauley OK?
Uh, Dennis, in this news story you announce that both organizations are going to merge into one. That means, according to you, that there will no longer be one organization but two. So why would you write the following:
"We're eager to hear the new name and wish BOTH organizations well in their combined endeavor."
Dennis, you haven't fallen prey to Harvard's assessment that gamers are more likely to ingest drugs, have you? Jack Thompson "[196]
  • "Jack Thompson Gets It Right Yet Again
The defense of the video game industry by libertarians within the GOP, like this knucklehead, was identified and explained in great detail in my book, Out of Harms's Way.
Dennis McCauley missed it, and so did all of you, since my book is not officially listed as a "cheat code book."
The real conservatives in the GOP are not libertarians. They actually have values and understand that civicvirtue is an indispensable element in preserving freedom. Duh. Jack Thompson"[197]
  • "Jack Thompson Has News for You Pixelante Children
1. Is Australia a great country, or what?
2. GamePolitics is not reporting the big news out of South Florida regarding your relentlessly successful video game nemesis, Jack Thompson. Wonder why?
3. We are winning the most important video game lawsuit in history, in Alabama, as the state's Supreme Court has cleared the way for the trial.
4. Just watched G4. Is this a cable channel for total morons? Apparently.
5. Dennis McCauley has just been indicted by the anti-hypocrite prosecutors, for banning a video game critic from GP, in the name of freedom of expression. Duh.
PS: Jack Thompson is making a difference, and you aren't."[198]
  • "I enjoy doing what I do and I think I've got a First Amendment right to annoy people and participate in the public square in the cultural war,"[199]
  • "I'm 100 percent certain that it will effect change, otherwise I would not have filed it,"[200]
  • "There Is Absolutely NOTHING Perplexing About This Story
Real defenders of the First Amendment, such as Leland Yee and myself, understand that what constitutionalists call "political speech" is fully protected by the Constitution. What is not protected is the marketing of adult-rated porn and violence to kids. To the extent that the latter is tolerated, the real First Amendment is cheapened.
What is hypocritical here is not the stance of Yee and me, but rather the knuckleheads who exult in their "pixelante" status--which is defined as someone who tries to shut up video game critics--and then, in the name of freedom of expression, threaten me, my wife, and my right to speak out on the issues of the day.
The only censors, the only opponents of the First Amendment, are gamers who will not tolerate any dissent on their masturbatory game of choice.
Jack Thompson"[201]
  • "Jack Thompson with a Heads-Up
Just to let you all know:
Dennis McCauley, as this story indicates, feels he has some sort of constitutional "r