Wired is reporting that Jack Thompson -- activist against the American entertainment industry and general whackjob -- has been permanently disbarred, and the ruling will take effect on October 25th, 2008.
Thompson is notorious for his public attacks on video game industry developers and publishers for the content they've allowed in video games in the past two decades, and has gone as far as contacting a Take-Two exec's mother in which he states that Take-Two Chairman Strauss Zelnick is "like the Hitler Youth," among other degrading remarks.
To say Jack Thompson has been a thorn in the side of the video game industry would be an understatement, and it's great to finally see a resolution come to pass.
While Jack Thompson's goals were appreciated -- one that protected innocent victims from violence -- his way of attempting to reach those goals were unconventional, and in many cases inappropriate and laced with the kind of misconduct you would never expect out of a public official.
Jack Thompson will also be fined more than $43,000 USD due to this ruling, and while he has filed a request for an emergency stay in the state of Florida, it's hard to fathom that standing in court for very long.
What are your thoughts? Was Jack Thompson a misunderstood person, or should he and people like him never be allowed into a public role? To read more, head over to the Wired blog.
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Also, he didn't just lose his job, unless I'm mistaken being disbarred means you're no longer allowed to practice law.
Also, he didn't just lose his job, unless I'm mistaken being disbarred means you're no longer allowed to practice law.
Though by the comments of many gamers and their personal feelings towards him, not to mention all of the ill-written bad mouthing, I can see where he is coming from.
Though by the comments of many gamers and their personal feelings towards him, not to mention all of the ill-written bad mouthing, I can see where he is coming from.
However, is statements and actions were not only insulting, disrespectful, immoral, and very probably illegal.
They were the legal systems equivalents of attempting to poor gasoline and lighting it on everyone who's ever seen a cigarette while claiming he's just trying to stop pre-teens from smoking.
Let's face it, he's a fanatic, and I suspect, mentally unstable. (To put it nicely.)
However, is statements and actions were not only insulting, disrespectful, immoral, and very probably illegal.
They were the legal systems equivalents of attempting to poor gasoline and lighting it on everyone who's ever seen a cigarette while claiming he's just trying to stop pre-teens from smoking.
Let's face it, he's a fanatic, and I suspect, mentally unstable. (To put it nicely.)
Sheesh. Give some credit to our public schools. Dumbass.