Jack Thompson, ex-arbitrator and protector of the innocent, has struck again. Really, you have to hand it to the guy. In his never-ending quest to prove that video games are, in fact, the root cause of every violent crime for the last few decades, he has lost his mind. his credibility, and his ability to practice law. Yet he just keeps trucking along, misquoting and obliterating context every step of the way.
It’s sad, but I feel like I have actually grown up watching the antics of this man. Like some legistlative Inspector Clouseau or Mr. Bean, I’ve enjoyed his constant prat-falls over the First Amendment. (Really, his dialogue is also first-rate comedy — “I have sent my opponents pictures of Batman to remind them I’m playing the role of Batman,” and “…an industry that says a line cannot be drawn will be drawn and quartered” are actual quotes.) It’s nice to have come out the other side, where the villainy of video games is now equated with the hatred of “rock music” or comic books.
I have to apologize publicly to Jim over at Monday’s with Jim — last week I didn’t send him a comic. Tsk tsk me. Anyway, here’s a small version of what I sent him this week — go check out the article for mockery of Olympic proportions.
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I had to read that four or five times before it made sense. I kept reading “Jack Johnson” instead of “Jack Thompson” and I couldn’t figure out why he looked so old… >.< Mondays FTL
Youre a real deep thinker. Thanks for shianrg.
You should create a little Flash game where you play Jack Thompson and you have to sneak into trade shows, courtrooms, and press conferences, jump out of the shadows, and spout incoherent gibberish. Then, we can blame his behavior on the video game and the real Jack Thompson will probably get stuck in a recursive cause-and-effect loop and disappear in a puff of logic.
While that is an awesome idea, it would never work – as he has proved time and time again, Jack Thompson is impenetrable to logic.
Gotta love the Hitchiker’s reference =D