Lunacy proceedings

Excellent! LMFAO!

Top Marks Burke

I love it when you stick it to Jack Thompson. Go to town on his ass.

What a complete...

...John farking Thompson...

[Coat on] TAXI..!!

WTF ?

I'm sure this article is making a point. Maybe even a valid one. But shoe-horning 'jokes' into every other sentence makes it hard to read. F'k me - it reads like a blog posting.

It's easy to laugh...

...and maybe reassuring, but nobody here should forget that *this does not matter*. The mainstream press will NOT report it, because it makes them look like fools for taking him seriously - and it prevents them from running more breathless stories (never a more appropriate moniker) about how games are making kids into murderers.

Thompson is untouchable unless something so serious it can't be ignored happens, and that's unlikely (even if he were jailed the mainstream media could easily pretend it didn't happem. And who'd know?). So all of this, while very satisfying, is completely meaningless in the larger context of Thompson's power to encourage censorship of video games.

And that's probably why he's laughing, sweetie.

Sid James in San Francisco

There were some quality double-entendres in that article. "Hardened activist", "gavel", "a hard time", and mention of grabbing something by the hand. Eventually I started to see a double-entendre in every word, even "the" and "court", and now I find it hard to look at the spaces between the words without thinking of a crevice. Good job.

Night and fog.

The press has never been all that good at reporting when they've been suckered.

This could easily wreck his status, and stop future cases. He may well just vanish, not worth the risk of reporting.

Sid James

I was thinking that too.

As for "the true meaning of hard time" I assume this means he might actually get some first, er, hand experience, in which case he'll be spending eternity in Hell. That's the trouble with hard-line Christianity - no forgiveness...

we should support him on this one

I don't like censorship , I think Jack should be allow to post legal images.

It would be a bit ironic for us gamers not to support Jack in his attempts to stop censorship in this case. :)

The irony of jack being a content pirate, who then shares to all, is kind of sweet, too. lol

cf: libel defence

Reminds me of the following story: my friend X was being sued for libel by Y. However, Y ran around showing the libel to everyone and shouting "look what X said about me!". The judge threw out the case on the grounds that Y was injuring himself.

Thomson is doing the same, prurient thing: "If you search carefully you can find these terrible pics! Look at this! Aren't you injured?"

I'm also reminded of an uptight person who complained her neighbour was flashing her by walking about naked in his house. A policeman turned up, looked out of her window and said "but you can't even see into his house from this angle",

"You can if you climb on top of this cupboad".

re: WTF ?

Yup, agreed - interesting story, badly written.

It always amazes me...

...that this man is still allowed to practice "law." He is, quite obviously, a lunatic.

Lester Haines?

I had to do a doubletake halfway though the article to see if it was written by The Lester (hallowed be thy name!). I think we've discovered his secret identity!

re: It always amazes me...

Yep. Jack Thompson is a complete nutter, although when I saw the title of this article I thought it meant he was found in possession of gay pr0n lol. Unfortunately not that funny but still a great read.

JT didn't say that

Kent said:

"I’m not the one in trouble. The judge found a certain lawyer’s material obscene. I absolutely love it. This is the best thing to happen to me in a long, long time. Check my [case] filings, sweetie."

Title

What is with him? Read what Norm Kent from the NationalGayNews.com said about him.... http://nationalgaynews.com/content/view/1742/173/

So, in filing these pictures...

he made tham available on the courts systems "to anyone of any age."

Actually...

It appeared to me from the judge's PDF that he is simply order this nutjob to explain why the documents were either not filed under seal, with permission of the court, or why links themselves wouldn't suffice instead of spamming the public court with porn. I would imaging the first options to be normal procedure, but no lawyer am I.

At the least he should be disbarred for being a crappy lawyer -- since when is poking the judge in the eye with a stick a good idea when your own livelihood is at stake?

And this really surprises people?

Once again, irrefutable proof that lawyers are conceived via anal sex!

Badly written...

Interesting story, but the randomness made it very hard to tell what parts were jokes by the author and what parts were actually part of the story...

RE: WTF ? [shoe-horning 'jokes' into every other sentence makes it hard to read]

If you don't get The Reg's wry sense of humour, you really are in the wrong place.....

And as for double entendres, the best has got to be this story's headline itself!! ROFL