The Disbarment of Jack Thompson
Jack Thompson was permanently disbarred a while ago, but I wanted to have a reference to some of the court transcripts from the hearings for my own reference. Jack is a very interesting case to me. He has the right motive, but executes in way the wrong way. For those who don’t know, Jack has been an outspoken critic of video games, especially violent video games, prosecuting cases where many people thought the link to video games was tenuous at best.
His tactics, however, were far from Christian (or even humane). He inserted pornography as evidence into cases that it had nothing to do with, would harass by letters and emails his “enemies,” and knowingly lie. But, still, the idea of keeping violent video games out of children’s hands is something that absolutely everyone believes in, especially those who play video games often. Even with a white knight agenda, hate and rhetoric are his legacy. Behold the case of the proud, violent man.