Jack Thompson Threatens NIU With Lawsuit

[propertyofcobra]

Lobbyism equals using money to gain political influence and leverage beyond what others can hope to achieve.
Ergo, a country with lobbyism clearly states that money equals political power.
Ergo, lobbyism is further from democracy than no lobbyism.

Ergo, lobbyism would add to the problem, not the solution.

 

[sammyfreak]

Lobbyism is about promoting the cause of a specific intrest group, unfortunately its done mostly with money these days.

 

[Copter400]

I, like everyone else, am just so 'meh' over Jackie Boy right now. The guy in Virginia did not play video games. There were witnesses who could vouch for this. Stop harping on about it, for you will reap only ruin.

 

[SilentHunter7]

Virginia Tech University

What a dumbass Jack Thompson is. Didnt they find that the V tech guy very rarely played games, or not at all?

 

[Raan_Amano]

Lobbyism equals using money to gain political influence and leverage beyond what others can hope to achieve.
Ergo, a country with lobbyism clearly states that money equals political power.
Ergo, lobbyism is further from democracy than no lobbyism.

Ergo, lobbyism would add to the problem, not the solution.

Well, I think, if done properly, that lobbyism isn't necessarily exclusive from democracy. But, you and others are right. Money too commonly is used to lobby for one cause or another.

 

[Shamtee]

true but he still keeps saying that lies. But of course violent movies, music, tv and stuff on the internet isn't a factor - im sure 15 minture on the net you can learn more about killing someone effectoley, as well as get the weapons nessasary than in a life time of gaming.

I had to do an essay on the interactive media and the effects on people. (quite interesing reading the reports) It true games can uncensored you but that take a long time than say violent movies and tv. As for making you move violent - only young children and very mental unstable people are really effective and influanced, but these games are for children in the first place and the mental unstable.. well what can we do about that sadly... To everyone the violents in games is accutally an adrenalines rush though the excitement - any anger is frustration in ether loosing through unfairness, toughness or bad luck. These 2 elements are changed are determented by the natural aggressiveness of the person, but thats though upbringing and also what your born with :/

But being games really you learn that first hand XD so not much supries in most of the reserch ... apart from one.

Mario and pacman are Violent games!

 

[wadark]

Jack Thompson is a tunnel-visioned, unintelligent, psychopath who is on the verge of being disbarred (oh, dare I dream?). End of story...

 

[Talisker]

Jack Thompson is a tunnel-visioned, unintelligent, psychopath who is on the verge of being disbarred (oh, dare I dream?). End of story...

I agree, the man is so blinded by his hatred of videogames and trying to blame everything bad on them that he dosen't realise what an idiot he looks like to everyone else in the world.

 

[Watershed]

On February 14, Kazmierczak, 27, killed five people and then himself on February 14, three weeks after going off his anti-depression medication. His girlfriend, Jessica Baty, said he stopped taking the medication because "it made him feel like a zombie," but denied reports [http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1714069,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics]that he had been behaving erratically since then.

Hang on... the fact he stopped taking anti-depression medication before the shooting is irrelevant according to Jack is it? The violent game he may have played at some point must be the main factor, obviously. Sigh, sometimes I wonder...

 

[Arbre]

FW: Evidence.
To Mr. Thompson.

Hello.
You might be interested by the following information.
I think I have found some very solid evidence.

Regards.

 

[Easykill]

I think I'm going to go play some violent video games now. Need to release some of this anger so I don't go on a rampage.

 

[Ragweed]

I...I am speechless! I am out of speech!

Just when you think, "There's no possible way that this could any more fubar'd". Well, there you go.

 

[irishdelinquent]

Let's all just silently ignore this and hope the lunatic goes away. Don't make eye contact, don't respond to him. Just ignore him entirely. We all know that he's a crazy idiot who wants every tragedy turned into part of his hate campaign. So let's just...yeah.

Ignore him.

I like to think of Mr. Thompson as a bad dream. Forget about it, and it'll go away. Flaming him online is exactly what he wants. If we all say he's a retard, or that he's senile, or insane, OR if we threaten to harm/kill him, it all paints the picture he wants to show.

We all know that Jack's point is irrelevant. Most of the world knows that he's just flapping his lips and ejecting hot air. The Florida Court system already has revoked his license in the past, as he has taken a personal interest in his cases and he has filed many cases that have been thrown out of court. Let him try and make another case about "video games are bad". Let him struggle pointlessly to prove how wrong he is. Don't stress about it. There are bigger things to fear in life than Jack Thompson, like the Zombie Apocolyse...or a quadraplegic kitten.

 

[SlightlyEvil]

No, not really, he's been hitting up murders and suicides as Videogame related for a while. Like the one where a kid commited suicide by drinking anti-freeze. He blaimed Diablo.

Okay, I'll bite. How in the name of Clint Eastwood did he make the connection between drinking anti-freeze and Diablo? Or was the kid playing Act III of Diablo 2 when he decided to off himself?

Damn pygmies...

 

[Bryanrocks0]

ok a little known fact to all you jack haters (which is all of us)

when the Vt shooting went down the first thing he said was the kid played violent videogames, specifically counterstrike. Well it turns out that he was right back in that kids softmore year of high school was the last time he ever played that game and the only games found in his house were things like sonic the hedgehog, so thanks to jack we know know that sonic makes me wanna kill people. God i cant stand this man he uses tragedy's for his own gain, i guess thats a lawyer for you

 

[Andy Chalk]

What a dumbass Jack Thompson is. Didnt they find that the V tech guy very rarely played games, or not at all?

Indeed they did. The final report published by the US government made no mention of videogames as a factor in the killings, because there was absolutely zero evidence that videogames were a factor in the killings. As other people have pointed out, one of the odd things about the killer's behaviour was that he did not play videogames. But Thompson continues to employ this lie because the vast majority of people - at least those he's trying to reach - don't know the truth and can't be bothered to discover it for themselves. They'd rather have someone like Jack, who must know the truth of things because he is a lawyer after all, tell them what's what and just roll with it. I was going to mention it in the post, but eventually you have to draw the line. There are so many lies involved with everything that man says and does that you simply can't call him on all of it.

One thing I've figured out about him, though: Tunnel-visioned, yes, and psychotic, possibly, but don't make the mistake of underestimating his intelligence. Jack Thompson is a lot of things but unintelligent is not one of them.

To shift to the topic of a gaming industry lobby group - surprise, folks, we've got one. You guys need to catch up with your newz reading:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/80670

Unfortunately, the videogame industry can't afford to throw around the cash the way the tobacco and gun lobbies do, so our influence won't be quite so... influential. But it's a good start.

 

[sammyfreak]

We can always use spam as a lobbying technique.

 

[bkd69]

Jack Thompson by himself has no standing to sue. He would have to take on any of the victims or their relatives as a client. But until he does, he can't go anywhere.

Once he does, he can reasonably obtain a court order for the appropriate network logs, if such exist. Of course, that's all subject to the limitations of privacy and retention policies, and if the only online gaming he's been doing was Yahoo Backgammon, well, Jackie's just plum out of luck.

But then, once he has those hypothetical logs, he then has to prove that playing CS was a contributing element, and that NIU knew that playing CS would be a contributing element, and that NIU was negligent by ennabling network play of CS.

*sigh*
I'm really not qualified to make any diagnosis of his mental health, solely by reading his press releases.

bkd