22.03.08 Jack Shit

I don’t usually care to think about anti-videogame attorney Jack (John Bruce) Thompson lest it give him credence or, worse yet, a notion that his voice is relevant in the overarching debate over videogame censorship. But this time he’s really outdone himself with such a noteworthy argument that it’s worth sharing.

After the recent Show Cause order by the Florida Supreme Court, in order to overcome “the Court’s inability to comprehend” his arguments, they imposed a limitation on his ability to submit any further filings after a stunt involving his submission of a children’s book-styled motion in illustrated form containing clip-art images between the text depicting “swastikas, kangaroos in court, a reproduced dollar bill, cartoon squirrels, Paul Simon, Paul Newman, Ray Charles, a handprint with the word “SLAP!” written under it, Bar Governor Benedict P. Kuehne, a baby, Ed Bradley, Jack Nicholson, Justice Clarence Thomas, Julius Caesar, monkeys, a house of cards, and the motion concluded with the cover of Thompson’s book, Out of Harm’s Way“.

Class…

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