Article: Jack Thompson Update.

With just about the entire world completely locked into Grand Theft Auto IV and its ridiculously deep setting of Liberty City, it seems that the enemy of all gamers, Jack Thompson, is at it again, and he's certainly been busy.

Thompson has led a charge in Miami to have just about all advertisements regarding GTA IV removed from the public transit authority in the Miami-Dade area. Chicago recently announced that they would also remove these advertisements from their buses as well.

However, the Florida-based lawyer has seemingly taken on a much larger opponent:

Everyone.

In a report that was released from ArsTechnica.com, Thompson claims that just about everyone is responsible for the mental anguish and years of abuse that this game will seemingly cause the world.

Indictments should be returned against Take Two corporately and its Chairman, Strauss Zelnick, along with other Take Two officers. Indictment should also be against Sony and Microsoft which are making this pornographic game available to minors, and openly so, on their PS3 and Xbox systems.

Further, indictments should be handed down against Wal-Mart, Best Buy, GameStop, and all other retailers distributing this game to minors at their retail stores, openly, to kids who are only seventeen.

Grand Theft Auto IV is the gravest assault upon children in this country since polio.

Now, that's just an excerpt from this report, but I simply have one question to pose him:

Really?

Let's think about this for a second. You want to bring up an indictment against not only the head of Take Two, but every retailer that carries the game? Does this mean you're going to take on the employees of these companies for simply selling these games? Honestly, I hope he does, because I work for one of these retailers, and he'll be happy to know that I refused to sell to a few kids because they weren't 17 years old.

That's right, ol' Jackie my boy. A retailer is actually following the rules.

It honestly makes you wonder if he actually thinks about what he says before he says it. Most everything he says, nowadays, is just sheer lunacy.

Apparently things aren't getting any better for Thompson as well. While the date for his Disbarment Trial decision was pushed back to the end of August, that is still certainly looming on the horizon. Let's face it: Gamers around the world will sing praises if he is disbarred and we never have to hear from him again.

Amen to that. I mean what a jackass. I think the industry police's itself pretty good considering the size of it. My wife is a manager of a Big name video store, and they wont rent to minors at all. You have to be 18 yrs old to have your own account. There will always be a story of a twelve year old buying the game. But over all I think people, parents, and gamers know what GTA is all about. No doubt my dumbass sister inlaw has bought the game for my 15 yr old nephew, but I'm not his parents. I have faith and trust in him that it's not going to send him out on a killing spree. (start with your parents please)

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Wow, he's saying GTA 4 is on par with polio?
At least that breaks up the almost unanimous "10's" everyone's giving it :P

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saying GTA 4 is as bad as polio is bullshit. That's like what he was saying about September 11th being the fault of videogames.

Jack needs a psych-eval, rather than evaluating others. He won't stop, even if someone does something he'll still be a martyr for his cause.

The best thing now, is just to ignore him.

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Well, I would ignore him, but he seemingly pops up all the damn time. Hopefully, by the end of Summer, his Disbarment is final and he's eliminated from the public eye altogether.

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lol I never heard the 9/11- videogame connection. I hadn't realized al quaida were gamers. Rockstar should have made Niko a middle eastern refugee, so they could identify with it, lol.

I can't argue what he's saying to some extent though- this game is umm... borderline pornographic. Not what you see, but what you hear... and yeah, what you see too. I mean- Niko's face when he gets the "$20 hooker service" is... priceless. It seems like the only boundaries Rockstar REALLY pushed with the game are the boundaries between M and AO...

That said- it IS rated M, and it seems to me that most retailers are pretty serious about keeping it out of kids hands. I think he's overlooking that the reason a lot of minors have this game is because their PARENTS are buying it for them... so if anyone should face charges- how about looking closer to home??

But come on- how hilarious is the dialog of this game???

*edit* I just reread what he said- he doesn't seem to be saying retailers are selling it illegally, he's saying that since M games are 17 and up that minors have access to it. He has a point there, but really what is a kid better prepared for at 17 than he is at 18? And how many kids hit 17 and haven't seen more than this game shows anyway on the internet?

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This post was last edited by PSORaine. 05/01/08 at 01:15 PM.

The problem with jack thompson is that he is a money hungry ambulance chaser. If it is a school shooting or involves minors in any way he chases after it on places like Fox Noise claiming that video games are at fault. Look at what heppened with the VTech massacre last year. Literally 20 minutes into the incident he was on Fox claiming that video games were at fault before the shooter was even known. That is the way he is. He has been trying to do this for more than 10 years know with video games alone. Before that it was rap music. Before that he was a medical malpractice lawyer. He doesn't want video games just out of the hands of children. He wants them banned completely, and wants Rockstar games destroyed. He has stated this himself.

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Well there needs to be a crack down against frivolous lawsuits. Especially if it's the same person using multiple lawyers to file them- or like in this case- the same lawyer filing multiple frivolous lawsuits. I mean, if you file a suit, and it gets thrown out, why should you be allowed to keep refiling similar lawsuits for years and years and years?

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There is no dog.

Well, good news is, he is extremely close to being disbarred. The decision should come down sometime this summer, according to Gamepolitics.

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jack does have a point with what he says
but he goes about it in a totally wrong way.

still m should be 18 if its pornographic
but i mean halo
gears
cod
these should be 17 up
he should try for something that makes sense

he should fix something like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbud2dTEvso

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