Jack Thompson Sets His Sights On Halo 3

GamePolitics is reporting that anti-game advocate Jack Thompson is seeking to have Halo 3 declared a nuisance to the public in Florida. He tried the same stunt with Bully, and failed then too. "As with Bully, Thompson clearly hopes the court will grant him a hearing. Although after last year's well-publicized Bully performance, which earned Thompson a Bar complaint from presiding Judge Ronald Friedman, that seems unlikely. More troubling by far are the long term implications of this action. Thompson apparently feels emboldened to invoke Florida's public nuisance law against any video game he desires to target. That is the essence of censorship and the video game industry cannot allow it to continue on any number of grounds - legal, moral or creative."

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[miskatonic alumnus]

It's been that way for decades. "Just say NO!" while gulping down an aspirin, antihistamine, Alka-Seltzer, Viagra, Prozac, amphetamine cocktail, and chasing it with a martini and a cigarette. Yeah, we hate drugs in this country.

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If he keeps filing non-case cases, he'll get more reprimands and if he persists to the point of actually become considered a nuisance by too many judges, I guess he could eventually get disbarred for repeatedly filing frivolous and potentially anticonstitutional cases. Should such a fortunate event occur, he could still file suits but would need to convince some other lawyer to risk his name on the case... so we'd be far less likely to see any more of his cases reach the courts.

Jack is video gaming's Doc Mailloux... they claim to operate from higher moral grounds but the world would be far better off without them.