Ringlets
Mar 02 2007, 06:08 PM
That loveable Florida scamp! Just wondered what your opinions are on him. Bearing in mind he has never actually won a case. He's just sued a hell load of people, and blame every death ever on Take-Two Interactive
Here are some wonderful quotes. The one in italics is probably the funniest, if not amazingly disturbing quote of them all. Sorry about the numbers. Couldn't be bothered to delete them
"Sims 2, the latest version of the Sims video game franchise...contains, according to video game news sites, full frontal nudity, including nipples, penises, labia, and pubic hair." [1]
"Honestly, are all of you gamers on drugs, or what?" - Thompson to Scott Ramsoomair [2]
"Kids don't have liberties. Do your research" [3]
" 'EGM: You once compared Doug Lowenstein, president of the Entertainment Software Association, to Saddam Hussein.
JT: If I did, I want to apologize to Saddam Hussein. Doug is a propagandist to whom the facts don't matter.' " [4]
"Are you, crazy? ... People are threatening to kill me. Either report what I have said, having been provided the emails, or stop bothering me." - Thompson to GameSpot. [5]
"You know, there are sociopaths everywhere. Some of them are in government, some of them are at TakeTwo. In fact, we got a bunch of sociopaths in Edinburgh, Scotland, sittin' around in kilts sippin' their single malt whiskey spreading racial, hurtful stereotypes in this country." Audio Link
"The Bible doesn't promote killing innocent people, Grand Theft Auto does. Islam does. Islam promotes the killing of innocent people. The Quran requires the infidel, whether Jew or Christian, to be killed. ... That's a core essence of the religion. ... Muhammad was a pirate who killed infidels and who advocated the killing of infidels. Not a nice guy. Osama bin Laden is in keeping with his fine tradition."
"The 'video game community' (what's next, 'the necromancy community'?) surely seems exercised about someone who is a 'joke' and who is accomplishing nothing. You all seem rather bothered and worried about a nonentity. God is in this battle, and I am privileged to be a foot soldier. You all should be concerned, not about me, but about Him." [10]
"You just watch. There is going to be a Columbine-times-10 incident, and everyone will finally get it. Either that, or some video gamer is going to go Columbine at some video game exec's expense or at E3, and then the industry will begin to realize that there is no place to hide, that it has trained a nation of Manchurian Children." [11]
"...Or else" [12]
"Any letter from a video gamer like you would deepen his concern. Are you actually so confused that you think gamers have any influence on anyone. Gamers are considered by normal people to be cretins. Get used to it." [13]
"Video gaming is an escapist activity and you’re being exploited by these companies. It’s not healthy; I worry about someone who would play Grand Theft Auto for ten hours a day. It’s a masturbatory activity, and it would be better if people put down the controller and went outside." [14]
"I've been on more Canadian news outlets than you've been on welfare lines." [15]
"I am a one-man violent video game wrecking crew" [16]
"If Dennis McCauley had the testicular fortitude to post my entire letter..." [17]
"I gave all this to Dennis McCauley, but apparently he was too busy freelancing a boil to report it." [18]
"California Civil Code Section 3495 enables and authorizes each and every law enforcement officer to walk into any video game store, without a court order, to seize and destroy each and every copy of 25 to Life." [19]
"One big difference between [Take Two Interactive CEO] Mr. Eibeler and me is that I'm not going to jail." [20]
"Funny how adults who are not on dope and/or immersed in games keep turning to my message, and to me, for help. It drives you little bats crazy." [21]
"At least I'm not a a coward like all of you nerds here, who hide behind anonymous avatars. How sad." [22]
"Oh, and certain regional governments in Japan have banned the sale of the Grand Theft Auto games to minors, but Japan's Sony has no problem whatsoever dumping this garbage into American kids' brains. Looks like Pearl Harbor 2 by Sony/Take-Two..." [23]
"What the Japanese are doing to our kids is insensitive and racist. The Japanese have for a very long time dumped pornography into this country in a fashion they would not tolerate in their own country. It is another version of Pearl Harbor." [24]
"GTA is a Sony/Take-Two game. It was made by Take-Two exclusively for Sony's Playstation 2. Sony has led the planet in the distribution of mainstream porn. I don't have time to document it for you. As for the offensiveness of the Pearl Harbor comment, it's accurate and it's needed. The Japanese have a contempt for our culture which is patent. There [sic] dumping of garbage into our culture is a slow motion version of Pearl Harbor." [25]
"I love the smell of burning gamers in the morning." [26]
"That's not the debate junior. That's a retail stat. You don't know the difference, huh? Gosh, I forgot. You're a gamer. You can't think for yourself. Sony and Microsoft and Take-Two have to do your cerebral stimulation for you." [27]
"As to the First Amendment, what the video game industry knows about that could be placed into a thimble with room left over for Doug Lowenstein's ego." [28]
"Do you need an IQ below room temp to be a gamer and post here?" [29]
"Jack Thompson keeps racking up wins and you gamers just can't handle the truth. What's the truth? It is this: Adults with common sense and common decency who respect law enforcement are still running this country. Video gamers are not, and never will..." [30]
"Sonny, if you have been to an evangelical church lately, then you know there is nothing 'organized' about this religion. Hooah!" [31]
"With enemies like you Pixelantes and like Game Daily Biz, why, I don't need any friends. You honor me with your hatred. I serve the Lord Jesus Christ, and you hate me because the world first hated Him. I follow the Creator of the Universe, and He has taken me to the Gates of Hell, and I kind of like it in here." [32]
"You all need to put down the controllers, get a life, and join the Force, thereby leaving the Dark Side behind. Hooah! Praise be to the Lord, Jesus Christ, the author of all things, even of The Florida Freaking Bar." [33]
""Get behind me Satan" Thats you, junior" Thompson to Tim Kowalenko [34]
Another response from Jack to a few questions
Jack Thompson Saying that Vince Desi and the postal games are murder simulators to practice the killing of Jews
"Postal 2 is a game that targets people because of their minority status. Why am I not surprised that all you white bread crackers here at GamePolitics don't have a problem with that?" [35]
"Right, got it hun. I'll pray you have no more children" (said to gamer parent)
"Why don't you go buy a suicide game, practice that, and get real good at it."(said to prank caller)link
"We don’t need to play the game; it’s irrelevant to the subject." [36] (in response to an interviewer's question about the fairness of protesting a game that has not yet been released)
"PWNED Is Not a Word... as it is in serious need of a vowel movement. Somebody get Vanna White on the phone to buy one. Having said that, this entire site has been "pwned" by Jack Thompson today, and you pixelantes don't even know it." [37]
"Finally, kids, really, get a life. Put down the controllers, pop a beverage, watch the Super Bowl, and enjoy what is left of the land of the increasingly un-free and the totally depraved. Hooah! Jack Thompson"[38]
"These flowers were sent to harass me." [39]
"Listen up, Joystiq Jackasses!"[40]
"Ah, video gamer/pixelantes are the domestic version of radical Islamists as you continually threaten with violence those who simply disagree with you. How terribly revealing." [41]
"You've been pwned."[42]
"Video game technology is neutral as well. It is the most powerful teaching tool ever created. It can teach life or it can teach death."[43]
"The word is spelled "mischievous." Put down the controller and buy a dictionary. Jcak tpmsohon"
"Is that the best you can do, punk?"
Here are some wonderful quotes. The one in italics is probably the funniest, if not amazingly disturbing quote of them all. Sorry about the numbers. Couldn't be bothered to delete them
"Sims 2, the latest version of the Sims video game franchise...contains, according to video game news sites, full frontal nudity, including nipples, penises, labia, and pubic hair." [1]
"Honestly, are all of you gamers on drugs, or what?" - Thompson to Scott Ramsoomair [2]
"Kids don't have liberties. Do your research" [3]
" 'EGM: You once compared Doug Lowenstein, president of the Entertainment Software Association, to Saddam Hussein.
JT: If I did, I want to apologize to Saddam Hussein. Doug is a propagandist to whom the facts don't matter.' " [4]
"Are you, crazy? ... People are threatening to kill me. Either report what I have said, having been provided the emails, or stop bothering me." - Thompson to GameSpot. [5]
"You know, there are sociopaths everywhere. Some of them are in government, some of them are at TakeTwo. In fact, we got a bunch of sociopaths in Edinburgh, Scotland, sittin' around in kilts sippin' their single malt whiskey spreading racial, hurtful stereotypes in this country." Audio Link
"The Bible doesn't promote killing innocent people, Grand Theft Auto does. Islam does. Islam promotes the killing of innocent people. The Quran requires the infidel, whether Jew or Christian, to be killed. ... That's a core essence of the religion. ... Muhammad was a pirate who killed infidels and who advocated the killing of infidels. Not a nice guy. Osama bin Laden is in keeping with his fine tradition."
"The 'video game community' (what's next, 'the necromancy community'?) surely seems exercised about someone who is a 'joke' and who is accomplishing nothing. You all seem rather bothered and worried about a nonentity. God is in this battle, and I am privileged to be a foot soldier. You all should be concerned, not about me, but about Him." [10]
"You just watch. There is going to be a Columbine-times-10 incident, and everyone will finally get it. Either that, or some video gamer is going to go Columbine at some video game exec's expense or at E3, and then the industry will begin to realize that there is no place to hide, that it has trained a nation of Manchurian Children." [11]
"...Or else" [12]
"Any letter from a video gamer like you would deepen his concern. Are you actually so confused that you think gamers have any influence on anyone. Gamers are considered by normal people to be cretins. Get used to it." [13]
"Video gaming is an escapist activity and you’re being exploited by these companies. It’s not healthy; I worry about someone who would play Grand Theft Auto for ten hours a day. It’s a masturbatory activity, and it would be better if people put down the controller and went outside." [14]
"I've been on more Canadian news outlets than you've been on welfare lines." [15]
"I am a one-man violent video game wrecking crew" [16]
"If Dennis McCauley had the testicular fortitude to post my entire letter..." [17]
"I gave all this to Dennis McCauley, but apparently he was too busy freelancing a boil to report it." [18]
"California Civil Code Section 3495 enables and authorizes each and every law enforcement officer to walk into any video game store, without a court order, to seize and destroy each and every copy of 25 to Life." [19]
"One big difference between [Take Two Interactive CEO] Mr. Eibeler and me is that I'm not going to jail." [20]
"Funny how adults who are not on dope and/or immersed in games keep turning to my message, and to me, for help. It drives you little bats crazy." [21]
"At least I'm not a a coward like all of you nerds here, who hide behind anonymous avatars. How sad." [22]
"Oh, and certain regional governments in Japan have banned the sale of the Grand Theft Auto games to minors, but Japan's Sony has no problem whatsoever dumping this garbage into American kids' brains. Looks like Pearl Harbor 2 by Sony/Take-Two..." [23]
"What the Japanese are doing to our kids is insensitive and racist. The Japanese have for a very long time dumped pornography into this country in a fashion they would not tolerate in their own country. It is another version of Pearl Harbor." [24]
"GTA is a Sony/Take-Two game. It was made by Take-Two exclusively for Sony's Playstation 2. Sony has led the planet in the distribution of mainstream porn. I don't have time to document it for you. As for the offensiveness of the Pearl Harbor comment, it's accurate and it's needed. The Japanese have a contempt for our culture which is patent. There [sic] dumping of garbage into our culture is a slow motion version of Pearl Harbor." [25]
"I love the smell of burning gamers in the morning." [26]
"That's not the debate junior. That's a retail stat. You don't know the difference, huh? Gosh, I forgot. You're a gamer. You can't think for yourself. Sony and Microsoft and Take-Two have to do your cerebral stimulation for you." [27]
"As to the First Amendment, what the video game industry knows about that could be placed into a thimble with room left over for Doug Lowenstein's ego." [28]
"Do you need an IQ below room temp to be a gamer and post here?" [29]
"Jack Thompson keeps racking up wins and you gamers just can't handle the truth. What's the truth? It is this: Adults with common sense and common decency who respect law enforcement are still running this country. Video gamers are not, and never will..." [30]
"Sonny, if you have been to an evangelical church lately, then you know there is nothing 'organized' about this religion. Hooah!" [31]
"With enemies like you Pixelantes and like Game Daily Biz, why, I don't need any friends. You honor me with your hatred. I serve the Lord Jesus Christ, and you hate me because the world first hated Him. I follow the Creator of the Universe, and He has taken me to the Gates of Hell, and I kind of like it in here." [32]
"You all need to put down the controllers, get a life, and join the Force, thereby leaving the Dark Side behind. Hooah! Praise be to the Lord, Jesus Christ, the author of all things, even of The Florida Freaking Bar." [33]
""Get behind me Satan" Thats you, junior" Thompson to Tim Kowalenko [34]
Another response from Jack to a few questions
Jack Thompson Saying that Vince Desi and the postal games are murder simulators to practice the killing of Jews
"Postal 2 is a game that targets people because of their minority status. Why am I not surprised that all you white bread crackers here at GamePolitics don't have a problem with that?" [35]
"Right, got it hun. I'll pray you have no more children" (said to gamer parent)
"Why don't you go buy a suicide game, practice that, and get real good at it."(said to prank caller)link
"We don’t need to play the game; it’s irrelevant to the subject." [36] (in response to an interviewer's question about the fairness of protesting a game that has not yet been released)
"PWNED Is Not a Word... as it is in serious need of a vowel movement. Somebody get Vanna White on the phone to buy one. Having said that, this entire site has been "pwned" by Jack Thompson today, and you pixelantes don't even know it." [37]
"Finally, kids, really, get a life. Put down the controllers, pop a beverage, watch the Super Bowl, and enjoy what is left of the land of the increasingly un-free and the totally depraved. Hooah! Jack Thompson"[38]
"These flowers were sent to harass me." [39]
"Listen up, Joystiq Jackasses!"[40]
"Ah, video gamer/pixelantes are the domestic version of radical Islamists as you continually threaten with violence those who simply disagree with you. How terribly revealing." [41]
"You've been pwned."[42]
"Video game technology is neutral as well. It is the most powerful teaching tool ever created. It can teach life or it can teach death."[43]
"The word is spelled "mischievous." Put down the controller and buy a dictionary. Jcak tpmsohon"
"Is that the best you can do, punk?"