Jack Thompson is like a bad fart that lingers in the room forever. No matter how many times you light a match, open a window or spray air freshener, Jack will always be there.
Jack's latest venture was to team up with independent filmmaker Spencer Halpin to make his documentary, Moral Kombat. Moral Kombat looks at video game violence and the terrifying effects they have on young people today.
Watch the trailer for a special appearance by Mr. Joe Lieberman.
I'll be the first to agree that children shouldn't be playing violent video games, but that's why there is the rating system to begin with. As long as the stores don't sell the games they shouldn't to minors, then the video game industry has done their job.
Once a game leaves a store, parents are responsible. Don't blame the industry if you buy little Tommy Crackdown and he ends up thinking that killing is great fun.
Jack, the debate has been done to death and there is nothing your wacky little self can do about it. Video games are the future of the media world and nothing will stop them from dominating the market.
If the government wants to keep the bad games out of the hands of the children, then start a program to inform the parents about the rating system. The problem lies with the parents of these children and not with the industry.
For less information about this video, hit the non-existent Web site, Moralkombatmovie.com or their MySpace page.
[Updated: Ready the party favors kids, because our favorite wacky lawyer could possibly lose his license to practice law. Jack Thompson has been recommended for review by the Florida Supreme Court after 5 accounts of professional misconduct. What does this mean for all us gamers?
It means that Jack could be facing possible disciplinary action and disbarment, which also means no more lawsuits for Jack against video game companies. Imagine a world without wacky Jackie and his silly e-mails to public officials. No more giant posters in the court rooms and no more personal messages from Jack claiming “I told you so” every time a kid shoots someone.
I think I might actually miss the old guy. Wait, no I won’t.
But Jack isn’t going to take this lying down. When GamePolitics.com asked Jack for an official response, he responded:
A referee is appointed and we have a trial. The Supreme Court reviews it later. The trial isn’t going to happen, however. I have sued The Bar in Circuit Court. It’s in far more trouble than I am.
[Via GamePolitics.com and video from 99Lives.org]]
Contest:
3:17 PM on 02.04.2007
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You kind of suck at life. You make me very angry by being an attention whore. You have no actual basis for any of your arguments, and you draw from isolated incidents that are the exception and not the rule. FPS's don't teach you how to shoot a gun, flight simulators do not teach you enough to fly a plane. Obviously, you have never shot a gun, flown a plane, or played a video game, or you would not have said that. It would be appreciated if you would find another country to spout your attention seeking bullshit to, because few other countries would be as lenient as we have. If you would, GTFO.
Your friend,
~Kinjiro
P.S.
DIE
The only people who are gonna see this thing are the people who already agree with it, no one else.
This damn movie is just playing off of anti-game technophobia and appealing an audience of morons to get attention through shock value. My advice don't watch and advise others to follow suit.
@Kinjiro
You started off good with your comment but ended it with P.S. DIE? Jack has a real habit of finding every reason he can to prove we are violent, aggressive, and/or kill-happy people and something like that would just give him more reason to think that he's doing the right thing and continue onwards. Just a thought.
But more than likely JT will not see this, but you never know.
Proves how uninformed they really are.
Video Games are the new Rock N' Roll it's just something that parents can blame to make for their shitty parenting skills.
( postel, and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines are the only 2 1st person shooter games that reward you for killing cops but they both share something and that is they suck as an game )
You Couldn't be more right. The day somebody steps in and successfully puts a ban on games. JT dies within the week. by none other than some idiot gamer thus proving his point and putting the nail in our coffin
they might revoke his law license =D im so happy guy lets rejoice but the bad thing is we cant do anything about his documentary even thoguh it creates states of fear wow the only down side that comes from freedom of speech and expresion assholes like jack can say what they want and last time i checked an airplane wasnt piloted using a keyboard
We have something else to protect here, too: The Constitution. The same document that allows windbags like Jack Thompson to declare war on video games and threaten all who oppose him.
As a devout Christian, Mr. Thompson should stop pretending as if video games invented violence when his religion has been at the center of nearly every major conflict of the last 2000 years.
Psh. Just kidding. Truth is . . .
The parents are victims. The children are victims. Video games aren't a scapegoat, they're the devil, you can tell because he always takes such pleasurable forms. And you know . . . I told'em. I said, "Sure, piloting a learjet is fun and all, but why open pandora's box?" I just hope that those muslims find a good lawyer for their class action suit. Flight simulator owes them big-time. Because you are what you pretend to be.
(Just for the record I didn't create that "pretending" quote, I heard it in this eye-opening video set to a hauning piano background.)
Also, somebody seriously needs to disbar Jack Thompson.
and the 9/11 comparasin(spelling) was shit.
This whole film is a biased POS, all they talk about is there stupid opinions, and ignore the other side of the story, a documentary is supposed to show facts and teach something. This is not a documentary, this is a bunch of 60-year old virgins bitching about video games being evil because they are attention whores. That reminds me of gay.
I ask all who read this, if we ban violent video games, where will it end? VG's will only be the begining. I think it's time to bring big brother down a notch. The government has niether the responsibility, nor the fucking RIGHT, to decide what MY child is exposed to. Last I checked, that's the PARRENTS job.
WARNING: THE SURGEON GENERAL HAS DETERMIND THAT LAWS BANNING VIDEO GAMES MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR FREEDOM.
No one should martyr that pathetic sorry ass nancy-boy it would just be playing into his hands.
Middle-class white mothers, quick, throw your children's consoles out the window and send them out to play with the (red-blooded American) crack whores! Anything's better than VIDJA GAMEZ!!!
Seriously, what an aspiration. Was there really nothing more exciting, challenging and innovative than making phones 15 years ago?