12:30 PM on 05.08.2007
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Niero
Everyone's favorite video game lawyer is apparently being considered for a temporary disbarment by the Florida Bar Association. As you've heard he's been on a bit of a legal warpath lately with the local powers that be, suing the Florida Bar as well as the Florida Supreme Court as well. While that takes more balls (or insanity) than I'll ever enjoy, it seems he might have a three month vacation he wasn't expecting:
The Bar has now demanded in writing that respondent Thompson accede to a 91-day suspension from the practice of law on the basis of his alleged unethical conduct… in
a) claiming that three families who are his clients are in fact his clients and
b) preparing expert witnesses for their depositions.
…this demand that Thompson receive the vocational death penalty is based upon The Bar’s secret collaboration with Blank Rome lawyers who represent Take-Two, the makers of the Grand Theft Auto murder simulation games.
I can't say that I'm surprised. Jack spoke with GamePolitics recently about the following allegations and, true to form, the old chap is going down with fists flailing. "I’m not suspended from the practice of law and won’t be. I have no idea what The Bar is claiming in this absurd regard. I have no complaint in that regard because there is no complaint. This is all an over-reaching contrivance by The Florida Bar."
Like Quixote to the windmills, I suppose. I'll miss chasing him around town.
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THIS MADE MY DAY!!!
Man, that's just sad.
That's awesome. That's playground-speak for tattling on the bully in plain sight of the bully himself.
Mr. Thompson, you pronounce it "Poe-hn-da"
And you can only get once before you lose all respect with your peers.
Where does Jack think this will lead him? To establishing some sort of "above the law" based law based on cockamamie law interpretation and overt censorship and surrendering the first amendment?
Good luck to you sir. I'll be over in my laughing chair,
laughing... At you.
For reals.
"based upon The Bar’s secret collaboration with Blank Rome lawyers who represent Take-Two, the makers of the Grand Theft Auto murder simulation games"
The language there is too snarky for even the regular legal mumbo jumbo. Where did this come from? It just seems too good to be true.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAHHAHHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHHHHHHHAAAAAHAHAHAHHHAHHHHAHAAAAAHHHHHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHAAAAAHAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!!!
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hhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
*deep breath*
hhoooOOOOoooo......
DAMN life is good!
Evidently, to borrow a phrase, I laughed so hard I fell off the Internet. Sorry, dudes.
Manhunt 2 is a murder simulator. It will appear on the Wii. Wendy's promotes the Wii. Therefore, Wendy's promotes Manhunt 2.
From that, one can only conclude Wendy's promotes murder.
Of course, the 'Meat is Murder' crowd could have told you THAT ages ago.
Ummm... if any of us commit a crime it's not Jacko we're gonna have to worry about.
What a douche. Bout time someone laid the smackdown
By that reasoning, anybody who owns a gun is a murderer.
Guns can kill people, therefore, if you own a gun, you must kill people with it.
I are so smart.