Jack Thompson Includes Gay Porn With Court Filing 333
An anonymous reader writes "Jack Thompson has done it again, now by making available gay porn for unlimited viewing on public records. Judge Jordan wrote on an issued order: 'The attached exhibit, which includes several graphic images of oral and genital sex between adult males, was filed electronically in the docket in this case, without prior permission from the court... To the extent that the other attorney's alleged conduct is in any way relevant... there was no need for Mr. Thompson to file these graphic images in the public record. A simple reference to the website and its alleged links would have sufficed...'" I'm usually not a fan of giving Thompson continued free publicity, but some of the things he does are just too outlandish not to share.
I love this guy. (Score:5, Interesting)
How will you top this, Mr. Thompson? Are you gonna shoot the Pope?
Why hasn't he been disbarred yet? (Score:2, Interesting)
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Re:I said it before... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Honesty... (Score:4, Interesting)
He gets attention from us because the media takes the man seriously. At least, they did before this -- I'm not sure how many interviews he'll get after this.
He is ridiculous, no one will argue that point (except perhaps Jack Thompson), but he is still a threat because he believes he is right and has not yet been discredited in the media.
Actually, I'm surprised the nut isn't cohosting a show with Nancy Grace yet, now that I think about it.
Re:Next... (Score:1, Interesting)
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Re:Does he have a "Wide Stance"? (Score:5, Interesting)
The fact that X is the likely cause of outcome Y in situation Z does not mean that X must be the likely cause of outcome Y in all situations. That is a false generalization. This morning my telephone rang because I had placed a wake up call the night before. That does not mean that this is always the reason that a telphone rings or even the most likely reason for a telephone to ring, it is however the most likely reason in a hotel.
Bin Laden has a deep seated hatred of all the inconvenient obstacles that lie between him and control of Saudi Arabia. He was quite happy to co-operate with the US when it suited him. When he fell out with the Saudi monarchy he resented the fact that it would be difficult to replace them with so many US bases on Saudi soil.
Bin Laden has since fallen in with Zawahiri who has provided him with a means of rationalizing his hatred. Zawahiri in turn is obsessed with the idea of replacing the government of Egypt. He was instrumental in the assasination of Sadat in 1981 and took over the leadership of Islamic Jihad. Zawahiri's proximate complaint was the peace treaty with Israel.
It is difficult to discuss Bin Laden rationally due to the propensity of wingnuts to deliberately take statements out of context for their own purposes. Bill Moyer was quite right to point out that the epithet 'coward' is thrown arround as if it were a purely normative ethical statement. It is necessary to proceed in small steps. Understanding the enemy in their true light is always important. The flaw in Bin Laden's ideology is the fact that he starts from utterly false premises, not a mere flaw in his logic or an inability to apply logic (aka irrational). He is not irrational in the sense of being entirely unpredictable or acting from entirely arbitrary impulses. Nor is his behaviour is self-defeating, on the contrary he has been allowed to achieve many of his political goals, in particular the demand that every terrorist makes and almost none achivies: to be treated as a political actor rather than a common criminal.
Thompson's bizare actions on the other hand...
Re:Maybe the judge is closeted? (Score:5, Interesting)
Had he presented this in a court-room, it likely would have been a different story.
Re:It all makes sense now. (Score:5, Interesting)
During a divorce, Hager's wife alleged that he had raped and sodomized her while she was asleep under the influence of prescription medication. His defense was that he had gotten lost and hadn't meant to sodomize her. (I forget how he got around the whole unwanted sex part of the charges.) Yes, a gynecologist couldn't find his wife's personal parts.
Sigh.
Re:Only possible justfication... (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm not just talking about gay porn here, I'm talking super-violent images or anything else that would normally be considered "inappropriate" for the public record.
Now on the other hand, I think it's a double-standard that one could file a motion and attach a graphic image of violence and gore without reprimand, but a graphically explicit sexual image is problematic. The double-standard is applied to our laws though as well. Walking around nude in public is usually illegal, but walking around with a sandwich board of gored and mutilated fetuses to protest abortion is perfectly fine. Frankly I find the gore more offensive than the naked guy -- he's just kind of funny (is it really that cold out?)
Re:Honesty... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Does he have a "Wide Stance"? (Score:5, Interesting)
Most likely they are.
There was a study performed in the '90s where both normal and homophobic men were shown heterosexual and gay porn. They found;
Re: poor citation, try again (temptation != sin) (Score:4, Interesting)
And I applaud your ability to spin even the most minor quibble by the authors into a denial of the finding.
The section I quoted was from the précis of the full article. A summary if the findings, in other words. That summary states clearly that homophobic men were observed to respond to gay sex where non-homophobic men did not.
It is an observation, where Barlow's paper suggests that anxiety causes the response is a hypothesis.
If you choose to believe a large collection of random homophobes simultaneously produced boners at a gay stag movie because they were scared, when an equal number of non-homophobes did not, then I'll not argue, but that still lives us with an obvious conclusion.
Homophobes are either queer or wimps.