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Jack Thompson Includes Gay Porn With Court Filing

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wed Sep 26, 2007 02:24 PM
from the master-of-free-publicity dept.
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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.
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  • It's filling my mind with disgusting images!

    s/filling/filing

  • Brilliant! (Score:5, Funny)

    by DoofusOfDeath (636671) on Wednesday September 26 2007, @02:28PM (#20758243)

    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.

    So you made it a story on /.?

    Here's to you, Mister Hide It in Plain View Guy!

  • I love this guy. (Score:5, Interesting)

    by PlayItBogart (1099739) on Wednesday September 26 2007, @02:29PM (#20758245)
    You keep thinking he couldn't get any wackier and do anything more outlandish than subpoena the President, and then he goes and does this.

    How will you top this, Mr. Thompson? Are you gonna shoot the Pope?

    • Re:I love this guy. (Score:5, Informative)

      by dmatos (232892) on Wednesday September 26 2007, @02:38PM (#20758363)
      Apparently, this is not something new for good ole JT. He's been cautioned before about including pornography in his filings. From the article:

      ... this isn't the first time Thompson has been warned by a court not to include suggestive photos in those case filings. An April 12th entry in the Florida Supreme Court docket covering the Florida Bar's case against Thompson includes this notation:

      ...the Court notes that [Thompson] has attached inappropriate and pornographic materials to his petitions that are irrelevant to his arguments. Respondent is warned that should he continue to submit such inappropriate filings, the Court will consider imposing sanctions which may include, but are not limited to, a limitation on Respondent's ability to submit further filings without the signature of an attorney other than himself.
      I'm kind of disappointed. I want him to come up with some new tricks to amuse me.

      • Re:I love this guy. (Score:5, Insightful)

        by Mikkeles (698461) on Wednesday September 26 2007, @03:06PM (#20758713)
        While including materials irrelevant to the case in court documents may be worthy of censure, I am curious as to how the future review or study of a case will be done based on "A simple reference to the website and its alleged links" in place of hard documents (e.g.: paper or a CD) given the ephemeral nature of many web sites.
    • He's like the Andy Kaufman of the US legal system.

      Someday REM will sing a song about him.

      • Re:How can you not love this guy? (Score:5, Funny)

        by MightyMartian (840721) on Wednesday September 26 2007, @03:25PM (#20758929) Journal

        He's like the Andy Kaufman of the US legal system.

        Someday REM will sing a song about him.


        And Jim Carrey will star as Thompson in a bio, and will give a stirring speech at the end talking about how filing explicit pictures of gay sex and trying to censor anything that makes him angry is the American way. Carey will go on to win his first Oscar, and Thompson will file suit against him for character assassination, and will include pictures of beastiality.

  • Sad part... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by jythie (914043) on Wednesday September 26 2007, @02:32PM (#20758291)
    The sad part really is... when doing this he honestly believes that he is discrediting Norm Kent rather then himself.

    He is over estimating how 'horrified' people are by homosexuality, believing that by bringing these images to the courts attention that he is somehow unmasking the horrors of Mr Kent's orientation.

  • "Court filling"? (Score:5, Funny)

    by Jeian (409916) on Wednesday September 26 2007, @02:33PM (#20758311)
    I don't want to know... I don't want to know...

  • I Motion To... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 26 2007, @02:34PM (#20758325)
    Throw him in the slammer. That'll learn him gay porn first hand!

  • Just Jack! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Mysticweed (593354) on Wednesday September 26 2007, @02:36PM (#20758349)
    Just be grateful he's spending long hours, night after night protecting us from the gays. Maybe he should move to Iran I hear they don't have gay people there.

      • Re:Just Jack! (Score:5, Informative)

        by Khaed (544779) on Wednesday September 26 2007, @03:02PM (#20758685)
        Of course they do, that's not the point OP was making. Recently, the president of Iran claimed "we have no homosexuals in Iran." He said it three times in a row at Columbia U. At first, the students laughed at him, then started booing (lightly) the ridiculous statement.

        The reality is, they probably don't have anyone who will admit to being gay since it carries the death penalty.

  • It all makes sense now. (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Devir (671031) on Wednesday September 26 2007, @03:15PM (#20758813) Homepage
    Jack Thompson's "moral crusade" against video games, obscenity, rap and well anything morally devient is due wholely to his own immoral desires. Jack cannot control his porn cravings and his lust for violence. So he goes on a holy crusade to eliminate the corruption of the world as a cover. In reality he is fighting his own internal demons.

    Jack Thompson feels that by cleaning the world, his internal struggle will diminish and he will become a normal and productive human in the near future. The fool crusade he runs is selfish and in no way there to benefit humanity as a whole.

    There is possibly quite a bit more 100 million video game systems out there. Yet if video games turned people violent, then there's be at least 1-20 million murders a year related to video games, providing that is 1-20% conversion rate. yet the fact is that quite possibly 0.00004% video gamers turn criminally violent.

    There are over 17,000,000 registered gun users in the USA alone, yet we dont have murder numbers that even come close to that. 99.99901% of gun crime is done by Illegaly obtained fire arms. I've known many gamers who play violent games and own real guns. Yet somehow they have failed to kill anyone.

    Jack plays a numbers game formatted to his own crusade. He wants to win for once, since pretty much every other crusade he has taken up failed in some way.

    Jack needs a psychiatrist to help him, not an end to the worlds deviance. Any lawyer who sends his photo ID with batman pasted over it, has some sort of mental ailment that needs professional help.

    To JAck, I hope you get well. Just dont bring down the rest of the world because of your war with your inner demons. Just fight youw own internal battle and let us govern ourselves.

    • Re:It all makes sense now. (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Foobar of Borg (690622) on Wednesday September 26 2007, @03:30PM (#20758995)

      Jack Thompson's "moral crusade" against video games, obscenity, rap and well anything morally devient is due wholely to his own immoral desires. Jack cannot control his porn cravings and his lust for violence.
      The sad thing is that you are probably right. From my experience, the most adamant moral crusaders are usually those who have trouble leading a life according to their own sense of morality. So, they try to force others to live morally while applying a form of psychological violence to themselves. Developing as a moral human being requires growth and maturity, not (for example) flogging yourself whenever you have naughty thoughts about women you are not married to.


      Jack is clearly an overly aggressive person (I know, "No shit!"). It wouldn't surprise me in the least if he were a closet homosexual, or at least a latent homosexual who tries violently to deny it to himself.

      • Re:Honesty... (Score:5, Insightful)

        by Applekid (993327) on Wednesday September 26 2007, @02:47PM (#20758507)

        . . . they think it's amusing to kick around a mentally incompetent person.
        Don't be tricked: mentally incompetent or not he's still dangerous as long as he is consulted for interviews in which he can spew ignorance and has the ear of lawmakers to which he can spew FUD.

        • Re:Next... (Score:5, Interesting)

          by squiggleslash (241428) on Wednesday September 26 2007, @03:21PM (#20758875) Homepage Journal

          No, I'm talking about Janet Reno [wikipedia.org]. The incident is actually one of the great celebrated examples of Jack's kookiness. Quoth Wikipedia (which, alas, cites paper sources):

          Thompson gave Reno a letter at a campaign event requesting that she check a box to indicate whether she was homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual. Thompson said that Reno then put her hand on his shoulder and responded, "I'm only interested in virile men. That's why I'm not attracted to you."[10][11] He filed a police report accusing her of battery for touching him. In response, Reno asked Florida governor Bob Martinez to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate.[12] The special prosecutor rejected the charge, concluding that it was "a political ploy." Reno was ultimately re-elected with 69% of the vote. Thompson repeated allegations that Reno was a lesbian when she was nominated as U.S. Attorney General, leading one of her supporters, lieutenant governor Buddy MacKay, to dismiss him as a "kook."[10]

          Heh.

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