Jack Thompson Warned

[Apr 15, 2009, 09:18 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Utah Senate President Michael Waddoups may be looking into prosecuting crusading crusader Jack Thompson under the federal CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 over email harassment. The last straw was apparently an Easter morning email containing a lap dance screenshot from Grand Theft Auto IV that Thompson sent as part of his efforts at overturning the veto of the Utah games bill he helped author. "I asked you before to remove me from your mailing list," Waddoups replied to Thompson, saying, "I supported your bill but because of the harassment will not again. If I am not removed, I will turn you over to the AG for legal action." There is also a post about this on the Utah Senate Site Website (thanks GamePolitics) where the author of the post apparently opened his copy of the mail in church on his Blackberry. As usual, Thompson's response indicates that people just don't understand that his actions are eternally above reproach: "As disturbing as the image is, it's something an adult ought to be able to handle looking at. There are two women who are clad and a guy's looking at them," they quote Thompson saying. "I would love to be being tried criminally for writing a state senator an e-mail with something he thinks is pornographic but who is not offended by the fact that children can buy this."

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Apr 16, 2009, 18:21

kookaveetsa

Heh I swear, Jack Thompson is worse than a two year old with a tantrum, hehe. Laugh




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Irony?

Apr 16, 2009, 00:55

JohnBirshire

Jack Thompson stated "As disturbing as the image is, it's something an adult ought to be able to handle looking at"... Kind of ironic, considering he's doing everything in his power to try and criminalize games, so that adult's CAN'T look at them. Add hypocrisy to his growing list of character traits.

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Apr 15, 2009, 21:24

wtf_man

As much as I disagree with JT I disagree even more with Michael Waddoups' response. AFAIK Jack Thompson doesn't live in Utah. So there's a huge difference between being spammed by a non-constituent vs. being spammed by someone you serve. Especially if that person in question has a history of being overly obsessive. Pretty much, until Jack moves to Utah and has "X" amount of time of residency (different in different States)... he has every right to tell Jack to go pound sand.

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Apr 15, 2009, 20:41

Nucas

i think it's awesome that the loudest anti-game mouthpiece from that time when that crap was still relevant just turned out to be totally fucking crazy all along.

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Apr 15, 2009, 20:02

ldonyo

I hope Jacky gets to visit jail for a while. It would do him some good. As for the "tea parties"; there are an awful lot of people that need jobs, taking time off from work for a mock (and extremely disingenuous) protest may open yours up to someone that really wants to work.

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Re: Jack Thompson Warned

Apr 15, 2009, 16:37

Kxmode

Jack needs to be institutionalized. He already is. This comment was edited on Apr 15, 2009, 16:38.

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Apr 15, 2009, 16:14

Cutter

Jack needs to be institutionalized. Seriously. The guys needs real psychiatric help.




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Apr 15, 2009, 16:12

Kxmode

Lol, nationwide! It's an faux hyped, astro-turf front group funded by couple of psychopath billionaires. 95% of Americans got a tax cut, everyone making less than 250k, who they hell else would complain about a fucking taxcut? The fact that you somehow correlate "tea party" with taxcuts would be a waste of my time to even try and explain. In a nutshell they have nothing to do with taxcuts, or even taxes.

Re: Jack Thompson Warned

Apr 15, 2009, 15:10

Longswd

As much as I disagree with JT I disagree even more with Michael Waddoups' response. If a dissatisfied citizen in Utah, or anywhere for that matter, decides they want something, and the only means to get it is to constantly try to contact their political representative (in this case Utah Senate President Michael Waddoups for JT's campaign), and the response is "I will turn you over to the AG for legal action" this probably signals how most politicians feel about you, the citizenry.

This action comes on the heels of nationwide tea parties taking place today to protest irresponsible government.

Whacko Jacko doesn't live in Utah and, consequently, is not a part of his constituency so your point is moot. Also, Whacko Jacko has a long history of harassment, read some excerpts from his disbarment trial sometime, the things he has done is so far beyond the pale of any acceptable behavior that there is no defense whatsoever.




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Re: Jack Thompson Warned

Apr 15, 2009, 13:50

Acleacius

Lol, nationwide! It's an faux hyped, astro-turf front group funded by couple of psychopath billionaires. 95% of Americans got a tax cut, everyone making less than 250k, who they hell else would complain about a fucking taxcut?




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Re: Jack Thompson Warned

Apr 15, 2009, 13:00

dubfanatic

Government's response to the people Care to elaborate? More seriously, if you actually believe that fiction you're needing to get a better news source. Any suggestions?

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Apr 15, 2009, 12:58

Sencho

What has that clever piece of AstroTurf got to do with this? How is Bizzaro world treating you? Perhaps next you'll trip and fall up. More seriously, if you actually believe that fiction you're needing to get a better news source.

Re: Jack Thompson Warned

Apr 15, 2009, 12:26

Kxmode

What has that clever piece of AstroTurf got to do with this? Government's response to the people

Re: Jack Thompson Warned

Apr 15, 2009, 12:23

dubfanatic

This action comes on the heels of nationwide tea parties taking place today to protest irresponsible government. What has that clever piece of AstroTurf got to do with this? Just had to get a word in edgewise about it? This comment was edited on Apr 15, 2009, 12:23.

Re: Jack Thompson Warned

Apr 15, 2009, 12:18

Kxmode

As much as I disagree with JT I disagree even more with Michael Waddoups' response. If a dissatisfied citizen in Utah, or anywhere for that matter, decides they want something, and the only means to get it is to constantly try to contact their political representative (in this case Utah Senate President Michael Waddoups for JT's campaign), and the response is "I will turn you over to the AG for legal action" this probably signals how most politicians feel about you, the citizenry. This action comes on the heels of nationwide tea parties taking place today to protest irresponsible government.

Re: Jack Thompson Warned

Apr 15, 2009, 10:11

Akuinnen

Waddoups sounds like a drama queen. What's he doing opening a work related e-mail on the sabbath? Shame shame.. I think these two goofballs deserve each other.

Re: Jack Thompson Warned

Apr 15, 2009, 09:25

InBlack

At least in jail, he will have free food and accomodation. I couldnt live with myself if Jack Thompson had to resort to being a homeless bum.




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