Thompson Watch™

Jack Thompson gets the boot on Ars Technica (thanks Mike Martinez) has word that the attorney's attempts to voluntarily remove himself from his current anti-gaming crusade (story) have been rejected by the judge on the case, at which point the judge booted him from the case and rescinded his temporary license to practice law in Alabama, saying "Mr. Thompson's actions before this Court suggest that he is unable to conduct himself in a manner befitting practice in this state." In an ironic twist that would make Alanis Morrisette roll over in her hot tub, Mr. Thompson ends up defending the constitution as he defends himself: "Did this Court somehow, in the last three weeks, manage to repeal the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?"
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Jack Thompson has been around for a long time. I think the Internet has been his downfall. He was involved in the case against 2 Live Crew (oh me so horny.) (hey, that was the name of a 2 Live Crew track. Quite the coincidence.) but despite them having 100s of thousands of fans, maybe millions, the establishment won that one. Wait 15 years or so and suddenly there's a really easy way to rally a defense against assholes like this. Penny Arcade alone has probably counted for most of this.

So how can this Internet movement have anything to do with a Judge's decision? No man is an island. Jurors aren't supposed to pollute themselves with outside influences. But when a Judge goes home and clicks on his MSN homepage what is he going to see?

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