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Jack Thompson walks out on hearing, judge recommends lifetime disbarment.
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Link to the story.
What strikes me as particularly insane is that he continues to ad-hom the judge and the Bar even when facing a 10-year disbarment. The man seems to live in some fantasy world where he's the most important person and everything he does should be treated like gold.
What strikes me as particularly insane is that he continues to ad-hom the judge and the Bar even when facing a 10-year disbarment. The man seems to live in some fantasy world where he's the most important person and everything he does should be treated like gold.
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His best doesn't seem to be that good.
I never asked for this!
This is why they shouldn't let insane hobos become lawyers. Do you see what happens Florida Bar?
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A poster on /. claiming to be a lawyer (his user ID was <2000, so he must be trustworthy
If the bolded part is accurate, Thompson would have to not act like he is batshit insane for ten years in order to have his license to practice law reinstated.
Ten consecutive years? I can see the gears turning in that melon of his now.
No man should have that kind of power.(Twitter)
Honestly, I think it would be pretty funny to see him quieten down for ten whole years and turn completely sane, only to revert back to craziness the minute his license is reinstated.
It would say a lot about the profession.
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I'm hoping in ten years that the crazies have moved on to the next "young people" past-time to being the cause of all societies evils.
Who is Gawain then? And does he get a different theme?
Or for ten years he only APPEARS sane. Then on the first day of the 11th year they break into his basement and he's been stockpiling files and maps and crazyass charts like Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind.
No man should have that kind of power.(Twitter)
Maybe now we can stop talking about him.
I could care less if he appears on fox news along side exploding white vans. But I think theres something wrong with letting him be an attorney in a court of law.
I never asked for this!
Wasn't that a green knight? :P
So this is just retarded and still not fucking news.
You guys must read that submitted statement (in the OP's link). It is amazing. It sums up everything you need to know about Jack Thompson, in his own words. This is a man who is so full of himself he believes he is a martyr, and everyone who disagrees with him is evil/immoral/stupid/a fraud/acting illegally/part of a cabal out to persecute him. The spin he puts on his history and the facts of his case is unbelievable.
In it, among many other crazy statements, he repeatedly makes the claim that the judge hearing his case and six of the seven members of the Florida Supreme Court are not legally judges. He uses as a metaphor the death of his case's judge by drowning -- by Thompson's hanging a weight around her neck.
He compares the judge and the Florida Bar to, among other things, a worm, a lynch mob, the Star Chamber, fascists, Stalin, and the Nazis -- several times. He compares himself to a rapist, a persecuted Christian, a Holocaust victim, and Paul Revere. Oh, and he compares himself to Jesus -- twice.
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Good start to the day. Pity it's going to be the worst one of your life. The light is now on.
So far as the Bar goes in England/Wales/NZ we have a "fit and proper" test - which can mean nearly anything the local Law Society wants it to, and they would quite likely deny someone disbarred in another, similar jurisdiction if they applied
Because, somehow, he still has some influence on American public officials and still manages to get his views on national TV. This affects the treatment of our shared hobby. And yet this guy is a total crackpot.
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Good start to the day. Pity it's going to be the worst one of your life. The light is now on.
I meant Gawain from Fire Emblem, not Arthurian Gawain.
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So in the case the fabled treasure would be the innocence of young American children. (And his ego)
There are plenty of topics on the forums that I honestly don't give a shit about, but you don't see me wandering into each of those threads and posting my disinterest, because that would make me a cock. :P
Schadenfreude.
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And if the gods have any sense of justice, it should merit you an infraction.
Or here's this for a scenario:
In ten years, we may be the crazies rallying against a new medium.
Because lets face it: Andriod holograms that link telepathically with the human mind dun be the devil!
Mods is spelled with an m. Like monkey. Or machine gun.
Pf.
You can be the crazy rallying against a new medium.
I'm going to be getting some robot poon and being one of those hip people.
I think he's talking about the Monty Python Black Knight.
You already knew that, didn't you.
Why does JT look like Nick Nolte on a bender in the GTA picture?
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Careful up there. Someones in danger of losing their geek cred.
And Jack thompson, over the course of time, increasingly looks like Nick Nolte in all his endeavors.
But how do you teach a man to simply stand up?