Jack Thompson Rises From Grave, Feasts On Mormon Minds

Disbarred. Discredited. Dick. So many words for just one man and still everyone’s favourite bogeyman is back again. Straight outta Utah comes news that Jack Thompson has gone on another delusional and inaccurate rant against gaming. Gamepolitics picked this up from mormonbloggers, so it’s not a direct transcription of Jackie boy’s ramblings. Although I’d argue that anti-game rhetoric doesn’t really peak until it’s filtered through religious fervour. The post is still a pretty good indicator of what was said and sticks to the traditional MO of Jack Thompson: Ace Attorney. Notable quotables include:

I enjoyed Jack’s humor and optimism as he couched his remarks about the serious nature of video game-created hostility in youth.

I know nothing tickles my funny bone like the concept of a generation of kids being brainwashed into becoming serial killers.

The impact of aggressive, violent, and pornographic videos simply can’t be denied. Jack cited case after case in which people like a young Devin, immersed in things like Theft in the City, went home and shot his parents, saying to the police,  something to this effect: ‘œEverybody has to die, just like in video games.”

Aside from not remembering the title of the game he objects to, the blogger has apparently failed to look into the case of Devin Moore. A cursory glance over Wikipedia (this is Negative Gamer, not CSI: Miami, Wiki is the best you scum deserve) reveals that Devin did not in fact murder his parents. He murdered 2 cops and a police dispatcher whilst being charged with stealing a car. Arguably the sickest irony of Thompson bringing up this case is that it eventually led to his disbarring after he violated ethics codes.

This all comes as part of Jack’s push to have the sale of mature rated games to children criminalised. Apparently the years of loving parenting, education and socialisation that children always receive are being overridden by a couple of hours spent killing hookers. At least those of us who fear the anti-gaming lobby can rest easy, now that Jack Thompson has made the entire movement look like drooling maniacs.

Even after such an enlightening report a question still remains, what’s the most important thing to come out of all this? Further proof that Jack Thompson is nuttier than a fruit cake? Evidence that the mormons now have computers and may be using them to plot against us? Me getting an excuse to slip an N.W.A reference into one of my posts?  No. The most important thing is that now my ISP thinks I’m a mormon. Fuck knows what kind of spam I’ll get out of this.