Jack Thompson Sends Subpoena to Bush 273
Ariastis writes "Jack Thompson has filed documents with a federal court in Florida requesting to subpoena President George W. Bush for a deposition to retain Thompson's license to practice law. Ah, and Jeb Bush too, for good measure."
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turd... polish... still a turd...
no, it's gone
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Give us forever, we'll get there eventually.
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Uh...which "he"?
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And if you don't believe that, then we should get a group together to play Risk. For money.
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The enemy of my enemy is... a low priority!
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Jack: Mr. Bush, multiplayer kill-simulators are training young children to become killers.
Bush: Kill...simulators?
Jack: Yes. An example would be Counter-strike, where a player can be counter-terrorist or terrorist-
Bush: TERRORIST!
Jack: Yes, yes. Terrorist. And they play over the internet-
Bush: The internets? Do they use The Google?
JacK: Uhh...I'm sure they do...
Bush: So The Google and the Internets are related to terrorists!
Jack: Well, no...
Bush: Put me through to Homeland Security! Every person found using the Internets will be taken into custody!
Jack: Not what I was looking for...but works either way.
~Jarik
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ObSchlock Mercenary (Score:4, Insightful)
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Rotaderp .sv Neila (Score:5, Funny)
wow - Bush AND Thompson in the same story (Score:5, Funny)
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i said it before, i'll say it again... (Score:5, Insightful)
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good luck with that (Score:3, Interesting)
And when he loses his license he can blame Bush -just like everyone else
-I'm just sayin'
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The Time Is Approaching (Score:5, Insightful)
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I agree, but we need to do something about that Thompson guy too.
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Who's next (Score:3, Funny)
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So Jack is a Conspiracy Loon (Score:2)
Uh-oh. (Score:2)
What if.... ha... you almost had me there. (Score:5, Funny)
Subpoena as evidence? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Subpoena as evidence? (Score:5, Interesting)
I don't know if it can be directly referenced or not. Is it necessary? The guy's record speaks for itself. This delicious piece of irony is just icing on the cake.
I'm more concerned about his fitness to walk down the street. I really do think Thompson is completely out of his mind. I think what's needed after the disbarment is a 30 day psychiatric review in a closed facility. Maybe there's some meds they can give him.
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It makes me wonder, though (Score:4, Interesting)
And this guy's delusions started from half-way between mildly annoying and mildly funny, and progressed to outright bizarre. I can't diagnose him anyway, but it makes me, you know, wonder. Maybe a second examination would find it a bit worse than the one almost 2 decades ago? It's a possibility.
Plus, to the best of my knowledge, a lot (most?) doctors tend to prefer to err on the conservative side, especially when it would bury someone's career. If slapping a "yup, he's schizophrenic" label on him would terminate his right to act as a lawyer, even temporarily, they'll give him a lot of benefit of the doubt. He'd pretty much have to be at the raving lunatic stage to get that. It's just a different standard. Even if you'd consider giving him neuroleptics in a private consultation, you'd have to be convinced that he's to deranged to do his job to actually slap that on his dossier.
Plus, in that kind of context, I figure it's hard to diagnose anyway. Noone will start telling you about the voices in his head, when he's sent there to determine whether he's fit to keep working and doing his crusade. Being insane carries a major stigma. So unless they're deranged past the point of hiding it, a lot of people _will_ try to hide it, if you just send them to a psychiatrist. They might admit stuff to their therapist if it was their idea to go there, and it's going to be kept secret. But not to the guy who has to determine whether they're fit to keep their job, and whose conclusion will probably be public record.
What I'm trying to say is that it's entirely possible that he just slipped through the cracks the first time. (_If_ he's indeed nuts.) There's no telling if he'd still pass after all this time.
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KCN perhaps?
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BOOM!
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I know from my dealings with a lawyer due to a negligent, threatening, [expletive deleted] landlord that there are certain parts of the legal process that are not admissible as evidence as court. I'm not sure where all that extends, but I know it covers at least part of pre-trial settlement communication.
I curse your name
sounds to me (Score:5, Funny)
like he's a lawyer, alright...
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AFAIR, this won't be Jack' first time filing against a judge in one of his cases. Whenever he doesn't like a judge, he has convinced himself that suing the judge will result in a conflict of interest, and force the judge to recuse himself, allowing him to arbitrarily judge-shop until he finds somebody he thinks will kow-tow to his bullshit for fear of being sued.
Unfortunately for Jack, there is no clear precedent requiring a judge to recuse himself if he gets sued by someone involved in a case he is judging. Naturally, this is because such a precedent would enable exactly what Jack wants. IIRC, the last judge he sued didn't recuse himself because of being sued, but eventually did recuse himself because there was a conflict of interest arising from the fact that the judge was filing a formal complaint about Jack being an asshat.
Jack Picture (Score:2, Interesting)
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Stranger Than Fiction (Score:2)
At least.. (Score:5, Insightful)
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One day he's the champion of all that is good and holy.
Next day a single email asking reasonable questions scares him shitless
Then he's up to debating with anyone or doing anything
Then he assumes that a PAX invitation is a trap to kill him.
Then he's above the FL justice system
Then there's a conspiracy against him in Florida
Then he's mighty enough that the president of the USA must answer to him personally.
I'm not even sure I'm even exaggera
stuck in court (Score:2, Insightful)
One good send deserves another (Score:5, Funny)
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No excuse for torture. (Score:4, Insightful)
Human Rights Watch [hrw.org]
Good luck (Score:2)
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He'll fail. But he's used to that by now.
Perfect lesson in english usage (Score:5, Funny)
The psychotic Jack Thompson is sending a subpoena to the psychopathic George Bush.
It's clear who Bush needs to defend him... (Score:5, Funny)
And Jack Thompson needs (Score:3, Funny)
Mr. Thompson, you're in luck. Your suit against the President is just the thing I need to rebuild my shattered practice! Care to join me in a belt of scotch?
Boy, huh, wha? (Score:2, Funny)
Duck Hunt (Score:5, Funny)
department-of-cheap-shots (Score:2)
Oh won't somebody give him... (Score:2)
Gamepolitics (Score:3, Informative)
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Cheers
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Most likely, Bush will be able to claim executive privelege and force Thompson to wait until then.
All Thompson is trying to do is stick a monkey wrench in the works, delaying the end of his disbarrment hearing in front of the Florida Bar.
The guy's a whack job. Seriously, he needs to get a life. He's tried to sue the Florida Bar more than once, a clear violation of the 11th Amendment [wikipedia.org] (which says you can't sue the court system).
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Most likely, Bush will be able to claim executive privelege and force Thompson to wait until then."
NEWSFLASH: former Atty. Jack Thompson, has mysteriously been shipped to Gitmo. Coincedentally, said subpoena has been withdrawn.
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"When in doubt, throw poo"
-Rick
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Re:WORST ... SLASHDOT ... STORY ... EVER (Score:5, Insightful)
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I realize that my UID doesn't back this up, but I have read
But Seriously. You come off as a cranky old coot. Uphill both ways and such.
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(sigh, I happen to agree with you. let this guy fade into obscurity)
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No, I don't remember that, and I remember the first day when Chips N' Dips was dead and Slashdot was live. Was it really different? Because I really don't remember it having "on the" in there, which really reduces the punchiness of the tag line and really I doubt would make any difference regarding the content. As if they said "whew, now that we got rid of 'on the' we can start posting irre
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And no, damnit, you're not allowed to post your opinions! Get of meh internets!
Re:WORST ... SLASHDOT ... STORY ... EVER (Score:5, Interesting)
1.) I haven't been around quite as long as you have, but I don't recall the slogan ever being "News for Nerds on the Stuff that Matters". That may have been the original intent, but I don't think that was ever the actual slogan. The oldest page from Slashdot I could find on web.archive.org is from November, 1998 [archive.org], which was prior to the Andover.net buyout (thereby presumably before the major corporate influence began). On that page, the slogan is "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters."
Now, I grant you, prior to maybe 5 or 6 years ago, the "stuff that matters FOR NERDS" was sort of implied, but that hasn't really been the case for a long, long time.
2.) Jack Thompson has been going after the gaming industry for a long time. Seeing his long, slow descent into madness is of great interest to gaming nerds, even if not to you particularly. Even if you decide that the site should be limited only to things that the typical nerd would care about (not your decision or mine to make), this still would fit that category.
So, even though I agree with you that Slashdot in general has strayed pretty far from its roots (but what site this old hasn't), I disagree with you about this particular story.
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But it was indeed "Slashdot: News for Nerds on the Stuff That Matters" at one point. If you look at this link from archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/19980113191222/http://s lashdot.org/ [archive.org]
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I could argue that the alt text may have been a mistake, but given the text plus your memory, I guess I'll just say I stand corrected. I don't remember exactly how long I've been reading this site, but I'm fairly certain it was since at least 1997, and I couldn't remember the slogan ever being different, but then my memory for detail obviously isn't as good as you
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On another note, something that may only be funny to me:
I was browsing your comment history briefly, and noticed that the VERY FIRST comment that Slashdot shows you having posted is from January 1999, and is complaining about the QUALITY OF AN ARTICLE ON SLASHDOT! That is just hilariously awesome.
T [slashdot.org]
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I've twice thrown out my identity on slashdot and gotten myself a new one. Once it was because I didn't like my old nick, once it's because I got disgusted and changed my email and password to random keyboard-banging strings. I actually did it to this one, but by some weird quirk, fir
Offtopic, but I had to post it (Score:3, Interesting)
From the link you gave to the oldest slashdot page:
Booker writes "So IBM announces a 25 gig hard drive... does the world need this yet? Unless this is in a RAID, would you really want to trust 25 gigs on a single drive? What would you use this for? 400+ hours of MP3s comes to mind... "
I don't know what's scarier, the echoes from the past, or the echoes from the present
SB
(remembering with fondness my first 5MB IBM PC drive)
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I'd say the majority (at least 80%) of Slashdot regulars know and despise Jack Thompson. It started with that trial, but he has been an annoying wart on the video game industry's toe ever since then, constantly proclaiming how video game violence is destroying society, etc. He has also been in a couple good squabbles with th
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I'm not nearly as close to slashdot's inception as you are as I was Junior High school, but I can tell you, things have changed a lot... some of it for the worst.
I don't think I would put the title of your post the way you did, but I definately agree with your points about content and slashdot. To not read your post and simply mod you as flamebait/troll/whatever evil is not right. However, there are a new generation of computer users with decid
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Whoa.. I've heard of people smoking some crazy stuff, but a video game? How the hell do you smoke that? You can burn the cd, but then you're smokin the cd.. burn the computer? How the hell do you burn a series of 1s and 0s? And how do said binary digits "influence" you?
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Don't trust everyone on your side (Score:3, Insightful)
The guy is loony.
This is not the kind of person you want arguing for your side & case.
Seriously.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca... (Score:2)
Loony doesn't NEARLY do him justice.
As to the topic.
The only side ANYONE is ever on is THEIR OWN.
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