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With just about the entire world completely locked into Grand Theft Auto IV and its ridiculously deep setting of Liberty City, it seems that the enemy of all gamers, Jack Thompson, is at it again, and he's certainly been busy.

Thompson has led a charge in Miami to have just about all advertisements regarding GTA IV removed from the public transit authority in the Miami-Dade area. Chicago recently announced that they would also remove these advertisements from their buses as well.

However, the Florida-based lawyer has seemingly taken on a much larger opponent:

Everyone.

In a report that was released from ArsTechnica.com, Thompson claims that just about everyone is responsible for the mental anguish and years of abuse that this game will seemingly cause the world.

Indictments should be returned against Take Two corporately and its Chairman, Strauss Zelnick, along with other Take Two officers. Indictment should also be against Sony and Microsoft which are making this pornographic game available to minors, and openly so, on their PS3 and Xbox systems.

Further, indictments should be handed down against Wal-Mart, Best Buy, GameStop, and all other retailers distributing this game to minors at their retail stores, openly, to kids who are only seventeen.

Grand Theft Auto IV is the gravest assault upon children in this country since polio.


Now, that's just an excerpt from this report, but I simply have one question to pose him:

Really?

Let's think about this for a second. You want to bring up an indictment against not only the head of Take Two, but every retailer that carries the game? Does this mean you're going to take on the employees of these companies for simply selling these games? Honestly, I hope he does, because I work for one of these retailers, and he'll be happy to know that I refused to sell to a few kids because they weren't 17 years old.

That's right, ol' Jackie my boy. A retailer is actually following the rules.

It honestly makes you wonder if he actually thinks about what he says before he says it. Most everything he says, nowadays, is just sheer lunacy.

Apparently things aren't getting any better for Thompson as well. While the date for his Disbarment Trial decision was pushed back to the end of August, that is still certainly looming on the horizon. Let's face it: Gamers around the world will sing praises if he is disbarred and we never have to hear from him again.
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Amen to that. I mean what a jackass. I think the industry police's itself pretty good considering the size of it. My wife is a manager of a Big name video store, and they wont rent to minors at all. You have to be 18 yrs old to have your own account. There will always be a story of a twelve year old buying the game. But over all I think people, parents, and gamers know what GTA is all about. No doubt my dumbass sister inlaw has bought the game for my 15 yr old nephew, but I'm not his parents. I have faith and trust in him that it's not going to send him out on a killing spree. (start with your parents please)
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Wow, he's saying GTA 4 is on par with polio?
At least that breaks up the almost unanimous "10's" everyone's giving it :p

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Well, I would ignore him, but he seemingly pops up all the damn time. Hopefully, by the end of Summer, his Disbarment is final and he's eliminated from the public eye altogether.

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The problem with jack thompson is that he is a money hungry ambulance chaser. If it is a school shooting or involves minors in any way he chases after it on places like Fox Noise claiming that video games are at fault. Look at what heppened with the VTech massacre last year. Literally 20 minutes into the incident he was on Fox claiming that video games were at fault before the shooter was even known. That is the way he is. He has been trying to do this for more than 10 years know with video games alone. Before that it was rap music. Before that he was a medical malpractice lawyer. He doesn't want video games just out of the hands of children. He wants them banned completely, and wants Rockstar games destroyed. He has stated this himself.

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Quote by CaptainMayhem88:


I don't mean to de-rail this conversation but I just had to say that I wish he could've gotten rid of rap music...my life would be much more enjoyable.



Just curious, why's that?

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LOL I agree, I hate rap music... and I hate the fact that it seems to turn everyone who listens to it into jerks who don't care about their neighbors and blast it with the bass as high as it goes.

Other than that, he sounds like there's a screw loose, but you know... freedom of speech and all, whatcha gonna do?



Well, from a legal standpoint, most of his motions in court are, at the best, frivolous. He seemingly gets off on trying to fight these crusades, believing that people will back his cause.

Truthfully, I just want him to go away. I'm sick of hearing about him and seeing him on television. I'm just glad I don't watch FOX News on a regular basis because he is apparently their "First Amendment Lawyer" now, which is disturbing.

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Well, good news is, he is extremely close to being disbarred. The decision should come down sometime this summer, according to Gamepolitics.
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jack does have a point with what he says
but he goes about it in a totally wrong way.

still m should be 18 if its pornographic
but i mean halo
gears
cod
these should be 17 up
he should try for something that makes sense

he should fix something like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbud2dTEvso
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jack does have a point



I see absolutely no point. Laws against selling violent video games to minors are simply unconstitutional, and there are plenty of rulings to back it up. In my opinion, retailers need to step up and forget about the ESRB. Organizations like the ESRB and MPAA have too much control. Parents should be the ones deciding what their kids play or watch. Censorship only harms the youth; It doesn't protect them.
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