Aspies For Freedom

You know, the insane going-grey Lawyer guy who handed Janet Reno a form asking if she was Lesbian, Bisexual or Straight, and who's spent the last 6 months hustling the video games community by sending hate mail to community leaders and trying to get games banned as overtly violent?

Check out this gem of thoughfullness:

http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000103062744/#c514133

Posted Oct 12, 2005, 4:43 PM ET by jack thompson

This thread proves the health care community's point about mind-retarding video games. Read the American Psychological Association's August report. You guys are Exhibits A-Z.

Jack Thompson


Gee, his comments would've been bad at the best of times - he's a PR nightmare, the guys who formerly employed him dumped him for being too partisan and ruining their credibility, but being Aspergers, I could take that he was getting personal, and that my Aspergers/ASD was induced by video games, and that he wrongly believes I'm ***. Of course that's stretching it, what he really means is he's just got an ego the size of North America and was shooting his mouth off, forgetting that just because he's not on TV, doesn't mean people arn't listening

He really needs to watch where he shoots of his mouth or he's going to get a kick in it. The arguement began after he promised to pay 10,000 USD to a charity of TakeTwo's choice if someone amde some obscenly violent game he suggested. And when someone actually took up his offer, he backed down on it.

Ironiclly shortly thereafter, Penny Arcade (Whom he'd been heckling as "lacking frontal lobe activity" (Is he attacking Aspies again? They show less frontal lobe activity)) went and donated $10,000 to the head of Take Two's favourite charity in Jack Thompsons name

It's no suprise the gaming community's been merciless
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=158


Edit
Y'know, it's kind of tempting to send him a polite letter saying "excuse me, but I rather take offence at that <Talk about Aspergers>" - and I can almost guarantee you he'll say something obscene and offensive about Aspergers, and then we can have some fun  :o

I have never heard him attack Asperger's. I doubt if he knows what it is.

Someone should report his activities to the bar association. He behavour is not proffessional at all.

We got enough problems with Lenny Shaffer let alone Jack Thompson.

Oh he's pretty much on his own. His main supporter (Some group that represents Familys and the effects Media has on it) dumped him last week after he started slandering Penny Arcade (Who have given $500,000 to children and family charities). I doubt he's ever heard of Aspergers, I'm just kind of putting a red rag to a bull with the idea; if I say I'm a gamer, and have this strange condition he'd likely blurt out something about "proves my point you gamers are all headcases" and that'd be reason to have open season on his hide

Could be fun

He's just a guy with an axe to grind now, very few people would take him seriously in any profession today.

I noticed that his website has been stripped down. He has no more links or pictures. and his email is off.