One thinks that one has seen all the sorts of tactics that Jack Thompson could come out with, but the latest piece of the puzzle (found here, on Gamepolitics) defies anything we had seen of him before.
Before, you could look at Jack Thompson, and consider him a clown. An annoying clown, one who’s antics tended towards general insults and ad hominem attacks, with a well known penchant for harassing people he didn’t like. But the lengths he went to regarding two lawyers - Al Cardenas and Larry Kellog, themselves the type of lawyers in good standing that Thompson likes to portray himself as - is incomprehensible.
He resorts to publicly, professionally, and emotionally attacking the lawyers in question from every single angle that he can think of, with some of the lowest and most insulting messages that one could ever think of listed in the above linked testimony.
An email I sent to John Bruce. It’s the first - and the last - of it’s kind that I ever intend to send to the man.
Mr. Thompson,
it is no wonder that Judge Tunis decided that the bars recommendation of a 10 year disbarment couldn’t be considered good enough, and that only permanent disbarment would possibly do, along with having to pay out the legal fees - all of them - for your bar trial.
It’s no wonder that your behaviour merited a 169 page document from Judge Tunis, in a sector where a 100 page document is rare indeed. Every last person you injured emotionally came back to haunt you, and every last hurtful sentence uttered or typed by you over the past few years has been immortalized forever in a document which will haunt you until the very day you die.
Mr. Thompson, I’m a gamer. I never hated you for going after gaming. You annoyed the hell out of me sometimes, especially when you would get some poor sap to take you seriously. You were an annoyance, a liar, and one who liked to paint himself as being in any way credible, as being famous. But, more often than not, I pitied you. You were a clown, as I said. A sad man attempting to jump around, yelling that you, yes you, were important to the world.
But now? Now I despise you Mr. Thompson. You attempted to destroy peoples lives. You conspired - ironically, the charge you like to aim at others - to destroy the lives of those who disagreed with you, who stood in your way, who dared to even think that you, John Bruce Thompson, might be wrong. You aimed volleys at them from every angle, every single one underhanded and unjustified.
You decided that you were not only above the law as it is written, in the strictest and most legal sense, but that you were above the moral law that all good and decent people live by. Not a religious law, not a philosophical law, but a moral law that people obey simply to live with their fellow man.
I now hope, Mr. Thompson, after reading all of your bile, all of your hatred, all of your venom and underhanded tactics, that you get disbarred, and that you are ridiculed and ousted from your community as the scum that you are, and that all of your friends, all of your allies, may see you as what you are.
What you are, Mr. Thompson, doesn’t have a comparison in even the animal kingdom. Nothing that walks on four legs, or two, or crawls on its belly or swims in the sea, even comes close to acting in the same way, comparatively, that you have.
I do not wish you harm Mr. Thompson, nor do I wish harm to any who rally around you, few as they may be. However, nor do I wish you well.
In closing, reply with your rantings, as I know you will. I won’t communicate with you further, as I have no desire to sully myself by even having contact with you beyond this email.
Regards,
Mark G. Lucherini - Gamer, Successfully living a happy life despite playing “murder simulators” for years.
P.S. Before you scream harassment, an email publicly posted on a site such as JAABlog makes it just that - publicly available.
Update: Forgot to add, Thompsons email on JAABlog? Found it in a post where he wanted to announce his intent to run for president of the Florida Bar, which he claims is corrupt. He even compares his running for this office to Ronald Regans attempts to clean up the SAG back in the day.
Going to be kind of hard to run for president of a body you’re thrown out of, isn’t it?