The ScooterBlog

Well, the Jack Thompson ordeal has taken on a life of its own, even over and above his bungling comments of a couple of months ago. It seems as if he’s content to now throw away everything he just said a week or so ago about his little “$10,000 promise” by saying that he’s just “kidding”.

Let’s get something straight. There is one thing lawyers (or wanna-be politicians do). KID. They lie, yes, they lie and lie often (especially on this stage), but they don’t just act like they’re kidding.

So when Penny Arcade decided to take Jack up on his little proposition and put their money where their mouth is, it effectively put Jack into the place of being another talking head that really didn’t have anything to say. Well, nothing to say except words that will pull on the heartstrings of the public outcry, but not hit at the true problems.

So what does Jack do when he’s called to the carpet and the grassroots of gamers publicly states they don’t respect his statements? He threatens to sue or file criminal charges against Penny Arcade. Selling a shirt saying “I Hate Jack Thompson” is slanderous? I suppose if you have the money to buy Alan Dershowitz as your attorney maybe, but God forbid we allow non-offensive expressions of speech on a T-Shirt just cause he doesn’t like it!

I go back and forth on something … what I think Jack Thompson is aspiring to be. Part of me thinks it’s Hillary Clinton and a politician, the other part of me thinks it’s the late Johnny Cochran, a hot shot attorney who gets all the big cases. If he wants to feel the way he does, that’s fine, but he’s so outplayed his hand that he cannot win now. This is the time where he needs to remember when to hold ‘em … and more important, when to fold ‘em, cause if he was trying to win the court of public opinion, he’s lost.