Jack Thompson aka Media whore

Hello all. Today I want to discuss the issue of Jack Thompson. Now, we in the gaming community can't walk two steps without hearing about this guy. As such, I am only going to talk about him once and that's it.

Last week, Jack Thompson issued a "Modest Proposal," claiming that if a video game company made a game based on his plot, he'd donate $10,000 to charity. His video game was to be about an angry father who took his rage out on video game executives after his family was killed by a 14-year-old gamer. Now, obviously, no company made his game. However, several GTA mods as well as a text adventure based on the concept were released on the Internet. Though they may not be actual "games" per se, but worthy of $10,000 to charity anyhow.

Then, he released this statement...

"I'm not interested and won't be commenting on the mod. The satirical piece entitled 'A Modest Video Game Proposal' was intended to highlight the patent hypocrisy and recklessness exhibited by the video game industry's willingness to target cops, women, homosexuals, and other groups with some of their violent games. To be fair, though, you can't expect a bunch of gamers to understand the satire if they think that Jonathon Swift, the author of 'A Modest Proposal,' is the name of a new Nike running shoe...

...I will say this though, the 'video game community' (what's next, 'the necromancy community'?) surely seems exercised about someone who is a 'joke' and who is accomplishing nothing. You all seem rather bothered and worried about a nonentity. God is in this battle, and I am privileged to be a foot soldier. You all should be concerned, not about me, but about Him."

In short, he refused to pay the money. But not only that, but he refused to pay money to charity and called himself "God's foot soldier" as well, definitely making him lose the support of several religious communities across the country.

The nice guys at Penny Arcade, however, donated the money in Jack Thompson's name. Mostly to tick him off, but still. So Jacko decides to complain to the police. He send a fax to every video game company and news source, but the Seattle PD, his intended target, never got the fax. So yes, he threatened legal action on two people for donating to charity. He threatens to sue them and many others or something for "criminal harassment." All they did was call him names. God, man, what is this, high school? People talking bad about you isn't "criminal harassment." People can say as much as they want about you whenever they feel like it. So stop screwing around with the video game community. We have more influence than you think.

Got thoughts on my thoughts? Leave a freakin' comment why dontcha.

+Sane Intolerant+

EDIT: Several parts of this were taken from other articles and such on the same subject by the way. Just making sure I don't get sued by them or anything.