Off Topic: Thompson responds to the Take Two suit with one of his own
In response to the suit that game publisher Take Two Interactive filed against Jack Thompson
last week, Thompson has filed a countersuit against the company, continuing the ever-growing saga of
Jack Thompson v. The World. Thompson claims that Take Two is part of a "vast conspiracy to deprive [him] of his civil rights". Not satisfied with the
religiously-motivated diatribe he sent to us here at Ars, Jack is now seeking a legal beatdown of his long-standing enemy.
Thompson even goes so far as to claim that the company has "violated
federal RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
statutes." These statutes are typically used to prosecute organized
crime, which Take Two apparently knows something about.
A copy of Thompson's filing, seen by Ars Technica, makes for
eye-opening reading. Starting the counterclaim with various quotes from
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, Thompson then builds his case
by parlaying the rhetorically-shady history of Take Two's rise to
supposed infamy and chronicling the horrible, terrible, bone-chilling
games that have been so unjustly unleashed upon society:
The cravenness of Take Two is so deep that its attempt to
enlist the aid of the very courts that so prominently and correctly
played a crucial role in the civil rights movement is an irony
undoubtedly lost upon the technologically adroit and morally challenged
cultural Neanderthals in the Edinburgh, Scotland, software design
studios of Take Two’s Rockstar Games.
Take that, Take Two! Though he dislikes the "Neanderthals" at Take Two
in general, he reserves special scorn for certain products, like Manhunt. "This is the same Take Two/Rockstar Games which excreted into the teen world the game Manhunt," he writes, "which inspired the copycat bludgeoning murder by hammer blows of a Leicester, England, youth."
Read the full article here...Frank Caron
March 22, 2007
Source: Ars Technica