Jack Thompson Attempts to Have Penny-Arcade Arrested!

More Traffic hits than naked pics of Katie Holmes!

Published on October 18, 2005 By greywar In Gaming

A few days ago I posted this bit regarding the start of an email exchange between anti-violent video game zealot Jack Thompson and the creators of Penny Arcade. Well Jack has escalated this by sending a very misleading letter to the Seatle PD trying to have the PA guys arrested (for god knows what).

I have taken the liberty of reproducing the letter PA posted since they are having server issues right now.

This sort of dissent quashing is what Jack and his ilk are all about. They don't give two shits about protecting squat. They just want power.

You can *try* to email Jack with your feelings on this if you like @ jackpeace@comcast.net but his email box is likely to be broken by now.

*Update : I see that this is also the biggest comment getter on Slashdot's front page right now as well.

Comments (Page 2)

chiprj

on Oct 20, 2005

Actually, I am pretty disgusted by GTA, or are you suggesting that it makes no statement at all?

Actually, there's a difference between being disgusted by GTA and spewing lies about games and the violence that may or may not be accessible (easily or not) contained in them. Jack goes overboard on this. If you look over some of these video game related sites, like Penny Arcade and Ctrl+Alt+Del, you'll see that they actually advocate much the same thing that Jack supposedly is trying to represent. That is, keeping violent video games out of the hands of children. They support game ratings. The difference is Jack doesn't think anyone should be allowed to purchase games like GTA, adult or child.

greywar

on Oct 20, 2005

Actually, I am pretty disgusted by GTA, or are you suggesting that it makes no statement at all?

I would suggest that you haven't read the article.

Troll.

chiprj

on Oct 22, 2005

There's a really funny update over at PVPOnline. Apparently, after the Seattle Police Dept and FBI were unable to stop the villians at Penny Arcade, Jack moved on to the next logical step - The Justice League!

Link

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