Here's a shocker for you: It looks like famous attorney (and TV videogame expert!) Jack Thompson hates Grand Theft Auto IV, so much so that he thinks those responsible for the game should be arrested in real jail for pretend crimes. He wrote this to his local US Attorney:
Indictments should be returned against Take Two corporately and its Chairman, Strauss Zelnick, along with other Take Two officers. Indictment should also be against Sony and Microsoft which are making this pornographic game available to minors, and openly so, on their PS3 and Xbox systems.
Further, indictments should be handed down against Wal-Mart, Best Buy, GameStop, and all other retailers distributing this game to minors at their retail stores, openly, to kids who are only seventeen.
And then the kicker:
Grand Theft Auto IV is the gravest assault upon children in this country since polio.
Hey, Jack, you know who else had polio?
That's right, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, beloved 32nd President of the United States. Using our logical skills, we can only conclude that the ghost of FDR is in president heaven right now, playing Grand Theft Auto IV and twirling his cigarette holder.
Gamepolitics: Jack Thompson Claims GTA IV is Porn and Everyone Should Be Indicted
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Jack...Stop being a douche!
video games and im not going around killing people for fun, beating people up for money, joining gangs. so in my opinion hes a douche bag that thinks everything should be how he sees it.
If the sex in this game was so influential, why was there a stabbing and not a raping while people were waiting in line? The real problem with this game is it's just too violent. I hate Jack Thompson as much as the next guy, because he's a pure idiot, but realistically, did you see the useless human waste waiting in line for the game in new york? so pathetic that even Kevin was worried the reporter was gonna get shanked. it does glorify violence and crime, and the average person is too stupid to differentiate between games and real life.
Or would that be HATECON?
HATECON 2: The designated level of hatred for all misinformed retards who've proven they should have no right to free speech.
I like this system.
Also, does Thompson relize that videogames are the least of Americas current problems.
Just shut up Jack.
Seriously, if you, Jack Thompson, do by some chance in hell read this, then please shut up. For the love of God and all that is holy, shut the hell up! Nobody likes you. Some of us outright HATE you. Your stubbornness is child-like, as is your reasoning. And that's why you need to refrain from saying, or issuing, any statement you can come up with.
So please Jack, just shut up. Please? Thank you.
Sounds right. Fundamentally at least.
This game is not for minors. Learn to read an MSRB rating. Although 17 years old is considered a minor, I think that they are mature enough to understand the consequences of crime and punishment for reenacting something from a video game/movie. 17 years old does not count as a minor. Also please remove your head out of your derriere. Now also take a deep breath and just accept that video games are now a part of every day life, and there is nothing you can do to destroy the age of video games. Just accept it man, for the sake of your children, and your children's children.
People need to stop saying what we should do and not do. Minors get their hands on these games because the parents let them. PERIOD.
dats rite yaaaaaa
"DIE PIGS!"
*fires rpg*
You wanna go after something JT, how about Pokemon? The capture, slavery and pit-fighting of those cute little critters needs to stop! Go send a letter telling Nintendo to stop training little Michael Vicks everywhere! And THOSE games are RATED E for EVERYONE! Go pick on them for a while and let the rest of us be.
I shall beat up a an innocent Liberty City citizen in his honor. If damn Roman would just leave me the EFF alone.
pokemon OMG that was funny!!!
Word. I'm a violent ass person and I've managed to stay out of trouble. The fact is that if you are dumb enough to try to emulate GTA than your ass is probably F&$%^# anyway.
Err, technically, there aren't any laws in the US, federal, state, local, WHATEVER, that restrict the sale of video games to minors. They've been passed, but they've all been struck down as unconstitutional. When a store refuses to sell violent games to kids, it's because it's store policy, to avoid lawsuits from irresponsible parents who don't pay enough attention to their children.
A. teaching there kids to be responsible and that its a game, pretend, juts like a movie.
B. It is the parents jobs to control there children's content and acutely...(gasp)PARENT THERE CHILDREN.
this is nothing but defending poor, lazy parenting that is rampant in America. and yea i know most parents don't understand games and such due to generation gap. well your a parent. so its kind of your job to just grin, bear with it and learn about it for the sake of your kids, and society.
just some thoughts you effing retard
one should never type angry
John B. Thompson, Attorney at Law
1172 S. Dixie Hwy., Suite 111
Coral Gables, Florida 33146
The man loves hate mail, we should all oblige.
Seventeen is only old enough to join the military if you have mommy and daddy's permission...