Quoting the bible = automatically losing whatever argument you were involved in

The saga of Jack Thompson has thus far, avoided the pixels of this blog but I'm giving in because the whole thing is just so fucking funny. Jack Thompson "attorney at law" (in the loosest possible terms) from the US, not Jack Thompson Australian actor extrordinaire who was perhaps more famous for living with his 2 girlfriends in one house for 10 years. Jack Thompson, America's captain against the uncouth and obscene, the man that pursued Howard Stern and has now made it his personal duty to ensure all obscene video games (see posts below on pointless video games) are wiped from every hard drive on earth and then maybe, the face of the planet.

Yes, the guy is a douche-bag. Read his Wikipedia entry its hilarious!

Recently he's brought up lawsuits against the games manufacturer Take Two in an attempt to bring about a restraining order by florida against the game Bully. Take Two have now done the proactive thing and launched a "pre emptive strike" against Jack Thompson in preparation for the release of their next to games. They also sent Thompson the bill for their legal costs.

Take Two plans to release Manhunt 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV later this year, and they would love nothing more than to avoid another Thompson lawsuit. After Thompson made public statements about his intent to block both games from being released, the company asked a judge to "enjoin him from bringing suit on behalf of the State of Florida to enjoin the sale of GTA IV or Manhunt 2."

Thompson, returned fire (excuse the pun) by contacting ARS Technica, who published the story about Take Two's legal move, with a response. Suffice to say most of it was quoted from the bible and the rest made little sense but below are a few choice parts.

"Dear Gamers and Gamer Publications on the Internet and Elsewhere: I have been praying, literally, that Take-Two and its lawyers would do something so stupid, so arrogant, so dumb, even dumber than what they have to date done, that such a misstep would enable me to destroy Take-Two....I encourage folks to read Psalm 35, a Psalm of David, which is brilliant in its entirety (since God Himself wrote it), but for those who don't own a Bible or who think their hands will catch on fire if they touch one, here is the salient portion that applies to this lawsuit"

Because my eyes will melt in my skull and my hands will spontaneiously combust if i even so much as look at the words followed I'll not post them here. But hey, why not read the response in its entirety.

And then, read this, Inside the mind of a censor. quite entertaining