Jaded Times

Jack Thompson, anti-gaming advocate and “lawyer” (I will continue using quotations as long as he continues using words he does not understand) has gone even further off the deep end than since our last story. Todd will be writing a longer piece about this later today, but here is a quick glimpse into the chaotic ramblings of a madman:

“Because of my prominence, for better or worse, on this public safety problem, a ‘gamer’ a few months ago decided to threaten to kill me via the Internet. I received thousands of e-mails from a kid who was able to blast e-mail me using a service in Ireland that made the death threats appear to come from the following e-mail address: georgewbush@whitehouse.gov. Because of the domain name, the Secret Service here in Miami got involved and shut that extortion down…Now there is new extortion, and it is coming from a Seattle company called Penny Arcade.

Mr Thompson, you are now (along with the White House) on our list of people who will be receiving free copies of the dictionary. But, as these things take time to arrive, here is a legal definition of “extortion”, courtesy of lectlaw.com:

EXTORTION – The use, or the express or implicit threat of the use, of violence or other criminal means to cause harm to person, reputation, or property as a means to obtain property from someone else with his consent. USC 18. The Hobbs Act defines “extortion” as “the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right.” 18 U.S.C. S 1951(b)(2).

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