To Whom It May Concern:
This letter is regarding the current status of the license to practice law currently granted to Jack Thompson through the Florida Bar Association.
Jack Thompson is a very controversial lawyer, more often than not resorting to political matters to solve his own personal disputes rather than through the legal system. However, in recent months, it has become clear to me that Thompson is not merely a controversial individual but is also a very corrupt, callous, and often rude individual who, in my own estimation, does not exemplify the ethical and moral principles for which a lawyer should hold. I believe that the Florida Bar Association, in holding with the claim that “One of the primary purposes of The Florida Bar is to assure the highest standards of professionalism in the practice of law for the benefit of members and the public.”, must organize a referendum to determine if Jack Thompson should be able to continue practicing law as a licensed attorney. Evidence for this need is widespread and incriminating. Examples of this unprofessional and unethical behavior are detailed below and I urge those whom this concerns to properly review these actions by this callous individual carefully.
Recently he has engaged in a very callous, unprovoked and irresponsible tirade with the creator of the popular VGCats online web comic (
http://www.vgcats.com) and evidence of this encounter is available here:
http://www.vgcats.com/jack.php. During this exchange Jack Thompson made a number of references questions Scott Ramsoomairs sexuality, intelligence, and his use of psychotropic drugs,(are you saying Scott uses drugs here? Maybe you should say "alleges psyhotropic drug use"?), all of which are unsubstantiated and irrelevant to the discourse (which Mr. Thompson initiated) and then proceeded to threaten legal action in an irresponsible manner.
During this discourse, after initiating contact with Mr. Ramsoomair and proceeding to insult him, he then claimed that he had not initiated contact despite the fact that it is verifiable that Mr. Thompson did initiate contact.
This kind of conversational process is not uncommon with Mr. Thompson and a simple search can uncover literally dozens of people and organizations who have had incredibly negative and often dishonest discourse with Mr. Thompson, commonly initiated by Mr. Thompson himself.
“(c) engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation;”
[source:
http://www.floridabar.org/divexe/rrt...56BBC00558300]
Furthermore, Mr. Thompson has made claims that the creators of the extremely popular online webcomic Penny Arcade (
http://www.penny-arcade.com), Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, were "criminally harassing" him. However, this harassment allegation was made in response to a single e-mail sent to Mr. Thompson which responded to a proposal made by Mr. Thompson (where he requested that someone make an extraordinarily violent video game directed at a specific individual in exchange for $10,000 donated to a charity [source:
http://gc.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=5883]). In this response, it was explained that his proposal had been carried out by a programmer
[source:
http://hellfish.gtajunkies.com/Story.html]. Mr. Thompson responded to this civil e-mail by calling the creators of Penny Arcade, spouting vulgarities at them and rudely explaining that the proposal was entirely in jest and that no money would be donated to a charity. Therefore, the owners of Penny Arcade donated the $10,000 in his stead to a charity, since he clearly wasn't going to. That very evening Mr. Thompson went on national television and quickly retracted his statement, saying that Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins had lied and that he would donate the money to charity as soon as someone from “the industry” completed his ridiculous task. However, his proposal never initially mentioned any specific industry further indicating the foolish actions of a man who currently is making a living from nothing more than his title as a lawyer and a constant stream of lies, misdirection and misrepresentations.
Furthermore, Mr. Thompson responded to this selfless act by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins (giving $10,000 to a charity) by asking the Seattle police to arrest them for supposed criminal harassment.
However, as I understand it, criminal harassment is defined as follows:
“The Criminal Code was amended in 1993 to include the new offence of ‘criminal harassment.’ This crime is more commonly known as stalking, although the two are not identical. Section 264 of the Code sets out precisely what types of stalking behaviour are illegal. This includes:
● repeatedly following someone from place to place
● repeatedly communicating with someone
● spending time outside someone's home or workplace
● making threats against a person
where these actions will cause that other person to be fearful for her safety.”
[source:
http://www.owjn.org/info/glossar2.htm]
None of these actions have taken place. Mr Thompson has made these allegations in a vain attempt to regain the credibility (did he have any credibility?) he was building which was slashed by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins calling Mr. Thompson’s bluff on his “modest proposal” (see reference link above). Mr. Thompsons request for arrest is extremely irresponsible and unprofessional. The creators of Penny Arcade made one unsolicited e-mail to Mr. Thompson and it was Mr. Thompson who followed up on that e-mail multiple times in a very rude and unprofessional manner which bordered on harassment.
This is not a new position for Mr. Thompson.
Mr. Thompson is now infamous for publicly questioning the sexual orientation of Janet Reno while competing with her for the GOP district attorney position in 1988.
“Back in 1988 Thompson was the GOP challenger to Reno for the district attorney's job in Dade County. Thompson's unique campaign message was that Reno was unfit for the job because, as a closeted lesbian with a drinking problem, she was a great candidate for blackmail by the criminal element. Jack never explained why this remained a threat even after he exposed her "secret." Reno cruised at the polls.”
[source:
http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/outthere/otthompson.html]
Despite the fact that her sexuality has absolutely no bearing on her ability to perform her duties as a district attorney, these claims were made 17 years ago and the Florida Bar Association, where Mr. Thompson attained his license to practice law, did nothing to reprimand Mr. Thompson or even question his obviously immoral, unethical and incredibly irresponsible actions during this campaign. In fact, what Mr. Thompson did during this campaign is specifically against the Rules of Conduct that the Florida Bar Association claims to hold it’s licensed attorney’s to.
“(d) engage in conduct in connection with the practice of law that is prejudicial to the administration of justice, including to knowingly, or through callous indifference, disparage, humiliate, or discriminate against litigants, jurors, witnesses, court personnel, or other lawyers on any basis, including, but not limited to, on account of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, employment, or physical characteristic;”
[source:
http://www.floridabar.org/divexe/rrt...56BBC00558300]
Mr. Thompson is also infamous for making wild and outrageous comments, for example:
“Islam promotes the killing of innocent people,” Thompson said. “The Quran requires the infidel, whether Jew or Christian, to be killed. … That’s a core essence of the religion. … Muhammad was a pirate who killed infidels and who advocated the killing of infidels. Not a nice guy. Osama bin Laden is in keeping with his fine tradition,”
[source:
http://news.neilrogers.com/news/arti...04042112.html]
I cannot see how an institution such as the Florida Bar Association or the American Bar Assocations, which are designed to "assure the highest standards of professionalism in the practice of law for the benefit of members and the public" can stand idly by and allow such a horrendously callous, unethical, unprofessional and irresponsible individual as Jack Thompson to maintain a license to practice law.
I am calling upon the fine people at the Florida Bar Association and the American Bar Association to determine whether or not they feel the actions of Mr. Thompson are, in fact, consistent with the ethical and professional guidelines for which the FBA and ABA have determined all lawyers must follow to maintain their privilege to practice law. I request that you organize a referendum to formally determine whether or not he should continue to hold his license as an attorney.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Bryan Healey
healey.b@neu.edu okay, so lets hope it does work out, but i still want that animated JPEG thing done. and this will never be over, we still got Hillary Clinton to worry about.
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