Gaco
04-23-08, 02:41 PM
The anti-Gaming crusader Jack Thompson just now issued an open letter to Take-Two's CEO Strauss Zelnick's mother. In the letter he compares Strauss Zelnick with Hitler Jügend and directly blames the GTA-series for the killing of three cops in the state of Alabama. Using the Old Testament Mr. Thompson also accuses Strauss Zelnick’s mother for having gived Strauss such a bad upbringing that he is now a sociopath.
It is entertaining read to say at least when the disturbed lawer really goes at it. If the good Mr. Thompson was just acting a a bit more sane, articulate AND well informed then perhaps the gaming industry would take him a little more serious. As it is now he is just one big advertising pillar for Grand Theft Auto IV. However the the letter was not send directly to the mother as first rumoured on the internet.
Read a juicy extract below:
What you will see in your son’s game, if this iteration of GTA is anything like its predecessors, is incredible interactive violence aimed at police officers (whom you can shoot in the head and see the blood spray), innocent bystanders (whom you can run over with your car just for the heck of it), and of course the plentiful female prostitutes you can have sex with and then filet with a knife or stomp with your feet in order to get your money back. Experts note that the recent plethora of cop killings is caused in part by your darling son’s entrepreneurial energy. There are three policemen dead in Alabama because of Grand Theft Auto. I was on 60 Minutes about it. I hope Strauss has provided you with a flat screen tv to see the grief of the bereaved families that fills the screen.
The pornography and violence that your son trafficks in is the kind of stuff that most mothers would be ashamed to see their son putting into the hands of other mothers’ children, but, hey, your son Strauss has recently assured the world that he is “a Boy Scout, everybody knows that.” I’d love to see the merit badges that Scout Troop handed out. Is there a Ted Bundy merit badge? If so, your loving son deserves one now. It should be red and green, for obvious reasons.
Your son, this very moment, is doing everything he possibly can to sell as many copies of GTA IV to teen boys in the United States, a country in which your son claims you raised him to be “a Boy Scout.” More like the Hitler Youth, I would say. Happy Mother’s day, Mrs. Zelnick, which this year is May 11, two weeks after your son unleashes porn and violence upon other mothers’ boys. I’m sure you’re very proud.
Read the whole thing at Diehard Gamefan. (http://diehardgamefan.insidepulse.com/2008/04/22/jack-thompsons-open-letter-to-take-two-ceos-mother/)
(News taken from dailyrush.dk)
It is entertaining read to say at least when the disturbed lawer really goes at it. If the good Mr. Thompson was just acting a a bit more sane, articulate AND well informed then perhaps the gaming industry would take him a little more serious. As it is now he is just one big advertising pillar for Grand Theft Auto IV. However the the letter was not send directly to the mother as first rumoured on the internet.
Read a juicy extract below:
What you will see in your son’s game, if this iteration of GTA is anything like its predecessors, is incredible interactive violence aimed at police officers (whom you can shoot in the head and see the blood spray), innocent bystanders (whom you can run over with your car just for the heck of it), and of course the plentiful female prostitutes you can have sex with and then filet with a knife or stomp with your feet in order to get your money back. Experts note that the recent plethora of cop killings is caused in part by your darling son’s entrepreneurial energy. There are three policemen dead in Alabama because of Grand Theft Auto. I was on 60 Minutes about it. I hope Strauss has provided you with a flat screen tv to see the grief of the bereaved families that fills the screen.
The pornography and violence that your son trafficks in is the kind of stuff that most mothers would be ashamed to see their son putting into the hands of other mothers’ children, but, hey, your son Strauss has recently assured the world that he is “a Boy Scout, everybody knows that.” I’d love to see the merit badges that Scout Troop handed out. Is there a Ted Bundy merit badge? If so, your loving son deserves one now. It should be red and green, for obvious reasons.
Your son, this very moment, is doing everything he possibly can to sell as many copies of GTA IV to teen boys in the United States, a country in which your son claims you raised him to be “a Boy Scout.” More like the Hitler Youth, I would say. Happy Mother’s day, Mrs. Zelnick, which this year is May 11, two weeks after your son unleashes porn and violence upon other mothers’ boys. I’m sure you’re very proud.
Read the whole thing at Diehard Gamefan. (http://diehardgamefan.insidepulse.com/2008/04/22/jack-thompsons-open-letter-to-take-two-ceos-mother/)
(News taken from dailyrush.dk)