Posted on 06/05/2006 1:53:35 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
Acting on a Florida lawyers suggestion that violent video games may have figured in Tuesdays slaying of a West Feliciana Parish man, sheriffs deputies searched the home of one teenage suspect again on Thursday.
West Feliciana Parish Sheriffs Capt. Spence Dilworth said deputies seized several video games rated M for Mature from the residence of Kurt Edward Neher, 16, but the detective said he is not drawing any conclusions from his findings.
I think it goes beyond video games, but whos to say? Dilworth said of the slaying of Michael Gore, 55, of 10077 La. 421, St. Francisville.
Dilworth said the question of whether video games can spark violence in juvenile players may be more of a debate for the living room rather than the courtroom.
Jack Thompson of Coral Gables, Fla., said Friday he suggested that West Feliciana Parish sheriffs detectives look at the violent video game angle as a possible motive because published reports of Gores injuries raised a red flag in his, Thompsons, mind.
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Thompson said published reports that Neher told detectives he and Everette killed Gore because Gore would not let them borrow his car follows the same scenario in (the video) Grand Theft Auto.
This theory would apply to R rated movies in the house of a juvenile as well. It is completely wrong.
Is there a video game where the gamer plays a police state that tries to censors everything in sight? I bet Jack Thompson would approve of THAT game...
Crazy as a football bat.
Guns don't kill people - video games do.
Jack Thompson is off his meds again.
He used to be popular around here...
Must have been before my time, the man is pure ambulance-chasing vermin. Whatever happened to the saimple concept of personal responsibility?
Did he ever pay out for that video game that was created according to his "modest proposal"?
He is a special kind of scumbag media whore.
Is that like a MOONBAT?
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Oh gawd... not "THESE PEOPLE" again
When he was pitching stories of conspiracies, cover-ups, drunk driving, escorts, leather and lesbianism amongst the Democrat elite, hell, he was a knighted angel of G-d.
Um, and now some dipshiate podunk sheriff fell for his latest snakeoil pitch. Probably will railroad jury selection and force a trial to set precedent too.
I'd probably watch a mockumentary about Thompson, mix in "A Big Fish" with "Roger and Me", and a little old time Florida theme park, maybe the Weeki Wachee Springs mermaids, and you got yourself a sleeper summer movie.
/Expecting a cease and desist letter from BatJack now
Bat Jack is Back!!
Did he say "gimme that paper" and "welcome to America" during the crime?
Jack Thompson is back again?
I've logged many hours of GTA, and I don't remember the characters ever asking to "borrow" a car.
What that before or after he started threatening to sue anyone who disagreed with his posts? Nutburger. (Him not you)
Jack Thompson is a friend of Doug Hagmann's (NEIN).
Just an interesting tidbit.
I got some nasty e-mails myself from him.
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