Thompson v. The Florida Bar

Filing 121

RESPONSE to 119 Order to Show Cause filed by John B. Thompson. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit Pedophilia Reference to Just Us Boys Site)(Thompson, John)

Thompson v. The Florida Bar

Doc. 121

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA JOHN B. THOMPSON, Plaintiff, v. THE FLORIDA BAR and DAVA J. TUNIS, Defendants. PLAINTIFF'S INITIAL RESPONSE TO THE COURT'S SHOW CAUSE ORDER COMES NOW plaintiff, John B. Thompson, hereinafter Thompson, as an attorney on his own behalf, and responds to this court's September 24, 2007, Order to Show Cause and states: 1. With all respect for the court, the court appears to be laboring under the misconception that the images filed with the court are not "available for viewing by members of the public, including children." These are being offered by a South Florida attorney, Norm Kent, who is one of the SLAPP Bar complainants against Thompson, to "members of the public, including children." 2. Possibly the court was so offended by the images that it did not read Case No. 07-21256 (Judge Adalberto Jordan)

Thompson's pleadings carefully enough. Mr. Kent is linking to these images through his official law firm web site to a porn portal where these images are being offered. Mr. Kent has no age-restriction filters in place and in fact there is no age query by Mr. Kent or anyone as to the age of the persons viewing these materials that come to you, the members of the public, regardless of age, through Mr. Kent's site.

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3. Is the court seriously suggesting that a child is more likely to log onto the federal, paid-for PACER system and these children, after using credit cards in order to surf federal court files, will then stumble across these images? More likely than if he or she is surfing the net and comes across these images by googling "gay news"? With all respect for the court and its concerns, this is not a reasonable conclusion. 4. The images that Mr. Kent puts in the faces, through his law firm web site, with The Florida Bar refusing to do anything about it, despite its impact on the "dignity" of our profession, convey as no words could not only the depravity of Mr. Kent but also the utter depravity of The Bar in encouraging and facilitating this activity through his Barregulated web site. It is all very well and good for Referee Tunis to be offended by being offered this irrefutable proof of The Bar's selective prosecution of Thompson, while it facilitates what Mr. Kent does not only to children but to Thompson with The Bar's enthusiastic support. What she ought to be more offended by, since she said "I have seen it all" is that The Florida Bar stands with this garbage and with Mr. Kent and against Thompson's twenty years of efforts to keep this material out of the hands of children. 5. With all respect for this court, this court ought to be more offended by The Bar's facilitation of the distribution of this material than by Thompson's alerting this court to that facilitation. 6. Thompson, more than the court knows, appreciates the fact that the court has now correctly labeled this garbage "indecent, obscene, and offensive." He shall go to the Department of Justice and to state law enforcement officials with that judicial finding. 7. As to the Adams v. Nakervis case, that case does not stand for the proposition that a lawyer cannot provide obscene material to a court in order to show the illegal,

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scandalous conduct of a lawyer or in this instance, of The Bar.

If that is this court's

position, then it has adopted the "shoot the messenger" view of those who have come after Thompson for his efforts to sound the alarm as to the illegal activities of those who are using The Bar to silence that alarm. 8. It would appear, again with all respect for this court, that the court is offended by the wrong person. Thompson did not file these images in order to offend the court. He filed them in order that the court might deal, rather than in some sort of merely abstract way, with what is really going one here in this Bar assault upon Thompson. The Bar in seeking to destroy Thompson seeks facilitates the commercial activity that apparently so offends this court in Thompson's bringing it to its attention. It is all very well and good for lawyers and judges and courts and Bars to reason away the harm and the evil that Thompson has come against that has gone on for far too long in this country. It is easier to deal with these issues "abstractly" when one has no idea what the nature of the evil is. SLAPP Bar complainant Take-Two's Chairman calls a video game sold to children that features the removing of testicles with pliers "fine art." Such a description is plausible until one sees the pliers. So it is with Mr. Kent's and The Bar's "Adult Sites." 9. Similarly, is easier for the President of Iran to dismiss as an "academic

debate," as he did yesterday, about the Holocaust, when he does not have, staring him in the face, the emaciated photos bodies of the victims of pure evil at Treblinka, Austerlitz, and Dachau. If the President of Columbia University had put those images up on a screen yesterday, maybe then the Iranian dictator would not have been so cavalier in his pretense that such evil did not exist.

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10. It is the height of irony that this court is offended that it has seen the tyhpes of images that Florida Assistant U.S. Attorney by the name of Atchison used to inflame himself to journey to Michigan to have sex with a five-year-old girl. Attached hereto is a blow-up of a comment from the very web site whose images concern the court, www.justusboys.com. 11. The undersigned regrets if the court was offended by what it has seen that another Florida lawyer, for commercial gain, is offering to other people's children. He has no children. The undersigned does. The undersigned deals weekly with threats on his life intentionally incited by those who protect this kind of garbage. Would that someone were "offended" by that mere inconvenience to Thompson. 12. Thompson may have more to say in his own defense as to his alleged contemptuous behavior, but at this juncture, with all respect, he does not apologize for nor regret what he has done. With all respect for this court, and in fact because of his respect, if this court desires to throw Thompson into jail for trying to sound the alarm in this dramatic fashion, and thereby sound the alarm in a fashion that the average person on the street will understand how upside American justice has become, then Thompson is prepared to go there. I HEREBY CERTIFY that this has been served upon record counsel this 25th day of September, 2007, electronically.

/s/ JOHN B. THOMPSON, Plaintiff Attorney, Florida Bar #231665 1172 South Dixie Hwy., Suite 111 Coral Gables, Florida 33146 Phone: [phone] [e-mail]

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