Thompson v. The Florida Bar

Filing 208

NOTICE by John B. Thompson (Alerts Court to New SLAPP Complaint BY THE BAR, proving "bad faith" (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit story re slapp complainant and what it is protecting by bar complaints# 2 Exhibit uk story re slapp complainant's predatory practices)(Thompson, John)

Thompson v. The Florida Bar

Doc. 208

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 NOTICE OF FILING DOCUMENT RE IMPROPER, SLAPP NATURE OF VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY BAR COMPLAINTS COMES NOW plaintiff, John B. Thompson, hereinafter Thompson, as an attorney on his own behalf, and hereby affords notice to the court of the filing a document that sheds further light on the improper, SLAPP nature of the video game industry's retributive Bar complaints, stating: Attached hereto are two news stories about the banning even for adults of TakeTwo's Manhunt 2 video game--a game in which one removes an opponent's testicles with pliers and jams syringes into their eyes. Now that's entertainment. The maker of this game, which is banned for sale to adults in the UK but which is being presold, presently, to anyone of any age by Take-Two, is the corporate author of the "Alabama" Bar complaints against Thompson through Blank Rome's efforts, which The Florida Bar knows to be fraudulent. In May of this year, Thompson met with the Chairman of Take-Two, Strauss Zelnick on Central Park West in New York City with a third party. Zelnick promised Thompson that it would "do whatever it takes to win our war with you," in response to Case No. 07-21256 (Judge Adalberto Jordan)

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Thompson's suggestion that the Manhunt 2 game was probably not a good idea. Zelnick laughed out loud at the notion that its release might be impeded. Zelnick proved that it would "do whatever it takes to win our war with you" by directing his Blank Rome lawyers to bring even more Bar complaints against Thompson, which it has now done and in doing so persuaded Orlando Bar prosecutor Sheila Tuma to pretend that she was the complainant and not Blank Rome. The problem for the not so clever Ms. Tuma is that she enclosed in the new Bar complaint an email from the Blank Rome lawyers thereby proving who demanded a new complaint be processed against Thompson on behalf of The Bar and not on behalf of Take-Two/Blank Rome ! The above paragraph also rebuts the false assertion, now made twice by Barry Richard's Greenberg Traurig associate, Ms. Sharpe, to this court in open court,that "The Florida Bar has never been the complainant against Thompson." This is false and demonstrably so. In order to further demonstrate the "bad faith" of The Bar it should be noted that this newest Blank Rome Bar complaint actually brought by The Bar's Ms. Tuma as the complainant asserts that Thompson has practiced law in Ohio by writing a Public

Defender and a District Attorney there alerting them that the thirteen-year-old boy who committed more than a hundred crimes and who had nothing in his home but a plasma tv screen, a Sony Playstation 2, and the Grand Theft Auto games might have been prompted, oh just a bit, by his obsessive play of this crime simulation game. The boy's family is on welfare and was so impoverished that they were heating their Ohio home by opening the door on the oven. But there was enough money for Take-Two's offerings on a plasma screen.

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Thus, and the court needs to know this, The Bar went from a 90-day suspension for Thompson, to a 91-day suspension and a psych exam after his guilty plea after the filing of this Blank Rome/Sheila Tuma complaint that alleges that writing a letter to two attorneys in Ohio alerting them to the role of violent video games in crime IS PRACTICING LAW IN OHIO! This Bar complaint is now formally pending against Thompson. Is the court starting to figure out what is going on here? The video game industry giant Take-Two is "doing whatever it takes" to try to destroy its chief critic and most successful one, and The Florida Bar, because of its crazed intolerance of Thompson and his social activism, is thrilled to help it. The Bar's use of its "disciplinary" system is a criminal violation of federal civil rights laws, and this court should deny the motions to dismiss, particularly in light of Greenberg Traurig's repeated and known misrepresentations to this court that "The Bar has never been a complainant against Thompson. Ms. Sharpe and Mr. Richard are the ones who should be turned over to the Ad Hoc Committee for that and other knowing falsehoods told this court in order to secure "abstention." I HEREBY CERTIFY that this has been served upon record counsel this 13th day of October, 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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