Thompson v. The Florida Bar

Filing 307

Plaintiff's MOTION to Take Judicial Notice (J. Jordan May Want to Read This One) by John B. Thompson. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit Written Request to Appear Before Bar Govs Per Mason v. Bar)(Thompson, John)

Thompson v. The Florida Bar

Doc. 307 Att. 1

John B. Thompson, Attorney at Law 1172 S. Dixie Hwy., Suite 111 Coral Gables, Florida 33146 305-666-4366 [e-mail]
November 5, 2007 Dear Florida Bar Governor _______ [via the post to each]: I hereby formally request, for the tenth time, the exercise of my right to appear before the entire Board of Governors at its meeting December 12-15 on Amelia Island. The Bar's counsel, Barry Richard of Greenberg Traurig, has repeatedly asserted to U.S. District Court Judge Adalberto Jordan that I have a "right," under Mason v. Florida Bar, to do so before my disciplinary trial and that because of that "adequate state remedy" the federal court must abstain from granting me relief. Why do I ask again? Note: This past Saturday I journeyed to the Pennsylvania Convention Center and debated Lorne Lanning, an iconic figure in the video game industry, on the very issues that spawned the Blank Rome/Take-Two SLAPP Bar complaints against me. You can read all about the debate at www.gamepolitics.com. It appears I did very well, despite heavy security insisted upon by the event, not by me. I was invited, they said, into the "lions' den." In the audience this event, unbeknownst to me, was the man who organizes the largest video game gathering in the world, the Game Developers Conference (GDC), attended by 20,000 folks. See http://www.gdconf.com/aboutus/. Because of the quality and coherence of my presentation, I was then asked by the GDC to reprise the Philadelphia debate, this time in February in San Francisco in a 5000 seat arena, as the keynote event. Mason and Barry Richard say I have a right to appear before you. I do have that right to dispel the caricature of me by certain Bar bureaucrats and SLAPP Bar complainants upon which the "discipline" of me, by you, depends. The GDC invitation is a sign that The Bar's false caricature of me is unraveling. It will completely unravel before a jury. Your own Bar Governor Steve Chaykin demands that I be stigmatized now with a mental health exam because I am, according to him, a loon unfit to practice law. Yet this loon went into the "lions' den" in Pennsylvania and, like Daniel, walked out more than just alive. I walked out praised by my "enemies" for clarity of thought and quality of character. I hereby exercise my right to go into your own lions' den on December 12-15. This is the last time I am going to ask. Regards, Jack Thompson

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