Thompson v. The Florida Bar

Filing 333

NOTICE by John B. Thompson re 328 Plaintiff's MOTION to Amend/Correct Complaint (Ain't No Abstention for This) (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit Letter to US Attorney Re Death Threat)(Thompson, John)

Thompson v. The Florida Bar

Doc. 333 Att. 1

John B. Thompson, Attorney at Law 1172 S. Dixie Hwy., Suite 111 Coral Gables, Florida 33146 305-666-4366 [e-mail]
November 18, 2007 The Honorable Alex Acosta United States Attorney Southern District of Florida Miami, Florida Via e-mail Re: Solicitation of Murder of Jack Thompson at Video Game Site, GamePolitics.com Dear Mr. Acosta: As you know, The Florida Bar, along with a certain video game company and its lawyers, have for more than two years criminally violated federal civil rights laws by using threats and intimidation, as well as SLAPP Bar complaints and baseless contempt proceedings in order to infringe upon my First Amendment rights to criticize their illegal distribution of Mature-rated games to minors. This all began after I appeared on CBS's 60 Minutes. This is exactly was Big Tobacco did to Jeffrey Wiegand. The FBI opened an investigation of this matter many months ago through Agent Swinterton. Now a certain video game industry web site, GamePolitics.com, has gone from itself filing a bogus SLAPP Bar complaint against me (which was dismissed as such even by the pliant extortionists at The Florida Bar) to allowing the posting of a solicitation of my murder on its www.gamepolitics.com site this week. This site is owned and operated by ECA, which is simply a lobbying tool of the industry run by video game industry gadfly, Hal Halpin of Connecticut. Now, remarkably, when I a) complained last week about the posting of a solicitation of my murder at the site, and b) asked for the IP address of the criminal extortionist, here is what I get back from, Dennis McCauley, who runs his site for the video game industry: "Nor did I record the e-mail address that the poster provided (which, in any event, may or may not have been valid ­ such info is not verified for unregistered users) when I deleted the message. Nor did I mark down the IP. At the time of deletion I had no expectation that such data might be required and my only thought was to remove the message as expeditiously as possible."

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Thus, Mr. McCauley has managed to "lose" this guy's identity, on top of committing what I believe is the federal offense of misprision of a felony in violation of 18 USC 4 by his failure to provide the identity of the person to the authorities. I believe this is also obstruction of justice by Mr. McCauley and his parent company, ECA. Mr. McCauley knows that I have aggressively sought the identification and apprehension previously of video gamers who have targeted me in this fashion, and successfully so, so he knows I wanted this information that he conveniently "lost." Mr. McCauley now refuses to warn his posters that any future behavior will result in his voluntarily turning over to me of the IP address of anyone who violates his own web site posting policies to me for appropriate action. Thus, Mr. McCauley is doing nothing to stop the use of his site in this fashion and is thus facilitating this type of illegal activity. His practice of turning such information over to me and telling his posters that he will do this will end the extortion at and through his site. Please inform me this week that the investigation of all of this, including the criminal activity by The Florida Bar about which you know, is going forward speedily. Thanks. Regards, Jack Thompson PS: Here is GamePolitics' own posted policy that is being violated, wholesale, at my expense and by design. By the way, the site has banned me from posting at the site so that I can't defend myself there, all in the name of "freedom of expression"! Don't you love it?

GAMEPOLITICS POSTING POLICY: "But - and you knew there was a but, right? - GP does not permit comments which are threatening, menacing, racist, harassive [sic] or libelous in nature. We reserve the right to delete such comments."
Copy: U.S. District Court file, Southern District of Florida, Case No. 07-21256

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