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Jack Thompson Disbarred

Jeff Gerstmann
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"I'm not a lawyer, but I play one in captions written on Giant Bomb."
GamePolitics has the story--after what seems like years of proceedings, the Florida Supreme Court has disbarred anti-game crusader Jack Thompson. That means he'll be unable to practice law, at least in the state of Florida. JT will have 30 days to clear up any existing cases.

It's easy to want to jump all over this and dance on the still-warm grave of Thompson's legal career, but that'd be sort of messed up.

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OK, fine, feel free to dance a little. But don't be so crazy as to assume that you'll never hear from him again. He's already filed paperwork with the next-highest court to prevent the order from taking effect. And you can bet that he'll probably try to keep an even higher profile now that he can't take a shortcut through the courts to ensure his voice is heard.

Thompson's first big national exposure as a culture warrior came in 1990 when he took on Miami-based rap group, 2 Live Crew. This resulted in me having to ride my bike to the independent music store on the other side of town to buy my music, as the controversy surrounding 2 Live Crew and most other explicit rap made the local Wherehouse in my neighborhood stop selling explicit-labelled music to minors.

If you are interested in hearing Luke and the 2 Live Crew say the F-word a number of times in a track dedicated to Jack, you're looking for track 11 on Banned in the USA.