Florida Lawyers Tell Jack Thompson: No More!

Posted by Dan on January 14, 2009

JAABlog, the blog for JAABlaw.com which is a southern Florida attorney news site that Jack Thompson likes to frequent sent him an open letter today.

Dear Jack,

We hope this letter finds you well.  We do, however, have some bad news for you.

Your blogging rights are being curtailed.

Our friends, supporters, and even sworn enemies have had enough of your incessant, narcissistic diatribes.

While we are firm believers in unfettered, open source comments, everyone is sick to death of you infecting each and every post with your thoughts and legal briefs.  From this point forward, you will not be allowed to hijack and frustrate the commentary.

That being said, we still believe in the First Amendment, and we believe it applies to everyone, regardless of race, creed, class, or mental stability.  We also feel bad for you, since we know you have nowhere else left to post, and no blog of your own that anyone would care to read.

Accordingly, pursuant to our two (2) disclaimers, you are hereby expressly forbidden to comment anywhere on JAABLOG but on this post, and this post only (”AN OPEN LETTER TO JACK THOMPSON”). If you feel your comments are getting too numerous for your fan club to follow, simply let us know you wish to start over, and we will have the comments section cleared.  In time, if you behave,
we might even let you name the post any way you wish.

If, however, you violate this rule, you will be blocked and permanently banned from publishing on JAABLOG for all eternity.  Any comments that do appear will be summarily deleted.

Dear, dear Jack, we have been more than patient.  Frankly, you could cause Buddah or Jesus himself to ditch you in a restaurant after the order has been placed.  Still, we have faith in you.  Don’t let us down.
With love and affection,

JAABLOG

Not that this will necessarily stop him. He’s been banned before at other sites, such as GamePolitics.com. I thought about it, (preemptively expecting the question,) but as of now I’m not prepared to ban Jack from this site. For one, he’s not that frequent of a visitor here, and for another, I believe in transparency and openness of forum as much as possible. I want to be clear, I’m not critical of JAABlog’s decision, because they’ve had significantly more exposure to him than we have. Comparing us to them is like  comparing apples to oranges. If Jack ever gets to the point here that he was at JAABlog, I’d probably take measures to ban him too, but for the meantime, he isn’t.

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