Jack Thompson Reaches Out To Take-Two Exec's Mother

[Mooga]

It doesn't get much better then this...
Mr. J.T. Sends an e-mail to Take-Two Chairman's MOTHER referring to him as a member if the Hitler Youth among other things.

Enjoy!

Originally Posted by Wired

Jack Thompson Reaches Out To Take-Two Exec's Mother
By Earnest Cavalli | April 24, 2008 | 5:51:53 PM | Categories: Politics



To decry the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto IV, Jack Thompson sent a message to the mother of Take-Two Chairman Strauss Zelnick, according to a report by Shacknews.

The email is provocative, to say the least. Not only does it say Mr. Zelnick is "like the Hitler Youth," it also attributes the deaths of three Alabama policemen and "a recent plethora of cop killings" to prior entries in the GTA series.

Game|Life contacted Mr. Thompson earlier today and were informed that the email was actually issued to Zelnick's lawyer. This would be in following with a prior settlement that prevents Mr. Thompson from contacting Take-Two, unless he does so through legal counsel.

"I sent it to Strauss Zelnick's attorney. I would never send it to his mother," Mr. Thompson told me.

I've specifically been avoiding passing any judgement on the email; Instead, I offer you all the chance to form your own opinions. The email sent by Mr. Thompson can be found verbatim directly below:

"Mrs. Zelnick

Strauss Zelnick, Take-Two Chairman’s Mother

New York, New York Via e-mails to intermediaries

Re: Your Son, Strauss Zelnick

Dear Mrs. Zelnick:

Your son, as you may know (or maybe you don’t know), is Chairman of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., whose most popular video games are the Grand Theft Auto murder simulator games banned in some countries but sold to children here.

Your son last week was reported to have said the following about Grand Theft Auto IV, due to be released Tuesday, April 29:

"We’ve already received numerous [GTA IV] reviews, and to a one, they are perfect scores. My mom couldn’t write better reviews…"

Taking your son’s thought, I would encourage you either to play this game or have an adroit video gamer play it for you. Some of the latter gamers are on death row, so try to find one out in the civilian population who hasn’t killed someone yet.

What you will see in your son’s game, if this iteration of GTA is anything like its predecessors, is incredible interactive violence aimed at police officers (whom you can shoot in the head and see the blood spray), innocent bystanders (whom you can run over with your car just for the heck of it), and of course the plentiful female prostitutes you can have sex with and then filet with a knife or stomp with your feet in order to get your money back. Experts note that the recent plethora of cop killings is caused in part by your darling son’s entrepreneurial energy. There are three policemen dead in Alabama because of Grand Theft Auto. I was on 60 Minutes about it. I hope Strauss has provided you with a flat screen tv to see the grief of the bereaved families that fills the screen.

The pornography and violence that your son trafficks in is the kind of stuff that most mothers would be ashamed to see their son putting into the hands of other mothers’ children, but, hey, your son Strauss has recently assured the world that he is "a Boy Scout, everybody knows that." I’d love to see the merit badges that Scout Troop handed out. Is there a Ted Bundy merit badge? If so, your loving son deserves one now. It should be red and green, for obvious reasons.

With Passover having just come and gone, it is appropriate to note the following from the Old Testament, Proverbs 22:6:

"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

Mrs. Zelnick, did you train up your son, Strauss, to make millions of dollars by pushing Mature-rated video games to children? Any kid can go right to little Strauss’ corporate web site and buy GTA IV with no age verification. Strauss is even marketing the new Grand Theft Auto IV on World Wrestling Entertainment tv shows seen by millions of kids. If you trained up Strauss to do this, then shame on you.

But maybe the explanation for your son’s corporate sociopathy is to be found in Old Testament Proverb 29:15:

"The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame."

Maybe you, Mrs. Zelnick, were so taken by your handsome son that you spared the rod and spoiled the child. That would explain why he has brought you, by the way he presently acts, "to shame."

There’s another mother you would do well to talk to. Mrs. Crump in Alabama had a son who was a police officer. He’s now dead because a teenaged boy unwittingly trained himself to kill him on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. She has a grief she carries every day that only a mother can know.There are other such mothers in the heartland of America whose inhabitants your son simply sees as commercial targets.

Your son, this very moment, is doing everything he possibly can to sell as many copies of GTA IV to teen boys in the United States, a country in which your son claims you raised him to be "a Boy Scout." More like the Hitler Youth, I would say.

Happy Mother’s day, Mrs. Zelnick, which this year is May 11, two weeks after your son unleashes porn and violence upon other mothers’ boys. I’m sure you’re very proud.

Sincerely, Jack Thompson"

An hour after Mr. Thompson sent along the above message, he also pointed out to me a number of Biblical references dealing with John The Baptist's issues with Herod in the New Testament -- the same references he mentioned in his email.

According to Mr. Thompson, the following passages further illustrate his argument and draw parallels between his own actions and those of John The Baptist. Please draw your own conclusions:

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[Pixel]

loooooooooooooooooooolololol

[SizeableSSonic]

...and this is news how, exactly? How is this different than his 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 other hollow threats/insults?

[Mooga]

He sent it to the guys mother.
That would be like if the your govener write your mother calling you a nazi and a muderer.

[uBeR]

How is Thompson anywhere close to a governor?

[Mooga]

he's a senator...

[uBeR]

wtf... he's a lawyer.

[SoBe Green]

This news is like two weeks old.

[BinaryLife]

Well that's kind fucked up. I hope JT gets some law suits his way for harassment and the like. Seriously, who complains to someone else's mom? And in such an insulting way too. And he thinks he's "the good guy"

[Mooga]

Originally Posted by uBeR

wtf... he's a lawyer.

I think I was wrong... I thought he held an elected position. My bad.

[FrenchToast]

hahah, best line in the whole thing:

"I was on 60 Minutes about it."

Like.. that doesn't add anything, it's just him flexing his nuts. Oh man, that's funny.

[BinaryLife]

I have an idea!

Lets all write letters to Jack Thomspon's mother complaining about what a dbag he is and suggest that she ground him for his misdeeds.

[puppychow]

i actually do think the series is in bad taste, but yeah, he's a nutsack.

[v3rtigo]

And that's an understatement

[SizeableSSonic]

Originally Posted by Mooga

He sent it to the guys mother.
That would be like if the your govener write your mother calling you a nazi and a muderer.

True, true. But other than that, it's the same old empty insults.

Jack Thompson is like a scab. It's annoying, but it won't go away if you keep picking at it.

[Hype]

LOOOOL, Jack Thompson Is Making HIS Mother Proud.

[Mooga]

Originally Posted by Hype

LOOOOL, Jack Thompson Is Making HIS Mother Proud.

If his mother is still around... someone needs to find her e-mail address...