Thompson Boycotts Sanction Hearing
Tristan Oliver, Founder | June 2, 2008
Fails to Subpoena 30+, Requests Mental Exam
In theory, Jack Thompson should have a good idea of his fate by Wednesday, when a hearing will recommend sanctions up to, potentially, disbarment.
The problem is, Mr. Thompson will not be in attendance. He has boycotted Wednesday’s hearing in light of Judge Dava Tunis quashing his motion to subpoena 33 people for it. Among those subpoenaed were former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick, former Miami police chief Kenneth Harms, and attorney Norm Kent. Judge Tunis cited procedural error.
Mr. Thompson has filed a third lawsuit, this with the U.S. District Court, with the defendant the State of Florida. Like the other motions, it seeks to stop the Florida Bar from proceeding with sanctions against him. Interesting to note, a separate filing with Judge Tunis seeks to have a mental health exam entered into this process. Mr. Thompson claims he is sick of perceptions that he is “whacky.”
Two days before the hearing, the prospects of any of these motions panning out look increasingly unlikely. TSSZ News is working to get a reporter on the scene for the hearing Wednesday. We will bring you the latest developments on Jack Thompson’s fate as we get it.
John B. Thompson, Attorney at Law
June 2, 2008
[name redacted]
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515 Via e-mail to
Re: Politicization of the Bush Justice Department, Firing of US Attorneys, Etc.
Dear [name redacted]
I have read with great interest the following re the above: Law.com - Ex-U.S. Attorneys File Amicus Over Firings. I have been specifically told by one of the key people in this matter to write you with the herein contained information, and I do so.
I have documentary and other evidence that helps prove that the Bush Justice Department at its highest levels, most notably in the persons of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Alex Acosta, have actively and illegally politicized Justice in order to protect political friends and campaign cash bundlers of the Bush Administration by derailing criminal investigations that would have and should have targeted these very Bush insiders.
Let me begin by noting that I am a life-long Republican who was on NBC Nightly News in 2000 explaining why I was voting for Bush over McCain back then. I ran against Janet Reno here as her GOP opponent. I was a partisan Republican before certain Members of Congress were born. I believe that is relevant to what I am about to tell you.
In 2004, I was successful in getting the Howard Stern Show off all Clear Channel radio stations and securing FCC fines totally $4 million because of his criminal airing of indecent material in violation of federal law. When Stern popped back up on the air in South Florida on a Republican-owned radio station (Beasley-owned WQAM), that station used the lobbyist/law firm of Tew Cardenas in order to protect their client’s criminal activity by going after me. The name partner in Tew Cardenas is Al Cardenas, former Florida GOP Chairman. He committed perjury in filing a bogus SLAPP Bar complaint against me to protect his radio client’s distribution of pornography to children. Cardenas is an RNC “Super Ranger” cash bundler for Bush-Cheney. His partner was foolish enough to tell me that this “shoot the messenger” effort against me, which violates various federal laws, including Sarbanes-Oxley, federal civil rights laws, and RICO laws, began because I dared write a letter to then Governor Jeb Bush complaining that Al Cardenas, his friend and fundraising RNC Super Ranger, was using his law firm as a front for porn distribution to children. Not quite GOP “Family Values.”
In 2005, I appeared on CBS’ 60 Minutes for the second time in six years with Ed Bradley to identify the public safety hazard posed by the selling of the Mature-rated, cop-killing Grand Theft Auto video games to minors. I represent the families of three Alabama cops killed by a teen who literally trained on this adult game to kill them. The instant I appeared on 60 Minutes the Republican law firm of Blank Rome, headed by RNC “Super Ranger” cash bundler David Girard-diCarlo, commenced a pattern of criminal harassment against me and my family that eclipses what “Big Tobacco” did to the “Insider” Jeffrey Wigand after he appeared on 60 Minutes. Blank Rome replicated the harassment of Wigand and even took it up a notch. Barbara Comstock, well known in Washington, was undoubtedly in on this “shoot the messenger” strategy executed by Blank Rome on behalf of Take-Two, the makers of the Grand Theft Auto games. This criminal harassment has included the filing of perjury-based Bar complaints against me by Blank Rome. Three state judges have been bribed to participate in this Bush-based harassment of me, most notably Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Dava J. Tunis, put on the bench by then Governor Jeb Bush.
Blank Rome is the official registered lobbyist, by the way, for Take-Two on the Hill. Blank Rome has violated federal criminal RICO statutes, as well as federal extortion, fraud, and civil rights laws to punish me for my public-spirited efforts to protect children from the distribution of adult-rated violent and pornographic material. In July 2005, I personally prepped Senator Hillary Clinton for her important news conference about Take-Two’s embedding of graphic sexual content in the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas video game (the “Hot Coffee” scandal). This resulted in a finding by the Federal Trade Commission that Take-Two had indeed done what I told Senator Clinton it had done. Blank Rome’s criminal efforts against me kicked into overdrive when I helped Senator Clinton in this fashion, and I can prove it. Opposition to the retail distribution of adult video games to children is and should be bi-partisan. Nader, Obama, Clinton, an McCain have all decried it. I have worked with Senator Lieberman’s office for years on this issue.
It seems to me, based upon what I know, that it is relevant to the House’s investigation of the politicization of the Bush Justice Department that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and US Attorney Alex Acosta, here in the Southern District of Florida, derailed what was then an FBI investigation of the criminal activities of Blank Rome and Tew Cardenas in violating my civil rights. The FBI Agent assigned to the case testified that he was told by the US Attorney to drop the investigation. It appears it was dropped when the investigation got too close to proving what Bush insiders/cash bundlers/RNC Super Rangers at Blank Rome and Tew Cardenas were doing to violate the law.
If other US Attorneys were fired because they wouldn’t run interference for Bush cronies, then of course certain US Attorneys were rewarded for doing so. This, I believe I can show, is what Gonzales and Acosta did to me and to the people of South Florida. Acosta did what less pliable US Attorney would not do. This has made Justice for sale.
As I indicated briefly above, at the center of this politicization of Justice and the criminal conspiracy to violate my civil rights down here by deep-sixing an FBI investigation is state judge Dava J. Tunis. What she has done is violate various state and federal laws to assist, directly, both Blank Rome and Tew Cardenas and Jeb Bush in trying to punish me through baseless SLAPP Bar complaints filed by Tew Cardenas and Blank Rome. Florida Bar Rules strictly prohibit the use of Bar complaints by opponents as a collateral means of attack, yet that is precisely what Tew Cardenas, Blank Rome, and this Bush-appointed Judge Tunis have done. By the way, Tunis’ state loyalty oath was forged, we now know from a state criminal investigation, and Tunis has participated in a cover-up as to the invalidity of her two subsequent state loyalty oaths. This Bush conspiracy to subvert Justice has many layers, as the tentaclesof this politicization of the US Justice Department on Gonzales’ watch and with his active cooperation extend even into the state court system here.
I am willing to testify. I am willing to put my name and my career and my life under oath to prove all of the above.
I am a lawyer in continuous good standing with The Florida Bar for 31 years, rated A/V by Martindale Hubbell, and I am a Christian, and an Elder in the Presbyterian Church in America who would not make any of this up.
Because of my social activism, despite the Justice Department’s involvement in the effort to destroy me and derail an FBI investigation of these Bush operatives, I am being honored, along with three other honoress, the week of July 4 at the Freedom Festival in Utah, attended by 250,000 people, whose main event is hosted by Glenn Beck, on whose national television program I appeared last month.
I am a serious person who does not make these allegations lightly. I can help prove that this Justice Department has been politicized to its very core, in my instance at the behest of lobbyists for the porn-to-kids industry.
If this is the kind of “Family Values” that the Bush Administration stands for, then something is amiss.
Let me know what I can do to help you and the House get to the bottom of this.
Regards, Jack Thompson
PS: My book published by Tyndale House, Out of Harm’s Way, delineates much of the above. Tyndale House vetted these allegations and decided to stand by them.
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