Essential linkage: Guess who's leapt onto the Medal of Honor hatewagon? Our old friend Jack Thompson. Yay.
We were just thinking how nice it was not to have rabid anti-gaming activist Jack Thompson foaming his way through our favourite hobby, but it seems that was too good to be true. According to PC Magazine, he's just faxed (my, how quaint) a letter to the US Attorney General demanding something be done about the imminent release of Medal of Honor.
You might remember Thompson from his claims that Grand Theft Auto was a 'murder simulator', or - more happily - his disbarment, but now he's latched on to what he's calling a 'training tool' for killing US troops abroad.
Here's an excerpt from the fax:
"With all respect for everything else on your plate, but as someone who has represented the surviving family members of such video game-caused massacres, I personally urge you, as Secretary of Defense, to do what is necessary, proper, and legal to stop the release of Medal of Honor on October 12 on the basis that it poses a demonstrable danger to our troops by providing a training tool for those who wish to kill them. I would also strongly suggest that the Defense Department find out who these Special Ops people are who have acted so foolishly in this regard."
"With all respect for everything else on your plate, but as someone who has represented the surviving family members of such video game-caused massacres, I personally urge you, as Secretary of Defense, to do what is necessary, proper, and legal to stop the release of Medal of Honor on October 12 on the basis that it poses a demonstrable danger to our troops by providing a training tool for those who wish to kill them.
I would also strongly suggest that the Defense Department find out who these Special Ops people are who have acted so foolishly in this regard."
Oh, Jack. We've missed your whacko shenanigans.
Issue: 133 | February, 2012