Jack Thompson sends letter to Take-Two chairman's mom

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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
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he's got a point but he's pointing it the wrong way

for sure mothers/ parents are to be blamed but those of the "kids" that play and as mentioned train on games such this to comit crime in real world

"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.”

this should have been sent to parents of all such kids

its easier to blame one family for this then milions of families around the world
 
Just another sanctimonious clown who thinks he's doing the work of a greater power.
 
XPE said:
Harassing some ones family even in America must be illegal.
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Well iirc he's been banned from ever suing/threatening take two, so he's going after people who aren't technically in the company, but I think you need to send more than 1 letter for it to be harassment.
 
Thompson makes me extremely angry, then I'm just sad for the way he must view life to come out with this vitriol. Comparing her son to a member of the Hitler Youth? He's getting increasingly demented. Surely it's only a matter of time before he finds himself on the wrong side of the law when one of these stunts backfires and he's taken to court.

If I was Mrs.Zelnick, I'd be using my son's money to find a very good defamation lawyer and keep Thompson busy for a while.
 
Does he not realise that people have been murdering each other, without any training for thousands of years before the GTA series appeared???

What a tool!
 
Jack Thompson has a good point, after playing the first GTA I did actually kill 3 coppers and ran over an old lady cos I thought it was just like playing the game.
 
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.
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As allready been said, what a tool.

Some people on death row have also most likely read the bible and watched horror films certified by the MPAA/BBFC.
 
Tefal said:
Well iirc he's been banned from ever suing/threatening take two, so he's going after people who aren't technically in the company, but I think you need to send more than 1 letter for it to be harassment.
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If this was the first time he had ever done something like this I would agree with you, but considering the amount of time he has spent sending letters to take2 and other people about t2, I think this is just another form of harassment.
 
Moredhel said:
Hasn't he been disbarred because of all the crap against take-two?
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in quite a few states yes, and also you notice he hasn't tried suing people recently because the number of frivolous lawsuits he's filed means if he's caught doing it again, then he's risking prison time.
 
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