JACK THOMPSON
by A. Griffin

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Mr. Jack Thompson,
a reactionary curmudgeon that's behind the times,
common sense brain activity's a total flat-line.

This is one man that deserves to be disparaged,
him and any kind of authority is a bad marriage,
because he nurtures censorship in his baby carriage.

The baby starts off weak and cute -
but feed it and let it get strong,
and it'll ugly like Benito and Kim Jong.

He tried to have people arrested for singing rude songs,
but he got banned from practicing law for being damn wrong.

Doing the right thing for Jack Thompson is really hard -
how many times can this jackass get disbarred?

Jack sent unhinged letters saying that he was Batman,
cause his ego is blown up like Little Boy and Fat Man.

A First Amendment travesty,
ring up the founding fathers and call the cavalry,
I won't let the goddess of liberty suffer battery,
her robes are already in tatters,
but I'll make the glass walls of Jack's arguments shatter.

Disbarred attorneys in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks,
but Jack was televised nation-wide with half-baked thoughts:

Said the Virginia Tech shooter was corrupted by video games,
before the investigators even knew the man's name.
Said virtual violence made his head go wrong,
but the only game his classmates saw him play
was "Sonic the Hedgehog".

Climb on top of the bodies
to put himself in the spotlight,
if he says it's for decency,
anything Jack does is right.

Gives outrageous hot takes on what should be censored
but he's isn't qualified to operate a Pez dispenser.

Pull the cartoon head back and get a candy,
candy is sweet, but a bitter pill like truth is nasty -
he hates violence, but advocates oppressive insanity.

System error: hypocritical madness overload,
double standards don't stop with this old toad -
thinks the First Amendment
only applies to to the pre-digital.
They tried to say that about films
when motion pictures were on the umbilical.

Put it in a movie and it's fine art and fair game,
but in computer program form it's illegal and profane.

I'm not playing games,
cause the hypocrisy is insane,
can't talk newtype sense into an oldtype brain,
an earthbound mind weighed down by gravity,
I'm not wasting time debating this man's insanity,
I'm just letting you know,
his anti-freedom-of-speech stance is a tragedy.

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Thanks for reading!

Photo of the wannabe Batman was. public domain.

I thought this might be enjoyed here due to its connection to gaming, but I do more satire and commentary writing on my Tumblr blog that isn't quite so suited to this site.

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