Jack Thompson Publishes
Another Obscene Pleading
Thompson Also Gives Ultimatum to US Attorney

By Bill Meyer

Related Story: Decency Advocate Thompson Charged with Indecency
Related Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/28/thompson_gay_porn/

Last week, United States Judge Adalberto Jordan issued an Order threatening to sanction Coral Gables lawyer John (Jack) Thompson with misconduct. Specifically, Thompson was charged with unnecessarily and needlessly attaching purported gay pornography and obscene pictures to federal court pleadings.

Thompson is in court trying to stop Florida Bar proceedings moving rapidly against him, with a November trial date set. Thompson has argued that the Bar is selectively prosecuting him unfairly, for being a Christian.

Today, in one of what is now fourteen responses to the order, Thompson tried to prove his point again, by publishing obscene words in the body of his pleadings in order to prove a point. The words Thompson posted related to his chance encounter last weekend with a student at the University of Miami Library, who was carrying a canvas bag reading “My Big Fucking Totebag.”

Thompson argued in his pleading that “society has come to this, your honor… we have a judicial system that has lost its way,” referring to the student and her totebag. But Thompson did not just print the offending words routinely as a matter of course. He did so in a drop dead way, in large bold black print, all caps and three times the size of customary fonts. The four letter word jumps off the page, and is directly accessible to the public through the Pacer system.

Thompson is attempting to argue that Norm Kent, NGN Publisher and a lawyer, “gets away with trafficking in obscenity while he is protecting children.” Thompson added an exhibit which presented itself as an ultimatum to US Attorney Alex Acosta, threatening the Senior South Florida Prosecutor with a warning.

Thompson ordered Mr. Acosta to prosecute Kent, or else: “You have no choice but to initiate a criminal investigation into this individual and if you do not so proceed by Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 5:00 p.m., I shall proceed to secure a federal court order to compel you to do so.”

Meanwhile, Judge Jordan ignored Thompson’s pleadings and instead published a two page order reprimanding and chastising the lawyer for his continuing lack of professionalism in this case.

The court’s ruling today declared that Thompson does not have “a free reign to unnecessarily flood the docket in this case with a series of motions…that have no bearing on the issues in dispute in this case.” The Court noted that he has filed over 74 motions in this case alone, and that most were inconsequential and irrelevant.

Judge Jordan added that while Thompson “may have think this case is a war with the world regarding the state of moral standards, it is not.” The court does not have “jurisdiction over moral standards,” Jordan wrote.

The order was issued at just about the same time Thompson filed his latest pleading incorporating the totebag incident, and the Court has not yet addressed this filing. It did however, sanction and limit the number of pleadings and documents Thompson may file in the future. Judge Jordan ruled that Thompson’s conduct in this suit was “unreasonable” and “would no longer be tolerated.”

Speaking for NGN, Kent responded by stating “I will not amend our site to conform to Thompson’s view of morality, and I suspect Mr. Acosta also will not be bullied or intimidated by Thompson’s threats. Candidly, I think his latest pleadings, poisoned with foolish obscenities that don’t belong in the court file, may indeed insure that sanctions will be meted out against him.”

STORY UPDATE . . .

Jack Thompson Attacks District Judge as “Schoolyard Bully”
Calls Jurist’s Conduct ‘Mendacious and Unethical’

Thompson responded Monday evening to the Judge’s new order with a stunning seven page motion to recuse Judge Jordan, attacking the jurist personally for “illegal and unethical conduct,” at page 2 of his pleading.

Thompson added the judge acted “foolishly,” entering an illegal order that was a “masterwork in mendacity,” remarking that the judge’s order was “the single worst disregard of the truth that Thompson has seen in his 31 years of practicing law.”

Not finished there, then Thompson added at page 3 that Judge Jordan was nothing more than a “schoolyard bully,” who was still in law school while Thompson was a “foot soldier in the culture war.”

Thompson, in his next sentence added that Judge Jordan was playing “an amateur psychologist,” and had “disgraced the federal bench, violated its oath of office, and lost any presumption of impartiality and any semblance of decency.”

On page 4 of the motion Thompson added that the Court (Judge Jordan) knowingly lied (‘prevaricated,’ he wrote) in its September 24 order, and acted outside its judicial authority, threatening to sue the judge personally for damages, claiming “this federal judge….does not know the law.”

On the next page, Thompson concludes the Court was “careless and set a snare for itself,” proving its “patent bias” which stem from the Court’s “loyalty to the Florida Bar elitists and their ilk.”

Then, on page 6 of his motion to recuse Judge Jordan, he adds that before him is a jurist “for whom the facts and the law….mean nothing,” concluding that the Judge had “made up facts and misrepresented the law.”

Finally, Thompson reasoned that the court has to disqualify itself because it has “revealed its animus to him.”

However, one legal expert who reviewed the pleading says that once again the document failed to comply with the federal rules and was “legally insufficient.” Though choosing not to be identified, he said that Thompson has “all but assured this Court will sanction him severely, right up to direct criminal contempt,” a sanction that could lead to jail or fines.

In an earlier pleading Thompson dared Judge Jordan to put him in jail. “He may now get his wish,” the NGN source stated.