GTA blamed in court case...again
Lawyers claim Grand Theft Auto led Cody Posey to kill his father, stepmother, stepsister in 2004; Sony, Take-Two, Rockstar named in suit.
By Tim Surette, GameSpot
Posted Sep 25, 2006 4:03 pm PT
Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto franchise is once again the target of lawyers in a high-profile murder case. Attorneys in the trial of convicted killer Cody Posey have named Sony Computer Entertainment America, Take-Two Interactive, and Rockstar as responsible for a triple homicide that took place in New Mexico in 2004, according to news outlets in the state.
The court found Posey, then 14 years old, guilty of murdering his stepfather, stepmother, and stepsister with a gun. Posey allegedly snapped after years of physical and mental abuse at the hands of his stepfather. A judge convicted him of first-degree murder in February.
Lawyers today said Posey would not have committed the murders if he hadn't played the "murder-simulation device" Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Circling the courthouse is Miami attorney and antigame crusader Jack Thompson, who has descended upon New Mexico and is aiding the lawyers in the suit.
The above is a news article on gamespot.com Heres the addy for it should you doubt me....
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6158619.htmlNot that anyone will...

This is what brought the above article to my attention.
You know me and woody share a lot in common about this problem. We are both tired of it.
First someone develops temperary insanity. You know what I can buy that, I myself have been given to the point that if something sharp and pointy was near by I probally would have driven it into the other person several times. Then came the "Twinky Defense" in which a man claimed that eating too many twinkies made him insane and unable to tell the difference between right and wrong. Thing is he proved it. Of course when your intellegent enough to come up with some lame excuse like twinkies made me do it your smart enough to fail a right/wrong test. Then came the Columbine High School incident, and rather then point the blame at the parents for not giving their kids enough attention they blamed the music they listened too. And now the antigame crusader Jack Thompson has been blaming video games for every problem he can. Not only that but check out these three articles All about Mr. Thompson...
http://www.joystiq.com/2005/10/10/jack-tho...odest-proposal/http://www.joystiq.com/2005/10/17/thompson...ys-he-was-just/http://www.joystiq.com/2005/10/17/penny-ar...ame-to-charity/Now just for your information. Jack Thompson is supposed to be this great honest man who upholds the law and such. And Tycho and Gabe are a bunch of slimey violent videogame players just waiting to snap and go on a mad killing spree. Well thats what Jack Thompson wants you to believe.
Thompson has consistantly been targeting Rockstar games in his quest because of the fact that rockstar has the most violent games currently out, the GTA series. He has gone from game to game shoving it in front of everyone as a training game for killers. Um excuse me mister Thompson, the game taught me it's controls... I'm the one who decided to shoot the people walking down the street with a shotgun... I'm the one who decided to blo up the police car with the rocket launcher. The game didn't make me do it. I CHOOSE TO!!! Why you might ask. Because it's calming. Because when I'm upset, I can sit down in front of a tv or a coputer and spend an hour as someone else blowing up whatever I want. It's a video game, it's not real life. A six year old child can tell the difference.
Heres an idea Mr. Thompson, why not investigate the parents. Lets take the above teenager under consideration. He played Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, okay good for him. I can name a dozen or more people who have also played it, none of them have gone on a killing spree. The young man in the article was abused by his stepfather for years, but it was a video game that had him kill people he was not related to? People he lived with who did nothing about the abusewere killed because of a video game? Wait a minute? How does that work? Did the game start whispering in his ear to kill them? Did it hand him the gun or pull the trigger for him? My game doesn't do that, I got jipped.
No I didn't because the game didn't tell him to kill them, the game didn't give him a gun and the game did not pull the trigger either. HE DID! He pulled the trigger not thinking about the game but thinking about the words his step father said, the pain of his step father hitting him, his step mother and step sister looking the other way and pretending it never happened, the pain of their lack of comforting their lack of caring. THATS WHAT MADE HIM PULL THE TRIGGER MR. THOMPSON NOT VIDEO GAMES!
Drop the crusade old man, your words are going petty and feeble. Three presidents from now you'll be facing someone who had a playstation, who might have played grand theft auto. DO you want to know what will happen then Mr Thompson? All this legislature your working hard to put up will crumble between that presidents fingers. All your hard work to move the blame from where it belongs to video games will disappear like a fart in the wind. You want proof? Watch TV, the words George Carlin once listed as words you'll never hear on public tv are now said on every channel. There are only two maybe three words on that list that are there now. Times are changing Mr. Thompson and your being left behind.
Drop your crusade, or face a new one. One driven by people like me who are openminded, who are intellegent, who are not easily blinded. Abandon your crusade Mr Thompson or face those of us who are FOR the bill of rights. Who are for the Freedom of expression, who are for the freedom of speech. Abandon you quest for the elimination of violent video games or bear witness to the true justice of irony. Abandon this quest before you turn a great country into a dictatorship. Abandon your conquest before the crime rate begins to rise when those who are calmed by violent video games lose that calming device and snap.
Choose your fate Mr. Thompson. A life of constant fear as this countries crime rate sky rockets after your success, or a life were the parents have to raise their children and take responsibility for their and their childs actions.
Choose your fate and save yourself, or doom us all...
*rereads the above and sighs.* This was started as an I'm tired of this bullshit post, and it has turned into what seems to be an open letter to Jack Thompson. Sorry folks.
Well like I started I'm sick and tired of video games being blamed for everything, parents are supposed to teach their kids right and wrong. Parents are also supposed to take care of their children, that includes disciplining them. Should you choose to discipline your children by spanking them, thats all well and good, just know when to stop.
I think if I ever get arrested for going on a mad killing spree I'll blame censorship or jack thompson or something like that....
*steps off his soap box a moment before it crumbles to dust.*