Thompson angered by Bully ruling

Last week, notorious Florida lawyer Jack Thompson was happy to discuss a complaint he filled against Take-Two Interactive over its upcoming game Bully (or Canis Canem Edit in the UK). Thompson went as far as to speak about a historic ruling, and things were looking good for Thompson when Judge Ronald Friedman ordered Take-Two to provide him with a copy of the game.

Things, however, haven’t gone as Thompson had hoped. Over the weekend it was revealed that Friedman had ruled on the matter and decided that no action needs to be taken against Take-Two.

“There’s nothing in the game that you wouldn’t see on TV every night,” said Friedman. He also added that he would not want his kids to play the game, “but that shouldn’t mean that the game won’t ship.“

In response to the ruling, Thompson released an open letter to the Judge:

“What you conducted in your chambers, Judge, was the equivalent of Iran leading UN weapons inspectors around the country taking them to places where the illegal activity was not occurring,” said Thompson.

“Now that you have consigned innumerable children to skull fractures, eye injuries from slingshots, and beatings with baseball bats, without a hearing as to the danger, ” wrote Thompson.

In the letter Thompson also slams Friedman for not allowing a hearing to occur:

“How dare you, Judge, promise a hearing today and then prevent that hearing from occurring. How dare you, Judge, petulantly order the production of the game after it is released on Tuesday morning. I didn’t even ask for that. You did that out of spite, and you were smiling when you did that. You really enjoyed that one, didn’t you, Judge? Next time you promise a ‘hearing,’ I’ll bring a parent with me whose kid is in the ground because of a kid who trained to kill him or her on a violent video game. Try mocking that person, I dare you.“

Canis Canem Edit, or as Thompson describes it, a training tool to create killers, is scheduled for release for PlayStation 2 on October 27.