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Jack Thompson, Miami attorney and anti-game activist who has been hounding the gaming and music industry for a while. Now his career is in jeopardy as he fights to keep his license at the Florida Bar hearings this week.

Looking through archives of news, news panels and blogs Thompson has been trouble off and on throughout his career as a lawyer and even in his younger college years.

His controversial actions include attempting to expose Janet Reno’s alleged sexual preferences, suing a radio station for mocking him after being fired for airing tasteless and offensive music, his campaign against rap music, starting a controversy about the violence of videogames and, more recently, his attacks on the Florida legal system. Let’s not forget his recent actions against the Game Politics’s blog writer who has been following and reporting on Thompson’s antics for a while.

This week is the start of Thompson’s ethics trials. The Florida Bar is pursuing several complaints concerning Thompson’s professional behavior and conduct in court cases against the gaming industry following several complaints and Thompson’s attempt to block the trial from continuing on November 21, 2007, with an emergency motion to stay. As if grasping for straws as he sinks deeper into a quicksand pit, he even offered to take a three-month voluntary suspension to avoid the trials, which didn’t work. This is following several of his motions denied on November 20, 2007.

The court is already holding Thompson accountable for “making false and disparaging comments about a judge and several lawyers.”

The complaint is based on grievances filed by Judge James Moore of Fayette County, Ala., lawyers at Miami-based Tew Cardenas and Blank Rome, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., lawyer Norman Kent and the Bar itself. And the list of complaints is pretty long, 24 pages long, in fact.

What does Thompson have to say in his own defense on the matter?

“This is frankly, once again, just the Bar going off the deep end trying to use Bar rules to limit my First Amendment activism,” he said.

Meanwhile on Game Politics, readers have created a poll to see if anyone thought Thompson will be disbarred or not. So far out of 3772 voters, here is what the readers think:

Q: As his Florida Bar trial begins, do you think Jack Thompson will be disbarred? A: Out of 3,772 voters 2,087 said yes he will be disbarred permanently, 1,100 said yes but he would only be on a temporary basis, 248 said no and 337 were not sure of the outcome of the trial.

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