No rant on this one, it made me chuckle

In recent days GamePolitics has been tracking a drastic disciplinary step taken by the Florida Supreme Court against controversial attorney Jack Thompson.

Based on the court’s February 19th order to Thompson (see: Florida Supreme Court Comes Down Hard on Jack Thompson), it appears that, pending a final decision by the Court, the anti-game violence activist may no longer be permitted to file motions with the Court. Rather, he would be required to have another lawyer file on his behalf.

This is problematic for Thompson’s culture crusade for two reasons. The first is financial. When Thompson works pro se, that is, on his own behalf, he spends no money on legal fees. Some obersvers would, of course, say one gets what one pays for. But beyond that, Thompson files so many motions with so many courts and agencies that using the services of another lawyer could become quite costly.

And, of course, there is the question of whether another lawyer would be willing to take on Thompson’s case.

A bizarre motion submitted by Thompson to the Supreme Court in December appears to have been the final straw for the justices. Described by Thompson as a children’s picture book for adults, the document is, essentially, a rant with digital images attached. Obviously, the justices didn’t take kindly to Thompson’s submission, as the “picture book” gets prominent mention in Tuesday’s show cause order:

One of Mr. Thompson’s recent filings contains what Mr. Thompson refers to as a “children’s picture book for adults” that rehashes his previous arguments in illustrated form that he believes was necessary due to “the Court’s inability to comprehend” his arguments.

The full text of the Florida Supreme Court’s order to Thompson is here (PDF).

ROFLMAO. I think they finally realize this guy is nucking futs. A huge thanks to GamePolitics.com.

Five Years, No Patches, Govt Server, Worm Virus, OBVIOUSLY HAPPENED IN FLORIDA

New concerns about the accuracy of electronic voting in Sarasota County, Florida are being raised after a published report documented how the county's main database system came under attack from a virulent worm. The county server was breached on the first day of early voting in the 2006 election, which included a now-disputed race for a seat in the US House of Representatives.
The attack code was a variant of the infamous Slammer worm that penetrated the county's server, which unbelievably, was missing five years worth of security patches, according to an article painstakingly reported by investigative journalist Brad Friedman. The breach crippled the county's entire network, including the electronic voting system, where net connectivity was disrupted for two hours. Those trying to vote during the outage were turned away.

Jump to the rest of this predictably sad florida voting scandle.