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February 24, 2005

Moonbattery's Beneficiaries

You might wonder how moonbattery can flourish when it benefits so few people. But the people it does benefit — few though they are — are benefited in a very large way. Lawyers, for example, have mastered the craft of using the erosion of personal responsibility brought about by moonbattery to legalize selective looting. They and their clients profit nicely.

Tuscaloosa News and The Register report on the case of Devin Thompson, who was stopped by police on suspicion of driving a stolen car. According to prosecutors, he responded by snatching a gun from one of the officers and killing him, his partner, and a dispatcher.

Now the families of the officers who were killed want justice. Naturally, they want the guilty punished.

But greed has gotten the better of grief.

Laying all blame on the person who actually committed this tragic crime, a teenaged loser, would not be very remunerative. So the families are suing Take-Two Interactive Software, publisher of the video game Grand Theft Auto, on the theory that this game transformed Thompson into an involuntary killing machine.

In case Take-Two's pockets prove not to be deep enough, retailers Wal-Mart and Gamestop are also to be looted, for allegedly allowing Thompson to buy video games meant for 17-year-olds when he was only 16.

Maybe not even Wal-Mart has a fat enough wallet. So their over $600 million suit includes Sony too, for making the hardware on which the games were played.

Apparently it hasn't yet occurred to them to sue Frito-Lay for making the Cheetos Thompson might have munched while playing the games.

Needless to say, this avaricious, opportunistic lawsuit constitutes a shabby memorial for the brave officers who lost their lives defending the rule of law.

Hat tip: Overlawyered.

Posted by Van Helsing at February 24, 2005 08:50 AM

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Posted by: Pomalom at February 24, 2005 07:15 PM