I can’t believe I missed this story earlier: Jack Thompson has sent a letter to the Japanese Ambassador to America, attacking Japan for not condemning Sony for their part in publishing and promoting GTA – a game which is banned in Sony’s home country of Japan. The fact that Take Two is American, Rockstar is English and Sony just makes the hardware that runs the platform is irrelevant.

As a United States citizen who has been active and visible in opposing Sony’s distribution of hyperviolent and sexually explicit video games to children in this country, I would respectfully request that your nation’s government assist me in making this harmful distribution stop.

This request comes in the aftermath of recent news reports that certain local/regional governments in Japan will not allow, for example, the grotesque Sony/Take-Two/Rockstar Grand Theft Auto games to be sold to children in your country but Sony is more than delighted to distribute these games to our children in our country.

Then, in the press release, Jack goes off the deep end, offering this nugget of insight into the mix.

“Oh, and certain regional governments in Japan have banned the sale of the Grand Theft Auto games to minors, but Japan’s Sony has no problem whatsoever dumping this garbage into American kids’ brains. Looks like Pearl Harbor 2 by Sony/Take-Two…”

Bringing Pearl Harbor up while you’re trying to get the Ambassador to take you seriously seems… counterproductive. This guy really makes his living making arguments?