A PLEADING

We received this pleading in an email from its author. It is, in our multi-decade experience as an attorney, the most remarkable pleading we have ever seen. We have not added anything. The pictures are ORIGINAL. Because of space requirements, we have edited out a lengthy quote from a cited case and some other material. This is about 90% of the pleading we received. However, to print the pleading with the pictures as it was emailed to us and presumably sent to the Florida Supreme Court, we had to separately download and place each picture. Therefore, the picture placement is close but is not 100% accurate to the document filed. With over 35 pictures, at some point we got a headache and just wrapped it up.


We have often said we do not always agree with the ideals of the author, however, it takes something (and we're just not sure what) to send this pleading to the Florida Supreme Court with your Bar license on the line.





IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
THE FLORIDA BAR,
Complainant,
v. Case Numbers SC 07 - 80 and 07- 354
JOHN B. THOMPSON,

Respondent.
RESPONDENT’S VERIFIED MOTION TO VACATE THIS COURT’S
TWO ORDERS ON THE BASIS OF THE FLORID BAR’S FRAUD


COMES NOW respondent, John B. Thompson, hereinafter Thompson, on his own behalf, and moves this court, pursuant to Rule 1.540, Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, to vacate its two orders entered, respectively, on January 24, 2007, and March 7, 2007, directing Miami-Dade Circuit Court Chief Judge Farina to appoint a referee in each of these “disciplinary” actions, on the basis of The Florida Bar’s fraud, stating:

Thompson, because he is a lawyer, has been trained by our profession to communicate with ten words when one will do and to hide truth in polite euphemisms. This training, as to Thompson, has been only partly effectual. In 1914, the term “legalese” was first used to identify the problem. Legalese obfuscates, making the meaning of the writer difficult for the reader to understand. Thompson apologizes, as his apparent inability to communicate one simple fact to this Honorable Court is the only possible explanation for the Court’s inability to comprehend what should be the patent illegitimacy of these two disciplinary actions that were just tried before Referee Tunis.
Therefore, just as one of our nation’s Founders, John Hancock, wrote large his name on the Declaration of Independence so that “King George III could see it without his spectacles,” Thompson in that same fine historical tradition resorts to clear, large images herein, as words alone have apparently obscured rather than illuminated The Florida Bar’s fraud which he has repeatedly tried to explain.
American songwriter Paul Simon

wrote and performed the song “Kodachrome”

and notes “When I look back on all the crap [imaged withheld] I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.” The analysis explaining the undersigned lawyer’s or any lawyer’s lack of communicative clarity, applies to law school, times ten. This must explain Thompson’s inability to convey to this court the initial, fatal flaw in this prosecution. As the “Man with No Eyes” said in : “What we have here is a failure to communicate.” Here, then, is a renewed attempt to communicate a problem that Thompson has not made clear but which should now be so clear with this filing that even
could see it.

The most important person in the entire disciplinary process utilized by is what is called the “designated reviewer.”

The court knows this. Thompson need not explain why this is so. Thompson’s designated reviewer from the time the first SLAPP Bar complaint was filed against him in August 2004 by a porn industry lawyer was Bar Governor Benedict P. Kuehne .
Mr. Kuehne, while guaranteeing the “fairness” of the Bar proceedings against Thompson, received a target letter from the United States Department of Justice alleging that Mr. Kuehne had laundered Medellin cocaine cartel money .
The Bar, knowing this, never disclosed this to Thompson, and in its fraudulent withholding of this information denied Thompson the state equivalent of a McLain hearing by which Thompson would have been apprised that there just might be a problem with the “fairness” of proceedings against him when overseen by an alleged thief (apologies to Greenberg Traurig and Barry Richard) .
The video game company


footing the bill for the SLAPP Bar assault upon Thompson, in violation of the Preamble to Section 4 of our Bar Rules, is Take-Two Interactive Software which has sold millions of units of the Mature-rated to minors. Take-Two has more money to throw around than the Medellin cartel. Whether Take-Two got to Mr. Kuehne or not, Thompson was entitled to a McLain hearing with a DOJ-alleged crook presiding over proceedings that are designed to end the law career of the video game industry’s most successful and most hated critic, Jack Thompson. Take-Two’s targeting of Thompson began when Ed Bradley personally invited Thompson to return to CBS’ 60 Minutes after Thompson had first appeared thereon six years earlier.

The above picture of Thompson is taken from this Friday’s edition of the Daily Business Review, owned and operated by American Lawyer Media. Yesterday’s two DBR articles written in collaboration with The Florida Bar and SLAPP complainant Tew Cardenas are false and defamatory, as exculpatory facts fully known to that publication prove the illegal, unconstitutional nature of these “disciplinary proceedings.”
The DBR’s predecessor, the Miami Review, similarly wrote an article in 1992 about Thompson bearing the headline

“Is This Lawyer Too Crazy to Practice Law?”

or

This court may remember, but would undoubtedly like to forget, that that similarly libelous article was generated by this very same Florida Supreme Court, which was hoodwinked by some of the same SLAPP complainants into entering an order based upon the assertion that “Jack Thompson is so obsessed against pornography that he is mentally disabled and unfit to practice law.” The happy consequence of the Florida Supreme Court’s outrageous unconstitutional assault upon Thompson in that fashion the first time is that Thompson is now the only officially Bar-certified sane lawyer in Florida, and The Bar’s carrier paid Thompson damages for this court’s prior “mistake.” So, here we go again, with the career-crippling libelous news coverage ginned up by The Bar, with The Bar’s own prosecutor, Barnaby Min, blogging libelous disinformation during Thompson’s trial that tells the legal community that Jack Thompson is “a nut case.”

Does this High Court actually think that the supervision of the “disciplinary proceedings” of Jack Thompson, upon which hinge literally tens of millions of video game industry dollars, can be supervised by a USDOJ-alleged crook? Does this High Court actually believe that the local television affiliate of

has erroneously reported Ben Kuehne’s DOJ target letter? Does this Court think that the US DOJ officials who asked to meet with Thompson and did meet with Thompson were impersonating DOJ officials for Halloween?

Does this court think, for one minute, that Thompson is not going to get whatever Referee Tunis

decides in these “disciplinary proceedings” overturned when the one man at the center of it all is considered by the Justice Department to be a thief? This one man, Ben Kuehne, a) overrode The Bar’s own outside investigator, b) failed to disclose his DOJ target letter to Thompson, c) demanded that Thompson undergo more lunacy proceedings, and d) was protected by Referee Tunis when she refused, in violation of state law, to issue a subpoena Thompson sought to depose Kuehne prior to trial.
Thompson has no problem with enduring a fair disciplinary process. He has not had it, and no Justice sitting on this High Court could rationally think fair this Ben Kuehne-led high-tech lynching of an uppity Christian .
These “disciplinary proceedings” are supposed to be like

Caesar’s wife .

What are they now? What have they been for these forty-one months because of Benedict P. Kuehne?

They have been an ideology-driven sham and they have proven the wisdom of Justice Douglas’
prediction in Lathrop v. Donohue, 367 U.S. 820 (1961), that integrated state bars, like Florida’s, would eventually become “goose-stepping brigades.”

If this court is offended by the immediate above, then it should sue the estate of the late Supreme Court Justice Douglas who in Lathrop wrote of integrated state bars:

(Rumpole has edited out the cited text for space limitations. But I think you get the point.)
The pattern of this legislation is regimentation.

This High Court has known of its “Ben Kuehne problem” for months and it has oddly and negligently pretended that it does not exist

The targeted Mr. Kuehne is this Bar’s and this Court’s Achilles Heel when it comes to this fatally flawed prosecution of Thompson. ... (Rumpole has again edited out some text and cites)


WHEREFORE, respondent Thompson moves this court to vacate its two orders directing Judge Farina to appoint a referee to preside over these matters. Those two orders were procured by The Bar’s fraud. .. (edited by Rumpole because we lost the picture associated with a point here.)
Either this Florida Supreme Court will do the right thing and vacate these two Kuehne-procured orders which would not have been entered but for Ben Keuhne, and give Thompson, for the first time, a fair review of this regulatory abortion [picture withheld- (this is Thompson's own comment not ours)]...

Respondent Thompson hopes that he has finally been clear. If he has, somehow, not been clear with this children’s picture book for adults, then this Honorable Court should read Thompson’s book about how this Bar and this Court unsuccessfully tried to pathologize his Christian faith the first time in 1992:


I SOLEMNLY AFFIRM, under oath, and under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing facts are true, correct, and complete, so help me God.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing has been mailed this December 22, 2007, to Bar prosecutor Sheila Tuma, The Florida Bar, Orlando, Florida, and emailed to every single Bar Governor, as well as to The Bar’s designated blogger/libeler/public relations hit man/John Berry wannabe Barnaby Min.
_____________________________
JOHN B. THOMPSON, Attorney
Respondent