Jack T drafts violent video games legislation in Florida

MIAMI attorney and self-appointed video games watchdog Jack Thompson, who has been appearing on INQ that much that we're thinking of inviting him down for a pint, has sent out a press release saying that Florida Governor Jeb Bush has requested him to draft a violent videogames bill for the Governor to sign into law.

The move comes as Californian Gubernator Arnie Schwarzenegger has a similar bill sitting on his desk awaiting his decision to either sign it into law or toss it away, and in recent months the Governors of both Illinois and Michigan have signed similar legislation to restrict the sale of violent and sexually explicit videogames into law.

The move comes as videogame publisher Eidos is cowering in a corner over 25 to Life, here and the ESRB is being played like a political sock puppet and carrying out a massive witch hunt for raunchy content in all games going back as far as 2004.

Meanwhile in Britain with our rational ratings system that doesn't put a distinctive line of one year between a "Mature" videogame and an "Adult" one not much seems to be happening of note on the censorship front. Knock on wood… µ