Dear Mrs. Zelnick:

Your son, as you may know (or maybe you don’t know), is Chairman of
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., whose most popular video games
are the Grand Theft Auto murder simulator games banned in some
countries but sold to children here.

Your son last week was reported to have said the following about Grand
Theft Auto IV, due to be released Tuesday, April 29: “We’ve already
received numerous [GTA IV] reviews, and to a one, they are perfect
scores. My mom couldn’t write better reviews…” Taking your son’s
thought, I would encourage you either to play this game or have an
adroit video gamer play it for you. Some of the latter gamers are on
death row, so try to find one out in the civilian population who
hasn’t killed someone yet.

What you will see in your son’s game, if this iteration of GTA is
anything like its predecessors, is incredible interactive violence
aimed at police officers (whom you can shoot in the head and see the
blood spray), innocent bystanders (whom you can run over with your car
just for the heck of it), and of course the plentiful female
prostitutes you can have sex with and then filet with a knife or stomp
with your feet in order to get your money back. Experts note that the
recent plethora of cop killings is caused in part by your darling
son’s entrepreneurial energy. There are three policemen dead in
Alabama because of Grand Theft Auto. I was on 60 Minutes about it. I
hope Strauss has provided you with a flat screen tv to see the grief
of the bereaved families that fills the screen.

The pornography and violence that your son trafficks in is the kind of
stuff that most mothers would be ashamed to see their son putting into
the hands of other mothers’ children, but, hey, your son Strauss has
recently assured the world that he is “a Boy Scout, everybody knows
that.” I’d love to see the merit badges that Scout Troop handed out.
Is there a Ted Bundy merit badge? If so, your loving son deserves one
now. It should be red and green, for obvious reasons.

With Passover having just come and gone, it is appropriate to note the
following from the Old Testament, Proverbs 22:6:

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will
not depart from it.”

Mrs. Zelnick, did you train up your son, Strauss, to make millions of
dollars by pushing Mature-rated video games to children? Any kid can
go right to little Strauss’ corporate web site and buy GTA IV with no
age verification. Strauss is even marketing the new Grand Theft Auto
IV on World Wrestling Entertainment tv shows seen by millions of kids.
If you trained up Strauss to do this, then shame on you.

But maybe the explanation for your son’s corporate sociopathy is to be
found in Old Testament Proverb 29:15:

“The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth
his mother to shame.”

Maybe you, Mrs. Zelnick, were so taken by your handsome son that you
spared the rod and spoiled the child. That would explain why he has
brought you, by the way he presently acts, “to shame.”

There’s another mother you would do well to talk to. Mrs. Crump in
Alabama had a son who was a police officer. He’s now dead because a
teenaged boy unwittingly trained himself to kill him on Grand Theft
Auto: Vice City. She has a grief she carries every day that only a
mother can know.There are other such mothers in the heartland of
America whose inhabitants your son simply sees as commercial targets.

Your son, this very moment, is doing everything he possibly can to
sell as many copies of GTA IV to teen boys in the United States, a
country in which your son claims you raised him to be “a Boy Scout.”
More like the Hitler Youth, I would say. Happy Mother’s day, Mrs.
Zelnick, which this year is May 11, two weeks after your son unleashes
porn and violence upon other mothers’ boys. I’m sure you’re very
proud.

Sincerely, Jack Thompson

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