Why haven’t I heard anyone else mention this?…

Look at Episode III.  Look at the Jedi/Padowan who is about 17 years old who runs in at the last moment to sacrifice himself and occupy the stormtroopers long enough for Senator Organa to escape…  Ghyslain???

Figure all the training they would have put him through, and the physical demands of it, and the little bit of excess weight he had would have been burned off…

Do a freeze-frame of his face.  It seriously looks like him to me!

It would be a perfect ending to the Ghyslain Saga!

Spread that around the internet…

The kid deserves the money, he proved to us that an obsession with Star wars: The phantom menace
is incredibly nerdy.

I think the SWK is a stupid fat little pig.  Serves him right for taping himself.  That is the stupidest video Ive ever seen.  Why do retards like him and “vote for pedro” get all the attention?

Our society is definitely heading down hill.

Wow… Star Wars Kid deserves a lot of credit. He turned my shitty day into a good one. If his parents get the lawsuit, it’s not going to help him at all, except make sure that he goes to school with a 5000 dollar shoe on his foot, and in a limo or something. He’s still going to get made fun of. =/ I heard that he borrowed the camera, and forgot to take the tape out or whatever, so if that’s true then he screwed himself over. A few of my friends have done that to each other, but no one has tried to sue anyone else. Wow, is all I have to say.

Think about it…if his parent were truly concerned about their son’s well-being, would they sue?  This worsens the very thing they are suing over!  Clearly, the parents want money more than what’s best for their son…and the friends that put it on the net will be suing for their share of the royalties when he appears in E3 or Oprah or MTV, etc.

I’m not sure what’s worse here.  First we have a kid doing something ridiculous and embarrasing; which would then place us all in there, yet is being ridiculed for it.  Then we have the lawsuit.  As has already been noted, the kid is just a minor and has no more say in a case like this than what he could possibly say as a witness in a statement or under oath.  He can’t stop his parents in the end and the parents should be ashamed that they are only adding to this.

However, I am all in favor of criminal charges.  Any civil charges could perhaps have all proceeds after court/lawyer costs go towards any philanthropic group of their choice.  I wonder if the parents have done a horrible job of helping SWK deal with this instead of running from school to therapy.  On the other hand, I admit I have limited knowledge and any comparison I could possibly make to embarassing moments pales in comparison.  Those who take the attitude of “that kid just needs to suck it up, everyone gets embarrased” either have divorced themselves of reason or just enjoy sounding stupid.

As for free speech, remember that while I may have freedom to call someone names, that does not extend to include theft, trespassing and invasion of privacy.  The kids that posted this allegedly stole the tape.  This tape of course was never intended to be public.

What’s the Canadian legal precidence for say, stealing personal memoires and journals from someone and posting them publicly?

Its annoying that some kids would be so malicious to upload him to the internet. I doubt the parents are doing this for money. The fact that they let him change schools, go to a looneybin, and possibly change his name, gives me the impression that it must have been awful for him. You can only try to laugh it off for so long. Kids don’t let up.  But suing for 250K, I don’t think the parents will win. It is the internet after all, the forum of free speech.

Ha ha, maybe hes fat bodie will be more in the shape of for getting the sexxing after much working out of the lightsaber.  woman will like him more if en shape like garY papa.  red decks of darth vader on yes? am liking they cheese.

am writing in for star war boys who dancing. would like it for much if to have it in the movies show. star war really super fun for me.

Personally I think if it was me I’d feel much better about saying “yea, I was the star wars kid, but hey, did you see me in episode III?” than “yea, I was the star wars kid and my mom and dad sued some guys for all they had”.

I mean, it’d totally suck to be him in a way, I mean, I got teased in HS but this’d be much much worse, but still….